Let's try to remember that ALL music distributed in 'North America' comes from labels associated with the RIAA. And they're not all "fifty year old yodelling tapes". Check out RIAA Radar to find music that could be played on a radio station that avoided the RIAA altogether.
The purpose of an American company is not to make money. Their purpose is to create jobs. That's it. That's the reason the government protects their interests. To make jobs for Americans. Welcome to America, the soon to be Service Industry of the world. Where the rich get richer and everyone else continues to clean their toilets and serve them Slurpees.
I wonder if you realize that the HP books are children's books? They're not LOTR, even if you argue that LOTR is a story for children it's just not the same thing. The characters are one-dimensional. There are quite a few elements of the story that exist solely to show off neat ideas. Kids love it. My sister is 15 and I have tried to get her through LOTR many times (even reading the Hobbit to her as a kid) but she just isn't that interested. She devoured the HP books.
300+mb per song? if you mean 300 MB per song I am confused. If the files are stored on the CD in AIFF format and in AIFF format the songs occupy 300MB of disk space...how many could you fit on a 640 MB CD? Surely you didn't mean millibits, which doesn't even make sense:) I'm not trying to insult or cut down...just making an observation.
The sad part is...who knows what work CS students living in the dorms might be doing that requires opening ports up and running servers on their machines. This is just bad news if you ask me.
Re:The situation's aren't comparable.
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You can steal cable, Signal, if you 'steal' cable you're connecting illegaly to an electric circuit that has a finite capacity to source current. You are 'stealing' their signal strength and if enough people steal it they will have to increase capacity to maintain that signal for their paying customers. You are in fact stealing a physical good.
internet access, Bandwidth, if you steal internet access you're sucking up bandwidth that paying customers are being denied. The ISP will eventually have to lay out cash for hardware to compensate.
cell phone time, Circuits, if you steal cell phone time you're filling circuits of which there is a limited supply. If you don't know the value of cell circuits as a physical good then you're out of the loop. Again, the cell companies will have to lay out cash and buy new hardware to increase capacity.
Their good is music. If you're stealing CD's from a store, you are stealing music. They have to print more CD's to make up for the ones you steal. If enough are stolen, they will have to print more or risk not having CD's to sell to honest customers. If you're making a copy of the CD (And frankly, most of the music 'stolen' is not a perfect copy of a physical good but an imperfect copy of part of the good) you aren't denying the company producing the CD any inventory. You aren't doing anything that will force them to create more CD's.
Are you stealing art if you photograph the Statue of Liberty? Distributing copies of someone else's music without their permission may be wrong but it is not theft in the same way that the things you mentioned are theft.
Many years ago when my dad was first starting his business that is exactly what he did. Called a random accountant and paid him to generate his tax return. He then took the paperwork and went to another accountant and asked him to do the same. He also told him that he (the accountant) could keep any extra money he saved him over the other fellows tax return. He did this several times that first year, until finally one accountant told him that there was no way he could do any better than the previous fellow. The previous accountant has been my dad's tax man for about 35 years. May not work these days...but it might be worth a shot for a newb. Costs some extra money the first year, but I know my dad has saved plenty over the years to make up for it.
If you look at the numbers, Americans are statistically undecided about who they want to be president. Just about half of the people voted one way and the other half another. There is no clear majority in the US when it comes to deciding who should be president.
This is why there is a Professional Engineer Licensing program. The reason people aren't afraid of their floors is because somewhere a PE signed off on the design. There are as many engineers running around that can't be trusted to sign off on a structural design or a control circuit as there are code monkeys sitting at their desks writing garbage for Microsoft. If you do engineering work you are an engineer.
What the hell is this person talking about? An order of magnitude faster? Surely you don't think that Intel runs on a 4GHz bus? Surely you aren't implying that AMD has 'finally' broken the 400 MHZ CPU clock barrier. Perhaps you don't know what 'Order of magnitude' means. In general, people consider an order of magnitude a factor of 10, e.g. 10 -> 100, 4GHZ -> 40 GHZ.
