As with all my posts, memory may not serve correctly. But I believe that Metallica used to allow fans to tape their concerts, going so far as to allow them to tap into whatever the monitors were hooked into. Much like the Grateful Dead, but like... much, much louder. I think their anti-sharing crusade applied only to their studio work, as they had to assume that the live tapes would make the rounds. So while I found their strident anti-napster stance assinine, this is not a complete about face, and they may have shown themselves to be more in touch with their base than I thought. Still I doubt that they will ever top MOP.
Oh, so slightly offtopic BUT: Michael Moore's TV nation did a poll of American housewives to see what percentage would pay $10 to see Orrin Hatch fight a Rottweiler. As it turns out the majority would, and this is part of the reason why.
I'm pretty sure that DIVX needed a phone connection to "renew" your disk-watching privliges. And as I recall, when they discontinued the format they had to keep the phone number operating for a while to be sure that everyone had a chance to actually watch the movies that they bought. I think that these disks will be a success becuase they will be cheap, ubiquitous and run on a standard DVD player. I think they are wastefull, if nothing else, but if I had one idotic product to kill this wouldnt be it.
OK, any structure changes the albedo of the ground it covers. I change the albedo of the ground I cover (unless I'm laying on some pastey white rocks). And Hydrogen emissions would greatly increase humidity, also changing the weather. So that WOULD have to be looked at and hopefully addressed.
The Alaska suggestion has to be symbolic. Its a small area with oil that would take years to get to market (assuming that they started construction today). It wouldn't significantly cut our dependance on foreign oil, and the price of oil is largely set by cartels, so there wouldn't be a huge drop in price. There are circumstances where it would be appropriate to drill the ANWR, but somewhat cheaper gas doesnt cut it.
Conservation and Local production are a tough sell as you are asking some of you constituants to buy less of what your other constituants are making.
In addition to the practical issues involved, Verizon knows that one of the main reasons DSL is popular is the "free" music. They don't like people who eat up tons of bandwidth, but they most likely recognise that without filesharing their service loses some of its value.
While I am among those easily swayed by the 'wow' factor, the poster is not guilty of this offence. He is also a fan of running *Gentoo* Linux becuase of the package system. I would assume that the poster likes Linux in general, and Gentoo because of Portage, as Portage is the main thing that differentiates Gentoo from the other distros.
The Carnivore program intrudes on a medium where users believe that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. On public roads you (hopefully) have no such expectation. The power always has potential for abuse. Though the notion of being tracked creeps me out, my privacy is not, strictly, being violated in the same sense as Carnivore or Eschelon. Its too interesting and powerful a tool not to be used, so its just a matter of preventing abuse.
My understanding is that giving a copy of a song to a friend is fair use, whereas giving copies away indiscriminatly amounts to distribution. Tapeing off the radio is just time-shifting (fair use), giving a copy of that song to a friend is probibly, illegal, but its just one friend and not worth lobbying $.
IANAL-nor wil I ever be one. (sorry mom)
I really think thats what he was angling for. Either that or a whole mac system. Not that I can blame him. If I had to be embarrassed like that I'd try to cash in too. Maybe a Fox reality special= Ghyslain: CONFIDENTIAL!
That was without macrovision:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/13/1650225.shtm l?tid=172
They didn't want to pay the MV royalty. Tapes are a pain in the ass to copy and DVD's are encrypted. The bottom line involved was not one dictated by consumer satisfaction.
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...on of the Lords coming kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Long may it continue!
For the next 150 years, I suspect.
That thought occured to me as well. If you recall, the US recently took a very active stand against Steel dumping from South American and (I believe) Japan. I have never heard of accusations of IP "dumping". I suppose that the dumping price would have to factor the cost of development as the distribution costs are negligible.
Most other religions are old enough that (to paraphrase Bismark) we haven't had to see them made. The more recent religions are widely derided in large part because we have contemporary accounts of their genesis and the fact that their leaders were demonstrably cranks and frauds. Very old religions do not suffer from this impediment.
However it is not impossible to have a deep personal relationship with an entity one does not have apriori knowledge of, just look at your friends.
And for the better, in addition to stepping on toes, those names were godawful, and brought to mind not only the cars themselves, but also the attendant mullets and hairbands.
Great program otherwise.
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"The anomaly was an issue only seen in a lab environment on a small number of units undergoing stress testing"
The way software evolves, in a few years daily use will create the same load as stress testing.
A futurist (initialls D.A.) has forseen this problem and predicts that all your biometrics will be recorded onto a card which you will have to carry with you at all times.
For some time now I've felt that toys like this (especially the ones with the rotating turrets) could be a cool mall concession. Arcades no longer offer any appreciable advantage over home systems and my local mall has a kiddy train that goes around incircles. Put the two together with some sand and rocks and your have fun for all ages! I have to think a 5 or ten min frag session would make more than some crappy train.
Knoppix is really something. It comes close, however there are too many winmodems out there to make a successful bootable Internet OS for Grandma. Maybe once DSL is a value added telephone service (like call waiting) such a thing will be possible. But by then, she can just use my old PlayStation 5.
I am reminded of Schopenhauer's observation: "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
PBS had some documentery on the marketing of the GI Joe doll (thats how I know). I found a little here: http://actionfigures.about.com/library/weekly/aa01 1201c.htm
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John Brunner is sort of a Proto-Cyberpunk author. Future Shock , Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar are his most well known titles. (and the only ones I've read) Like Herbert (DUNE) his occasional focus on the environment/population is somestimes distracting. Well worth reading nontheless.
