And, last time I checked, it was looking kinda difficult to build stationary cell towers on the ocean, nevermind a pesky lack of demand...
Plus, air traffic is now highly dependant on GPS and most cell antennas aren't aimed up at the sky.
So, for imprecise civilian needs (tell me how to go from here to there), a cell tower based nav system might be fine. But GPS is capable of providing a whole lot more than that.
Obviously either way you want the music. So if you stole it, it should be considered a lost sale, as you obviously wanted the music but chose to steal it instead of buying it.
Not true. Hypothetical example: I'll grab a copy of the latest Creed album (insert favorite over-hyped band here) if it's free and yeah, maybe I'll listen to it once or twice, but it's not worth it to me to pay $17.99, $15.99 or even $12.99 to be able to listen to it. So no, not every download is a lost sale. It's just basic economics:
Actually, I believe that Excedrin is the major brand which includes caffeine (Aspirin buffered w/ caffeine). Aleve is Naproxen Sodium, a different type of pain killer.
From the Aleve FAQ:
What is the active ingredient in ALEVE?
Naproxen sodium, 220 mg. ALEVE contains 200 mg of naproxen and 20 mg of sodium (salt) to help your body absorb ALEVE more quickly. It helps you feel pain relief faster than with naproxen alone.
The world is beginning to deal with an issue that of which our ancestors would never have dreamt. Technology has progressed to the point where ubiquitous surveillance/monitoring is not just feasible but cost effective. Our ability to keep our lives private is quickly eroding and it is important to wrestle with the issues now before the situation gets out of hand.
The problem lies in the fact that our privacy is not removed overnight, but gradually, as the technology advances. Often each step is accompanied by only an incremental degredation of privacy which is, in many cases, compensated for by some benefit (think supermarket savings cards). At the level of individual choice, it is easy to rationalize such an incremental step: "Who cares if they can track my supermarket purchases, it's not like I'm an alcoholic (substitue vice here)." Over time, however, the amount of data collected about an individual is astounding. And as companies work together and exchange collected data and begin to correlate it, decisions will be made that may directly affect your ability to get a job, buy a house, be admitted to school, etc. These decisions will be heavily influenced by a karma score spit out by a computer that won't have all the data, just a lot of it (think being charged more for health insurance because you only bought mac & cheese and frozen pizza at the grocery store, never mind the fact that you get all your meat from your ostrich rancher uncle and have a garden where you home grow all sorts of natural goodies. Oh wait - This is slashdot. We're all just eating frozen pizza and mac & cheese.)
There are a lot of doomsday predictions surrounding this technology. But there is some real benefit to companies that can leverage it for supply chain and inventory issues as well. What we need to realize is that even if it begins with good intentions, there will always be some asshole who wants to exploit it and will never once give any thought to the fact that what he/she is doing is not accepted by consumers as a legitamite use (example: spam companies). This means we need to be cautious now and carefully examine this budding technology and enact thoughtful legislation that can adapt to future needs of corporations without sacrificing every last vestige of consumer privacy on the altar of corporate greed. Because on the level of societal choice the sacrifices are significant. But I should stop dreaming, because when has congress ever enacted insigtful legislation in any technology area?
The problem with your conclusion is that waste is more radioactive when it comes out of the reactor. Radioactivity has to do with how stable a particular isotope is, it is not a measure of how effectively an element can be used as a fuel.
U-235 (the fuel isotope) is fairly stable but it fissions well. When you bombard it with neutrons, it breaks apart into isotopes of other elements. These isotopes are highly radioactive (unstable) but not easily fissionable. They will continue to be radioactive until they reach a stable isotope.
Now, most of the radiation is shed pretty quickly and within about 500 years the waste is less radioactive than the original fuel.
Now you are correct in wondering why we don't re-use fuel. In order for it to be re-used, it does need to be reprocessed because there is too much unusable waste in the way for the fission to be efficient. Thanks to the Carter Administration, the US doesn't do any reprocessing. So we have more waste and less efficiency.
Both those FAQ's are pretty good and cover your questions better than I can. Hope they help.
6000 mp3's @ approx. 3.5 - 4 mb per song / 3 Students for two days (48 hrs)
(6000 * 3.5 * 1024)/(3 * 48 * 60^2) = kB/s
Sustained data rates between 41 and 47 kB per second would be required to support the claim.
Now, most of these "easily accessible Web sites" wouldn't sustain those rates to an individual user. And P2P definitely never gets close. The only real way to get that much data would be from other computers on the campus LAN not said web sites.
So, now we know he lied in his speech apart from his ridiculus extrapolation to millions of students (when was the last time you skipped a month's worth of classes just so you could download all that pirate music?)
My question is, why can't the broadcast media crunch these simple numbers and figure out that this guy is full of sh*t?
What everyone is forgetting here is that when you buy software you are actually buying the License to use it, not the contents of the CD.
While you may have paid shipping charges for the upgrade CD, you could have picked it up from a local retailer for free. In either case you did not pay for a license to use the software. The upgrade license grants you the right to use the upgrade provided you already own a copy of OS X (actually, that you own a License to run a copy of OS X). So the stealing doesn't stem from not returning the change or the watch but instead arises from using software that you have no license to run. Obtaining a copy of the updgrade CD grants no license to use the full version. You need to purchase a full copy to get that license.
Secondly, even when you do purchase a piece of software, you do not own the software itself. A quick perusal of any license agreement that we all click past quickly will reveal that you only have the right to use the software in accordance with the license agreement, you have no rights w/ regard to the data themself.
Regardless of Apple's rightness or otherwise concerning the legal notice, simply having a copy of the upgrade cd does not give anyone the right to use the contents of the CD without a valid license
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And, last time I checked, it was looking kinda difficult to build stationary cell towers on the ocean, nevermind a pesky lack of demand...
