Actually, if you read the article, China is in favour of the EU site - they don't get on too well with Japan - Japan chased a Chinese sub out of their waters recently, for starters.
And China apologized within seconds. The didn't even shoot warning shots. This was no big deal at all.
No, a "conservative" wants to save an innocent baby that has committed no harm against humanity vs. a _convicted_ murderer that has committed the _ultimate_ crime against humanity, taking another human life.
In case of abortion, I think it's a question of when the fetus becomes a baby. I think abortion in the first few weeks, when we are basically only talking about a lump of cells in liquid, is ok, and certainly the 24 hour pill is ok. After a few weeks, it starts to get questionable. Does this make me want to kill babies? If you think about it, miscarriages aren't that uncommon, even far into pregnancy.
Also, I am not against death penalty per se, but I can't think of anyone who I'd let decide who gets to die and who doesn't. Most conservatives seem to think the justice system makes no mistakes and that the god takes care of the rest.
In reality, to accept death penalty means that you need to accept execution of innocent people, too. Mistakes have happened, and they most certainly will happen again. So I actually think it's a GOOD THING that people are made more aware of the fallacies of crime scene investigation. I am not a great believer in the jury system anyway, they get to make big decisions on cases that professional scientists would have a hard time deciding on.
Depends on the movie(s) and who's buying. If Studio Ghibli released their DVDs directly with some nice extras, frankly, I'd rather pay them $50 than pay $10 for a Miramax/Disney distribution of the same movie.
If movies/CDs were $50, there would be less entertainment, but quality would go up, and the company would make more money. Then others would realize it is a good business and would jump in, lowering price and quality.
That's called supply and demand, which is currently effectively being broken by P2P by offering an endless supply for free.
Movies and CD's will never go up to $50, because no one would pay that kind of money for them. Why would they, when they can get it for free off of Torrent? The companies would (and from what it seems, inevitably will) go bankrupt way before that.
Clearly it is my own standard. It is morally wrong to allow the spread of incorrect information when you have the ability make corrections.
Given the nature of the Internet, if that were true, a lot of people would need to spend the rest of their lives just correcting web sites, discussion groups etc. etc.
Most of the time I don't go directly to the site, but search for the topic using google, and then click on the link to a wikipedia article that will show up.
I think this is something more people should realize. Wikipedia supplements other information found on the Internet, not the other way round.
The benefit of BitTorrent isn't for the end-user downloading the file, it's for the person sharing the file.
But if you are only interested in Linux distros etc. Why are people so interested in distributing them the difficult way, when every one of them have so many FTP/HTTP mirrors around the world?
I still don't understand what the great big benefit of BitTorrent is. The only thing I can think of is that it's more difficult to get caught distributing copyrighted material, but that's about it.
Agreed, that appears to be the popular opinion around here. In fact, many people advocate the position that music piracy actually helps the industry by providing more exposure for artists.
Which goes against any common sense, really. Giving a product away for free doesn't help sales in any way.
In fact, working for a small record label, let me just say that it's getting pretty much impossible to bring out any new artists anymore. Only the majors have the money to compete with P2P, and even they have to resort to really massive and creative advertising campaigns to sell any records.
For example, we released a CD two months ago, which is getting great reviews in the press, quite a bit of coverage in both print and the web.
In fact, I think a lot of Slashdot readers would know this artist's name, should I mention it here...
We've sold 300 copies. It's available on every P2P, and the last time I checked, there were MORE people sharing it than we've sold copies... Now the next fuck who comes up to me and says P2P isn't hurting sales will get his nerd teeth punched in his face.
Suffice to say the artist in question isn't going to release a CD anytime soon. He's pretty pissed off too, having worked years on the music. From our point of view, endorsing massive music sharing on the Internet seems like advocating slavery. As if musicians were monkeys who do tricks for peanuts and should be happy that people graciously listen to them.
So, basically, we haven't even made back our investment, and we're being given shit for being corporate assholes. None of us is rich by any means. I made a whopping $6000 from the label last year, and that's mostly because we also run a recording studio and I recorded & mixed some independent artists. Needless to say I need to have another job to make the ends meet. Still, people seem to think we should give the music away for free.
