Thats a straw man argument. I can't make a car on my own for less than 5 million dollars... that doesn't mean any car has a value of 5 million dollars.
One of the UN's main goals is to promote "income redistribution". Which basically means, since there are rich countries, and poor countries, they want to make us all poor:)
The problem with the UN is that they think they can save the world from poverty by taking money from people not living in poverty and giving it to those who are. History shows that the only way to help people is to enable them to help themselves, not throw cash at problems.
Did you expect anything to be able to import that CD?
No, Im an audiophile -- i want to *KNOW* when a CD can't be imported. I put a cd in on purpose that I knew couldnt be rippped to see what would happen, and iTunes silently imported the cd despite the errors. To me *THAT* is unacceptable. What would have been acceptable is a popup that simply said, "This CD has unrecoverable errors...Continue?"
And, I'm quite sure I mentioned enough reasons to dislike itunes. Constant lockups being chief among them.
The difference here is that iTunes is a very good product,
I beg to differ... this is not a troll... I saw the video ipod on the apple site and thought, holy f*** thats sexy, I need one of those. So before running out and buying one (pre-ordering... anyways) I decided to try itunes, on my PC. I *LOVE* the way it organizes music. I want to play OGGs and FLAC on it, but I'm willing to give apples formats the benefit of the doubt. I compared the lossless encoder to FLAC, the performance was within like 0.1% of flac. GREAT. However, it locks up constantly, randomly. I put in a CD that had the ever loving crap scratched out of it. Itunes silently imported it despite the problems with the cd (Yes I turned on the accurate rip option). This is unacceptable, if the CD is damaged, I want to know. Lastly, Itunes *SHOULD* be able to manage lossless files on your computer, and upload encoded files to your Ipod. I know it would be slow the first time.
So anyways, that was my experience with itunes over the weekend... gonna stick with my korean iAudio player which the sound quality is incredible on, plays a ton of formats already...
Just because you made a great Indie game, doesn't mean anyone will care. Seriously. You act as if you could only make a good game the world should coming running. The sad fact is that the average person doesn't have the ability to appreciate art. A few years back a great film called "Lost In Translation" came out. I saw it, and was the *ONLY* person who didn't walk out of the theater. I was enthralled, probably the best movie I saw that year, maybe the best movie made that year.
Year after year art and hard work are ignored for sex and cheap thrills. I wish it were different.
I was the second team member on a very popular linux distro... I also make a very decent salary writing windows software. Does this mean I'm sold out to the man? Or does it mean I need to eat and buy my family food and shelter?
Or am I supposed to donate all of myself, and my families welfare for your ideals? Look at the founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins... The guy stepped down when he was 40k in DEBT living his ideals.
Could it also be that the way to chang the system is to work inside it? I have influence over products, IT, and software decisions from this position I wouldn't have mooching off my folks and writing OSS software in the basement.
The US does *NOT* control the internet in the least. We'll sell you a domain name for 10 bucks a year. 10 FUC**** dollars!! Thats the extent of our "control" which is "no control" which is the way its supposed to be!
Look at the countries which *WANT* control... "countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab States". Do you think they are interested in a free internet?
I used to watch Fox News quite a bit when I as unemployed (and I'm posting at work... hmmm...) and once saw I think Rita Cosby yell at the top of her lungs, in full distress, "They're killing babies!!!!!!" During an interview...
There are those of us, to whom a good soundcard is critical. And weirdly enough, creative has started to make some fairly decent stuff after having been a laughing stock for years.
They bought E-MU who was a synth manufacturer, and started releasing some very high quality stuff under the E-MU brand. I point to the 1820M which has unbelivable specs which have all been verified by independant tests. This sound card is a low end *MASTERING* grade unit for about 550$.
hese countries want to be able to control the Internet (at least within their borders) themselves.
I think they really want to be able to levy taxes. To quote the mayor from deadwood, "Taking peoples money is what makes an organization real, be it temporary, ad hoc, or otherwise."
