The 9th and 10th Amendments will suffice. We just need to surround the Supreme Court and force the judges to read them, rather than ignore them.
Three amendments emerged from the American Civil War.
There is no way that they can be read other than as unequivocal grant of new federal powers over the state and the individual.
The constitution needs to be read as a whole - and it needs to be read as a living, evolving, document, one that has a past, a present, and a future.
The Thirteenth: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
The Fourteenth: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Fifteenth; The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
You know, after the Roman Republic turned into the Empire (with the attendant loss of freedoms), it survived for over 400 years. And we're nowhere near that point - no US presidents are ex-generals who conquered Washington, D.C. with their troops.
The eastern Empire - Constantinople - had a thousand year run beyond that.
People fell for the "oh look its shiny" HDMI push early on even though component was and is fully capable of 1080p. People fell for bluray even though it has much stricter content restrictions.
I would in a second replace my rat's nest of cables and connectors with HDMI.
HDMI 1.4 adds Ethernet support, expanded remote control capabilities, 4K x 2K video, 3D video over HDMI and so on. High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
You purchase the Blu-Ray disk for one reason only: heart-stopping video and sound punched out by the best home theater system you can afford.
Large blocks of text are difficult to read on screen.
When the automobile industry began, it attracted the home mechanic. By 1912, with the invention of the electric starter, the driver has become the dominant force in the market and the hobbyist returns to his shop.
Linux's roots in the server OS - the wizard's OS - often works against its adoption as a client.
What Microsoft did to Netscape (drive their $30 Navigator browser out-of-market) is approximately equivalent to Comcast announcing "we'll give everyone free MP3s" and thereby driving Itunes.com out of business.
The browser isn't the mp3.
The browser is the mp3 player.
Take this argument to its logical conclusion and every component of an operating system or a distribution becomes anti-competitive.
Sun didn't invest two hundred million or so in what would become a free office suite out of the goodness of its heart.
It did so to gain a clear competitive advantage over its rivals.
I'll take the odds that the geek was screaming "failed business model!" on the day the $30 browser was buried six feet under.
DRM in Windows has two components.
One is of interest to your employer.
The other to the user who wants to play - or record - protected media content.
The out-of-the-box experience matters.
The OEM Win 7 system that ships with a Blu-Ray drive ships with a [third-party] Blu-Ray player.
This is what you must do to remain competitive.
There is nothing in the Supreme Court decisions which say that the provider must distribute media content without protection.
Tires, brakes, and suspension may have been primitive, but in 1906, steam propulsion was a mature, well-understood technology.
But steam technology was not easily adaptable to the automobile.
The "cold" start-up could take twenty minutes, so you kept the pilot light burning. The Stanley did not have a condenser until 1915, which severely limited its range.
This is entirely a problem for the music and movie industry. Why are the government acting as their bitches against the will an freedom of the people who elected them?
The geek is convinced that he speaks for everyone.
The James Bond and Harry Potter films have earned ten billion dollars, unadjusted for inflation. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, three billion.
You could quite plausibly double or quadruple these numbers when you total up the return on book sales, home video and other merchandising.
The numbers are not without meaning to the finance minister.
Their value of these films as British cultural exports is incalculable.
You won't find a government anywhere that isn't trying to find a counterweight to the American media culture.
The media industry is skilled labor, labor intensive, high-tech and green. That is a winning combination for any politician.
The supervisor won't want to hear that the downloads were legal - which given the geek's shaky grasp of the law is never a good bet.
It wastes his time having to sort that out - and, of course, he will have to sort that out.
The supervisor will need to know whether unauthorized software was installed.
He'll have to decide whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings for the personal use of government property and services. If the geek has been sufficiently foolish and greedy he may be looking at a criminal charge.
Whatever the outcome - it is not going to enhance his prospects for continued employment or promotion.
The moral to this story being that are things better done on your own time and on your own dime.
1 [List Of Ten Distros Here] 2 [List of Five User Environments Here] 3 [Hours Required For Installation and Testing} X [How Much You Value Your Time] = [$$$] 4 The Price Of The XP or Win 7 Netbook That "Just Works = [$$$] 5 You Do The Math.
You mean "was", until Microsoft decided to keep Windows XP alive in the North American market for a few more years at bargain-basement prices per copy.
From Day 1, the Atom netbook running Win XP was competitively priced with a more muscular CPU, twice the RAM, twice the storage, a broader range of features and a larger screen than the competition.
You know your deep discount OEM Linux product has hit rock bottom when even WalMart won't touch it.
No he's not a pirate and no he doesn't steal yada yada.
The use of the word piracy to describe copyright infringement entered the English language while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
It is not going to go away.
Ten years ago, the NET [No Electronic Theft] Act stiffened the criminal penalties for copyright infringement and removed the profit motive as an element of the offense.
If it makes you feel better, you can pursue this argument with your bunkmates at Club Fed after your conviction on the felony charge.
f I understood the summary properly, an anti-spammer's life is being ruined by a spammer?