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As with all my posts, memory may not serve correctly. But I believe that Metallica used to allow fans to tape their concerts, going so far as to allow them to tap into whatever the monitors were hooked into. Much like the Grateful Dead, but like... much, much louder. I think their anti-sharing crusade applied only to their studio work, as they had to assume that the live tapes would make the rounds. So while I found their strident anti-napster stance assinine, this is not a complete about face, and they may have shown themselves to be more in touch with their base than I thought. Still I doubt that they will ever top MOP.
Oh, so slightly offtopic BUT: Michael Moore's TV nation did a poll of American housewives to see what percentage would pay $10 to see Orrin Hatch fight a Rottweiler. As it turns out the majority would, and this is part of the reason why.
I'm pretty sure that DIVX needed a phone connection to "renew" your disk-watching privliges. And as I recall, when they discontinued the format they had to keep the phone number operating for a while to be sure that everyone had a chance to actually watch the movies that they bought. I think that these disks will be a success becuase they will be cheap, ubiquitous and run on a standard DVD player. I think they are wastefull, if nothing else, but if I had one idotic product to kill this wouldnt be it.
OK, any structure changes the albedo of the ground it covers. I change the albedo of the ground I cover (unless I'm laying on some pastey white rocks). And Hydrogen emissions would greatly increase humidity, also changing the weather. So that WOULD have to be looked at and hopefully addressed. The Alaska suggestion has to be symbolic. Its a small area with oil that would take years to get to market (assuming that they started construction today). It wouldn't significantly cut our dependance on foreign oil, and the price of oil is largely set by cartels, so there wouldn't be a huge drop in price. There are circumstances where it would be appropriate to drill the ANWR, but somewhat cheaper gas doesnt cut it. Conservation and Local production are a tough sell as you are asking some of you constituants to buy less of what your other constituants are making.
In my day all we had was Hypercolor. And we were happy to have it!
Whatever it is I think I see, looks like a directional 802.11b antenna to me.
In addition to the practical issues involved, Verizon knows that one of the main reasons DSL is popular is the "free" music. They don't like people who eat up tons of bandwidth, but they most likely recognise that without filesharing their service loses some of its value.
While I am among those easily swayed by the 'wow' factor, the poster is not guilty of this offence. He is also a fan of running *Gentoo* Linux becuase of the package system. I would assume that the poster likes Linux in general, and Gentoo because of Portage, as Portage is the main thing that differentiates Gentoo from the other distros.
The Carnivore program intrudes on a medium where users believe that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. On public roads you (hopefully) have no such expectation. The power always has potential for abuse. Though the notion of being tracked creeps me out, my privacy is not, strictly, being violated in the same sense as Carnivore or Eschelon. Its too interesting and powerful a tool not to be used, so its just a matter of preventing abuse.
My understanding is that giving a copy of a song to a friend is fair use, whereas giving copies away indiscriminatly amounts to distribution. Tapeing off the radio is just time-shifting (fair use), giving a copy of that song to a friend is probibly, illegal, but its just one friend and not worth lobbying $. IANAL-nor wil I ever be one. (sorry mom)
I really think thats what he was angling for. Either that or a whole mac system. Not that I can blame him. If I had to be embarrassed like that I'd try to cash in too. Maybe a Fox reality special= Ghyslain: CONFIDENTIAL!
That was without macrovision: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/13/1650225.shtm l?tid=172
They didn't want to pay the MV royalty. Tapes are a pain in the ass to copy and DVD's are encrypted. The bottom line involved was not one dictated by consumer satisfaction.
...on of the Lords coming kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Long may it continue! For the next 150 years, I suspect.
That thought occured to me as well. If you recall, the US recently took a very active stand against Steel dumping from South American and (I believe) Japan. I have never heard of accusations of IP "dumping". I suppose that the dumping price would have to factor the cost of development as the distribution costs are negligible.
Most other religions are old enough that (to paraphrase Bismark) we haven't had to see them made. The more recent religions are widely derided in large part because we have contemporary accounts of their genesis and the fact that their leaders were demonstrably cranks and frauds. Very old religions do not suffer from this impediment. However it is not impossible to have a deep personal relationship with an entity one does not have apriori knowledge of, just look at your friends.
And for the better, in addition to stepping on toes, those names were godawful, and brought to mind not only the cars themselves, but also the attendant mullets and hairbands. Great program otherwise.
Its good to see that they hired a Slashdotter.
"The anomaly was an issue only seen in a lab environment on a small number of units undergoing stress testing" The way software evolves, in a few years daily use will create the same load as stress testing.
A futurist (initialls D.A.) has forseen this problem and predicts that all your biometrics will be recorded onto a card which you will have to carry with you at all times.
For some time now I've felt that toys like this (especially the ones with the rotating turrets) could be a cool mall concession. Arcades no longer offer any appreciable advantage over home systems and my local mall has a kiddy train that goes around incircles. Put the two together with some sand and rocks and your have fun for all ages! I have to think a 5 or ten min frag session would make more than some crappy train.
That must be a TROLL because you didn't include LodeRunner.
Knoppix is really something. It comes close, however there are too many winmodems out there to make a successful bootable Internet OS for Grandma. Maybe once DSL is a value added telephone service (like call waiting) such a thing will be possible. But by then, she can just use my old PlayStation 5.
I am reminded of Schopenhauer's observation: "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
PBS had some documentery on the marketing of the GI Joe doll (thats how I know). I found a little here: http://actionfigures.about.com/library/weekly/aa01 1201c.htm
Brought to you by the American Trivia Counsel
John Brunner is sort of a Proto-Cyberpunk author. Future Shock , Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar are his most well known titles. (and the only ones I've read) Like Herbert (DUNE) his occasional focus on the environment/population is somestimes distracting. Well worth reading nontheless.