Surely each of the 3 commenters, who all phrase "if you can't copy yo shit, howzit invisible?" are intelligent to understand the guy clearly meant it's invisible during normal, fair use. Jesus Christ.
While I'm sure it's a load of BS, I don't think many people will hate "perfect DRM" any better than what we've got now. They'll just stop complaining about how it annoys them as legitimate license owners and start complaining that stuff costs too much. Because the people that are complaining are usually pirates.
Funny that the summary calls attention to the fact that the number of lines includes comments and whitespace without any mention of how worthless lines of code is as a metric. Someone could easily go in and add or remove newlines wherever they wanted and without changed a bit of code make it 50 million or 50 thousand.
Since when is user delivered content driven by hopes of profit? These people are driven by wanting their voices heard and to some extent wanting to be known. If these sites fail, it will be because the site itself isn't profitable, not because their users, who they could care less about, aren't making money off it.
Why? Don't you store anything that doesn't have to be read fast? People don't seen to understand that your mp3s don't care if they are on a fast drive or not. The only reason external drives are 7200rpm instead of 5400rpm is because those are the drives they are already making anyway.
That's the nature of dirt cheap hardware. It happens in every industry. I remember a rant by the owner of an aftermarket parts store for Subarus where he complained about all of the 17 year old kids running drop ship operations from their parents basements selling $800 exhausts for $5 over cost. They make a marginal amount money, but not enough to continue to do business on, they are soon replaced by another kid, and the established, brick and mortar stores with good service can't compete.
That's also (part of) my theory on gas prices. Remember $1 gas 8 years ago? I said back then that it was getting so cheap that it wasn't going to even be worth selling and would cause a collapse in the economy.
My point was I want to know how often the hard drive is going to be the bottleneck instead rather than USB or firewire, where all of them would perform (even more so than they already do) virtually identically.
That aside, this drive actually performed near the top in most of the tests and middle of the pack in most of the others, so the author talking bad about its performance was pretty unfounded. And I didn't see anything in any of the tests that would make me choose from the drives tested on anything other than cost and capacity. The truth is, in the "real world" everyone is clammering to compare the drives in, you'd never have a clue which drive was in your computer unless you opened up the case and looked.
How important is throughput? I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of these drives are going in external enclosures. For the time being, 1.5tb is much larger than you'd need to be running any applications off of and I'd guess the majority of these drives are going to be storing movies, mp3s and photos, where the speed hardly matters at all.
Very possible, but Windows doesn't crash like that. One of the problems seems to be with starting and/or stopping sleep mode. Which would be fine, because I have sleep mode turned off, but it will still be in sleep mode when I come back to it sometimes.
I like the guy that modded me troll for answering a question, so I'll go ahead and earn it. I'm a linux newb and using Ubuntu has been a horrible pain in the ass. The button you click to shut down/log off doesn't work -- if I click it, nothing happens except the only input I can get the computer to accept is (umm.. it's been a while.. alt-ctrl-backspace?). When switching users, the original session crashes frequently. When it doesn't, the login sound will sometimes play in a loop until I reboot. Pidgin crashes with a cryptic error in debug mode, I've found no help, and when submitting a bug to the Pidgin dev team, they refer me to a 404 error that is apparently tells me how to get a back trace. Ubuntu, which everyone assures me can run virtually forever without a reboot, gives me that need-to-reboot message probably once a week. Doom Legacy locks everything up. Wine doesn't seem at all intuitive to me. I can't remember what, specifically, but probably 10 unique problems with other apps crashing were fixed by needing to stop compiz. USB drives are finnicky as hell. And every time I do find help, it involves a terminal instead of just using the GUI (whether or not it actually has to be done in a terminal). Fine, I can do that, but that's never going to work for a mainstream OS.
Sure, I'm a newb, but I'm not an idiot. I haven't spent a lot of time figuring these things out because I'm trying to avoid computers at home. I'm not the fiddling geek I used to be. That is a lot of problems with no apparent cause. All on hardware that runs Windows XP just fine. I don't know why I'm still using it.
I don't know. I had a little recycle icon that told me I needed to reboot in notifications. I never did -- it crashed on its own overnight (as it so often does) and I restarted today. I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I'm trying to learn as little as possible.
Was a 6mb eeprom any less expensive in "the early 90s" than 100gb of RAM would be now? And how is writing a 6mb operating system to an eeprom comparable to loading only bare essential libraries to do basic tasks with a modern (scratch that; future) operating system? Get a life, man. Girls like sensitive guys, but they want you to be sensitive to them, not Bill Gates.
