They had signed up for the $29.95 Kazaa 'service' 3 months prior to getting sued. And remember, this is a 12 year old honor student, obviously not spending all of her time downloading stuff.
Driven through a continuously variable transmission, like those used in many motorcycles. They are more reliable, less prone to breakage than a chain.
And far less efficient. A human has maybe 1/4-1/2 horsepower to work with. Not a lot to spare in moving the gears around. The current system can be up to 98% efficient in getting leg power to the ground. A motorcycle engine can lose 2-3 hp in the transission, and never notice. My legs can't.
Design a transmission that is more efficient than the current system, and we'll talk.
This year, you may (or may not have noticed) that every rider in the Tour de France was wearing a helmet.
And every driver in NASCAR/F1/USAC also wears a helmet.
The TdF has as much to do with most normal, everyday riding as NASCAR has to do with driving to work.
Appropriate equipment for the situation. If I'm tooling a mile down to the store, the helmet is pretty unecessary. If I'm in a 40mph pack on a fast downhill...that's a completely different situation.
Her election board selected Diebold to build the system. She is the head of that election oard. In her mind, she is not incomeptent. She does not hire clueless people.
Ergo, the decision to contract Diebold was the right one, and anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong.
Defending your own territory is nothing new. Even in you are completely wrong.
However, having a black box which can do anything with your vote it likes, provides no verification of vote cast, and is completely open to manipulation - THAT I have a problem with.
And has had serious, basic, demonstrated, implementation flaws in far too many instances to date...
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..riding a bike (45 miles a day is totally doable)..
I ride a bike too, but 45 miles each way, every day, is a bit much.
Yes, and not all of them for the more benign drugs.
Anyway, my post was not to defend the US judicial system, but merely to refute the OP's badly mistaken assertation that the US currently imprisons more people than the USSR under Stalin.
"Lose their freedom". Break the law, and yes, you may lose your freedom. Don't like the law? Let's change it!
Let's attack the reasons for the drug trade. Let's attack the reasons for the drug desire. Let's attack the victimization of the low end people in the drug trade (mules, street dealers, etc).
We have more people in jail now than the USSR under Stalin.
Please. May we assume you have a source for that "insightful" fact? Instead of simply spouting off what you overheard at the last frat party, how about some actual numbers.
US Prison population, Dec 31 2002 - 2,033,331 Most of the increase in recent years has been due to violent offenses.
Stalin's era - Approx 4 million prisoners in the camps for political repression.
I'm not disagreeing that 2 million is a lot of people. But are they all there for "file swapping, pot smoking and wearing trenchcoats"? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
Only on/. is blatant ignorance modded as Insightful.
I'm an English major in my senior year and haven't read the trilogy either. Pages after pages after pages of long, wordy descriptions are not exactly fun to me. Yes, the forest is nice. Yes, it is green. Great. Hell, I'm saving months of my life by seeing it as a movie as opposed to slogging through the books:)
Only if you view reading as a chore. Perhaps you've chosen the wrong major.
Exactly! The OP's quote but im sure they're already only second to the all mighty USA. So looks like they'll have enough money to keep it going into the future.
is badly incorrect, when you're talking about feeding 20% of the worlds population.
Well, at least someone is. Also incase anyone hasnt noticed:) China will be the most, without a doubt the most wealthy nation by far. Im not going to speculate when this happens, but im sure they're already only second to the all mighty USA. So looks like they'll have enough money to keep it going into the future.
Overall, yes, they are second behind the US. But per capita GDP, they're down around 129th. Just below Albania and Ukraine, and just above Paraguay. I think they still have some work to do.
But in what mythical world is a box with mostly identical specs and a celeron processor equal to a machine with identical specs but a P4????
I know what you mean, but in the world of our much-maligned EveryMan, Joe Sixpack, I don't believe it really does make a difference.
For average tasks, how much faster *is* a P4 over a similar speed rated Celeron? Not freakin much. 15%? 20%? Take into acocunt the rest of the system (identical parts) and the actual difference over the whole box is even less.
