I think you underestimate the pressure the content providers are applying on ISPs. Why do you think universities are cracking down so hard on P2P traffic? Where I work, P2P clients are banned - period.
A hardcopy is easy to store. I regularly print out all the important mails (both received and sent) because I can't trust that the electronic copies will remain available in a year or so. I've been burned too many times to trust the assurances by our IT center. I don't dispose my hardcopies.
You don't have to be the most organized person in the world when you file printouts in an inverse chronological order and mark the most important printouts. Folders are cheap, my office is roomy and we've got plenty of room in the archive room anyway.
Some of us hate reading stuff on the screen. It's starting to piss me off that some hardware manufacturers are just supplying pdf versions of their catalogs or manuals and they expect me to print them out.
What I did was to express an unpopular opinion, offered a personal experience and even made some rational arguments to support my position.
My karma is excellent and I rarely post in the front page articles anymore. That's because Slashdot's ridiculous War on Trolls has reached such a paranoid intensity that getting moderated down 2-3 times per day prevents me from doing what I still like to do on Slashdot: posting in the journals.
If that gets me modded down as troll, I think I'll stop posting in the public articles altogether. And this comes from a long time Slashdot user with the original user ID in the 1xxxxx range.
I'm not a kid anymore, but that's exactly how I did it after the ogg debacle - sort of.
I've got everything ripped in raw format and wrote scripts for generating copies - on demand - in whatever format I want. Throw enough CPU power and hard drive space at a problem and it's fixed.;)
Yeah, right. Voluntarily limit how and where you can listen to your music. Really smart.
I regret the day when I decided, in a silly stroke of idealism, to encode all my CDs with oggenc. Later, after getting frustrated by the lack of support for the format, I had to encode them all over again.
Face it. MP3 is a de facto standard and even though it's patented, what difference does it make? Does it stop you from listening to mp3 encoded music at home? No. Does it limit your options when purchasing a player? No.
Unless you're a flaming idealist and are willing to go through the extra mile and look for ogg-friendly players, there's no good reason to start using Vorbis.
Trust isn't free even between a parent and a child - it should be earned.
Look. I was kid once, too, and I know that good intentions go out of the window when the peer pressure to do stupid shit gets too high. Having a control mechanism like this may actually help the kid to resist the pressure, because the decision is out of his hands.
I'm not trying to say that parents should be hovering all over their kids. It's perfectly understandable that a teen gets drunk at some point, tries smoking pot, does stupid shit while driving and so on. As you say, making mistakes is part of growing up.
Most teens do not, however, get regularly drunk or stoned nor do they drive in a reckless fashion. Why? Because it won't be tolerated by the parents or the society.
Bad eating habits are like that: systematic, serial stupidity that should not be tolerated.
It's a damned disgrace that companies like Coca Cola are allowed to keep vending machines at schools. Candy and coke all day long at school and McDonalds crap for dinner. To make matters worse, instead of attacking this trend, the society bends over backwards to accommodate obese people.
You have way too much confidence in high school kids. Let's face it, they are still kids.
I don't see what's so wrong with this. As long as the kids live at home, the parents should have a say in what the kids eat, what they wear and so on. If this system helps in achieving that goal, good. Another example is a parent who buys a cell phone to a kid on the condition that a) the kid carries it with him when he's out with his friends and b) answers the parent's call or at least calls back ASAP. Overprotective? I don't think so. Just common sense.
I haven't seen very much CPU-bound software for the last few years
Compressing video. I can't understand why all the software, at least the freely available stuff, still doesn't seem to know how to take advantage of multiple CPUs.
With the advent of cheap dual (soon quad) core setups these days, developers will be holding back progress if they don't adapt to the new reality. Parallel algorithms are well researched. It's just a matter of taking what's available and building from there.
My point was that the more cores we can get into the mainstream computing the merrier I will be. I don't really care if they're AMD or Intel or something else.
I don't do much scientific computing anymore, but I can still respect the awesome power of hundreds of cores running code that an take advantage of such resources.
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So, is this the reason why the PS3 release has been delayed?
