In theory? The actual creators of the videos could sue you for violating their copyright.
In reality? Most videos will probably not be uploaded by the people who created them/own the rights to them, because suing someone over pennies of ad revenue isn't a realistic solution for the college students who generally are creating these videos.
Not really... by definition, if your browser is able to view the video, that means it has access to the data. So it's only a matter of how much skill/effort someone can put into it before they can save the actual file to their hard drive. Granted, a few sites make it considerably more difficult than just viewing the source, finding the filename, and downloading that... but it can always be done.
YMMV, but IMHO, using possibly obscure acronyms ATT is a PITA, IYKWIM!!! Just write out the freaking acryonyms if you're writing (or "editing") a story thousands of people will read. After all, we aren't smarter-than-thou elitists at Slashdot, are we?
Yeah but people primarilly encounter CNN, BBC, MSNBC and the NY Times in a form that has little to do with their webpages. Do 50% of Americans know what Slashdot is? Do even 5%? Most Americans know what CNN is, most Americans even know what the BBC is. Slashdot isn't mainstream.
I don't know that those pages were censored so much as they violated policy (Wikipedia articles are only written about topics already covered by reliable sources), or they were the subject of a lawsuit threat.
Why did they start with a city that already has a good trip planner?
Because it was about 100 times easier, thanks to all the work Tri-Met did for the site. Which is why there probably won't be Google trip planners for cities that don't go to the lengths Portland does to help people use mass transit.
Actually, something extremely similar has been available from TriMet for months (or even years): http://www.trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/plantrip.cgi. It seems Google's version is directly based on that. I wouldn't be surprised if this service is never available for cities other than Portland, or cities that develope a similar search platform for their mass transit system, and give Google access to it.
Um, basic marketing? It's a proven method. I don't personally like it, as a nostalgic sports fan, but I mean, you can't really expect owners to turn down $5 million every few years out of principal. It's the real world, not the idealistic college Slashdot-posting world.
For what it's worth, you can see the same trend emerging in the logs of Fark. I don't know if that qualifies as mainstream, but I think it gets a wider variety of users than/. or any of the above referenced sites.
As you can see, about 25% of people viewing Fark use Firefox/Mozilla, and 33% use a non-IE browser. I can tell you that just 3 months ago the total number of non-IE browers was around 20%. The numbers might actually be low, because Fark has a high number of people who read from work, where they're often forced to use IE.
In my opinion, FireFox has a "killer" feature in that it (so far) isn't really vulnerable to many exploits or malware. I call it a "killer" feature because users, regardless of skill level, will use FireFox over IE simply because of security, and you already see it happening.
This is something I put together just from looking at current prices on websites. I've never built such a thing, but it was interesting just to play around with the idea of it. I'm sure people could find a lot to critique about the stuff listed below, keep in mind it was mostly just an excercise to explore the process of building a fileserver.
The cool part is this, if properly built, would be very nearly enterprise grade (using servers from IBM, Dell and Apple as reference), with 16 hot swappable SATA drives (4TB raw capacity, 2TB with a decent RAID config to protect against drive failure), and 200mb/sec speeds (that being more than enough for most of us, considering we'd be accessing it over a LAN).
The price is actually really good, too... which leads me to believe I might be skimping big time. But then again, I was just trying to build something for personal use.
Note: CPU muscle isn't really needed on a pure fileserver. The RAID card's manufacturer claims CPU use won't even climb above 3% at highest output.
Specs
Motherboard/CPU/RAM: $500
TYAN Tiger + Athlon MP 2800 + 1GB PC2700 RAM
* Onboard Gigabyte LAN
Case: $1,279.00
RMC3E-XPSS. 16-hot-swppable bays w/650W power supply
http://servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchan t.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=RMC3E- XPSS&Category_Code=RM+Disk+Array
2 RAID Controllers: $1,000
Dual 3Ware Escalade 8506-8 (8-ports)
16 Hard Drives: $2,800
16 x 250GB Maxtor 7Y250M0 250GB SATA ($175 each)
Assume $500 (!) for cables, fans, shipping, heatsinks, etc etc.
Total Price: $5,000 ($1.25/gigabyte)
I imagine no distributor then (and probably now) would put out a public domain recording, because there'd be no royalties, nothing to stop other publishers from just making copies and selling them, with the original publisher not seeing a cent.
Even more to the point, here's a quote from Woody Guthrie about copyrights, as found on Wikipedia:
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
Just further evidence of how messed up copyright laws are. The person whose rights are allegedly being protected here is the last person who'd want them protected like this.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet (apparantly). Ken Jennings has a webpage! I'm sorry to report to the/. crowd that it was designed in MS Word. But it seems to be more of a personal checklist (and a window into how he got so much "useless" knowledge) than a page he intended for other people to see.
Could any (well, all) of those features not be compensated for with some of the $1,000+ one saves buying the PC? For example, if you need Gigabit Ethernet, buy a card that supports it?
As for the FSB, the PC has a faster CPU anyway, so the FSB isn't going to catch the Mac up.
If things like 8X AGP are really worth $1,000 then buy the Mac. But I think it's a disservice to say Macs are a better value than PCs.
I've done these comparisons several times... and in every instance, at WORST the Mac comes out even. Rarely does it come out more expensive. With regard to laptops... Apple's laptops alwaays come out less expensive.
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Parent comment was articulated so well, I dub it the "_____-killer killer".
