The LS series is significantly slower than the plain Schottky series. It's a compromise thing.
This model where artists can distribute direct to customers hasn't been proven yet. Are these artists all getting money through PayPal?
At present that's not a resolved matter.
People all over the world are retaining their own copyrights. It's called 'leave it there in a vault where nobody listens.' When you start distributing your work, unless you're a big fan of Public Domand and/or you get your income elsewhere (i.e. the Richard Stallman 'endowment' revenue model).
That is, if China doesn't implode because of not rewarding their most creative people. If you don't foster 'intellectual property' by actually paying the people who create it, you end up with just knock-offs of stuff already done elsewhere.
They seem to be very good at that in China. We'll see how far they can go with it.
In my experience some of the music that I end up liking the most is music that I don't like at all on first listening. I bring home the new CD and listen to it, and feel remorse at spending the money. But I've made a committment to it and I listen a few more times. Often this 'challanging' music is the stuff I end up liking a lot after a few listens.
With this casual 'try before you buy anything' method that everybody seems to think is so wonderful is fine for shallow 'pop music' listeners who don't want to hear anything that challanges them to think and/or expand their musical scope.
Then again, I don't listen to much 'pop' music with intent of ever making a committment to it. I don't stare at awe at the ads in magazines, either.
A lot of times the people one hears accusing other people of 'selling out' are members of a subculture, and the 'selling out' has nothing to do with integrity, and everything to do with growing tired of the subculture and quitting it.
People who sold out in the sixties and became Yupies did so simply by getting jobs.
Don't look now, but it sounds like you've already bought into a fabricated 'reality' put out by people marketing an 'image.' People like Oliver Stone, etc.
People didn't 'sell out in the sixties and become Yuppies.' Yuppies in some cases were former 60's counter-culture types, but they 'sold out' in the mid to late 70's and the 80's.
The 'movement' that was killed from back then crashed due to huge layers of contradiction. The upper middle-class 'hippies', for instance, wanted their women 'prone' and submissive. Self-indulgent utopian drug users really aren't capable of 'building a new society,' and things got violent and angry after awhile. Even if you're going to buy into the whole 'Woodstock' marketing hype, you'd best spend some time researching the Altamont concert that happened later that same year. Violent, ugly, and full of hate. Brought to you by the Grateful Dead.
Any 'movement' begins being sold out about the time more than a few percent of the people become aware of it. That's just how it works.
We got a set of 'Coca-Cola' branded mixing bowls as a wedding present. I am in the process of slowly grinding the glazed-on Coca-Cola logo off the bowls. A few rubs with the flat face of the sharpening stone every time they get washed. Subtle, and it's necessary to be subtle, as my wife is influenced by the 'southern culture' or whatever that absolutely reveres Coca-Cola.
If and when she notices the slowly fading Coke logos on our mixing bowls, I'm going to tell her Coke has been late with payments for the adspace.
a Post Office truck with a big honkin' Microsoft MSN ad on the side.
Actually, the big box of AOL CD's at the local post office is so big it takes up a lot of the working space on the counter. Makes it a hassle to fill out the forms, etc.
Each CD is stickered with something about 'buying stamps online' and what-not. I suppose that's the tie-in that gives AOL permission to have their junk on the counter.
Being as I have been making most of my free money lately buying stuff at estate sales and selling it on ebay, I say 'all power to them!'
I am not stupid enough to gamble, but those who are have lots of fine posessions that I can bid on by the skid at auctions when their household is being liquidated.
Plus, stupid taxes lower the taxes of the clueful.
Developers could refuse to make XBox games, Microsoft could refuse to license the patent, and gamers all around the world would start playing AD&D? The minature pewter figurine market would BOOM??
Sony doesn't have a Larry Ellision or a Ray Noorda who has declared a blood oath against them, for whatever good or bad reasons. Lord knows they're just as big and mean and consumer-unfriendly as Microsoft in many regards.
I think the point being made was that the grandparent post was trying to come off like a DirectX expert, and somebody pointed out he was talking off a fax from Sun or Larry Ellision or somewhere. You know, the vast Anti-Microsoft Conspiracy thing...
No, actually if there was a huge amount of new gold, it would become an important industrial metal. It'd be cheaper to have highly reliable electronic connectors, and there would be a revolution in metallurgy.
It might put a damper on all the gold hoarders out there, of course. Kind of like the aluminum hoarders before it was discovered how to refine aluminum. There is crown jewelery in Europe made out of aluminium, you know, because native metallic aluminum is far more rare than native metallic gold.
Technician up on the orbiting collection station slips... power beamer spins slightly to one side... All the microwave popcorn on Long Island (and all the people) are instantly cooked....
You could begin to mine so you have resourse to launch vehicles into deep space.
<sarcasm> Well, that's a great idea. You can definitely launch my metric ton of gold into deep space, never to be seen again. It isn't like I wanted a metric ton of gold or anything. It would just be in the way!
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Serious CS students read Knuth, they don't P-P at all. They likely don't have time to P-P.
Further, it's not 'academic research' to fiddle around with a reimplementation of something 20 years old.
It's probably a good way for them to drive away the scofflaws who mess around instead of studying.
The LS series is significantly slower than the plain Schottky series. It's a compromise thing.
This model where artists can distribute direct to customers hasn't been proven yet. Are these artists all getting money through PayPal?
At present that's not a resolved matter.
People all over the world are retaining their own copyrights. It's called 'leave it there in a vault where nobody listens.' When you start distributing your work, unless you're a big fan of Public Domand and/or you get your income elsewhere (i.e. the Richard Stallman 'endowment' revenue model).
