Perhaps there are people who are interested trying out DJing who have 50 GB of MP3s they don't feel like ditching. Who said that the target market is entrenched established vinyl DJs?
It appears that you do not know that Tsien Hsue-Shen, the founder of China's space program, was a member of NASA's JPL and a protege of Theodor von Karman, and learned from Wernher von Braun.
Sometimes you can tell that a person is about to say something interesting before they say it by cues in their facial expression. Perhaps these fuckups are cues that Google will IPO soon, and they are already out spending their checks. Once Google is beholden to fuckhead short-term thinking stockholders, kiss your high-quality "evil" hating google team goodbye.
These kind of IP questions shine a spotlight on the elephant in the corner of the room: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS AN ILLUSION. Intellectual Property is a shared idea; it's an agreement amongst people. It is NOT a real thing that inherently exists out there somewhere. Those aren't songs on your computer. They aren't emotions, or musicians, or anything else. They are organized magnetic fields that when processed through a complex field of low entropy cause air molecules to vibrate.
Did you RTFA or anything else on cold fusion in the last few years??? There IS something, though whether it is caused by cold fusion or not is the question. In fact, the article is specifically about people like you who deny things before they investigate them.
No, reliability is a technological problem. If the chance of failure was near nil, then people wouldn't have complaints. But since rockets blow up every other day, people have good reason to tell space agencies to pull their collective heads out of their asses.
Even if you look at it socially, say they get it down to 100:1 odds of failure. Who the fuck gives them the right to play russian (hehe) roulette with the atmosphere?
Is it possible for the "Slashdot collective" to come up with anything but a bunch of trolls, whiners, masturbators, and goat secx? What cave was I in when the "Slashdot collective" turned into a productive development community???
I agree that the government should not be involved in space flight, but I disagree that space flight is a luxury. Looking back at history, a specific technology always gets easier and cheaper to produce and is more distributed. Each moment that passes, another individual in the world has the capability to destroy the world through technological means. Eventually, dooms-day technology will be in enough hands that it will be statisticly inevitable that someone will [press the button]/[release the bacteria]/[destroy the atmosphere]/[etc], and it would be stupid to keep all our eggs in one basket.
How do you differentiate between a mobber and a shopper? Should the store owners and cops learn how to read minds? These people do not know each other. There is no central organization. How do you know who is in the store legitimately?
My view of life is not fatalistic. I still believe that individuals have the potential to excel and find peace, but the world as a whole will always be screwed up, simply because of probability. There will always be screwed up people in the world doing screwed up things.
You're view is fatalistic. There is no way out with your mindset.
Maybe if everyone subscribes to what you define as the world being screwed up. I think the economy has been screwed up since there was such a thing. In fact, the state of the world is pretty fucked up, and it most likely will be like that until the last person dies. I, for one, do not plan to sit huddled in a corner waiting for the end, or out carrying a sign saying "the end is nigh!"
First, these do not appear to be protests, so it's comparing apples to oranges.
Second, if you follow this logic, then you might as well stop going to bars, movies, singing, playing music, watching screensavers, and other "fruitless" endeavors until you've solved the world's problems.
This poster probably also derides liquid nitrogen cooled pentiums and potato guns and every other "worthless" geek project posted to slashdot.
I think you need to realize that there really IS no point.
If you can sit on a ball all day at work, you don't have a problem with discipline. I think the submitter's problem is discipline. I suspect most people would get tired of it and switch back to a chair pretty quick.
* Software is 10 times as it was 4 years ago. OHH NOOO!
* Websites have 15 times the graphics as 5 years ago. WOE IS US!
* Entire CDs are transmitted across the internet. THE HORROR!
For real though,
1. This is a problem with insane corporate policy, not IPv6
2. What is "too many addresses"? NAT is a HACK. Why are you so short sighted? Perhaps microscopic devices may have IPs in the future, and these 16.7 address won't be enough. Bill Gates said that 640k was enough for anyone a few years back...
3. Hard drives, memory, and CPUS are always getting faster. Extreme amounts of memory today are miniscule tomorrow.
4. Holy shit, 3.4% longer? I'm sure that the average sustained transfer rate across the net is increading much more than 3.4% a year, so what's the big deal about 3.4 percent?
As already mentioned, you should use the same units in comparisons.
Also, is 4.5 mm the diameter or length of a pellet? I would assume the length. My recollection of pellets is that they are much smaller than the bullets used in the gaussian gun.
The mp3 samples are nice, but I have a couple of suggestions. Make them a bit longer, so that at least the first hook is heard. Even having two-thirds of the song is up there won't prevent people from purchasing. Some of the songs don't even begin before they are cut off. Speaking of which, use some audio editing software to fade the pieces out so it isn't such a slap in the face when the song ends.
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Yeah, and how about a 7'6" chinese basketball player and a midget hanging out? Real classy, those Apple ads are.
Just make sure that you aren't checking in any protected source files to a world-readable repository...
Perhaps there are people who are interested trying out DJing who have 50 GB of MP3s they don't feel like ditching. Who said that the target market is entrenched established vinyl DJs?
The ability to kill and maim without consequence.
It appears that you do not know that Tsien Hsue-Shen, the founder of China's space program, was a member of NASA's JPL and a protege of Theodor von Karman, and learned from Wernher von Braun.