In reality? Most videos will probably not be uploaded by the people who created them/own the rights to them, because suing someone over pennies of ad revenue isn't a realistic solution for the college students who generally are creating these videos.
Not really... by definition, if your browser is able to view the video, that means it has access to the data. So it's only a matter of how much skill/effort someone can put into it before they can save the actual file to their hard drive. Granted, a few sites make it considerably more difficult than just viewing the source, finding the filename, and downloading that... but it can always be done.
YMMV, but IMHO, using possibly obscure acronyms ATT is a PITA, IYKWIM!!! Just write out the freaking acryonyms if you're writing (or "editing") a story thousands of people will read. After all, we aren't smarter-than-thou elitists at Slashdot, are we?
We had great fun with nickserv down. I was Jimbo Wales (jwales) for a while!
FOSS = Free and Open Source Software, in case anyone was wondering...
Imagine if some sexual predator got access to a dorm. You mean... like a drunk frat boy?
Yeah but people primarilly encounter CNN, BBC, MSNBC and the NY Times in a form that has little to do with their webpages. Do 50% of Americans know what Slashdot is? Do even 5%? Most Americans know what CNN is, most Americans even know what the BBC is. Slashdot isn't mainstream.
He's an admin. Don't worry, you can trust me!
I don't know that those pages were censored so much as they violated policy (Wikipedia articles are only written about topics already covered by reliable sources), or they were the subject of a lawsuit threat.
Why did they start with a city that already has a good trip planner? Because it was about 100 times easier, thanks to all the work Tri-Met did for the site. Which is why there probably won't be Google trip planners for cities that don't go to the lengths Portland does to help people use mass transit.
Actually, something extremely similar has been available from TriMet for months (or even years): http://www.trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/plantrip.cgi. It seems Google's version is directly based on that. I wouldn't be surprised if this service is never available for cities other than Portland, or cities that develope a similar search platform for their mass transit system, and give Google access to it.
Wow, that would much better than my current tactic of encasing my hard drive in tin foil.
Um, basic marketing? It's a proven method. I don't personally like it, as a nostalgic sports fan, but I mean, you can't really expect owners to turn down $5 million every few years out of principal. It's the real world, not the idealistic college Slashdot-posting world.
Marketing your brand name = greed? Gotta love Slashdot...
All of which is in blatent violation of Dr. Dre's 1994 trademark "Ain't Nothing but a G-Mail"
Yeah but this timeline actually is from 2001.
Heh, this was reported on Slashdot over ago...
As you can see, about 25% of people viewing Fark use Firefox/Mozilla, and 33% use a non-IE browser. I can tell you that just 3 months ago the total number of non-IE browers was around 20%. The numbers might actually be low, because Fark has a high number of people who read from work, where they're often forced to use IE.
In my opinion, FireFox has a "killer" feature in that it (so far) isn't really vulnerable to many exploits or malware. I call it a "killer" feature because users, regardless of skill level, will use FireFox over IE simply because of security, and you already see it happening.
This is something I put together just from looking at current prices on websites. I've never built such a thing, but it was interesting just to play around with the idea of it. I'm sure people could find a lot to critique about the stuff listed below, keep in mind it was mostly just an excercise to explore the process of building a fileserver. The cool part is this, if properly built, would be very nearly enterprise grade (using servers from IBM, Dell and Apple as reference), with 16 hot swappable SATA drives (4TB raw capacity, 2TB with a decent RAID config to protect against drive failure), and 200mb/sec speeds (that being more than enough for most of us, considering we'd be accessing it over a LAN). The price is actually really good, too... which leads me to believe I might be skimping big time. But then again, I was just trying to build something for personal use. Note: CPU muscle isn't really needed on a pure fileserver. The RAID card's manufacturer claims CPU use won't even climb above 3% at highest output. Specs Motherboard/CPU/RAM: $500 TYAN Tiger + Athlon MP 2800 + 1GB PC2700 RAM * Onboard Gigabyte LAN Case: $1,279.00 RMC3E-XPSS. 16-hot-swppable bays w/650W power supply http://servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchan t.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=RMC3E- XPSS&Category_Code=RM+Disk+Array
2 RAID Controllers: $1,000
Dual 3Ware Escalade 8506-8 (8-ports)
16 Hard Drives: $2,800
16 x 250GB Maxtor 7Y250M0 250GB SATA ($175 each)
Assume $500 (!) for cables, fans, shipping, heatsinks, etc etc.
Total Price: $5,000 ($1.25/gigabyte)
I imagine no distributor then (and probably now) would put out a public domain recording, because there'd be no royalties, nothing to stop other publishers from just making copies and selling them, with the original publisher not seeing a cent.
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
Just further evidence of how messed up copyright laws are. The person whose rights are allegedly being protected here is the last person who'd want them protected like this.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet (apparantly). Ken Jennings has a webpage! I'm sorry to report to the /. crowd that it was designed in MS Word. But it seems to be more of a personal checklist (and a window into how he got so much "useless" knowledge) than a page he intended for other people to see.
As for the FSB, the PC has a faster CPU anyway, so the FSB isn't going to catch the Mac up.
If things like 8X AGP are really worth $1,000 then buy the Mac. But I think it's a disservice to say Macs are a better value than PCs.
I've done these comparisons several times... and in every instance, at WORST the Mac comes out even. Rarely does it come out more expensive. With regard to laptops... Apple's laptops alwaays come out less expensive.