That is, if China doesn't implode because of not rewarding their most creative people. If you don't foster 'intellectual property' by actually paying the people who create it, you end up with just knock-offs of stuff already done elsewhere.
They seem to be very good at that in China. We'll see how far they can go with it.
In my experience some of the music that I end up liking the most is music that I don't like at all on first listening. I bring home the new CD and listen to it, and feel remorse at spending the money. But I've made a committment to it and I listen a few more times. Often this 'challanging' music is the stuff I end up liking a lot after a few listens.
With this casual 'try before you buy anything' method that everybody seems to think is so wonderful is fine for shallow 'pop music' listeners who don't want to hear anything that challanges them to think and/or expand their musical scope.
Then again, I don't listen to much 'pop' music with intent of ever making a committment to it. I don't stare at awe at the ads in magazines, either.
'Over-the-top socialism' is an 'over-the-top police state.' Don't pose them as polar opposites.
Just direct complaints to the ISP and have them shut down the account after it's been proven to host pirated files.
'Whack a gopher' probably gets tiresome and seems fruitless after awhile.
The resulting civil suit will take your business under.
The public outcry from the death of 15 police officers will make it necessary for you to move to a different continent.
Have fun.
...trying to strongarm things here,...
StrongARM laptops??? Cool! Something low power consumption without being low-powered performance I can run NetBSD on.
Not really??
Damn. You got me excited.
A lot of times the people one hears accusing other people of 'selling out' are members of a subculture, and the 'selling out' has nothing to do with integrity, and everything to do with growing tired of the subculture and quitting it.
selling out *what*, pray tell? Selling out on someone else's notion of what's 'kool'?
People who sold out in the sixties and became Yupies did so simply by getting jobs.
Don't look now, but it sounds like you've already bought into a fabricated 'reality' put out by people marketing an 'image.' People like Oliver Stone, etc.
People didn't 'sell out in the sixties and become Yuppies.' Yuppies in some cases were former 60's counter-culture types, but they 'sold out' in the mid to late 70's and the 80's.
The 'movement' that was killed from back then crashed due to huge layers of contradiction. The upper middle-class 'hippies', for instance, wanted their women 'prone' and submissive. Self-indulgent utopian drug users really aren't capable of 'building a new society,' and things got violent and angry after awhile. Even if you're going to buy into the whole 'Woodstock' marketing hype, you'd best spend some time researching the Altamont concert that happened later that same year. Violent, ugly, and full of hate. Brought to you by the Grateful Dead.
Any 'movement' begins being sold out about the time more than a few percent of the people become aware of it. That's just how it works.
We got a set of 'Coca-Cola' branded mixing bowls as a wedding present. I am in the process of slowly grinding the glazed-on Coca-Cola logo off the bowls. A few rubs with the flat face of the sharpening stone every time they get washed. Subtle, and it's necessary to be subtle, as my wife is influenced by the 'southern culture' or whatever that absolutely reveres Coca-Cola.
If and when she notices the slowly fading Coke logos on our mixing bowls, I'm going to tell her Coke has been late with payments for the adspace.
a Post Office truck with a big honkin' Microsoft MSN ad on the side.
Actually, the big box of AOL CD's at the local post office is so big it takes up a lot of the working space on the counter. Makes it a hassle to fill out the forms, etc.
Each CD is stickered with something about 'buying stamps online' and what-not. I suppose that's the tie-in that gives AOL permission to have their junk on the counter.
Well, then abridge his comments. 'Cartoons that are not boring, nor featuring tentacle rape' should cover it well enough.
State governments probably get more net profit from tobacco sales than the tobacco companies themselves. Anybody ever run those numbers?
Being as I have been making most of my free money lately buying stuff at estate sales and selling it on ebay, I say 'all power to them!'
I am not stupid enough to gamble, but those who are have lots of fine posessions that I can bid on by the skid at auctions when their household is being liquidated.
Plus, stupid taxes lower the taxes of the clueful.
A person with a lottery ticket has almost certainly already lost. All he has is the recipt for the stupid tax.
Developers could refuse to make XBox games, Microsoft could refuse to license the patent, and gamers all around the world would start playing AD&D? The minature pewter figurine market would BOOM??
Say it isn't SO!
the way internet standards are built
I hate to be cynical, but do you mean Internet Standards like the ones everybody ignores from the W3C??
Sony doesn't have a Larry Ellision or a Ray Noorda who has declared a blood oath against them, for whatever good or bad reasons. Lord knows they're just as big and mean and consumer-unfriendly as Microsoft in many regards.
I think the point being made was that the grandparent post was trying to come off like a DirectX expert, and somebody pointed out he was talking off a fax from Sun or Larry Ellision or somewhere. You know, the vast Anti-Microsoft Conspiracy thing...
You mean an Emacs lisp module for AIM?
heh
No, actually if there was a huge amount of new gold, it would become an important industrial metal. It'd be cheaper to have highly reliable electronic connectors, and there would be a revolution in metallurgy.
It might put a damper on all the gold hoarders out there, of course. Kind of like the aluminum hoarders before it was discovered how to refine aluminum. There is crown jewelery in Europe made out of aluminium, you know, because native metallic aluminum is far more rare than native metallic gold.
I can see it now.
Technician up on the orbiting collection station slips... power beamer spins slightly to one side... All the microwave popcorn on Long Island (and all the people) are instantly cooked....
You could begin to mine so you have resourse to launch vehicles into deep space.
<sarcasm>
Well, that's a great idea. You can definitely launch my metric ton of gold into deep space, never to be seen again. It isn't like I wanted a metric ton of gold or anything. It would just be in the way!
</sarcasm>