LS
"MSNBC (Yes I know, I'm too lazy to change my default home page...score one for MS)"
Jeez, what an emberassing confession. I understand lazy, but come on!! What else, are you too lazy to drop your pants when you shit?
Sometimes you can tell that a person is about to say something interesting before they say it by cues in their facial expression. Perhaps these fuckups are cues that Google will IPO soon, and they are already out spending their checks. Once Google is beholden to fuckhead short-term thinking stockholders, kiss your high-quality "evil" hating google team goodbye.
LS
These kind of IP questions shine a spotlight on the elephant in the corner of the room: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS AN ILLUSION. Intellectual Property is a shared idea; it's an agreement amongst people. It is NOT a real thing that inherently exists out there somewhere. Those aren't songs on your computer. They aren't emotions, or musicians, or anything else. They are organized magnetic fields that when processed through a complex field of low entropy cause air molecules to vibrate.
LS
Did you RTFA or anything else on cold fusion in the last few years??? There IS something, though whether it is caused by cold fusion or not is the question. In fact, the article is specifically about people like you who deny things before they investigate them.
LS
Jesus Christ Fuck! When is someone going to lob a mortar into the SCO offices and put an end to this fucking insanity?!!??!
Thank god aliens haven't discovered that humans grow the best spligduglizacks.
LS
No, reliability is a technological problem. If the chance of failure was near nil, then people wouldn't have complaints. But since rockets blow up every other day, people have good reason to tell space agencies to pull their collective heads out of their asses.
Even if you look at it socially, say they get it down to 100:1 odds of failure. Who the fuck gives them the right to play russian (hehe) roulette with the atmosphere?
LS
Is it possible for the "Slashdot collective" to come up with anything but a bunch of trolls, whiners, masturbators, and goat secx? What cave was I in when the "Slashdot collective" turned into a productive development community???
Which HP printer are you using? What are you doing to get the effect, and what exactly is the effect?
LS
I agree that the government should not be involved in space flight, but I disagree that space flight is a luxury. Looking back at history, a specific technology always gets easier and cheaper to produce and is more distributed. Each moment that passes, another individual in the world has the capability to destroy the world through technological means. Eventually, dooms-day technology will be in enough hands that it will be statisticly inevitable that someone will [press the button]/[release the bacteria]/[destroy the atmosphere]/[etc], and it would be stupid to keep all our eggs in one basket.
LS
How do you differentiate between a mobber and a shopper? Should the store owners and cops learn how to read minds? These people do not know each other. There is no central organization. How do you know who is in the store legitimately?
LS
My view of life is not fatalistic. I still believe that individuals have the potential to excel and find peace, but the world as a whole will always be screwed up, simply because of probability. There will always be screwed up people in the world doing screwed up things.
You're view is fatalistic. There is no way out with your mindset.
Maybe if everyone subscribes to what you define as the world being screwed up. I think the economy has been screwed up since there was such a thing. In fact, the state of the world is pretty fucked up, and it most likely will be like that until the last person dies. I, for one, do not plan to sit huddled in a corner waiting for the end, or out carrying a sign saying "the end is nigh!"
LS
What are you, a robot?
Jezus, your standards for "trans-human intelligence" are friggin' low!!!
Moderators, how is this insightful?
First, these do not appear to be protests, so it's comparing apples to oranges.
Second, if you follow this logic, then you might as well stop going to bars, movies, singing, playing music, watching screensavers, and other "fruitless" endeavors until you've solved the world's problems.
This poster probably also derides liquid nitrogen cooled pentiums and potato guns and every other "worthless" geek project posted to slashdot.
I think you need to realize that there really IS no point.
LS
If you can sit on a ball all day at work, you don't have a problem with discipline. I think the submitter's problem is discipline. I suspect most people would get tired of it and switch back to a chair pretty quick.
So what? I have some numbers too
* Software is 10 times as it was 4 years ago. OHH NOOO!
* Websites have 15 times the graphics as 5 years ago. WOE IS US!
* Entire CDs are transmitted across the internet. THE HORROR!
For real though,
1. This is a problem with insane corporate policy, not IPv6
2. What is "too many addresses"? NAT is a HACK. Why are you so short sighted? Perhaps microscopic devices may have IPs in the future, and these 16.7 address won't be enough. Bill Gates said that 640k was enough for anyone a few years back...
3. Hard drives, memory, and CPUS are always getting faster. Extreme amounts of memory today are miniscule tomorrow.
4. Holy shit, 3.4% longer? I'm sure that the average sustained transfer rate across the net is increading much more than 3.4% a year, so what's the big deal about 3.4 percent?
LS
As already mentioned, you should use the same units in comparisons.
Also, is 4.5 mm the diameter or length of a pellet? I would assume the length. My recollection of pellets is that they are much smaller than the bullets used in the gaussian gun.
LS
The mp3 samples are nice, but I have a couple of suggestions. Make them a bit longer, so that at least the first hook is heard. Even having two-thirds of the song is up there won't prevent people from purchasing. Some of the songs don't even begin before they are cut off. Speaking of which, use some audio editing software to fade the pieces out so it isn't such a slap in the face when the song ends.
LS