after a long happy stint with an x1640 pro. I tried a 4760 and loved the performance and low heat, but it just wasn't stable (it was a Saphire too). Swapped to a GT240 and it was rock solid. I'd love to go back to ATI. They have better image quality and performance. Colors just look nicer on their hardware. But when I can't get 5 year old games to run stable that's that.
The article mentioned shim attacks, which I took to mean a mini-reader stuck into the real reader. Are they comming in pretending to be maintenance and getting to crack open the pump that way?
Don't ask 'Why are we all struggling'. Take it for granted that we are and the pit the lower casts against each other. There's so much wrong with you're post it's hard to know where to begin. TFA points out that it's not even a loan against future earnings, the record labels keep everything and the only ones that ever see any of those 'future earnings' are the.0001% that hit it big enough to renegotiate.
The real trouble here is that our messed up economy is a complex and evil beast, and people like yourself are looking for simple kneejerk answers. You're comparing one group that's getting taken advantage of (musicians) to another (everyone but the rich), but they're getting screwed for completely different reasons, and the solutions and remedies are completely different.
That's the whole trick to the right wing: boil everything down to false sound bites that pit the poor against the poor, laughing all the way to the bank.
I think the idea is to get in narrow down the lists of suspects from 'everyone in the city' to 'a few dozen guys' and then let regular police work do the rest.
this is what I can't stand about conservative capitalism. They always look back on the 'good 'ole days' without considering reality. Here. Read that, and check the sources if you doubt the facts. Right now things seem better in America than they really are because we exported our slave class to China & Malaysia.
1. That's the way capitalism works. Not that I agree mind you, but the/. crowd are mostly dyed-in-the-wool capitalists. There are better ways, like a tax on media and publicly administered content (e.g. the BBC), but then, that's socialism, isn't it?
2. It took me 5 seconds on google to find this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html. $80/night is pretty good for a bands. Most are making about what a 7-11 clerk makes (about $60).
3. Studio time is now cheap, has been for a long time. Computers + cheap sound proof foam let me make a home studio for about $4,000. Auto tune makes music engineers obsolete. What is not cheap is building the mystique that goes with stardom, but that's not music, that's a circus act.
You can still be a professional artists around here. What you cannot be, good sir, is a douche bag.
ok, it's not the most practical solution yet, but it's GPL'd and many games are fully playable. You do need a pretty good system, but nothing too crazy. My buddy's year old gaming laptop plays FF12 at 60 FPS (off a hard disk image mind you, but really, if you're reading/. you can figure that out).
my niece's TV shows (Hanna Montana) depict file sharing as something evil that will get you put in jail and taken away. For real. Google the summaries if you don't believe.
The new starry-eyed idealists will come up, but they're ideas will be in line with what ACTA's creators want.
So unless you've got something better, I'm going back to despair. At least it's real.
and add this observation: women don't need to make as much as men, because they can rely on men to bring home most of the money, and if the man doesn't like it they can divorce and use alimony and child support to supplement their income.
It's like the old joke: why do husbands die before their wives? Because they want to.
it's not property, it's thought. Ideas. That's the trouble with the copyright debate, we've already lost because we're using their words (IP, DRM) and assumptions.
but the amount of damages assessed needs to be > profits from doing the business, or else other companies will get into the file sharing business. We see this all the time when the shoe is on the other foot and a corporation is doing something evil and gets a slap on the wrist. Looks like BP is next in line for that treatment. But if we fined BP 1.5 trillion dollars do you think they'd let another spill happen?
the cities and counties are still free to spam the roads with red-light and speeding cameras. You can't win against these things because there's too much money involved and it's going to private companies who then give half of it to the reelection campaigns of corrupt local officials. Once again, capitalism at it's finest.
The Free Market assumes people are educated enough to make informed decisions. The thread's grandparent is saying that most people don't understand enough about computer networking to say "Hey, I should buy a PC game instead so I can play it whenever I want". Admittedly this is a trivial example of this kind of free market failure . I'm sure you could find better examples in the recent economic meltdown over CDOs.
companies never want to invest in safety./. just had an article on just about every nuke plant leaking radiation into groundwater. They only way to due nuke it to keep it out of the hands of the capitalists & corporations. It's always cheaper to pay the fines and buy off a senator than make things safe.
or best buy. They have an unconditional return policy. Oh, you want it from newegg.com for 70% of the cost of buying it in town? Doesn't work like that...
These are computer mice. They are useful in the production of food, shelter and other necessities of life. They are not absolutely essential to the vast mass of people. They do not need to be manufactured in the kind of quantities that require these working conditions to be profitable. You're losing site of the bigger picture, which is raising everyone's standard of living.
The hard part is looking past the indoctrination you received in grade school. Capitalism is not always right.
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after a long happy stint with an x1640 pro. I tried a 4760 and loved the performance and low heat, but it just wasn't stable (it was a Saphire too). Swapped to a GT240 and it was rock solid. I'd love to go back to ATI. They have better image quality and performance. Colors just look nicer on their hardware. But when I can't get 5 year old games to run stable that's that.