But it's all the same because no one listens. Anti-music business posts in Slashdot get modded up and others like me get modded as Troll whatnot. People need to get their music for free, and god forbid if someone disagrees. Oh well, I think after almost 20 years of working as a professional recording engineer, it's time to start looking for other career options. Fuck you all.
Now BT is a bit different because it's just a protocol for P2P file transfer, not a directory or lookup mechanism itself, and BT is used by a large number of software companies as a cost effective way to distribute large, legitimate files - I've downloaded Mandrake and MEPIS ISOs, and several multi-hundred megabyte game patches and mods using BT.
Can someone please say what is the great benefit of using Torrent over FTP or HTTP? I always seem to get a better throughtput from University hosted FTP sites than any P2P, and I don't even need any extra software, just the web browser that I'm using... I find it much nicer to download the latest Fedora ISO's @ 1000 kB/sec speed than trying to hunt down the proper packages from a P2P and then gettin them at 20 kB/sec.
I've never understood why someone would read a review about a search engine.
Because people like me are interested in those reviews.
You see, I don't really have the time or energy to try each and every search engine there is. The first engine I used was Webcrawler, then someone said, "Alta Vista" is better. When Alta Vista started getting bloated with advertisements, and became unusable, for a while I tried looking for alternatives, but nothing seemed as good as it had previously been. Not until someone recommended this weird "Googol" thingie - in a review I read on the web.
Otherwise you can start comparing stuff like SETI which I'm sure is the world's cheapest supercomputer because it technically didn't cost anything to SETI themselves.
I don't think SETI is eligible for that list at all.
Firstly, its performance isn't guaranteed. It is entirely possible people get fed up with it and stop donating CPU cycles tomorrow, which would make the processing power go significantly down.
Secondly, it doesn't (and really can't) have a proper operating system. You couldn't, say, play Doom 3 on it. It is designed to do a very specific task. I suppose something like SETI could be used for running java tasks or such, but it would still require that each node gets a complete task to run, because any of them can drop out anytime.
you are talking about averages, yes? ON AVERAGE, a woman with the same qualifications.... etc etc
So? "On average" means that in a large group there are a lot of individuals being discriminated.
women are not willing to devote their whole lives to a job.
A lot of women are, though. They are working much harder, with better results, than their male counterparts, and still don't get promoted. I've seen this happen many, many, times. Most men just close their eyes, and at worst they consider skilled, talented, women a threat themselves.
Slavery was world spread (especially in Spanish influenced countries) and had Africans kidnapping and selling fellow Africans. Basically, everyones hands were dirty on that.
This is the classic "he's doing wrong so I can do wrong, too" defense which has no place in modern civilized society.
Sexual discrimination? Get a life. Those cases are RARE (and everyone gets discriminated against--I am a male, but I certainly have been stereotyped and had prejudices against me for my skin color)
Wake up and smell the coffee, Anonymous Coward. Sexual discrimination is the rule, not the exception. A woman with the same qualifications as the male coworker doesn't get promoted, and a woman doing the same job as a man gets paid less. This is the truth.
And if you want to discount the Patriot Act, you cannot discount the fact that it is MERELY REPLACING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY BILL CLINTON THAT GAVE HIMSELF THE SAME SWEEPING POWERS BUT WITHOUT CHECK.
Go agead, shout and sling mud. Whatever Bill Clinton did or didn't do has little to no relevance with this.
English spelling is very twisted indeed. If I were to write the paragraph about speech synthesizers in a language that resembles actual pronounciation, I think it would look like this:
No, it wouldn't. It would be nothing like that, in fact. In all languages (Norwegian included) there are many more actual vowel sounds than the ones in the alphabet, and therefore combinations of more letters are needed to represent them. Looking at your post, I am almost certain that the word 'mennene', for example, has at least two different 'e' sounds even though you may think there is only one. The minute differences are very difficult to hear (and thus reproduce) by a foreigner.
