Bullshit. Amazon doesn't sell at a loss. It's more socialist garbage, people trying to figure out how to use government to screw a large corporation. Good luck with that, it'll do wonders for your economy.
Yes. Add to this that I can get DVDs of some great movies for $5 at Wal-Mart, or $1 for old cartoons, Andy Griffith, etc. My 32" screen probably isn't going to look any better with Blu Ray or HD-DVD than it does with what I've got, and I'm perfectly happy with the quality.
In some ways, this is looking like the successors to the CD format that all flopped badly. Looking at video, while the studios are trying to make better quality formats (with unhacked DRM), people are flocking to youtube and other lower quality alternatives that offer convenience. It's analogous to people flocking to mp3s which offer convenience and "good-enough" quality.
If Wal-Mart opens a $5 Blu Ray bin and the player is $50, I'll look at getting a player. Until then, ain't gonna happen.
But even though most of the far right's whining about "liberal bias" in education is based on restricting their surveys of academics' party affiliations to the women's studies department, perhaps there is an inherent bias. After all, academic institutions tend to carry a bias toward knowledge, while the contemporary conservative movement continually allies itself with ignorance.
Your "theory" is completely refuted by the actions at Duke University during the Lacrosse hoax.
Or humanity makes a decision to allow the glaciers and icecaps to melt, the sea levels rise a bit, some islands and low lying areas get flooded, weather patterns to change a bit
This is a process that's been going on for Billions of years. It's staggering, the arrogance to think that "humanity" is able to "make a decision" on that scale.
This is a major point - Mac OS X has many, if not most, of the good parts of Linux, plus great Mac hardware and a nice interface. I was surprised when I spoke at a LUG meeting last year, I believe that there were 9 laptops there total, and 8 were Macs. I moved my primary desktop to Mac about a year ago from Linux. I still use Linux under Parallels, and have it on other machines here at the house, but I use a Mac for desktop & development work.
DVDs are expensive? I get them for $5 out of the bin at Wal-Mart, don't know about you but I find that to be a fair price. Better yet is that I can get old Andy Griffith episodes for like $1 for 8.
DVDs are cheap unless you need to get the latest just-released movie.
Sorry, Nyquist's theorem states that you can accurately represent frequencies up to 1/2 the sampling rate.
Really? I have a square wave, a sine wave, and a sawtooth wave, all at 22KHz. Now, you tell me how they'll be quantized such that all are accurately represented.
Either Nyquist is wrong, or you're misrepresenting his "theorem".
The U.S. Constitution, for example, grants basic rights which are then upheld by the courts.
The founders were smarter than that. The US Constitution instead assumes that people have these rights (as expressed in the Declaration of Independence), and limits government interference with them. Read the 1st amendment: "Congress shall make no law...", later clarified to mean that no branch of the government at any level can do those things (interfere with speech, religion, the press, gathering).
For those of you who can't read the updates. WD restricts access to media (in a half-assed way) when shared, essentially, "to the public". In fact they probably have to do this. Joe user dumps his MP3's on the disk, connects it to the net, then later wants Jane to have access to some other files. Oops, Mp3's shared - Joe has illegally shared copyrighted material. Both record companies and Joe can sue WD.
Geez, speaking of "can't read"...
You can only access the files outside your network by paying for the mionet service. This isn't Kazaa - people have to buy a piece of software/service and get in with a username/password. WD has no reason to restrict access except to kiss up to the MAFIAA.
The mybook we II runs Linux, and it's trivial to get shell on it. You can make it do whatever you want.
If you really want to know the travesty about the internet access to it, read up on the web. It's a java-based system called Mionet which requires a special client on your windows machine that you'll use to access it remotely. Did I mention the $50/year that you pay a 3rd party to access your own files? Mionet inexplicably forces you to go through their server to get to your files. Do a google search to find horror stories of Mionet being down and people being unable to reach their own files for more than a day. I'm a programmer - I know of no reason to create it this way other than to extract ongoing revenue from those who don't know better. Using dyndns and an open port will let you get to your files reliably from anywhere.