Try reading more than the summary:
When Virtumundo's collections lawyer showed up at Gordon's house with a moving van and a sheriff, Virtumundo again offered to stop its pursuit of Gordon's assets if he would drop his appeal, and he refused again, according to Newman. Virtumundo's collections agency then cleared out Gordon's house, according to Newman. He added that after seizing the contents of Gordon's home, Virtumundo offered to return Gordon's belongings if he would drop his appeal and again, Gordon refused.
There are surely ways to protect your assets pending an appeal - but simply ignoring a judgment isn't one of them.
Not that Gordon had a snowball's chance in hell of actually winning on appeal.
While Blizzard sees only those playing on line. In numbers which can be counted.
There is no way of knowing how many people play LAN games over Internet games, other than surveys. Which is silly since most LAN players aren't likely to see these surveys, as they are likely taken online.
It's even sillier to argue that the gamer with access to a LAN doesn't have at least some minimal access to the net -
I never understood why a big game developer like id couldn't eliminate the middleman and just release a game that runs off a liveCD style operating system. Screw windows, mac, or linux, have the game itself be the OS.
It turns the buyer's multi-tasking PC into a video game console.
It means that you are now responsible for securing the system and supporting the hardware.
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The SI prefixes have been around for nearly 5 decades
The SI binary prefixes have been around since 1999. Binary prefix
The units aren't in common - ordinary - use.
What the user needs to know are answers to simple, practical, questions: How many movies at HD resolution can I store on a drive of this size?
A ballpark estimate will do.
The shortest route to an "Insightful" mod on any forum.
The 9th and 10th Amendments will suffice. We just need to surround the Supreme Court and force the judges to read them, rather than ignore them.
Three amendments emerged from the American Civil War.
There is no way that they can be read other than as unequivocal grant of new federal powers over the state and the individual.
The constitution needs to be read as a whole - and it needs to be read as a living, evolving, document, one that has a past, a present, and a future.
The Thirteenth: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
The Fourteenth: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Fifteenth; The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
You know, after the Roman Republic turned into the Empire (with the attendant loss of freedoms), it survived for over 400 years. And we're nowhere near that point - no US presidents are ex-generals who conquered Washington, D.C. with their troops.
The eastern Empire - Constantinople - had a thousand year run beyond that.
People fell for the "oh look its shiny" HDMI push early on even though component was and is fully capable of 1080p. People fell for bluray even though it has much stricter content restrictions.
I would in a second replace my rat's nest of cables and connectors with HDMI.
HDMI 1.4 adds Ethernet support, expanded remote control capabilities, 4K x 2K video, 3D video over HDMI and so on. High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
You purchase the Blu-Ray disk for one reason only: heart-stopping video and sound punched out by the best home theater system you can afford.
Large blocks of text are difficult to read on screen.
When the automobile industry began, it attracted the home mechanic. By 1912, with the invention of the electric starter, the driver has become the dominant force in the market and the hobbyist returns to his shop.
Linux's roots in the server OS - the wizard's OS - often works against its adoption as a client.
Why don't they just create some nice Linux on the Desktop ads for TV?
When the audience goes shopping at WalMart or Sam's Club what are they going to see in stock?
WalMart.com is currently offering about 25 or so desktop PCs with a free upgrade to Win 7.
Most quad core with 6 to 8 GB of RAM.
Moving upmarket - where do you find the Linux media PC?
The gamer's PC?
Thanks Microsoft.. I hope Win7 is as successful as Vista.
That would be roughly 20% of the market. Four times that of OSX. Twenty times that of Linux. Operating System Market Share
What Microsoft did to Netscape (drive their $30 Navigator browser out-of-market) is approximately equivalent to Comcast announcing "we'll give everyone free MP3s" and thereby driving Itunes.com out of business.
The browser isn't the mp3.
The browser is the mp3 player.
Take this argument to its logical conclusion and every component of an operating system or a distribution becomes anti-competitive.
Sun didn't invest two hundred million or so in what would become a free office suite out of the goodness of its heart.
It did so to gain a clear competitive advantage over its rivals.
I'll take the odds that the geek was screaming "failed business model!" on the day the $30 browser was buried six feet under.
DRM in Windows has two components.
One is of interest to your employer.
The other to the user who wants to play - or record - protected media content.
The out-of-the-box experience matters.
The OEM Win 7 system that ships with a Blu-Ray drive ships with a [third-party] Blu-Ray player.
This is what you must do to remain competitive.
There is nothing in the Supreme Court decisions which say that the provider must distribute media content without protection.
Stallman...took great pains to make the distinction between "free as in freedom" and "free as in beer".
Is Computerworld confused.
Everyone is confused.
There have been - conservatively - thousands of posts to Slashdot debating the fine points of "free as in freedom and "free as in beer."
--- and the outsider listening in might be forgiven for thinking he had been sucked back tn time to his sophomore years and the college dorm.
Tires, brakes, and suspension may have been primitive, but in 1906, steam propulsion was a mature, well-understood technology.
But steam technology was not easily adaptable to the automobile.