"10:14 PT: "We discovered that if we started with a thick piece of aluminium and removed material to make physical features in the structure, we could make a much lighter but much stronger part."
Holy cow! Someone needs to let all the manufacturers in the world know this! Unless Apple didn't discover it at all.
You're a genius. But do you think people in the military started paying $8 for a burrito after the change, or everyone else started paying $6? It didn't help anyone but the restaurant.
Such is the human condition, I guess. People are more interested in dicking people over that are more fortunate than them than improving their own situation. Go to a bar with a shuffleboard table, and you'll see everyone is more interested in knocking the other guy's puck thing off than scoring points for himself.
As I've said before, the actual losses are zero. An opportunity cost only exists when an opportunity exists in the first place. Wrong. Guy X buys software. Before buying (as he intended) software 2.0, he finds an opportunity and pirates it. How did piracy not cost anything?
Nobody is crying foul that horse and buggy makers are out thousands of jobs and dollars due to the advent of cars. I bet they were back when the people that were, you know, affected, were alive. Or maybe even when their children were.
You don't need to circumvent anything to get a Buffalo router if all you want to do is run dd-wrt. There are tons of routers supported, including the 2 I just had laying around from way before I'd ever heard of it. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
Why would they help with the bail out? They aren't in the business of charity, they are making an investment. They're buying in to AMD because apparently they see it as a wise investment. I would assume they aren't giving money to Fanny Mae because they don't see that as a wise investment.
Might as well also leave your guns on the kitchen counter, pack mini bottles of Tequila in their lunchbox and give your 16 year old to drink responsibly. You know, because you trust them and all.
"Nothing was sold. Something was "licensed" temporarily to you in the very loosest sense of the word. By saying "sold" are you saying I now own the rights to the music I buy on iTunes? No, it follows the TOS which I pointed out is full of red alarms."
A license was sold. No restrictions based on time or due to future mishaps of the selling company are listed in that TOS. I'll bet you all of the money FEMA gave me you'll be able to listen to all of the songs you bought on iTunes for as long as you choose to.
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Surely each of the 3 commenters, who all phrase "if you can't copy yo shit, howzit invisible?" are intelligent to understand the guy clearly meant it's invisible during normal, fair use. Jesus Christ.
While I'm sure it's a load of BS, I don't think many people will hate "perfect DRM" any better than what we've got now. They'll just stop complaining about how it annoys them as legitimate license owners and start complaining that stuff costs too much. Because the people that are complaining are usually pirates.
Funny that the summary calls attention to the fact that the number of lines includes comments and whitespace without any mention of how worthless lines of code is as a metric. Someone could easily go in and add or remove newlines wherever they wanted and without changed a bit of code make it 50 million or 50 thousand.
Since when is user delivered content driven by hopes of profit? These people are driven by wanting their voices heard and to some extent wanting to be known. If these sites fail, it will be because the site itself isn't profitable, not because their users, who they could care less about, aren't making money off it.
Why? Don't you store anything that doesn't have to be read fast? People don't seen to understand that your mp3s don't care if they are on a fast drive or not. The only reason external drives are 7200rpm instead of 5400rpm is because those are the drives they are already making anyway.
That's the nature of dirt cheap hardware. It happens in every industry. I remember a rant by the owner of an aftermarket parts store for Subarus where he complained about all of the 17 year old kids running drop ship operations from their parents basements selling $800 exhausts for $5 over cost. They make a marginal amount money, but not enough to continue to do business on, they are soon replaced by another kid, and the established, brick and mortar stores with good service can't compete.
That's also (part of) my theory on gas prices. Remember $1 gas 8 years ago? I said back then that it was getting so cheap that it wasn't going to even be worth selling and would cause a collapse in the economy.
My point was I want to know how often the hard drive is going to be the bottleneck instead rather than USB or firewire, where all of them would perform (even more so than they already do) virtually identically.
That aside, this drive actually performed near the top in most of the tests and middle of the pack in most of the others, so the author talking bad about its performance was pretty unfounded. And I didn't see anything in any of the tests that would make me choose from the drives tested on anything other than cost and capacity. The truth is, in the "real world" everyone is clammering to compare the drives in, you'd never have a clue which drive was in your computer unless you opened up the case and looked.
How important is throughput? I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of these drives are going in external enclosures. For the time being, 1.5tb is much larger than you'd need to be running any applications off of and I'd guess the majority of these drives are going to be storing movies, mp3s and photos, where the speed hardly matters at all.
Very possible, but Windows doesn't crash like that. One of the problems seems to be with starting and/or stopping sleep mode. Which would be fine, because I have sleep mode turned off, but it will still be in sleep mode when I come back to it sometimes.
