Think about it this way. If Canadian steel is subsidized by the government, why shouldn't americans be able to take advantage of that? I mean, if Canadian steel costs (lets say) half as much as american steel, that means that steel products made in the US could cost less. Like cars, for example. Cars made in america with Canadian steel would cost less then cars made in other places in the world without free trade agreements with canada.
In other words american manufactured goods are being subsidized by canadian taxpayers!
Actualy I make about $9/hr myself. But $9/hr is the average pay for coders in india. The reason I get $9 is because I'm an undergrad working for the university. I make the same amount of money coding virtual reality applications as someone working in food service. But whatever, it's fun work and I need money.
My last job was $21 writing shitty VB apps. You really are getting ripped off.
That's a really sensable explanation, although USB 2 has always been marketed as being 480 mbps, not 'up-to' 480 but probably only 12. The author was probably upset to learn that USB 2 devices might only be 12 mbps.
Although certanly, I would expect "Full Speed" to be faster then "Hi-Speed." just like "true color" is more then "hi-color".
I was going to post these all on a seperate line, but slashdot came up with this totaly resonable error: Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.5).
Okay, now I got Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Fuck slashdot and it's insipid lameness filter.
anyway, the list is here. There are hundreds of members. I recognize lots of american companies and see lots of asian looking ones. Who knows.
That is a horrible comparason, MacOS X can be uninstalled from your mac, and you can install somthing different, you can't uninstall internet explorer and put in Mozilla though, you have to keep IE.
Well, you have to 'keep' it, but you don't ever need to use it to surf the web.
Not because of better hardware (since even their "new" machines will fall woefully short of a PC with a mid-end AMD)...
Wow, I didn't even know there was a mid-end. I knew about the high end, and I knew about the low end. but this mid-end concept is totally blowing my mind. Is it anything like the 'mid-range'?
How is it any more underhanded then reverse engineering the IBM BIOS from scratch? Just because you made an agreement doesn't make the agreement right. How is what you're talking about any different then the contracts Microsoft signed with clone-makers in mid-90s to squelch OS/2?
I wouldn't imagine it would be to hard to get OSX running on some other PPC platform with enough emulation, something like VMWare. or even an intel box with even more emulation.
...is the software industry leaving the U.S. in droves for less litigious countries.
No, that's actually the sound of U.S. software jobs going to places where coders go for $9/hr.
Anyway, your comment doesn't really make all that much sense. Software patents would be beneficial commercial software companies that produce things that haven't been thought of before, but could cause problems for open-source re-implementation.
I don't think algorithms are invented any more than mathematical truths are invented, rather they are discovered.
Well, every invention is just a 'discovery' in some sense. I mean, take for example child-proof caps for medicine. Someone 'discovered' there was a way to make a cap that wouldn't open unless pushed. Someone 'discovered' that making a tire in a certain shape would pull water off the ground and make driving safer. Someone 'discovered' that you could setup transistors in a certain way to make double data rate DRAM. All of these are discoveries as much as something like realizing that you could delete audio information that would be filtered out by the brain as a way to save space.
The important thing in my mind is to filter out the 'obvious' things from the truly innovative. It's 'obvious' to use base-64 encoding in DNS for international domain names. 1-click shopping is 'obvious', etc.
I don't see why people are in such a tizzy over software patents around here. "They can be reduced to a mathematical formula!" you cry, but so what? Name something patentable that can't, which can be reduced to formulas describing the shape and motion.
This is not just about file-sharing. It's about the ability of the government to remotely wipe out your computer, and creating the mindset that people whose computers are wiped out must be bad and therefore unworthy of notice or protection.
No, this is about allowing powerful corporations to legally take vigilante action to protect their revenue streams. At the click of a button, without filling out any paperwork. This is, of course, far far worse.
The government can already cease your computer for years for 'analysis'. This is a de facto punishment for hacking imposed by law enforcement. Not good, but at least they have to drive out to your house and fill out some forms.
Hasn't hatch generally been one of the 'good guys' in this whole DRM mess? IIRC he opposed things like DRM and was generally in support of allowing innovation to flourish rather then stifling it.
I guess the RIAA's stratage is as follows:
1) destroy people's computers.
2) make them hate and fear you.
3) ???
4) profit.
1) Download firewall
2) Install firewall
3) Reap vast profit of pirated material
I mean really, how hard is it to make sure your computer is up to date with patches and has a good firewall installed. Preferably with an OpenBSD/Linux(with the bare minimum installed) box physically in between your home LAN and the internet.
Not that I'm in favor of destroying people's computers (I assume this means things like reformatting people's hard drives), that's just asinine. But I do think it's OK for record companies to spoof P2P networks and try to disrupt them.
Perhaps you could explain to me why you don't think apple computers are slower then other types of computers. Will you show my the results for one single photoshop filter from 2 years ago? Or will you tell me how RISC is just so much faster then CISC.
Or maybe you will tell me how slower cars really are better then faster ones?
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Think about it this way. If Canadian steel is subsidized by the government, why shouldn't americans be able to take advantage of that? I mean, if Canadian steel costs (lets say) half as much as american steel, that means that steel products made in the US could cost less. Like cars, for example. Cars made in america with Canadian steel would cost less then cars made in other places in the world without free trade agreements with canada.
In other words american manufactured goods are being subsidized by canadian taxpayers!
Integrity? By lying to go to war?
Besides, your post does nothing to show Bush isn't a hypocrate when it comes to free trade which is what the above poster was pointing out.
Actualy I make about $9/hr myself. But $9/hr is the average pay for coders in india. The reason I get $9 is because I'm an undergrad working for the university. I make the same amount of money coding virtual reality applications as someone working in food service. But whatever, it's fun work and I need money.