As for mine, I got shell, disabled the mionet stuff, made sure sshd was coming up every time, and I use it as a really slow Linux machine with a large disk. Be forewarned, it's dog slow. It has a gigabit ethernet port on it that typically pumps out about 50Mbits/sec. Seriously, a 100Mbit port would be half-wasted. Let's not even talk about write speeds.
If you buy one, note that you also don't need to use their windows setup utility, it has a complete web interface.
I paid $300 for a 1TB drive, which, frankly, was little more than I would have paid for a plain external drive at the time. Bonus is that I can connect another usb drive into it and share it on the network.
And one other bonus - it comes with a complete toolchain on its 3GB linux partition, so you can build software on it without having to install other toolchains on another linux machine. The 200MHz processor isn't the fastest at building, but it does fine.
Instead of saying they "violated the GPL", let's keep this simple. They violated copyright law. By their own definition, they're "pirates". They stole. Etc.
That's a little presumptuous, to put it mildly. I've been using JavaScript Object Notation to store data for JavaScript programs for quite a few years now, and I just heard of this guy today. What am I missing? The inventor of JavaScript Object Notation is the guy who created the JavaScript syntax.
Here in TN, we tax custom software. To the law, there's no difference between something I write, and going to the store and buying something off the shelf. Most of my clients are out of state, so it hardly matters, but it's a pain to deal with it every quarter. I had a friend who doesn't charge tax, the state went after him, and he got a judgement against the state (they had to pay him), so the laws aren't 100%.
So basically this looks like a classic noob blunder. Just because there is "automatic" garbage collection doesn't mean that you can turn your brain off.
Um, you're talking about people who thought it reasonable to have a car driven by a program written in a Microsoft language running on a Microsoft operating system. I'm not sure when the brain was turned off, but apparently before the choice of programming platform was made.
The "article" is just a poorly masqueraded advertisement, anyway.
He didn't build up Warner Music, or move up within the company, or come to it from success elsewhere. He bought the thing with inherited money, after a long career as a failed executive.
To be brutally honest, it's unlikely that he can do worse than the guys who are running the other RIAA "members".
Combine that with no Constitutional mandate for regulation of the Internet, or for criminalizing non-physical content sharing, and you have a really hilarious law that would make the Founders roll in their graves non-stop.
If we could hook Jefferson and Franklin up to a generator, we could probably power the east coast.
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I'm wasn't trying to be sarcastic.
Bullshit. Amazon doesn't sell at a loss. It's more socialist garbage, people trying to figure out how to use government to screw a large corporation. Good luck with that, it'll do wonders for your economy.
Yes. Add to this that I can get DVDs of some great movies for $5 at Wal-Mart, or $1 for old cartoons, Andy Griffith, etc. My 32" screen probably isn't going to look any better with Blu Ray or HD-DVD than it does with what I've got, and I'm perfectly happy with the quality.
In some ways, this is looking like the successors to the CD format that all flopped badly. Looking at video, while the studios are trying to make better quality formats (with unhacked DRM), people are flocking to youtube and other lower quality alternatives that offer convenience. It's analogous to people flocking to mp3s which offer convenience and "good-enough" quality.
If Wal-Mart opens a $5 Blu Ray bin and the player is $50, I'll look at getting a player. Until then, ain't gonna happen.
Your "theory" is completely refuted by the actions at Duke University during the Lacrosse hoax.
Do a google search, I'm sure you'll find spanking of adults is alive and well...
Good luck trying to fit four average Americans into the thing.
This is a process that's been going on for Billions of years. It's staggering, the arrogance to think that "humanity" is able to "make a decision" on that scale.
This is a major point - Mac OS X has many, if not most, of the good parts of Linux, plus great Mac hardware and a nice interface. I was surprised when I spoke at a LUG meeting last year, I believe that there were 9 laptops there total, and 8 were Macs. I moved my primary desktop to Mac about a year ago from Linux. I still use Linux under Parallels, and have it on other machines here at the house, but I use a Mac for desktop & development work.