Ok, so it open a Word doc in 3.5 seconds as opposed to 4 seconds. BFD. Joe is not doing kernel recompiles, rendering full screen, 1/2 hour movies at 24 frames/second, serving up million row databases, or anything else that requires that last iota of speed.
The difference is non noticeable. Are there any tasks, any software that will run on a P4 but not on a Celeron? Nope. Not in general use, anyway.
Hell yes it makes sense that a Linux box should be cheaper!
But....in Dell's abortive attempt at selling retail Linux boxes, and now Walmart's...that is apparently not the case. Look at Pricewatch. Prices fomr Win vs Lindows machines ane not consistently $100-300 higher, as is oft quoted here.
As I said...I'd love to see such a case.
...considering virtually all of the customers looking to put Linux on the system are going to know that there should be some savings.
And most people that are running Linux are not buying Gateway, Dell, Bestbuy, Compusa, NameYourBigBoxRretailer. They have an ex Windows system, or one they've built themselves.
When was the last time you bought a preconfigured Linux system cheaper than a comparable preconfigured Win system?
Show a case where a retail install Linux box is significantly cheaper, for a machine of the same basic specs. From any retailer. I'd love to see it, because I'd point friends there to buy one if that was the case.
Those prices are what is available. All I was showing is that Win or non-Win does not necessarily equal a $X reduction in price. Go look at Gateway or Dell. You'll find similar prices for midgrade WinXP PC's.
Walmart box or Walmart.com? So what...
Now, if you carefully select all the individual parts, and build your own (as many of us do here), adding a retail Windows *is* a significant added cost.
But our much maligned Joe Sixpack does not do that.
If a computer company that didn't bundle Windows with their machines ever made it to Best Buy, I think people would see the difference
That condition exists at Walmart. There is virtually no difference. If anything, the Win boxes are cheaper. Don't just take my word for it. Go look online and spec out a couple of systems, Win/SuSE/Lindows/bare.
The real question of whether or not the end user "sees" the value is the comparison between the "vanilla" Windows machines and the "vanilla" Linux ones. If a store offers Windows and Linux computers with the specs you described, than I will admit that shoppers may not "see" the value shopping at that store.
Those exact specs and prices were from Walmart as of this morning. Basically the same price for a Win or Linux PC out the door. So, given that..convince the average buyer to go with something different than Windows.
Games that are, out of the box, comparable to a "100 games for $9.99" CD on the reject rack. Not a real selling point. For the real Linux games (Quake, etc) you stil have to pay the same price.
And it's got an office app, that is free and does more or less everything the $500 Office does.
Which you can get for Windows at exactly the same price. Free.
And when next they head off to Circuit City/Sears/Walmart shopping for that next PC for grandma/the kids/porn and they look at the prices for the box that runs Lindows vs. Windows...
The prices, especially at Walmart, are not really that different. Compare more or less equal machines.
An HP with: 2.5 Celeron, an 80GB drive, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, Ethernet, XP Home - $559
If you want to go to a (gag) eMachine, you can toss in a 17" monitor for an extra $100 or so.
The initial cost of WinXP is negligible. And when they look at other apps and games, the availability difference is overwhelming. This is changing, but still nowhere near close.
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Where'd you get the 90 day figure from?
They had signed up for the $29.95 Kazaa 'service' 3 months prior to getting sued. And remember, this is a 12 year old honor student, obviously not spending all of her time downloading stuff.
Umm, who has the RIAA wrongly sued?
For starters, this woman and this guy.
And if you believe our poster child 12 year old actually had >1000 tunes on her PC (on a dialup in less than 90 days), you're dreaming.
Driven through a continuously variable transmission, like those used in many motorcycles. They are more reliable, less prone to breakage than a chain.
And far less efficient. A human has maybe 1/4-1/2 horsepower to work with. Not a lot to spare in moving the gears around. The current system can be up to 98% efficient in getting leg power to the ground.
A motorcycle engine can lose 2-3 hp in the transission, and never notice. My legs can't.
