As long as a computer plays music, it sends it to speakers via some sort of speaker cable. As long as this relation exists, it is completely impossible to protect songs, despite any protections on any media.
So what if they make a CD that is completely unrippable? I'll just either play it to a file instead of speakers, or at the very least play it to the microphone slot and record that. I just don't get it I guess.
I too don't buy into that respect-leftover-biomass business. After someone is dead, their body is as good as their last shit really, except for the numerous scientific and medical uses. Now that I think about it, it could be kind of nice to keep a DNA record of people after they die so extensive biological histories could be kept (think of people in the year 3000 looking up their heritage). Of course this will incite that whole privacy debate and everyone is out to get everyone.
This probably isn't a smart thing to post as it isn't popular. Oh well doesn't make it wrong.
I count this more of a troll than what it's replying to.
Strike 1: Pre-compiled binaries. Two words which mean nothing to the average windows user.
Strike 2: Well. Good thing you finally told me. Here I've been running Linux on my desktop for years, thinking it worked. Silly me. etc. An asshole atittude instead of trying to offer the least bit help. Most people who've seeked assistance on an IRC channel is used to this.
Strike 3: Last time I checked, Windows didn't come with a compiler...M/i> For average Windows functioning, no compiler is needed. However for many basic operations in *nix, one is needed. Many programs are not distributed in binary, including drivers which are often required before the OS can even go online. Without a compiler being provided by the distro, the situation becomes irritating.
Strike 4: Doofus Insulting the potential *nix user. That's right, wonder for years about why no one switches, then when someone tries, insult them.
People, try to remember that the alternative environment is so mindblowing that problems which appear easy to you are brick walls to others.
A battery that knows whether or not it is in use. Perhaps it would be possible for another voltage to trigger the chemical compounds in the first place, that is, when there is no voltage across it, the chemicals are relatively inert. A while ago I read (possibly on slashdot?) of a substance which is a liquid when any current is going through it, and a jelly-solid when it isn't.
Now the downside to this avenue is that each battery would have a battery (likely internal). However this wouldn't have to be nearly as big-- by design, make a very low current required to start/stop the chemical process in the larger battery, which is now free to be much more caustic in nature. Now the battery may still explode from mal-use, then again a passive fuse element could also be added which makes sure the battery permanently becomes in it's inactive state.
I'm not saying we know how to do half of this, it's just one option we can persue. Another option is fundamentally chance the amount of electricity anything handheld uses. This would be happening right now, but every time we make something more efficient, we make it faster so that it's consumption is more or less equal (usually more).
Cannot be fixed by adding useless crap to the CD's. Make the CD's cost less. Piracy will always exist and always had, it just wasn't quantifiable before the Internet.
I for one would be very happy to not have to recompile my kernel-- ever. It should be totally unnecessary. That being said, it is nice for there to be flexibility, but a stable release should be available. What do I mean by stable? I mean no matter what hardware I have connected to no matter what motherboard, the system will not be self destructive.
On both of my computers no attempted Linux or Unix can not handle my hardware. On one computer it invents an IRQ conflict which doesn't exist, and on the other it sends lethal instructions to the LCD screen (but works perfectly fine outside of X-- except for the ethernet: supposedly it doesn't exist).
Now I'm not asking for any sort of help. I know I could fix either one given a week of no school or work, but that should not be needed. The average computer user would return their computer if it were left in the state mine are after an attempt at a *nix.
I will soon be going on an coop (paid internship) where I will have more free time, and then I will be working on getting Mandrake running on my laptop. I'll write a journal of my trials and tribulations. I think it will very well demonstrate most of what is wrong.
I mean, I am correct in assuming the ground telephone system is starting to die. It'll take a long time, but there just isn't as much use as a cable line, which can easily handle telephones and whatever else you throw at it. It parallels the situation of getting rid of the big polluters: it's worse for everyone, but they have friends to keep things how they are.
In the same way that Fox will turn into a hardcore sex network in the next 30 years gradually enough to avoid the sensors, this betting could turn into exactly what the pentagon tried to do.
2004: When will helicopter prototype X be released.
2007: How long until the first helicopter X will be shot down?
2008: When and where will the next helicopter X be shot down?
2009: What is the current mailing address and phone numer of the next person who will shoot down a helicopter X?
The article is from reuters, not CNN, you silly, silly bastard.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August, a sign that the record industry's anti-piracy tactics are hitting home, research company NPD Group said....
Don't worry about anything like that. We're not going to be attacked by an organized force (i.e. an army.. note: an army is not a group of people with killing intentions). This country in it's current form will never be in another real hot war (all battles will take place solely on foreign soil or _possibly_ in international waters).
