The issue is not skip protection. The issue is damage to the unit. No hard drive that I am aware of was meant to be bounced up and down for an hour or more.
I am frankly surprised at all the people who have responded to this, "D00D I RUN ALL TEH TIME WITH IT NO PROB". You can use a stack of running ThinkPads as a Reebok Step replacement, too... for a while.
I was surprised to see that the mini iPod is HD-based. The one real weakness of the Pod IMHO is the fact that you can't run with it. I still have a crummy Diamond Rio 500 around for exercise purposes. I would have purchased even a 1GB non-HD Pod for $249...
Wipro et al will no doubt realize that they could also offer "outsourced" middle management as well. Imagine being the "CEO" of an instant-bake Indian software company! All you would need is a line of credit to pay the bills.
This would be similar to the people on eBay who just sell drop-shipped items.
If you ask me, India is on the way to the Shoe Event Horizon, and it will only take one piece of protectionist legislation in the US to tumble the whole house of cards.
If you ask me, general-purpose socializing after work, with the people with whom you work, is idiotic. Hmm.... you're post-college, with a job - isn't there anything more productive you could be doing? Exercising, learning something, relaxing - anything besides just hanging around somewhere with people you see more than your own family anyway?
How could you be so bored in life that wasting an evening or a weekend dicking around with your co-workers seems worthwhile? Sheesh.
My question is - There have traditionally been two types of standards. The first type is an agreed standard, such as the RFCs. The 'market' has no say, but there is a presumed compensation in the availability and usability of said standard. The second type is a 'de facto', or 'market' standard. This standard is decided by people voting with their checkbooks. So, "we" get what "we" want, but we have no guarantees of availability, usability, or definability.
Doesn't the idea of charging to use the standards combine the worst features of both? Doesn't doing so severely compromise the respectability of the process?
Do you mean the US Army, which trained McVeigh and 'lost' his records? Or perhaps you mean the ATF, which evacuated the OKC building... hmm... 24 hours before the bombing.
...most of you are sitting there using a system that was designed and coded with the selfless efforts of people you don't even know, virtually relying on a set of tools developed by those "dirty gay hippies", and existing in a world where the Web is not a fearsomely expensive, proprietary protocol, and you have the nerve to whine about RMS and Bradley being "extremist".
These "extremists" saved your asses. Or maybe you'd prefer having to drive to your local college to use the Internet, or worse yet, using a Windows box.
...all I meant was that the United States has long prided itself, rightly (WWII) or wrongly (Bay of Pigs) on being a haven of (pseudo-) democracy and freedom. If we are going to "Talk the talk", we should also "walk the walk". We can't bitch about French laws while we restrict content. We can't complain about China while we arrest Dmitry. Plain and simple.
To address the second statement, I do not think freedom is an "instinct". The history of civilization has very little freedom in it, and a tremendous amount of subjugation, slavery, misery, and copyright law. Screwing is an "instinct".:)
Sure, and absolutely everyone subscribes to the same left-wing philosophy as you.
I'm an NRA member.
Not all of us are satisfied living in a dingy office at MIT.
I just had the pleasure of visiting RMS's office last week - I can assure you that it is a clean, decent place, a little cluttered but that's it. And I, personally, live in a real house, with doors and everything - and I paid for most of it with GPL'ed work.
...that some of the brightest young programmers out there are turning their energies in this direction.
The word on Free Software needs to go out to these kids, to show them that their admirable skill can help make the world a more free place. If they can program a DSP for watermarking, maybe they can help create better speech synthesis for the Stephen Hawkings of the world...
This Has Massive Consequences For IP/Copyright...
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Once nanotech makes the 'assembler' a reality, IP and Copyright laws immediately adhere to the physical world.
ANYTHING could - and will - be copyrighted. Perhaps some smart dude will copyright gasoline - or food - and, the same way that the burden of proof is currently on software license holders to show a license, you will be forced to "prove" that you refined, or grew, the item in question, instead of "pirating" some nano-goo-created stuff.
The "Joy Of Sex" pun will be lost of most of us...
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...because, for the average IT guy, the "joy of sex" consists of a few self-administered minutes of looking at the SI swimsuit issue in their parents' bathroom.
I paid for Solaris 8. Oh, the day it arrived! How I ran upstairs and eagerly installed it!
To be honest, compared to Debian it sucks. I have been told that Solaris is better than Linux for some things, but for everything I do, Debian is/was clearly superior.
You know, if the Fourth and First Amendment were interpreted the same way the Second is, no form of electronic or radio communication would be protected in any way, shape, or form.
