Data are not like water, gas and electricity. Data can be reproduced infinitely at virtually no cost. The others have to be made or dug out of the ground or cleaned up etc. and once used are gone.
If the broadband company is willing to sell me a 600kbit/s link at £25/month then why shouldn't I be allowed to use it as much as I like? What are the hidden costs?
Why shouldn't you just pay for the size of the pipe?
and for everyone who's thinking it, what about the cost to people moving around large amounts of legitimate data?
We're only Joe Public. Let's face it, we're going to be screwed. We'll just have to revert to putting CDs in the snail mail. It's probably cheaper, and more reliable.
The 1995 Criminal Justice Bill outlawed public gatherings of more than 5 people. It also banned the use of devices designed to make repetitive noises. This was an attempt by the rotten, archaic and out-of-touch Conservative government to make "raves" illegal.
I have. It did nothing for me other than waste a few hours of my life when I could have been doing something. The only thing it's useful for is getting you off to sleep at night.
This is ridiculous. Employers would find that their employess were productive and content by treating them with respect and dignity, managing them properly, having proper time-scales, fair working hours, etc. Enforced yoga, meditation and feng-shui is childish, silly and new-age clap-trap put about my a bunch of charlatans looking to make a quick buck out of the naieve, impressionable and those with more money than sense.
People do illegal things. Therefore, laws are ineffective. Therefore, we should get rid of all the laws (except the 2nd Amendment) and just carry a DEagle 5-0. Anyone who thinks differently is a whack-job.
The obvious solution is to fix the problem at the source, not to try to patch up the system.
While Linux and the BSDs are excellent server OSes, I hope the Australian government would think long and hard before adopting them for workstation use.
Nice bit of pro-Microsoft trolling there sir. You're a few years out of date.
If your programs are genuinely useful and well-written, they will build up a user base over time. Eventually they will become viewed as worth putting in a distribution.
...to see what this thing will be like running Windows Longhorn woth its cool 3D UI. It'll give AMD a run for their money. I bet Visual Basic code runs reel fast on this baby!
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Being an early adopter of DVDs, I always have to act a bit shocked when I hear people don't have one when I'm on my 3rd player. So I fully suggest you go out and get one seeing as VHS is all but dead (hizzah!).
Using VHS for time-shifting 99% of the time and occasionally watching bought videos of quality comedy and drama, and good films (of which there are less that 10) I can't see why anyone would buy a DVD player to put up with blocky DCT image artifacts, unskipable warnings, dropped frames etc.
When the compression looks nicer, the data is random-access, when region coding goes away, when I can record from the TV and when hell freezes over I will buy a good DVD player. I might buy a cheap, crappy one for convenience, since a lot of stuff is now only on DVD. I'll get it "cracked" in the shop too. They do that here in the UK.
Oh, and when we get 100 fps TV at 2000+ pixels by 1500+ pixels I'll buy a decent TV. Until then I'll content myself with watching crappy PAL TV on the cheap apparatus is deserves.
They were obsessed with making me grow up quickly. It was considered shameful to be playing with Lego at the age of 12. It was "baby-ish". When I think about it, my grandfather left school at 12 to earn a living.
Even with those fancy new pieces, the thirst for more reappears. Technical lego ("Technic") was so cool in my day. I used to love building cars, cranes, tanks etc. When I was 11 I built a 4-wheel-drive car (3 differential gears!) with a 3-speed gearbox, rack and pinion steering and independent suspension on all four wheels. It was so big and heavy, and had so much friction, the poor little electric motor could barely push it along. I didn't have suspension springs, but I did improvise with rubber bands. Those were the days. Shortly after, my parents banned me from playing with Lego because they said I was too old.
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Like I said, someone's got to collect the water and clean it up. I make my own data.
If the broadband company is willing to sell me a 600kbit/s link at £25/month then why shouldn't I be allowed to use it as much as I like?
What are the hidden costs?
Why shouldn't you just pay for the size of the pipe?
We're only Joe Public. Let's face it, we're going to be screwed. We'll just have to revert to putting CDs in the snail mail. It's probably cheaper, and more reliable.
LOL :-)
....and downloading Free Software.
Is this a sneaky way of preventing the wholesale adoption of Free and Open Source software?
Can I join your band? I have some saucepans and wooden spoons.
LOL :-)
The 1995 Criminal Justice Bill outlawed public gatherings of more than 5 people. It also banned the use of devices designed to make repetitive noises. This was an attempt by the rotten, archaic and out-of-touch Conservative government to make "raves" illegal.
Would that be proper "scientific" or new-age "scientific".
Are we talking rational, observable, repeatable explainable phenomena here or healing crystals and Jesus on flying-saucers?
I have. It did nothing for me other than waste a few hours of my life when I could have been doing something. The only thing it's useful for is getting you off to sleep at night.
This is ridiculous. Employers would find that their employess were productive and content by treating them with respect and dignity, managing them properly, having proper time-scales, fair working hours, etc. Enforced yoga, meditation and feng-shui is childish, silly and new-age clap-trap put about my a bunch of charlatans looking to make a quick buck out of the naieve, impressionable and those with more money than sense.
The obvious solution is to fix the problem at the source, not to try to patch up the system.
Eliminate all people
No more laws broken.
Why?
...Or theme-able, skinnable IRC clients with alpha trasparency. Or Tetris clones...
Nice bit of pro-Microsoft trolling there sir. You're a few years out of date.
If your programs are genuinely useful and well-written, they will build up a user base over time. Eventually they will become viewed as worth putting in a distribution.
...to see what this thing will be like running Windows Longhorn woth its cool 3D UI. It'll give AMD a run for their money. I bet Visual Basic code runs reel fast on this baby!
Bekuz Linux faggotz R GHEY and pentium 4 and Windowz is 1ee7 and will kick your lame homo Linux faggot Apple ass.
...this is largely irrelevant to slashdot readers, since it doesn't run Windows, and most of the readers don't understand why.
Darn. Try again.
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Using VHS for time-shifting 99% of the time and occasionally watching bought videos of quality comedy and drama, and good films (of which there are less that 10) I can't see why anyone would buy a DVD player to put up with blocky DCT image artifacts, unskipable warnings, dropped frames etc.
When the compression looks nicer, the data is random-access, when region coding goes away, when I can record from the TV and when hell freezes over I will buy a good DVD player. I might buy a cheap, crappy one for convenience, since a lot of stuff is now only on DVD. I'll get it "cracked" in the shop too. They do that here in the UK.
Oh, and when we get 100 fps TV at 2000+ pixels by 1500+ pixels I'll buy a decent TV. Until then I'll content myself with watching crappy PAL TV on the cheap apparatus is deserves.
Consumer video technology sucks.
How dare you insult my childhood sweetheart!
They were obsessed with making me grow up quickly. It was considered shameful to be playing with Lego at the age of 12. It was "baby-ish". When I think about it, my grandfather left school at 12 to earn a living.
Even with those fancy new pieces, the thirst for more reappears. Technical lego ("Technic") was so cool in my day. I used to love building cars, cranes, tanks etc. When I was 11 I built a 4-wheel-drive car (3 differential gears!) with a 3-speed gearbox, rack and pinion steering and independent suspension on all four wheels. It was so big and heavy, and had so much friction, the poor little electric motor could barely push it along. I didn't have suspension springs, but I did improvise with rubber bands. Those were the days. Shortly after, my parents banned me from playing with Lego because they said I was too old.