Design a transmission that is more efficient than the current system, and we'll talk.
This year, you may (or may not have noticed) that every rider in the Tour de France was wearing a helmet.
And every driver in NASCAR/F1/USAC also wears a helmet.
The TdF has as much to do with most normal, everyday riding as NASCAR has to do with driving to work.
Appropriate equipment for the situation. If I'm tooling a mile down to the store, the helmet is pretty unecessary. If I'm in a 40mph pack on a fast downhill...that's a completely different situation.
What am I suppose to do when I'm 12 miles into a ride and my chain breaks?
How many chains have you broken?>br?How many of those were due to shoddy maintenance, or jut being dirty?
An enclosed chain can run for 10's of thousands of miles before needing replacement.
Why you think both parties see this issue the same way is beyond me, and not terribly logical.
Both parties do want the same thing. They want to win. Anything else comes after that.
Q: * Why is the incumbent party in power supporting untrustworthy voting machines?
Q: Why isn't the opposition party making more of a stink about these untrustworthy machines?
A: They're both clueless.
Alternate answer: They're both looking at how to rig future elections in their favor with these incredibly flawed systems.
Her election board selected Diebold to build the system. She is the head of that election oard. In her mind, she is not incomeptent. She does not hire clueless people.
Ergo, the decision to contract Diebold was the right one, and anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong.
Defending your own territory is nothing new. Even in you are completely wrong.
However, having a black box which can do anything with your vote it likes, provides no verification of vote cast, and is completely open to manipulation - THAT I have a problem with.
And has had serious, basic, demonstrated, implementation flaws in far too many instances to date...
..riding a bike (45 miles a day is totally doable)..
I ride a bike too, but 45 miles each way, every day, is a bit much.
5 centuries a week?
Personally, I've found myself driving into the other lane a *LOT* more often when...
Maybe you should reasess your driving skills.
Hang up and drive the car.
The rest of us sharing the public roads with you do not care about your 'increased productivity', or multitasking.
Exactly why do we need a "map" of the Internet?
Because it is there.
Half of them are imprisoned for drug offenses.
Yes, and not all of them for the more benign drugs.
Anyway, my post was not to defend the US judicial system, but merely to refute the OP's badly mistaken assertation that the US currently imprisons more people than the USSR under Stalin.
"Lose their freedom". Break the law, and yes, you may lose your freedom. Don't like the law? Let's change it!
Let's attack the reasons for the drug trade.
Let's attack the reasons for the drug desire.
Let's attack the victimization of the low end people in the drug trade (mules, street dealers, etc).
But to spout false 'facts' is counterproductive
We have more people in jail now than the USSR under Stalin.
/. is blatant ignorance modded as Insightful.
Please. May we assume you have a source for that "insightful" fact? Instead of simply spouting off what you overheard at the last frat party, how about some actual numbers.
US Prison population, Dec 31 2002 - 2,033,331
Most of the increase in recent years has been due to violent offenses.
Stalin's era - Approx 4 million prisoners in the camps for political repression.
I'm not disagreeing that 2 million is a lot of people. But are they all there for "file swapping, pot smoking and wearing trenchcoats"? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
Only on
I'm an English major in my senior year and haven't read the trilogy either. Pages after pages after pages of long, wordy descriptions are not exactly fun to me. Yes, the forest is nice. Yes, it is green. Great. :)
Hell, I'm saving months of my life by seeing it as a movie as opposed to slogging through the books
Only if you view reading as a chore. Perhaps you've chosen the wrong major.
Exactly! The OP's quote but im sure they're already only second to the all mighty USA. So looks like they'll have enough money to keep it going into the future. is badly incorrect, when you're talking about feeding 20% of the worlds population.
Well, at least someone is. Also incase anyone hasnt noticed :) China will be the most, without a doubt the most wealthy nation by far. Im not going to speculate when this happens, but im sure they're already only second to the all mighty USA. So looks like they'll have enough money to keep it going into the future.