"The Founding Fathers couldn't have predicted the UZI, which lets you shoot 30 rounds!"
s/UZI/Internet
s/shoot 30 rounds/put your dangerous crackpot opinions in front of 1 billion people
Putting up a list of abortion docs isn't like mirroring DeCSS. In one case, you are providing an idea. In the other case, you are providing a tool.
I doubt that someone who had a page encouraging music "piracy", but providing no tools, would be the target of a lawsuit. The only difference is the emotional appeal, and liberal "sacred cow" status, of fetus vacuum operators...
many schools nowadays consider 'computer engineering' to be the MCSE, drag-and-drop doofus crap, when in fact it is more of an ENIAC-building vibe, as noted above.
Personally, I would choose computer science, just because it sounds better to the untrained (read: HR) ear.
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...You deserve every twin-turbo F50 you can get your hands on. Mad propz.
The issue is not skip protection. The issue is damage to the unit. No hard drive that I am aware of was meant to be bounced up and down for an hour or more.
I am frankly surprised at all the people who have responded to this, "D00D I RUN ALL TEH TIME WITH IT NO PROB". You can use a stack of running ThinkPads as a Reebok Step replacement, too... for a while.
I was surprised to see that the mini iPod is HD-based. The one real weakness of the Pod IMHO is the fact that you can't run with it. I still have a crummy Diamond Rio 500 around for exercise purposes. I would have purchased even a 1GB non-HD Pod for $249...
This would be similar to the people on eBay who just sell drop-shipped items.
If you ask me, India is on the way to the Shoe Event Horizon, and it will only take one piece of protectionist legislation in the US to tumble the whole house of cards.
If you ask me, general-purpose socializing after work, with the people with whom you work, is idiotic. Hmm.... you're post-college, with a job - isn't there anything more productive you could be doing? Exercising, learning something, relaxing - anything besides just hanging around somewhere with people you see more than your own family anyway?
How could you be so bored in life that wasting an evening or a weekend dicking around with your co-workers seems worthwhile? Sheesh.
Doesn't the idea of charging to use the standards combine the worst features of both? Doesn't doing so severely compromise the respectability of the process?
...and another correct one.
If our ancestors had thought as you do, we would still be part of England.
Do you mean the US Army, which trained McVeigh and 'lost' his records? Or perhaps you mean the ATF, which evacuated the OKC building... hmm... 24 hours before the bombing.
Larry Wall, riding a camel?
These "extremists" saved your asses. Or maybe you'd prefer having to drive to your local college to use the Internet, or worse yet, using a Windows box.
Up your a$$, all of ya.
...kind of like all those people who were protesting nuclear weapons in the U.S. while the U.S.S.R. was unashamedly preparing to destroy the West.
To address the second statement, I do not think freedom is an "instinct". The history of civilization has very little freedom in it, and a tremendous amount of subjugation, slavery, misery, and copyright law. Screwing is an "instinct". :)
We (just meeting the USians here) should be setting an example for freedom, not censorship and control.
Sure, and absolutely everyone subscribes to the same left-wing philosophy as you.
I'm an NRA member.
Not all of us are satisfied living in a dingy office at MIT.
I just had the pleasure of visiting RMS's office last week - I can assure you that it is a clean, decent place, a little cluttered but that's it. And I, personally, live in a real house, with doors and everything - and I paid for most of it with GPL'ed work.
The word on Free Software needs to go out to these kids, to show them that their admirable skill can help make the world a more free place. If they can program a DSP for watermarking, maybe they can help create better speech synthesis for the Stephen Hawkings of the world...
ANYTHING could - and will - be copyrighted. Perhaps some smart dude will copyright gasoline - or food - and, the same way that the burden of proof is currently on software license holders to show a license, you will be forced to "prove" that you refined, or grew, the item in question, instead of "pirating" some nano-goo-created stuff.
...because, for the average IT guy, the "joy of sex" consists of a few self-administered minutes of looking at the SI swimsuit issue in their parents' bathroom.
To be honest, compared to Debian it sucks. I have been told that Solaris is better than Linux for some things, but for everything I do, Debian is/was clearly superior.
"The Founding Fathers couldn't have predicted the UZI, which lets you shoot 30 rounds!"
s/UZI/Internet s/shoot 30 rounds/put your dangerous crackpot opinions in front of 1 billion people
Weirdos in America can do almost anything. Shit, we almost elected Al Gore!
I doubt that someone who had a page encouraging music "piracy", but providing no tools, would be the target of a lawsuit. The only difference is the emotional appeal, and liberal "sacred cow" status, of fetus vacuum operators...
Personally, I would choose computer science, just because it sounds better to the untrained (read: HR) ear.
This kind of stuff undermines the GPL and BSD philosophies. Don't get caught up in it.