And at least that would have some ground... from all I've heard the TLDs like.com,.org, etc were not supposed to be country specifi even though they largely are.
And then watch as the repo man comes to reposses your house and car cause you're not keeping up with payments because you're not bringing in any money yadda yadda yadda...
"What can the tech community do to damage the RIAA or render them irrelevant? And what are the best legal methods for kicking the RIAA where it hurts?"
I wonder how much it would take down the RIAA's bandwith if everyone from slashdot suddenly got very interested in the content of their home page and spent, oh, 10 minutes each day there, just looking around at all the interesting content.
I sense sarcasm in the "Wow... great example" post. Now, I'm generally VERY bad at picking up on sarcasm in print, so when I suspect it, I'm usually right.
He should stipulate in his will that when he dies, the part of his brain that contains the idea be cut out and sent to that company with a letter stating "pursuant to court ruling blah blah blah, here is the idea I thought of."
For the same reason that betting $1 when the cards are against you (and losing most of the time) and increasing the bet to $10 when the cards are for you (and winning) looks suspicious.
So let me get this straight... using skill at card counting to win is cheating, but setting up a game so that you're guranteed to win in the long run (w/o counting) isn't? Hmmmm...
Actually, you might be on to something there... given the popularity of DDR on the console, I wouldn't be surprised if a port to Linux would bring in a few people, provided it was easy to install and any hardware modification was easy to do and foolproof or purchasable...
>>When you have 2+ drives running with over 50MB/s bursts, though, it's nice to know there's some room there.
That's true... I was mainly thinking sustained.
>>Of course, the next generation of firewire goes a bit further than you have stated (about 4x)
Hmmm... that's what you get from trusting second-hand information. Someone in another thread said that the next generation would be 100 MB/s, and I didn't know better so I just used that information here.
Yes, I know that. If the "Don't know if you know this" sounded harsh, it wasn't supposed to. I didn't know if the poster was making fun of the typo in the original article (still not fixed, hint hint editors) or genuinely didn't know that it was 150 MB/s. In case the latter was true, I made that most.
Speed. Even the next generation of Firewire will only be 2/3 as fast as Serial ATA (as many have said, it's 150MB/s, not Mb/s). Not that there are any drives that fast yet...
What category? Unfortunately, there's no mathematics Nobel Prize. I realize that they consider applications, but I don't see many in physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, peace, or literature.
I've seen ads for IMB laptops that have a pad of paper on one side (they even have a left-handed version!) that you write on, and it'll send your notes to the PC.
But I second the opinion that books are good; I don't care *what* monitor you have, they (at least all I've seen) are still no good for reading from.
If you want to get technical, your watch transmits information. But practically speaking, it doesn't. Same with GPS.
A GPS receiver has a clock in it. Every GPS satellite has a clock in it. (All of these are synchronized.) The satellites transmit the time they have continuously. The receiver gets that time, calculates the difference between it and its time, and calculates a distance based on that time. Do that for four satellites, and you have your position. (Note: you need more if your GPS receiver doesn't have an atomic clock)
That's beside the point because we ARE talking about software that you write, namely, why should an open-source license (that only the copyright holder can apply) require click-wrapping?
Hmmm. I thought several were killed. I guess my memory was mistaken and I was remembering the total killed/injured. My bad. (I don't have the book anymore so couldn't verify it either way)
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And at least that would have some ground... from all I've heard the TLDs like .com, .org, etc were not supposed to be country specifi even though they largely are.
>>Sweden seemed to be good at giving homes
to US folks who wanted to skip the Vietnam
draft.
So perhaps a war with Iraq that's long enough to require a draft could be a good thing...
And then watch as the repo man comes to reposses your house and car cause you're not keeping up with payments because you're not bringing in any money yadda yadda yadda...
Now that I'd LOVE to see. (You want us to censor content? OK, we'll censor content...)
"What can the tech community do to damage the RIAA or render them irrelevant? And what are the best legal methods for kicking the RIAA where it hurts?"
I wonder how much it would take down the RIAA's bandwith if everyone from slashdot suddenly got very interested in the content of their home page and spent, oh, 10 minutes each day there, just looking around at all the interesting content.
I sense sarcasm in the "Wow... great example" post. Now, I'm generally VERY bad at picking up on sarcasm in print, so when I suspect it, I'm usually right.
The problem is that if they go along with the RIAA and censor, they'll then be subjected to 100 bajillion other censor requests.
That won't help with a slashdotting. The requests alone will swamp the server.
He should stipulate in his will that when he dies, the part of his brain that contains the idea be cut out and sent to that company with a letter stating "pursuant to court ruling blah blah blah, here is the idea I thought of."
Not necessarily. It depends on the wording of the contract. An "idea" isn't copyrightable/patentable until you actually DO it.
For the same reason that betting $1 when the cards are against you (and losing most of the time) and increasing the bet to $10 when the cards are for you (and winning) looks suspicious.
So let me get this straight... using skill at card counting to win is cheating, but setting up a game so that you're guranteed to win in the long run (w/o counting) isn't? Hmmmm...
Actually, you might be on to something there... given the popularity of DDR on the console, I wouldn't be surprised if a port to Linux would bring in a few people, provided it was easy to install and any hardware modification was easy to do and foolproof or purchasable...
My first thought when I saw the title of this thread was that you'd say "here's a new way for people to tell their computer they're fustrated!"
>>When you have 2+ drives running with over 50MB/s bursts, though, it's nice to know there's some room there.
That's true... I was mainly thinking sustained.
>>Of course, the next generation of firewire goes a bit further than you have stated (about 4x)
Hmmm... that's what you get from trusting second-hand information. Someone in another thread said that the next generation would be 100 MB/s, and I didn't know better so I just used that information here.
Yes, I know that. If the "Don't know if you know this" sounded harsh, it wasn't supposed to. I didn't know if the poster was making fun of the typo in the original article (still not fixed, hint hint editors) or genuinely didn't know that it was 150 MB/s. In case the latter was true, I made that most.
Speed. Even the next generation of Firewire will only be 2/3 as fast as Serial ATA (as many have said, it's 150MB/s, not Mb/s). Not that there are any drives that fast yet...
Don't know if you know this or not, but Serial ATA is 150MB/s... as in, 150 megabytes per sec.
What category? Unfortunately, there's no mathematics Nobel Prize. I realize that they consider applications, but I don't see many in physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, peace, or literature.
I've seen ads for IMB laptops that have a pad of paper on one side (they even have a left-handed version!) that you write on, and it'll send your notes to the PC.
But I second the opinion that books are good; I don't care *what* monitor you have, they (at least all I've seen) are still no good for reading from.
And I'd assume that if you're running your house on solar panels, a LCD screen's cost won't phase you.
If you want to get technical, your watch transmits information. But practically speaking, it doesn't. Same with GPS.
A GPS receiver has a clock in it. Every GPS satellite has a clock in it. (All of these are synchronized.) The satellites transmit the time they have continuously. The receiver gets that time, calculates the difference between it and its time, and calculates a distance based on that time. Do that for four satellites, and you have your position. (Note: you need more if your GPS receiver doesn't have an atomic clock)
That's beside the point because we ARE talking about software that you write, namely, why should an open-source license (that only the copyright holder can apply) require click-wrapping?
Rememebr this?
Hmmm. I thought several were killed. I guess my memory was mistaken and I was remembering the total killed/injured. My bad. (I don't have the book anymore so couldn't verify it either way)