The article mentioned shim attacks, which I took to mean a mini-reader stuck into the real reader. Are they comming in pretending to be maintenance and getting to crack open the pump that way?
pun not intended. Seriously, a lot of crooks are stopped cold by simple measures, and it's a cheap solution.
Don't ask 'Why are we all struggling'. Take it for granted that we are and the pit the lower casts against each other. There's so much wrong with you're post it's hard to know where to begin. TFA points out that it's not even a loan against future earnings, the record labels keep everything and the only ones that ever see any of those 'future earnings' are the .0001% that hit it big enough to renegotiate.
The real trouble here is that our messed up economy is a complex and evil beast, and people like yourself are looking for simple kneejerk answers. You're comparing one group that's getting taken advantage of (musicians) to another (everyone but the rich), but they're getting screwed for completely different reasons, and the solutions and remedies are completely different.
That's the whole trick to the right wing: boil everything down to false sound bites that pit the poor against the poor, laughing all the way to the bank.
I think the idea is to get in narrow down the lists of suspects from 'everyone in the city' to 'a few dozen guys' and then let regular police work do the rest.
seriously. How? Can you do it without side effects? Things done prenatally can have nasty side effects. Remember Thalidomide?
this is what I can't stand about conservative capitalism. They always look back on the 'good 'ole days' without considering reality. Here. Read that, and check the sources if you doubt the facts. Right now things seem better in America than they really are because we exported our slave class to China & Malaysia.
you can't any more, not for something like this. They'll garnish his wages.
or Daily Kos, or any other news outlet that isn't owned by Rupert Murdoch: This is being used to hassle anyone coming near the site, 65 ft or not.
In order:
/. crowd are mostly dyed-in-the-wool capitalists. There are better ways, like a tax on media and publicly administered content (e.g. the BBC), but then, that's socialism, isn't it?
1. That's the way capitalism works. Not that I agree mind you, but the
2. It took me 5 seconds on google to find this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html. $80/night is pretty good for a bands. Most are making about what a 7-11 clerk makes (about $60).
3. Studio time is now cheap, has been for a long time. Computers + cheap sound proof foam let me make a home studio for about $4,000. Auto tune makes music engineers obsolete. What is not cheap is building the mystique that goes with stardom, but that's not music, that's a circus act.
You can still be a professional artists around here. What you cannot be, good sir, is a douche bag.
ok, it's not the most practical solution yet, but it's GPL'd and many games are fully playable. You do need a pretty good system, but nothing too crazy. My buddy's year old gaming laptop plays FF12 at 60 FPS (off a hard disk image mind you, but really, if you're reading /. you can figure that out).
my niece's TV shows (Hanna Montana) depict file sharing as something evil that will get you put in jail and taken away. For real. Google the summaries if you don't believe.
The new starry-eyed idealists will come up, but they're ideas will be in line with what ACTA's creators want.
So unless you've got something better, I'm going back to despair. At least it's real.
I noticed 2 things in this thread:
1. Several people got candid answers from Dell, and several got the run around.
2. The ones that got the run around were the ones that spoke to India.
you're up against full time lawyers, and you're just a bunch of starry eyed idealists with day jobs & kids on the way.
and add this observation: women don't need to make as much as men, because they can rely on men to bring home most of the money, and if the man doesn't like it they can divorce and use alimony and child support to supplement their income.
It's like the old joke: why do husbands die before their wives? Because they want to.
it's not property, it's thought. Ideas. That's the trouble with the copyright debate, we've already lost because we're using their words (IP, DRM) and assumptions.
It'd be cool if it was GPL'd :).
but the amount of damages assessed needs to be > profits from doing the business, or else other companies will get into the file sharing business. We see this all the time when the shoe is on the other foot and a corporation is doing something evil and gets a slap on the wrist. Looks like BP is next in line for that treatment. But if we fined BP 1.5 trillion dollars do you think they'd let another spill happen?
become a dirty word?
the cities and counties are still free to spam the roads with red-light and speeding cameras. You can't win against these things because there's too much money involved and it's going to private companies who then give half of it to the reelection campaigns of corrupt local officials. Once again, capitalism at it's finest.
The Free Market assumes people are educated enough to make informed decisions. The thread's grandparent is saying that most people don't understand enough about computer networking to say "Hey, I should buy a PC game instead so I can play it whenever I want". Admittedly this is a trivial example of this kind of free market failure . I'm sure you could find better examples in the recent economic meltdown over CDOs.
companies never want to invest in safety. /. just had an article on just about every nuke plant leaking radiation into groundwater. They only way to due nuke it to keep it out of the hands of the capitalists & corporations. It's always cheaper to pay the fines and buy off a senator than make things safe.
or best buy. They have an unconditional return policy. Oh, you want it from newegg.com for 70% of the cost of buying it in town? Doesn't work like that...
These are computer mice. They are useful in the production of food, shelter and other necessities of life. They are not absolutely essential to the vast mass of people. They do not need to be manufactured in the kind of quantities that require these working conditions to be profitable. You're losing site of the bigger picture, which is raising everyone's standard of living.
The hard part is looking past the indoctrination you received in grade school. Capitalism is not always right.
I, OTOH, do. I'd much rather be beaten up then tazed. I'm probably not getting up from the tazing, ever again.