Unfortunately, there are still applications that crop up from time to time that require a floppy disk. For example, Maxtor won't give you an RMA unless you run their hard drive diagnostic software. The software doesn't run on top of an OS, so you have to boot into it directly, but unfortunately they don't provide CD ISO's of it on their website - they only have floppy images available.
That said, I haven't had a floppy drive in any of my machines (well, other than my laptop) for several years. This is in part because when it comes to installing floppy drives, I seem to have some sort of Touch of Death.
The connection between BMI's royalties figures and the effect of P2P on the music industry was misrepresented in the/. blurb. But there is almost certainly a causal relationship between the two: shared music generates greater interest in particular artists, increasing the occurrences of those songs generating performance royalties.
It's hard to tell - it's almost like playing poker with the leadership of those nations. On the one hand, Kim Jong-Il is the xenophobic leader of one of the few "untainted" communist nations on the planet. On the other, Iran is a thinly-veiled theocracy run by leaders of a religion who would not be remiss if Western culture were destroyed. Which is more dangerous, paranoia or fanaticism?
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Why, pray tell, should the United States and the current nuclear club be the only countries to develop nuclear power? Or - yes - even nuclear weapons.
I think that has something to do with tenuous world affairs becoming even less stable when more countries have access to nuclear weapons.
Well, let's see: first of all, you bring up a case that you actually know nothing about (the Florida case that you mentioned) and used the unsupported supposition that DoJ is doing nothing about it as evidence for your case.
Next, you link to the Georgia GOP website, which lists names but does not list addresses or phone numbers, which may not be publicly accessible if, for example, a person's phone number is unlisted.
Then you attach vitriolic labels like "racist" and "classist", which really have nothing to do with the reality of this case, in an attempt to make DoJ seem more "evil" than it really is.
And then somebody mods you interesting? I'd lean more toward funny, myself.
How are they public officials? They aren't agents of the government, they don't hold any sort of public office. They represent a political party, which is a separate entity from the government.
By Valenti's argument, music and movies sold to the end consumer would then be physical property right down to the data, and there would be no licensing of IP involved. We'd be able to do whatever we wanted with it.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The thing is, the Constitution really is about the orderly functioning of government. The Bill of Rights was a perversion of the purpose of a national constitution into a positive dispensation of rights as detailed in the first several amendments, rather than what it was supposed to be, a limitation and structuring of the powers of government. The "granting" of rights that people already had under the Constitution is why nobody ever remembers the 10th amendment (which essentially says that the Constitution really is about defining what the government can do, not what the people can do) and always focuses on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th. It's also what leads to legislative amendments like the 18th.
By the way:
The Founding Fathers really dreaded the prospect of a President acquiring the trappings of the monarchy they hated so much in the King against whom they rebelled. His name was George too.
The relevance of which is underscored by the fact that our first President was also named George.
Why would anybody spend $8k on a crappy used car, especially when they can't get a good auto loan? You can get a new car for another $4k, or a decent used car for peanuts if you take the time to look.
The point is that the monetary cost is incurred by the city, and it takes a lot more than fifty cents to send a guy (probably more than one, in fact) out there and hose off all of the sidewalks that this guy chalked up.
Whether it's vandalism or not, it incurs a monetary cost that the chalker is unwilling or unable to pay for.
But as long as we're using analogies, how about if I dump a bucketful of mud on your sidewalk? Or what about a bucketful of stinking, maggot-ridden pig intestines? You could just wash those off, too.
What I find disappointing is that they take it 100% for granted that they will have to depend on some marketing-wonk-run publishing house to sell their game. This is the third millennium - reputable development shops oughta be able to sell computer games directly to the consumer, without kowtowing to the bottom line.
Revenge can only feel good if your acting on your ego-centric tendencies
Not at all. I enjoy watching "World's Wildest Police Chases" and "Cops" on TV because the crooks generally get what's coming to them. It's a form of revenge, only in this case through the proxy of the long arm of the law. This has nothing to do with my personal egocentricity overcoming the boundaries of right and wrong - in fact, it stands solidly on the side of right in getting revenge on those who obviously have done something wrong.
Now, doctors at the University of Kiel in Germany have neatly bypassed the initial bone removal procedure and instead grown the required bone from stem cells in the patient's own bone marrow.
It's likely that HP felt it pointless to write driver-level software that a virus or other malware could easily disable. Rather than write something that plugs in to the Windows kernel, they probably wanted to develop a full replacement - something that a virus writer would be hard-pressed to undo. Without source, it would be impossible to write such a replacement and guarantee interoperability with the rest of Windows.
Just point your webcam back at your monitor, and surf the IT portion of Slashdot. The voyeurs out there watching your webcam will go blind in short order.
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Keep an eye out for the new /. Classifieds. It'll be here just as soon as they can come up with a color scheme even uglier than this one.
I guess we'll see if /. can manage to be "fair and balanced", considering the rather significant slant in its readership.