Plus, air traffic is now highly dependant on GPS and most cell antennas aren't aimed up at the sky.
So, for imprecise civilian needs (tell me how to go from here to there), a cell tower based nav system might be fine. But GPS is capable of providing a whole lot more than that.
Not true. Hypothetical example: I'll grab a copy of the latest Creed album (insert favorite over-hyped band here) if it's free and yeah, maybe I'll listen to it once or twice, but it's not worth it to me to pay $17.99, $15.99 or even $12.99 to be able to listen to it. So no, not every download is a lost sale. It's just basic economics:
Well, considering that RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independant Disks, it doesn't really work. :-)
Also, the whole point to RAID is redundancy and disk failure protection, not just disk striping for performance increases.
Actually, I believe that Excedrin is the major brand which includes caffeine (Aspirin buffered w/ caffeine). Aleve is Naproxen Sodium, a different type of pain killer.
From the Aleve FAQ:
What is the active ingredient in ALEVE?
Naproxen sodium, 220 mg. ALEVE contains 200 mg of naproxen and 20 mg of sodium (salt) to help your body absorb ALEVE more quickly. It helps you feel pain relief faster than with naproxen alone.
Why is this important?
The world is beginning to deal with an issue that of which our ancestors would never have dreamt. Technology has progressed to the point where ubiquitous surveillance/monitoring is not just feasible but cost effective. Our ability to keep our lives private is quickly eroding and it is important to wrestle with the issues now before the situation gets out of hand.
The problem lies in the fact that our privacy is not removed overnight, but gradually, as the technology advances. Often each step is accompanied by only an incremental degredation of privacy which is, in many cases, compensated for by some benefit (think supermarket savings cards). At the level of individual choice, it is easy to rationalize such an incremental step: "Who cares if they can track my supermarket purchases, it's not like I'm an alcoholic (substitue vice here)." Over time, however, the amount of data collected about an individual is astounding. And as companies work together and exchange collected data and begin to correlate it, decisions will be made that may directly affect your ability to get a job, buy a house, be admitted to school, etc. These decisions will be heavily influenced by a karma score spit out by a computer that won't have all the data, just a lot of it (think being charged more for health insurance because you only bought mac & cheese and frozen pizza at the grocery store, never mind the fact that you get all your meat from your ostrich rancher uncle and have a garden where you home grow all sorts of natural goodies. Oh wait - This is slashdot. We're all just eating frozen pizza and mac & cheese.)
There are a lot of doomsday predictions surrounding this technology. But there is some real benefit to companies that can leverage it for supply chain and inventory issues as well. What we need to realize is that even if it begins with good intentions, there will always be some asshole who wants to exploit it and will never once give any thought to the fact that what he/she is doing is not accepted by consumers as a legitamite use (example: spam companies). This means we need to be cautious now and carefully examine this budding technology and enact thoughtful legislation that can adapt to future needs of corporations without sacrificing every last vestige of consumer privacy on the altar of corporate greed. Because on the level of societal choice the sacrifices are significant. But I should stop dreaming, because when has congress ever enacted insigtful legislation in any technology area?
The problem with your conclusion is that waste is more radioactive when it comes out of the reactor. Radioactivity has to do with how stable a particular isotope is, it is not a measure of how effectively an element can be used as a fuel.
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U-235 (the fuel isotope) is fairly stable but it fissions well. When you bombard it with neutrons, it breaks apart into isotopes of other elements. These isotopes are highly radioactive (unstable) but not easily fissionable. They will continue to be radioactive until they reach a stable isotope.
Now, most of the radiation is shed pretty quickly and within about 500 years the waste is less radioactive than the original fuel.
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nucle
The standford link has that info about halfway down under the question, "Q. What about nuclear waste?"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rea
Now you are correct in wondering why we don't re-use fuel. In order for it to be re-used, it does need to be reprocessed because there is too much unusable waste in the way for the fission to be efficient. Thanks to the Carter Administration, the US doesn't do any reprocessing. So we have more waste and less efficiency.
Both those FAQ's are pretty good and cover your questions better than I can. Hope they help.
This is actually quite easy to debunk:
6000 mp3's @ approx. 3.5 - 4 mb per song / 3 Students for two days (48 hrs)
(6000 * 3.5 * 1024)/(3 * 48 * 60^2) = kB/s
Sustained data rates between 41 and 47 kB per second would be required to support the claim.
Now, most of these "easily accessible Web sites" wouldn't sustain those rates to an individual user. And P2P definitely never gets close. The only real way to get that much data would be from other computers on the campus LAN not said web sites.
So, now we know he lied in his speech apart from his ridiculus extrapolation to millions of students (when was the last time you skipped a month's worth of classes just so you could download all that pirate music?)
My question is, why can't the broadcast media crunch these simple numbers and figure out that this guy is full of sh*t?
What everyone is forgetting here is that when you buy software you are actually buying the License to use it, not the contents of the CD.
While you may have paid shipping charges for the upgrade CD, you could have picked it up from a local retailer for free. In either case you did not pay for a license to use the software. The upgrade license grants you the right to use the upgrade provided you already own a copy of OS X (actually, that you own a License to run a copy of OS X). So the stealing doesn't stem from not returning the change or the watch but instead arises from using software that you have no license to run. Obtaining a copy of the updgrade CD grants no license to use the full version. You need to purchase a full copy to get that license.
Secondly, even when you do purchase a piece of software, you do not own the software itself. A quick perusal of any license agreement that we all click past quickly will reveal that you only have the right to use the software in accordance with the license agreement, you have no rights w/ regard to the data themself.
Regardless of Apple's rightness or otherwise concerning the legal notice, simply having a copy of the upgrade cd does not give anyone the right to use the contents of the CD without a valid license