Are you saying you can create a graphic without using a special program on a non CLI? I don't think your post makes sense. To work with graphics in a point and click environment you need a dedicated piece of software right? Are you saying there is no software for image creation that works without a mouse/clicky device? And what is a non trivial graphic? There are many examples of ASCII art that can be created on a command line that are non trivial. This also ignores the fact that you can write a program to draw highly detailed graphics on the screen, all from a command line.
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I don't think they're suggesting that anyone stop distributing albums. Are you suggesting that there should be no alternative to 'entire album' distributions because that's not what you prefer? Sounds kind of conceited to me.
Chris
Orthogonality of the eigenfunctions is connected to the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function.
These \psi_s (t) vectors are also all at "right-angles" to eachother. So their cross products = 0.
You sure about this? You might mean do product, no?
Chris
I think you're still wrong. Sticking ram in a motherboard or configuring jumpers on a hard drive is still 'assembling' a computer. I think he was referring to an electronics store where youc an buy electronic components and solder together your own controllers and adapters. That is more like 'building' a computer. Funny though, where people draw the line.
Chris
I haven't been able to open the link, but I know eBay is full of LCD screens designed for laptops. I don't know how interchangeable the LCD's are but that might be a good source.
Chris
Both ATA100 and ATA133 devices will work. As far as I know the ATA133 devices are backwards compatible with ATA100 controllers (this is the case on my PC at home) they just operate as if they were ATA100 devices.
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Typically people who are shopping at Walmart are not purchasing things they can carry on their bike. Think a weeks worth of groceries or a barbecue grill.
Unless of course, the original poster would not consider 'buying cloth' at a store 'making their own clothes'. Not an insult, just a commentary.
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Re:Not to be a troll here but...
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The term 'soccer' was originated at Oxford in England in the last 1800's. It was short for association, someone who played football using the association rules was a a-soc-er or a 'soccer'. The name stuck for quite some time. The term is used in America to differentiate the boring, low scoring variety of football the rest of the world plays (sarcasm) from the exciting smash mouth variety that we in the US prefer. Strangely enough, this information can be found quickly using a relatively new search engine known as 'Google'. Fun is relative, I could really give a rat's ass whether or not you think American football is fun or even interesting.
Chris
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Let's try to remember that ALL music distributed in 'North America' comes from labels associated with the RIAA. And they're not all "fifty year old yodelling tapes". Check out
RIAA Radar
to find music that could be played on a radio station that avoided the RIAA altogether.
The purpose of an American company is not to make money. Their purpose is to create jobs. That's it. That's the reason the government protects their interests. To make jobs for Americans. Welcome to America, the soon to be Service Industry of the world. Where the rich get richer and everyone else continues to clean their toilets and serve them Slurpees.
I wonder if you realize that the HP books are children's books? They're not LOTR, even if you argue that LOTR is a story for children it's just not the same thing. The characters are one-dimensional. There are quite a few elements of the story that exist solely to show off neat ideas. Kids love it. My sister is 15 and I have tried to get her through LOTR many times (even reading the Hobbit to her as a kid) but she just isn't that interested. She devoured the HP books.
Bull. We're talking about student access to the network in the dorms. Ban on personal emails? Not in my experience.
Oops I'm an idiot. I missed the previous post regarding IBM working on a G3 + Altivec chip. Color me stupid.
Would a G3 processor be any advantage when dealing with AltiVec code? I thought this was the big difference between the G3 and the G4 processor.
300+mb per song? if you mean 300 MB per song I am confused. If the files are stored on the CD in AIFF format and in AIFF format the songs occupy 300MB of disk space...how many could you fit on a 640 MB CD? Surely you didn't mean millibits, which doesn't even make sense :) I'm not trying to insult or cut down...just making an observation.
Chris
The sad part is...who knows what work CS students living in the dorms might be doing that requires opening ports up and running servers on their machines. This is just bad news if you ask me.
You can steal cable,
Signal, if you 'steal' cable you're connecting illegaly to an electric circuit that has a finite capacity to source current. You are 'stealing' their signal strength and if enough people steal it they will have to increase capacity to maintain that signal for their paying customers. You are in fact stealing a physical good.
internet access,
Bandwidth, if you steal internet access you're sucking up bandwidth that paying customers are being denied. The ISP will eventually have to lay out cash for hardware to compensate.
cell phone time,
Circuits, if you steal cell phone time you're filling circuits of which there is a limited supply. If you don't know the value of cell circuits as a physical good then you're out of the loop. Again, the cell companies will have to lay out cash and buy new hardware to increase capacity.