Have you ever noticed that when a Norwegian (or Swede or Dane or German or..) speaks English, it rarely sounds exactly like a native speaker? The speaker may very well think that she sounds exactly like a native, but she isn't even close and can't hear it. Surely the same must be true when a Swede attempts to speak Norwegian, even though the two languages are almost indistinguishable to someone like me who knows neither.
To give you an example - I don't know if the Norweigian 'Ø' sound is similar to the Finnish one, but anyway - it is instinctive to a Finn to think that the 'e' in the English word 'yes' should be like the Finnish 'e' sound, when in fact it's somewhere between the Finnish 'i' ('ee' in English) and 'Ø' sounds. If you ever speak to a Finn, the first thing you'll notice are the peculiar vowels.
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I always wondered about this. Neither of these is ironic, which is kind of ironic, don't you think..?
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That's actually just the American line of thinking. The rest 95 % of the world mostly disagree.
What terrorists?
Voters want cheap gas, so that's what they are given. It really has little to do with sense.
You say that as a joke, but for the most part, it's true. There is very little turmoil within the limits of the EU at the moment.
And China apologized within seconds. The didn't even shoot warning shots. This was no big deal at all.
IANTOP, but I'll ask you another one:
Which is worse, an innocent person executed or a serial killer with a life sentence?
In case of abortion, I think it's a question of when the fetus becomes a baby. I think abortion in the first few weeks, when we are basically only talking about a lump of cells in liquid, is ok, and certainly the 24 hour pill is ok. After a few weeks, it starts to get questionable. Does this make me want to kill babies? If you think about it, miscarriages aren't that uncommon, even far into pregnancy.
Also, I am not against death penalty per se, but I can't think of anyone who I'd let decide who gets to die and who doesn't. Most conservatives seem to think the justice system makes no mistakes and that the god takes care of the rest.
In reality, to accept death penalty means that you need to accept execution of innocent people, too. Mistakes have happened, and they most certainly will happen again. So I actually think it's a GOOD THING that people are made more aware of the fallacies of crime scene investigation. I am not a great believer in the jury system anyway, they get to make big decisions on cases that professional scientists would have a hard time deciding on.
Then again, you are 1 out of some 6 billion.
That's called supply and demand, which is currently effectively being broken by P2P by offering an endless supply for free.
Movies and CD's will never go up to $50, because no one would pay that kind of money for them. Why would they, when they can get it for free off of Torrent? The companies would (and from what it seems, inevitably will) go bankrupt way before that.
Given the nature of the Internet, if that were true, a lot of people would need to spend the rest of their lives just correcting web sites, discussion groups etc. etc.
I think this is something more people should realize. Wikipedia supplements other information found on the Internet, not the other way round.
But if you are only interested in Linux distros etc. Why are people so interested in distributing them the difficult way, when every one of them have so many FTP/HTTP mirrors around the world?
I still don't understand what the great big benefit of BitTorrent is. The only thing I can think of is that it's more difficult to get caught distributing copyrighted material, but that's about it.
Who says I'm on a university LAN? I am not.
Downloading from an overseas FTP is often quicker than a P2P.
Which goes against any common sense, really. Giving a product away for free doesn't help sales in any way.
In fact, working for a small record label, let me just say that it's getting pretty much impossible to bring out any new artists anymore. Only the majors have the money to compete with P2P, and even they have to resort to really massive and creative advertising campaigns to sell any records.
For example, we released a CD two months ago, which is getting great reviews in the press, quite a bit of coverage in both print and the web. In fact, I think a lot of Slashdot readers would know this artist's name, should I mention it here...
We've sold 300 copies. It's available on every P2P, and the last time I checked, there were MORE people sharing it than we've sold copies... Now the next fuck who comes up to me and says P2P isn't hurting sales will get his nerd teeth punched in his face.
Suffice to say the artist in question isn't going to release a CD anytime soon. He's pretty pissed off too, having worked years on the music. From our point of view, endorsing massive music sharing on the Internet seems like advocating slavery. As if musicians were monkeys who do tricks for peanuts and should be happy that people graciously listen to them.
So, basically, we haven't even made back our investment, and we're being given shit for being corporate assholes. None of us is rich by any means. I made a whopping $6000 from the label last year, and that's mostly because we also run a recording studio and I recorded & mixed some independent artists. Needless to say I need to have another job to make the ends meet. Still, people seem to think we should give the music away for free.