But as things go, sure an end will come. Here we are sitting with one of the oldest governments in the world with an obsolete charter and a organizational chart that looks like a spider web. As Thomas Jefferson said, this isn't going to work forever. People will have to rise up and replace the government when things have gone bad.
Well the point at which things go bad is when the propaganda has been so extreme that people think that the President is the Government, and the Government is the country. I don't know about others but I have been truly scared of these more and more prevalent beliefs. Luckily for the rest of the world we've got our selves in such a position that we won't lash out too many times before we fall over.
No, it's less. No duplicate is really a duplicate.
The first time around, the article gets a bunch of discussion.
The second time around, the article gets the same discussion, same arguments. Then it gets an equal amount of "dupe" talk.
X + 2X = 800. "Content" = 800/3.
(insane referece) That's like 17 volkswagon beetles.
Well those people who pretend to like google will demand dividends (aka free money), and google will be forced to use more obtrusive advertising. Their hits will quickly vanish, and poof.
The IBM research team is currently running a large Linux cluster to simulate Blue Gene.
So then why don't have we have the simulation of Blue Gene run a simulation of Blue Gene two, and that run a simulation of a quantum computer, and that run a simulation of Deep Thought? Then that can run a simulation of the rest of the universe.
Then the two will bicker and argue about who's real, whom created whom, and millions of Matrix freaks will yell "I told you!!!" to those who have ridiculed them so many, many years.
... but that doesn't matter. An accomplishment is an accomplishment. Besides if an AI manifests itself it'd be less likely to destroy the world and more likely to tell you that your white socks do not match your purple tie.
1) Anything that lasts a finite amount of time creates an infinite frequency response.
2) Anything that creates a finite frequency response lasts a finite amount of time.
3) Nothing lasts forever.
4) Everything creates an infinite frequency response (hummmm).
Ok not quite a proof as #3 is of our perception, but you get the idea. Nothing special.
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As long as a computer plays music, it sends it to speakers via some sort of speaker cable. As long as this relation exists, it is completely impossible to protect songs, despite any protections on any media.
So what if they make a CD that is completely unrippable? I'll just either play it to a file instead of speakers, or at the very least play it to the microphone slot and record that. I just don't get it I guess.
If Nintendo is the apple of gaming systems, them I must have some severe suicidal tendencies.
I too don't buy into that respect-leftover-biomass business. After someone is dead, their body is as good as their last shit really, except for the numerous scientific and medical uses. Now that I think about it, it could be kind of nice to keep a DNA record of people after they die so extensive biological histories could be kept (think of people in the year 3000 looking up their heritage). Of course this will incite that whole privacy debate and everyone is out to get everyone.
This probably isn't a smart thing to post as it isn't popular. Oh well doesn't make it wrong.
I had a typo in a closing tag. Time to turn on preview methinks.
I count this more of a troll than what it's replying to.
Strike 1: Pre-compiled binaries. Two words which mean nothing to the average windows user.
Strike 2: Well. Good thing you finally told me. Here I've been running Linux on my desktop for years, thinking it worked. Silly me. etc. An asshole atittude instead of trying to offer the least bit help. Most people who've seeked assistance on an IRC channel is used to this.
Strike 3: Last time I checked, Windows didn't come with a compiler...M/i> For average Windows functioning, no compiler is needed. However for many basic operations in *nix, one is needed. Many programs are not distributed in binary, including drivers which are often required before the OS can even go online. Without a compiler being provided by the distro, the situation becomes irritating.
Strike 4: Doofus Insulting the potential *nix user. That's right, wonder for years about why no one switches, then when someone tries, insult them.
People, try to remember that the alternative environment is so mindblowing that problems which appear easy to you are brick walls to others.
A battery that knows whether or not it is in use. Perhaps it would be possible for another voltage to trigger the chemical compounds in the first place, that is, when there is no voltage across it, the chemicals are relatively inert. A while ago I read (possibly on slashdot?) of a substance which is a liquid when any current is going through it, and a jelly-solid when it isn't.
Now the downside to this avenue is that each battery would have a battery (likely internal). However this wouldn't have to be nearly as big-- by design, make a very low current required to start/stop the chemical process in the larger battery, which is now free to be much more caustic in nature. Now the battery may still explode from mal-use, then again a passive fuse element could also be added which makes sure the battery permanently becomes in it's inactive state.
I'm not saying we know how to do half of this, it's just one option we can persue. Another option is fundamentally chance the amount of electricity anything handheld uses. This would be happening right now, but every time we make something more efficient, we make it faster so that it's consumption is more or less equal (usually more).