Their good is music.
If you're stealing CD's from a store, you are stealing music. They have to print more CD's to make up for the ones you steal. If enough are stolen, they will have to print more or risk not having CD's to sell to honest customers. If you're making a copy of the CD (And frankly, most of the music 'stolen' is not a perfect copy of a physical good but an imperfect copy of part of the good) you aren't denying the company producing the CD any inventory. You aren't doing anything that will force them to create more CD's.
Are you stealing art if you photograph the Statue of Liberty? Distributing copies of someone else's music without their permission may be wrong but it is not theft in the same way that the things you mentioned are theft.
Many years ago when my dad was first starting his business that is exactly what he did. Called a random accountant and paid him to generate his tax return. He then took the paperwork and went to another accountant and asked him to do the same. He also told him that he (the accountant) could keep any extra money he saved him over the other fellows tax return. He did this several times that first year, until finally one accountant told him that there was no way he could do any better than the previous fellow. The previous accountant has been my dad's tax man for about 35 years. May not work these days...but it might be worth a shot for a newb. Costs some extra money the first year, but I know my dad has saved plenty over the years to make up for it.
Chris
If you look at the numbers, Americans are statistically undecided about who they want to be president. Just about half of the people voted one way and the other half another. There is no clear majority in the US when it comes to deciding who should be president.
Chris
This is why there is a Professional Engineer Licensing program. The reason people aren't afraid of their floors is because somewhere a PE signed off on the design. There are as many engineers running around that can't be trusted to sign off on a structural design or a control circuit as there are code monkeys sitting at their desks writing garbage for Microsoft. If you do engineering work you are an engineer.
Chris
Chris
Are you saying you can create a graphic without using a special program on a non CLI? I don't think your post makes sense. To work with graphics in a point and click environment you need a dedicated piece of software right? Are you saying there is no software for image creation that works without a mouse/clicky device? And what is a non trivial graphic? There are many examples of ASCII art that can be created on a command line that are non trivial. This also ignores the fact that you can write a program to draw highly detailed graphics on the screen, all from a command line.
Chris
I don't think they're suggesting that anyone stop distributing albums. Are you suggesting that there should be no alternative to 'entire album' distributions because that's not what you prefer? Sounds kind of conceited to me.
Chris
Orthogonality of the eigenfunctions is connected to the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. These \psi_s (t) vectors are also all at "right-angles" to eachother. So their cross products = 0.
You sure about this? You might mean do product, no?
Chris
There are too many places for potential problems. HAH! I get it. Man, that's just too funny. Potential problems. I tell ya...
Chris
I think you're still wrong. Sticking ram in a motherboard or configuring jumpers on a hard drive is still 'assembling' a computer. I think he was referring to an electronics store where youc an buy electronic components and solder together your own controllers and adapters. That is more like 'building' a computer. Funny though, where people draw the line.
Chris
I haven't been able to open the link, but I know eBay is full of LCD screens designed for laptops. I don't know how interchangeable the LCD's are but that might be a good source.
Chris
A lightyear is a distance, just so you know.
Chris
It's...almost...just...too...good.
Chris
Both ATA100 and ATA133 devices will work. As far as I know the ATA133 devices are backwards compatible with ATA100 controllers (this is the case on my PC at home) they just operate as if they were ATA100 devices.
Chris
Chris
Chris
The term 'soccer' was originated at Oxford in England in the last 1800's. It was short for association, someone who played football using the association rules was a a-soc-er or a 'soccer'. The name stuck for quite some time. The term is used in America to differentiate the boring, low scoring variety of football the rest of the world plays (sarcasm) from the exciting smash mouth variety that we in the US prefer. Strangely enough, this information can be found quickly using a relatively new search engine known as 'Google'. Fun is relative, I could really give a rat's ass whether or not you think American football is fun or even interesting.
Chris