This is a revenue grab pure and simple. Be prepared for domain taxes, ip taxes, email taxes, etc. They will take the money and claim its to help people in developing countries... however, like the story we've all heard before, somehow, some rich guy will get even richer with the money and the people it was intended for... nothing.
Do you make a distinction between depression with an organic cause and depression of the "I dont know how to be happy" type? (is that even a legit distinction?)
what situation are you imagining where the roles are reversed
Well, I didnt have a specific scenario in mind... but HBO is disrupting a computer network, which I'm sure technically falls under computer abuse/fraud/intrusion. Like those kids who are being charged for "hacking" for using the administrator password on their school issued laptops -- which was written on the bottom of the laptop.
I was using the scenario as a lead in to imply there are two sets of laws... one for consumers and one for corportaions.
I question if HBO has a "right" to screw up a network because they want to, even if it is their show being traded. If it was an individual doing this to a corporation, Im sure that person would be arrested. Furthermore, I subscribe to HBO, *AND* I download their shows... downloading them is easier than using a VCR, which I dont even own because VCR's are fucktarded.
I think we should send 1000 troops down to the pretty building they have and send them all the fuck home. Then we withdraw all of our funding (I know we don't pay the full ammount already) and withdraw all of our troops, and allow the UN to become the street bazar that it is.
Seriously, this article pisses me off soo much that I think its a troll. Were you to only read the article, you'd think that all you had to do was take over the internet was decide you wanted to. Yes it is feasable for other countries to run their own root servers. However, they *CANNOT* mess with the allocation of IP addresses without causing SERIOUS havoc.
I dont know why the UN wants "control" of the internet so badly. But for whatever reason they want it that bad, thats exactly the reason they shouldn't have it. My guess is this is a grab for:
1. Relevance. The UN is a joke, it has no credibility.
2. Enforcement of Social Agendas
3. Revenues. Tax the internet.
So glancing over the article it doesn't look like they're actually doing anything "new." Basically expanding on register renaming, speculitive execution, and the likes which making the cpu's job slighty easier to do it. Also their bit about data flow and "direct target encoding" sounds oddly like this patent by Cray from 1976 (!).
But they thought up a neat acronym for it, TRIPS! Seriously though, thats how research works... Cynically we could say they are completely full of it. They also could have some new techniques to add, which if they did, is exactly what research is about. Most research is about incremental improvement at a leisurely pace... god damn I long for academia:)
Well, IPv4 address space can represent 2^32 = 4.29 billion addresses. A number of these are reserved, but that doesn't lower the number much. However, 4.29 billion is NOT a lot when you consider there are over 50% more people in the world than addresses.
The reason I didnt mention a number is because its not as easy as 2^32. You have to take into account private addresses, unroutable adresses, etc etc... I remember being assigned the problem in a combinatorics class and getting it wrong:)
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Thats a straw man argument. I can't make a car on my own for less than 5 million dollars ... that doesn't mean any car has a value of 5 million dollars.
The problem with the UN is that they think they can save the world from poverty by taking money from people not living in poverty and giving it to those who are. History shows that the only way to help people is to enable them to help themselves, not throw cash at problems.
Lets hang our heads in shame.
No, Im an audiophile -- i want to *KNOW* when a CD can't be imported. I put a cd in on purpose that I knew couldnt be rippped to see what would happen, and iTunes silently imported the cd despite the errors. To me *THAT* is unacceptable. What would have been acceptable is a popup that simply said, "This CD has unrecoverable errors...Continue?"
And, I'm quite sure I mentioned enough reasons to dislike itunes. Constant lockups being chief among them.
I beg to differ ... this is not a troll... I saw the video ipod on the apple site and thought, holy f*** thats sexy, I need one of those. So before running out and buying one (pre-ordering ... anyways) I decided to try itunes, on my PC. I *LOVE* the way it organizes music. I want to play OGGs and FLAC on it, but I'm willing to give apples formats the benefit of the doubt. I compared the lossless encoder to FLAC, the performance was within like 0.1% of flac. GREAT. However, it locks up constantly, randomly. I put in a CD that had the ever loving crap scratched out of it. Itunes silently imported it despite the problems with the cd (Yes I turned on the accurate rip option). This is unacceptable, if the CD is damaged, I want to know. Lastly, Itunes *SHOULD* be able to manage lossless files on your computer, and upload encoded files to your Ipod. I know it would be slow the first time.