DVDs are expensive? I get them for $5 out of the bin at Wal-Mart, don't know about you but I find that to be a fair price. Better yet is that I can get old Andy Griffith episodes for like $1 for 8.
DVDs are cheap unless you need to get the latest just-released movie.
It's a laser, not a flashlight. If he saw it, it was shone into his eyes. Maybe not maliciously or intently, but it obviously happened.
Now, go read the grandparent and find out that you're actually supporting my argument...
Really? I have a square wave, a sine wave, and a sawtooth wave, all at 22KHz. Now, you tell me how they'll be quantized such that all are accurately represented.
Either Nyquist is wrong, or you're misrepresenting his "theorem".
stupid enough to license this technology? I mean, this'll have to wake up any remaining hold-outs.
The founders were smarter than that. The US Constitution instead assumes that people have these rights (as expressed in the Declaration of Independence), and limits government interference with them. Read the 1st amendment: "Congress shall make no law...", later clarified to mean that no branch of the government at any level can do those things (interfere with speech, religion, the press, gathering).
Are you surprised? I mean, seriously, this didn't just start after they got the majority in Congress.
So keep the light on them.
Geez, speaking of "can't read"...
You can only access the files outside your network by paying for the mionet service. This isn't Kazaa - people have to buy a piece of software/service and get in with a username/password. WD has no reason to restrict access except to kiss up to the MAFIAA.
The mybook we II runs Linux, and it's trivial to get shell on it. You can make it do whatever you want.
If you really want to know the travesty about the internet access to it, read up on the web. It's a java-based system called Mionet which requires a special client on your windows machine that you'll use to access it remotely. Did I mention the $50/year that you pay a 3rd party to access your own files? Mionet inexplicably forces you to go through their server to get to your files. Do a google search to find horror stories of Mionet being down and people being unable to reach their own files for more than a day. I'm a programmer - I know of no reason to create it this way other than to extract ongoing revenue from those who don't know better. Using dyndns and an open port will let you get to your files reliably from anywhere.
As for mine, I got shell, disabled the mionet stuff, made sure sshd was coming up every time, and I use it as a really slow Linux machine with a large disk. Be forewarned, it's dog slow. It has a gigabit ethernet port on it that typically pumps out about 50Mbits/sec. Seriously, a 100Mbit port would be half-wasted. Let's not even talk about write speeds.
If you buy one, note that you also don't need to use their windows setup utility, it has a complete web interface.
I paid $300 for a 1TB drive, which, frankly, was little more than I would have paid for a plain external drive at the time. Bonus is that I can connect another usb drive into it and share it on the network.
And one other bonus - it comes with a complete toolchain on its 3GB linux partition, so you can build software on it without having to install other toolchains on another linux machine. The 200MHz processor isn't the fastest at building, but it does fine.
Yes, extra-sensory perception. If anyone does have ESP, they haven't found the site. I leave it at that.
By the way, your score, were you to keep hitting refresh, would average at 20% in time.
Instead of saying they "violated the GPL", let's keep this simple. They violated copyright law. By their own definition, they're "pirates". They stole. Etc.
That's a little presumptuous, to put it mildly. I've been using JavaScript Object Notation to store data for JavaScript programs for quite a few years now, and I just heard of this guy today. What am I missing? The inventor of JavaScript Object Notation is the guy who created the JavaScript syntax.
Here in TN, we tax custom software. To the law, there's no difference between something I write, and going to the store and buying something off the shelf. Most of my clients are out of state, so it hardly matters, but it's a pain to deal with it every quarter. I had a friend who doesn't charge tax, the state went after him, and he got a judgement against the state (they had to pay him), so the laws aren't 100%.
Um, you're talking about people who thought it reasonable to have a car driven by a program written in a Microsoft language running on a Microsoft operating system. I'm not sure when the brain was turned off, but apparently before the choice of programming platform was made.
The "article" is just a poorly masqueraded advertisement, anyway.
To be brutally honest, it's unlikely that he can do worse than the guys who are running the other RIAA "members".
If we could hook Jefferson and Franklin up to a generator, we could probably power the east coast.