Overall, yes, they are second behind the US. But per capita GDP, they're down around 129th. Just below Albania and Ukraine, and just above Paraguay. I think they still have some work to do.
But in what mythical world is a box with mostly identical specs and a celeron processor equal to a machine with identical specs but a P4????
I know what you mean, but in the world of our much-maligned EveryMan, Joe Sixpack, I don't believe it really does make a difference.
For average tasks, how much faster *is* a P4 over a similar speed rated Celeron? Not freakin much. 15%? 20%? Take into acocunt the rest of the system (identical parts) and the actual difference over the whole box is even less. Ok, so it open a Word doc in 3.5 seconds as opposed to 4 seconds. BFD. Joe is not doing kernel recompiles, rendering full screen, 1/2 hour movies at 24 frames/second, serving up million row databases, or anything else that requires that last iota of speed.
The difference is non noticeable. Are there any tasks, any software that will run on a P4 but not on a Celeron? Nope. Not in general use, anyway.
Hell yes it makes sense that a Linux box should be cheaper!
...considering virtually all of the customers looking to put Linux on the system are going to know that there should be some savings.
But....in Dell's abortive attempt at selling retail Linux boxes, and now Walmart's...that is apparently not the case.
Look at Pricewatch. Prices fomr Win vs Lindows machines ane not consistently $100-300 higher, as is oft quoted here.
As I said...I'd love to see such a case.
And most people that are running Linux are not buying Gateway, Dell, Bestbuy, Compusa, NameYourBigBoxRretailer. They have an ex Windows system, or one they've built themselves.
When was the last time you bought a preconfigured Linux system cheaper than a comparable preconfigured Win system?
Show a case where a retail install Linux box is significantly cheaper, for a machine of the same basic specs. From any retailer. I'd love to see it, because I'd point friends there to buy one if that was the case.
Your point?
Those prices are what is available. All I was showing is that Win or non-Win does not necessarily equal a $X reduction in price. Go look at Gateway or Dell. You'll find similar prices for midgrade WinXP PC's.
Walmart box or Walmart.com? So what...
Now, if you carefully select all the individual parts, and build your own (as many of us do here), adding a retail Windows *is* a significant added cost.
But our much maligned Joe Sixpack does not do that.
If a computer company that didn't bundle Windows with their machines ever made it to Best Buy, I think people would see the difference
That condition exists at Walmart. There is virtually no difference. If anything, the Win boxes are cheaper. Don't just take my word for it. Go look online and spec out a couple of systems, Win/SuSE/Lindows/bare.
In that environment, WinXP is basically free.
The real question of whether or not the end user "sees" the value is the comparison between the "vanilla" Windows machines and the "vanilla" Linux ones. If a store offers Windows and Linux computers with the specs you described, than I will admit that shoppers may not "see" the value shopping at that store.
Those exact specs and prices were from Walmart as of this morning. Basically the same price for a Win or Linux PC out the door. So, given that..convince the average buyer to go with something different than Windows.
Not easy.
Yeah, but it's a faster Windows. With more games.
Games that are, out of the box, comparable to a "100 games for $9.99" CD on the reject rack. Not a real selling point. For the real Linux games (Quake, etc) you stil have to pay the same price.
And it's got an office app, that is free and does more or less everything the $500 Office does.
Which you can get for Windows at exactly the same price. Free.
And when next they head off to Circuit City/Sears/Walmart shopping for that next PC for grandma/the kids/porn and they look at the prices for the box that runs Lindows vs. Windows...
The prices, especially at Walmart, are not really that different. Compare more or less equal machines.
An HP with:
2.5 Celeron, an 80GB drive, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, Ethernet, XP Home - $559
A Microtel:
2.4 P4, 60GB drive, CD-RW, Ethernet, running SuSE 8.2 - $598.
If you want to go to a (gag) eMachine, you can toss in a 17" monitor for an extra $100 or so.
The initial cost of WinXP is negligible. And when they look at other apps and games, the availability difference is overwhelming. This is changing, but still nowhere near close.