Cannot be fixed by adding useless crap to the CD's. Make the CD's cost less. Piracy will always exist and always had, it just wasn't quantifiable before the Internet.
I for one would be very happy to not have to recompile my kernel-- ever. It should be totally unnecessary. That being said, it is nice for there to be flexibility, but a stable release should be available. What do I mean by stable? I mean no matter what hardware I have connected to no matter what motherboard, the system will not be self destructive.
On both of my computers no attempted Linux or Unix can not handle my hardware. On one computer it invents an IRQ conflict which doesn't exist, and on the other it sends lethal instructions to the LCD screen (but works perfectly fine outside of X-- except for the ethernet: supposedly it doesn't exist).
Now I'm not asking for any sort of help. I know I could fix either one given a week of no school or work, but that should not be needed. The average computer user would return their computer if it were left in the state mine are after an attempt at a *nix.
I will soon be going on an coop (paid internship) where I will have more free time, and then I will be working on getting Mandrake running on my laptop. I'll write a journal of my trials and tribulations. I think it will very well demonstrate most of what is wrong.
If irony where made of blueberries, we'd all be eating pie.
you forgot the refence..
John( 16:4 )
looks like code to me
I mean, I am correct in assuming the ground telephone system is starting to die. It'll take a long time, but there just isn't as much use as a cable line, which can easily handle telephones and whatever else you throw at it. It parallels the situation of getting rid of the big polluters: it's worse for everyone, but they have friends to keep things how they are.
you are correct.
too bad they made a proprietary system, and people will simply use whatever comes after itoons with anything other than an ipod.
But it also really applies.
1. Invest millions in a huge infrastructure to sell songs very cheaply on the internet.
2. ???
3. Profit!
In the same way that Fox will turn into a hardcore sex network in the next 30 years gradually enough to avoid the sensors, this betting could turn into exactly what the pentagon tried to do.
2004: When will helicopter prototype X be released.
2007: How long until the first helicopter X will be shot down?
2008: When and where will the next helicopter X be shot down?
2009: What is the current mailing address and phone numer of the next person who will shoot down a helicopter X?
The article is from reuters, not CNN, you silly, silly bastard.
...
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August, a sign that the record industry's anti-piracy tactics are hitting home, research company NPD Group said.
But people think it's rude to put my finger there...
Don't worry about anything like that. We're not going to be attacked by an organized force (i.e. an army.. note: an army is not a group of people with killing intentions). This country in it's current form will never be in another real hot war (all battles will take place solely on foreign soil or _possibly_ in international waters).
But as things go, sure an end will come. Here we are sitting with one of the oldest governments in the world with an obsolete charter and a organizational chart that looks like a spider web. As Thomas Jefferson said, this isn't going to work forever. People will have to rise up and replace the government when things have gone bad.
Well the point at which things go bad is when the propaganda has been so extreme that people think that the President is the Government, and the Government is the country. I don't know about others but I have been truly scared of these more and more prevalent beliefs. Luckily for the rest of the world we've got our selves in such a position that we won't lash out too many times before we fall over.
No, it's less. No duplicate is really a duplicate.
The first time around, the article gets a bunch of discussion.
The second time around, the article gets the same discussion, same arguments. Then it gets an equal amount of "dupe" talk.
X + 2X = 800. "Content" = 800/3.
(insane referece) That's like 17 volkswagon beetles.
How about we talk about something else?
How about them sporting events?
Well those people who pretend to like google will demand dividends (aka free money), and google will be forced to use more obtrusive advertising. Their hits will quickly vanish, and poof.
The IBM research team is currently running a large Linux cluster to simulate Blue Gene.
So then why don't have we have the simulation of Blue Gene run a simulation of Blue Gene two, and that run a simulation of a quantum computer, and that run a simulation of Deep Thought? Then that can run a simulation of the rest of the universe.
Then the two will bicker and argue about who's real, whom created whom, and millions of Matrix freaks will yell "I told you!!!" to those who have ridiculed them so many, many years.
Just want until it turns on Longhorn is based on the Doom3 engine. Then you'll be lucky to play solitaire without lag.
I don't know where it is, but it's moving at exactly 3.65 m/s.
... but that doesn't matter. An accomplishment is an accomplishment. Besides if an AI manifests itself it'd be less likely to destroy the world and more likely to tell you that your white socks do not match your purple tie.
1) Anything that lasts a finite amount of time creates an infinite frequency response.
2) Anything that creates a finite frequency response lasts a finite amount of time.
3) Nothing lasts forever.
4) Everything creates an infinite frequency response (hummmm).
Ok not quite a proof as #3 is of our perception, but you get the idea. Nothing special.