I like the guy that modded me troll for answering a question, so I'll go ahead and earn it. I'm a linux newb and using Ubuntu has been a horrible pain in the ass. The button you click to shut down/log off doesn't work -- if I click it, nothing happens except the only input I can get the computer to accept is (umm.. it's been a while.. alt-ctrl-backspace?). When switching users, the original session crashes frequently. When it doesn't, the login sound will sometimes play in a loop until I reboot. Pidgin crashes with a cryptic error in debug mode, I've found no help, and when submitting a bug to the Pidgin dev team, they refer me to a 404 error that is apparently tells me how to get a back trace. Ubuntu, which everyone assures me can run virtually forever without a reboot, gives me that need-to-reboot message probably once a week. Doom Legacy locks everything up. Wine doesn't seem at all intuitive to me. I can't remember what, specifically, but probably 10 unique problems with other apps crashing were fixed by needing to stop compiz. USB drives are finnicky as hell. And every time I do find help, it involves a terminal instead of just using the GUI (whether or not it actually has to be done in a terminal). Fine, I can do that, but that's never going to work for a mainstream OS.
Sure, I'm a newb, but I'm not an idiot. I haven't spent a lot of time figuring these things out because I'm trying to avoid computers at home. I'm not the fiddling geek I used to be. That is a lot of problems with no apparent cause. All on hardware that runs Windows XP just fine. I don't know why I'm still using it.
I don't know. I had a little recycle icon that told me I needed to reboot in notifications. I never did -- it crashed on its own overnight (as it so often does) and I restarted today. I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I'm trying to learn as little as possible.
Was a 6mb eeprom any less expensive in "the early 90s" than 100gb of RAM would be now? And how is writing a 6mb operating system to an eeprom comparable to loading only bare essential libraries to do basic tasks with a modern (scratch that; future) operating system? Get a life, man. Girls like sensitive guys, but they want you to be sensitive to them, not Bill Gates.
Like Ubuntu? Wait! It made me reboot yesterday.
"violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, ..." != "on a whim"
You seem to understand the principle, but somewhere along the line you got mixed up and completely backwards.
They're touch screens. Quit looking at the picture and imagine what is a more direct competitor.
"10:14 PT: "We discovered that if we started with a thick piece of aluminium and removed material to make physical features in the structure, we could make a much lighter but much stronger part."
Holy cow! Someone needs to let all the manufacturers in the world know this! Unless Apple didn't discover it at all.
You're a genius. But do you think people in the military started paying $8 for a burrito after the change, or everyone else started paying $6? It didn't help anyone but the restaurant.
Such is the human condition, I guess. People are more interested in dicking people over that are more fortunate than them than improving their own situation. Go to a bar with a shuffleboard table, and you'll see everyone is more interested in knocking the other guy's puck thing off than scoring points for himself.
'this because of "feedback from the customers."'
There was a Moes restaurant we used to go to that had a 25% military discount that they took away due to "popular demand." In Alabama, no less.
As I've said before, the actual losses are zero. An opportunity cost only exists when an opportunity exists in the first place.
Wrong. Guy X buys software. Before buying (as he intended) software 2.0, he finds an opportunity and pirates it. How did piracy not cost anything?
Nobody is crying foul that horse and buggy makers are out thousands of jobs and dollars due to the advent of cars.
I bet they were back when the people that were, you know, affected, were alive. Or maybe even when their children were.
Something tells me you never pulled any pranks that were funny.
"... and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off."
GROAN.
You don't need to circumvent anything to get a Buffalo router if all you want to do is run dd-wrt. There are tons of routers supported, including the 2 I just had laying around from way before I'd ever heard of it. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
"two Abu Dhabi investment firms"
Why would they help with the bail out? They aren't in the business of charity, they are making an investment. They're buying in to AMD because apparently they see it as a wise investment. I would assume they aren't giving money to Fanny Mae because they don't see that as a wise investment.
Might as well also leave your guns on the kitchen counter, pack mini bottles of Tequila in their lunchbox and give your 16 year old to drink responsibly. You know, because you trust them and all.
Arguably? It is or it isn't. And I don't want to go look it up.
"Nothing was sold. Something was "licensed" temporarily to you in the very loosest sense of the word. By saying "sold" are you saying I now own the rights to the music I buy on iTunes? No, it follows the TOS which I pointed out is full of red alarms."
A license was sold. No restrictions based on time or due to future mishaps of the selling company are listed in that TOS. I'll bet you all of the money FEMA gave me you'll be able to listen to all of the songs you bought on iTunes for as long as you choose to.