The "cold" start-up could take twenty minutes, so you kept the pilot light burning. The Stanley did not have a condenser until 1915, which severely limited its range.
This is entirely a problem for the music and movie industry. Why are the government acting as their bitches against the will an freedom of the people who elected them?
The geek is convinced that he speaks for everyone.
The James Bond and Harry Potter films have earned ten billion dollars, unadjusted for inflation. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, three billion.
You could quite plausibly double or quadruple these numbers when you total up the return on book sales, home video and other merchandising.
The numbers are not without meaning to the finance minister.
Their value of these films as British cultural exports is incalculable.
You won't find a government anywhere that isn't trying to find a counterweight to the American media culture.
The media industry is skilled labor, labor intensive, high-tech and green. That is a winning combination for any politician.
The fate of the steamers is a cautionary tale for backers of projects like the Tesla.
They were handcrafted for the extremely wealthy.
The total production run for the Stanley was 11,000 cars in 25 years. Stanley Steamer
No matter how you price such a car, you never generate enough cash to remain competitive in R&D - never enough to survive hard times.
The supervisor won't want to hear that the downloads were legal - which given the geek's shaky grasp of the law is never a good bet.
It wastes his time having to sort that out - and, of course, he will have to sort that out.
The supervisor will need to know whether unauthorized software was installed.
He'll have to decide whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings for the personal use of government property and services. If the geek has been sufficiently foolish and greedy he may be looking at a criminal charge.
Whatever the outcome - it is not going to enhance his prospects for continued employment or promotion.
The moral to this story being that are things better done on your own time and on your own dime.
We'll probably be running 64-bit Windows by 2030.
WalMart.com lists 37 Vista desktops with a free upgrade to Win 7. 25 are 64 bit. Windows 7 Tech Upgrade
Off the top of my head for distros I'd try
1 [List Of Ten Distros Here]
2 [List of Five User Environments Here]
3 [Hours Required For Installation and Testing} X [How Much You Value Your Time] = [$$$]
4 The Price Of The XP or Win 7 Netbook That "Just Works = [$$$]
5 You Do The Math.
You mean "was", until Microsoft decided to keep Windows XP alive in the North American market for a few more years at bargain-basement prices per copy.
From Day 1, the Atom netbook running Win XP was competitively priced with a more muscular CPU, twice the RAM, twice the storage, a broader range of features and a larger screen than the competition.
You know your deep discount OEM Linux product has hit rock bottom when even WalMart won't touch it.
I can easily gain over an hour of battery life by disabling the services it recommends and reducing the screen brightness.
When you tweak the settings on a Windows laptop in much the same way do you see the same or even greater battery life?
Shouldn't IE itself and microsoft.com be on any decent malware list?
I read this as Troll.
It contributes absolutely nothing useful to the discussion - but instead simply feeds on the modder's visceral hatred of everything Microsoft.
I downloaded something from the intertubes and now they still have it.
Did I steal something?
Hey, derp.
You left the Internet store without paying for the video.
You redistributed your copy through the P2P nets as an unlicensed wholesaler - a couch potato turned Robin Hood.
Hell.
The geek persists in taking these worthless self-serving arguments into an American court and never sees the hangman's noose in the jury's eyes.
No he's not a pirate and no he doesn't steal yada yada.
The use of the word piracy to describe copyright infringement entered the English language while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
It is not going to go away.
Ten years ago, the NET [No Electronic Theft] Act stiffened the criminal penalties for copyright infringement and removed the profit motive as an element of the offense.
If it makes you feel better, you can pursue this argument with your bunkmates at Club Fed after your conviction on the felony charge.
f I understood the summary properly, an anti-spammer's life is being ruined by a spammer?
Try reading more than the summary:
When Virtumundo's collections lawyer showed up at Gordon's house with a moving van and a sheriff, Virtumundo again offered to stop its pursuit of Gordon's assets if he would drop his appeal, and he refused again, according to Newman.
Virtumundo's collections agency then cleared out Gordon's house, according to Newman.
He added that after seizing the contents of Gordon's home, Virtumundo offered to return Gordon's belongings if he would drop his appeal and again, Gordon refused.
There are surely ways to protect your assets pending an appeal - but simply ignoring a judgment isn't one of them.
Not that Gordon had a snowball's chance in hell of actually winning on appeal.
I've only seen Starcraft played on a LAN.
While Blizzard sees only those playing on line. In numbers which can be counted.
There is no way of knowing how many people play LAN games over Internet games, other than surveys. Which is silly since most LAN players aren't likely to see these surveys, as they are likely taken online.
It's even sillier to argue that the gamer with access to a LAN doesn't have at least some minimal access to the net -
if only over a publicly accessible terminal.
I never understood why a big game developer like id couldn't eliminate the middleman and just release a game that runs off a liveCD style operating system. Screw windows, mac, or linux, have the game itself be the OS.
It turns the buyer's multi-tasking PC into a video game console.
It means that you are now responsible for securing the system and supporting the hardware.
Nope. I didn't buy all those iD games the day the Linux port came out. Never happened.
The problem is that this never happens often enough.