So anyways, that was my experience with itunes over the weekend... gonna stick with my korean iAudio player which the sound quality is incredible on, plays a ton of formats already ...
My 650 crashes constantly, and my dell axim does as well :)
Year after year art and hard work are ignored for sex and cheap thrills. I wish it were different.
Yea ... we all saw diehard 3.
Or am I supposed to donate all of myself, and my families welfare for your ideals? Look at the founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins ... The guy stepped down when he was 40k in DEBT living his ideals.
Could it also be that the way to chang the system is to work inside it? I have influence over products, IT, and software decisions from this position I wouldn't have mooching off my folks and writing OSS software in the basement.
Look at the countries which *WANT* control... "countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab States". Do you think they are interested in a free internet?
Id take the NYT over that anyday.
Only if you are too pussy to hook yourself up during real life :)
They bought E-MU who was a synth manufacturer, and started releasing some very high quality stuff under the E-MU brand. I point to the 1820M which has unbelivable specs which have all been verified by independant tests. This sound card is a low end *MASTERING* grade unit for about 550$.
I think they really want to be able to levy taxes. To quote the mayor from deadwood, "Taking peoples money is what makes an organization real, be it temporary, ad hoc, or otherwise."
This is a revenue grab pure and simple. Be prepared for domain taxes, ip taxes, email taxes, etc. They will take the money and claim its to help people in developing countries ... however, like the story we've all heard before, somehow, some rich guy will get even richer with the money and the people it was intended for ... nothing.
The UN has *NO* credibility.
I'm from California ... and all I have to say is ... its a sad sad day when Barbara Boxer is the good guy.
Do you make a distinction between depression with an organic cause and depression of the "I dont know how to be happy" type? (is that even a legit distinction?)
Right. But the wacom tablet pens are not CHARGED via induction? They simply use induction to sense their position?
Eh no. Wacom tablets work on induction. Someone correct me if IM wrong :)
Oops I did it again borrow heavily from a jan hammer tune called Seeds.
I think her tune "toxic" while a complete waste of talent, was an amazing song from a technical standpoint.
Well, I didnt have a specific scenario in mind ... but HBO is disrupting a computer network, which I'm sure technically falls under computer abuse/fraud/intrusion. Like those kids who are being charged for "hacking" for using the administrator password on their school issued laptops -- which was written on the bottom of the laptop.
I was using the scenario as a lead in to imply there are two sets of laws ... one for consumers and one for corportaions.
I question if HBO has a "right" to screw up a network because they want to, even if it is their show being traded. If it was an individual doing this to a corporation, Im sure that person would be arrested. Furthermore, I subscribe to HBO, *AND* I download their shows ... downloading them is easier than using a VCR, which I dont even own because VCR's are fucktarded.
Seriously, this article pisses me off soo much that I think its a troll. Were you to only read the article, you'd think that all you had to do was take over the internet was decide you wanted to. Yes it is feasable for other countries to run their own root servers. However, they *CANNOT* mess with the allocation of IP addresses without causing SERIOUS havoc.
I dont know why the UN wants "control" of the internet so badly. But for whatever reason they want it that bad, thats exactly the reason they shouldn't have it. My guess is this is a grab for:
1. Relevance. The UN is a joke, it has no credibility.
2. Enforcement of Social Agendas
3. Revenues. Tax the internet.
But they thought up a neat acronym for it, TRIPS! Seriously though, thats how research works ... Cynically we could say they are completely full of it. They also could have some new techniques to add, which if they did, is exactly what research is about. Most research is about incremental improvement at a leisurely pace... god damn I long for academia :)
The reason I didnt mention a number is because its not as easy as 2^32. You have to take into account private addresses, unroutable adresses, etc etc ... I remember being assigned the problem in a combinatorics class and getting it wrong :)
Appreciated actually .. and the civil demeanor we've been able to keep which is unusual for slashdot :)