My last job was $21 writing shitty VB apps. You really are getting ripped off.
Slashdot would have truncated the comment with a "read more" link at the end, you wouldn't have seen more then a few dozon lines in your browser.
That's a really sensable explanation, although USB 2 has always been marketed as being 480 mbps, not 'up-to' 480 but probably only 12. The author was probably upset to learn that USB 2 devices might only be 12 mbps.
Although certanly, I would expect "Full Speed" to be faster then "Hi-Speed." just like "true color" is more then "hi-color".
Now we have java 2, SDK 1.4, with a beta download of 1.5. Ironicaly, 1.5 introduces new language features, and 1.2 did not...
The USB group has about 900 members. I don't really know how they decide things, but you can't really blame intel and Microsoft for this.
I was going to post these all on a seperate line, but slashdot came up with this totaly resonable error: Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.5).
Okay, now I got Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Fuck slashdot and it's insipid lameness filter.
anyway, the list is here. There are hundreds of members. I recognize lots of american companies and see lots of asian looking ones. Who knows.
How can they have two standards with the same version number? Especialy when one is like 50 times faster.
On the other hand, now that I think about it, I really could care less. No high performance devices use USB anyway, always Firewire.
That is a horrible comparason, MacOS X can be uninstalled from your mac, and you can install somthing different, you can't uninstall internet explorer and put in Mozilla though, you have to keep IE.
Well, you have to 'keep' it, but you don't ever need to use it to surf the web.
There is not some magical motherboard fairy that creates an endless supply for someone to leech off and resell as new.
Actually, there is. Usually they call them 'wave-flow machines' though. And it's not like they're stealing the motherboards.
Not because of better hardware (since even their "new" machines will fall woefully short of a PC with a mid-end AMD)...
Wow, I didn't even know there was a mid-end. I knew about the high end, and I knew about the low end. but this mid-end concept is totally blowing my mind. Is it anything like the 'mid-range'?
How is it any more underhanded then reverse engineering the IBM BIOS from scratch? Just because you made an agreement doesn't make the agreement right. How is what you're talking about any different then the contracts Microsoft signed with clone-makers in mid-90s to squelch OS/2?
Well, that's not to suprising.
I wouldn't imagine it would be to hard to get OSX running on some other PPC platform with enough emulation, something like VMWare. or even an intel box with even more emulation.
...is the software industry leaving the U.S. in droves for less litigious countries.
No, that's actually the sound of U.S. software jobs going to places where coders go for $9/hr.
Anyway, your comment doesn't really make all that much sense. Software patents would be beneficial commercial software companies that produce things that haven't been thought of before, but could cause problems for open-source re-implementation.
I don't think algorithms are invented any more than mathematical truths are invented, rather they are discovered.
Well, every invention is just a 'discovery' in some sense. I mean, take for example child-proof caps for medicine. Someone 'discovered' there was a way to make a cap that wouldn't open unless pushed. Someone 'discovered' that making a tire in a certain shape would pull water off the ground and make driving safer. Someone 'discovered' that you could setup transistors in a certain way to make double data rate DRAM. All of these are discoveries as much as something like realizing that you could delete audio information that would be filtered out by the brain as a way to save space.
The important thing in my mind is to filter out the 'obvious' things from the truly innovative. It's 'obvious' to use base-64 encoding in DNS for international domain names. 1-click shopping is 'obvious', etc.
I don't see why people are in such a tizzy over software patents around here. "They can be reduced to a mathematical formula!" you cry, but so what? Name something patentable that can't, which can be reduced to formulas describing the shape and motion.
Computer companies do not want legaly mandated DRM. Phramaceutical companies shouldn't really care, it's not like their products can be traded online.
This is not just about file-sharing. It's about the ability of the government to remotely wipe out your computer, and creating the mindset that people whose computers are wiped out must be bad and therefore unworthy of notice or protection.
No, this is about allowing powerful corporations to legally take vigilante action to protect their revenue streams. At the click of a button, without filling out any paperwork. This is, of course, far far worse.
The government can already cease your computer for years for 'analysis'. This is a de facto punishment for hacking imposed by law enforcement. Not good, but at least they have to drive out to your house and fill out some forms.
What's wrong with the self destructing DVD? If you don't want it, don't buy it. If you do want it buy it and then burn a copy using DeCSS.
Hasn't hatch generally been one of the 'good guys' in this whole DRM mess? IIRC he opposed things like DRM and was generally in support of allowing innovation to flourish rather then stifling it.
But maybe I'm remembering wrong.
I guess the RIAA's stratage is as follows:
1) destroy people's computers.
2) make them hate and fear you.
3) ???
4) profit.
1) Download firewall
2) Install firewall
3) Reap vast profit of pirated material
I mean really, how hard is it to make sure your computer is up to date with patches and has a good firewall installed. Preferably with an OpenBSD/Linux(with the bare minimum installed) box physically in between your home LAN and the internet.
Not that I'm in favor of destroying people's computers (I assume this means things like reformatting people's hard drives), that's just asinine. But I do think it's OK for record companies to spoof P2P networks and try to disrupt them.
The apple II was a personal computer
Perhaps you could explain to me why you don't think apple computers are slower then other types of computers. Will you show my the results for one single photoshop filter from 2 years ago? Or will you tell me how RISC is just so much faster then CISC.
Or maybe you will tell me how slower cars really are better then faster ones?
I'd be testy to, if I was the victim of one of the biggest UI ripoffs in history.
Victim... instigator...
Same diff