But it's all the same because no one listens. Anti-music business posts in Slashdot get modded up and others like me get modded as Troll whatnot. People need to get their music for free, and god forbid if someone disagrees. Oh well, I think after almost 20 years of working as a professional recording engineer, it's time to start looking for other career options. Fuck you all.
Can someone please say what is the great benefit of using Torrent over FTP or HTTP? I always seem to get a better throughtput from University hosted FTP sites than any P2P, and I don't even need any extra software, just the web browser that I'm using... I find it much nicer to download the latest Fedora ISO's @ 1000 kB/sec speed than trying to hunt down the proper packages from a P2P and then gettin them at 20 kB/sec.
Because people like me are interested in those reviews.
You see, I don't really have the time or energy to try each and every search engine there is. The first engine I used was Webcrawler, then someone said, "Alta Vista" is better. When Alta Vista started getting bloated with advertisements, and became unusable, for a while I tried looking for alternatives, but nothing seemed as good as it had previously been. Not until someone recommended this weird "Googol" thingie - in a review I read on the web.
Yes, United Linux was supposed to be the Windows killer, after all...
Linus was right, then, I guess...
I don't think SETI is eligible for that list at all.
Firstly, its performance isn't guaranteed. It is entirely possible people get fed up with it and stop donating CPU cycles tomorrow, which would make the processing power go significantly down.
Secondly, it doesn't (and really can't) have a proper operating system. You couldn't, say, play Doom 3 on it. It is designed to do a very specific task. I suppose something like SETI could be used for running java tasks or such, but it would still require that each node gets a complete task to run, because any of them can drop out anytime.
Is that why the multimillionaire athletes etc. are flown to Switzerland or France after a serious injury?
I thought it was the actors who were backing him, not the studios.
So? "On average" means that in a large group there are a lot of individuals being discriminated.
women are not willing to devote their whole lives to a job.
A lot of women are, though. They are working much harder, with better results, than their male counterparts, and still don't get promoted. I've seen this happen many, many, times. Most men just close their eyes, and at worst they consider skilled, talented, women a threat themselves.
This is the classic "he's doing wrong so I can do wrong, too" defense which has no place in modern civilized society.
Sexual discrimination? Get a life. Those cases are RARE (and everyone gets discriminated against--I am a male, but I certainly have been stereotyped and had prejudices against me for my skin color)
Wake up and smell the coffee, Anonymous Coward. Sexual discrimination is the rule, not the exception. A woman with the same qualifications as the male coworker doesn't get promoted, and a woman doing the same job as a man gets paid less. This is the truth.
And if you want to discount the Patriot Act, you cannot discount the fact that it is MERELY REPLACING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY BILL CLINTON THAT GAVE HIMSELF THE SAME SWEEPING POWERS BUT WITHOUT CHECK.
Go agead, shout and sling mud. Whatever Bill Clinton did or didn't do has little to no relevance with this.
No, it wouldn't. It would be nothing like that, in fact. In all languages (Norwegian included) there are many more actual vowel sounds than the ones in the alphabet, and therefore combinations of more letters are needed to represent them. Looking at your post, I am almost certain that the word 'mennene', for example, has at least two different 'e' sounds even though you may think there is only one. The minute differences are very difficult to hear (and thus reproduce) by a foreigner.
Have you ever noticed that when a Norwegian (or Swede or Dane or German or ..) speaks English, it rarely sounds exactly like a native speaker? The speaker may very well think that she sounds exactly like a native, but she isn't even close and can't hear it. Surely the same must be true when a Swede attempts to speak Norwegian, even though the two languages are almost indistinguishable to someone like me who knows neither.
To give you an example - I don't know if the Norweigian 'Ø' sound is similar to the Finnish one, but anyway - it is instinctive to a Finn to think that the 'e' in the English word 'yes' should be like the Finnish 'e' sound, when in fact it's somewhere between the Finnish 'i' ('ee' in English) and 'Ø' sounds. If you ever speak to a Finn, the first thing you'll notice are the peculiar vowels.