I think you underestimate the pressure the content providers are applying on ISPs. Why do you think universities are cracking down so hard on P2P traffic? Where I work, P2P clients are banned - period.
You don't have to be the most organized person in the world when you file printouts in an inverse chronological order and mark the most important printouts. Folders are cheap, my office is roomy and we've got plenty of room in the archive room anyway.
Nope, but then again it didn't span several pages. I do print out man pages, e-mails and manuals because a hardcopy is easier to store and read.
Some of us hate reading stuff on the screen. It's starting to piss me off that some hardware manufacturers are just supplying pdf versions of their catalogs or manuals and they expect me to print them out.
So, when's Linux going to take advantage of the hardware virtualization?
Do they come with large enough tubes, so that my internets won't get clogged?
My prediction is that there's going to be a lot of anger at the evil scientists who refuse to acknowledge the cosmic truth - or something.
What I did was to express an unpopular opinion, offered a personal experience and even made some rational arguments to support my position.
My karma is excellent and I rarely post in the front page articles anymore. That's because Slashdot's ridiculous War on Trolls has reached such a paranoid intensity that getting moderated down 2-3 times per day prevents me from doing what I still like to do on Slashdot: posting in the journals.
If that gets me modded down as troll, I think I'll stop posting in the public articles altogether. And this comes from a long time Slashdot user with the original user ID in the 1xxxxx range.
I've got everything ripped in raw format and wrote scripts for generating copies - on demand - in whatever format I want. Throw enough CPU power and hard drive space at a problem and it's fixed. ;)
Yeah, right. Voluntarily limit how and where you can listen to your music. Really smart.
I regret the day when I decided, in a silly stroke of idealism, to encode all my CDs with oggenc. Later, after getting frustrated by the lack of support for the format, I had to encode them all over again.
Face it. MP3 is a de facto standard and even though it's patented, what difference does it make? Does it stop you from listening to mp3 encoded music at home? No. Does it limit your options when purchasing a player? No.
Unless you're a flaming idealist and are willing to go through the extra mile and look for ogg-friendly players, there's no good reason to start using Vorbis.
I've read the story on Slashdot and I've RTFA and I still don't get why it's such a big deal that "raiding will be different"?
Nope. You'll just pay for it in the form of higher insurance costs. You and everybody else, for that matter.
Look. I was kid once, too, and I know that good intentions go out of the window when the peer pressure to do stupid shit gets too high. Having a control mechanism like this may actually help the kid to resist the pressure, because the decision is out of his hands.
Are you going to pay for that? Or the health bill caused by morbid obesity?
Most teens do not, however, get regularly drunk or stoned nor do they drive in a reckless fashion. Why? Because it won't be tolerated by the parents or the society.
Bad eating habits are like that: systematic, serial stupidity that should not be tolerated.
A fine sentiment, but health is something that kids should not be allowed to make mistakes with.
Bollocks. Preventing obesity is a good reason to monitor what your kids eat.
It's a damned disgrace that companies like Coca Cola are allowed to keep vending machines at schools. Candy and coke all day long at school and McDonalds crap for dinner. To make matters worse, instead of attacking this trend, the society bends over backwards to accommodate obese people.
I don't see what's so wrong with this. As long as the kids live at home, the parents should have a say in what the kids eat, what they wear and so on. If this system helps in achieving that goal, good. Another example is a parent who buys a cell phone to a kid on the condition that a) the kid carries it with him when he's out with his friends and b) answers the parent's call or at least calls back ASAP. Overprotective? I don't think so. Just common sense.
As a scientist I am intrigued by this "profit" thing. Please tell me more.
Compressing video. I can't understand why all the software, at least the freely available stuff, still doesn't seem to know how to take advantage of multiple CPUs.
With the advent of cheap dual (soon quad) core setups these days, developers will be holding back progress if they don't adapt to the new reality. Parallel algorithms are well researched. It's just a matter of taking what's available and building from there.
I don't do much scientific computing anymore, but I can still respect the awesome power of hundreds of cores running code that an take advantage of such resources.
Cores - the more the merrier.