Unfortunately, there are still applications that crop up from time to time that require a floppy disk. For example, Maxtor won't give you an RMA unless you run their hard drive diagnostic software. The software doesn't run on top of an OS, so you have to boot into it directly, but unfortunately they don't provide CD ISO's of it on their website - they only have floppy images available.
That said, I haven't had a floppy drive in any of my machines (well, other than my laptop) for several years. This is in part because when it comes to installing floppy drives, I seem to have some sort of Touch of Death.
The connection between BMI's royalties figures and the effect of P2P on the music industry was misrepresented in the /. blurb. But there is almost certainly a causal relationship between the two: shared music generates greater interest in particular artists, increasing the occurrences of those songs generating performance royalties.
It's hard to tell - it's almost like playing poker with the leadership of those nations. On the one hand, Kim Jong-Il is the xenophobic leader of one of the few "untainted" communist nations on the planet. On the other, Iran is a thinly-veiled theocracy run by leaders of a religion who would not be remiss if Western culture were destroyed. Which is more dangerous, paranoia or fanaticism?
Why, pray tell, should the United States and the current nuclear club be the only countries to develop nuclear power? Or - yes - even nuclear weapons.
I think that has something to do with tenuous world affairs becoming even less stable when more countries have access to nuclear weapons.
I'd be interested in reading some documentation for some of the details you included in your post, if you don't mind digging up some links.
http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/41193/short13.wav
Oh, I'd say it's pretty clear that even for live music, they expect their cut.
What's remarkably unclear, however, is exactly what that cut is.
Just to help out a bit:
s /nuremberg-files/
http://www-cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/project
Well, let's see: first of all, you bring up a case that you actually know nothing about (the Florida case that you mentioned) and used the unsupported supposition that DoJ is doing nothing about it as evidence for your case.
Next, you link to the Georgia GOP website, which lists names but does not list addresses or phone numbers, which may not be publicly accessible if, for example, a person's phone number is unlisted.
Then you attach vitriolic labels like "racist" and "classist", which really have nothing to do with the reality of this case, in an attempt to make DoJ seem more "evil" than it really is.
And then somebody mods you interesting? I'd lean more toward funny, myself.
How are they public officials? They aren't agents of the government, they don't hold any sort of public office. They represent a political party, which is a separate entity from the government.
Guess that explains why all those pop-up ads keep appearing on that electrical tape you installed.
By Valenti's argument, music and movies sold to the end consumer would then be physical property right down to the data, and there would be no licensing of IP involved. We'd be able to do whatever we wanted with it.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The thing is, the Constitution really is about the orderly functioning of government. The Bill of Rights was a perversion of the purpose of a national constitution into a positive dispensation of rights as detailed in the first several amendments, rather than what it was supposed to be, a limitation and structuring of the powers of government. The "granting" of rights that people already had under the Constitution is why nobody ever remembers the 10th amendment (which essentially says that the Constitution really is about defining what the government can do, not what the people can do) and always focuses on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th. It's also what leads to legislative amendments like the 18th.
By the way:
The Founding Fathers really dreaded the prospect of a President acquiring the trappings of the monarchy they hated so much in the King against whom they rebelled. His name was George too.
The relevance of which is underscored by the fact that our first President was also named George.
Why would anybody spend $8k on a crappy used car, especially when they can't get a good auto loan? You can get a new car for another $4k, or a decent used car for peanuts if you take the time to look.
The point is that the monetary cost is incurred by the city, and it takes a lot more than fifty cents to send a guy (probably more than one, in fact) out there and hose off all of the sidewalks that this guy chalked up.
Because purple octopi like to watch TV too.
Whether it's vandalism or not, it incurs a monetary cost that the chalker is unwilling or unable to pay for.
But as long as we're using analogies, how about if I dump a bucketful of mud on your sidewalk? Or what about a bucketful of stinking, maggot-ridden pig intestines? You could just wash those off, too.
What I find disappointing is that they take it 100% for granted that they will have to depend on some marketing-wonk-run publishing house to sell their game. This is the third millennium - reputable development shops oughta be able to sell computer games directly to the consumer, without kowtowing to the bottom line.
i sent this email to the journalist.
Now I double dare you to send that same e-mail to the scientist who was the author of the study.
Revenge can only feel good if your acting on your ego-centric tendencies
Not at all. I enjoy watching "World's Wildest Police Chases" and "Cops" on TV because the crooks generally get what's coming to them. It's a form of revenge, only in this case through the proxy of the long arm of the law. This has nothing to do with my personal egocentricity overcoming the boundaries of right and wrong - in fact, it stands solidly on the side of right in getting revenge on those who obviously have done something wrong.
Quoth the article:
Now, doctors at the University of Kiel in Germany have neatly bypassed the initial bone removal procedure and instead grown the required bone from stem cells in the patient's own bone marrow.
It's likely that HP felt it pointless to write driver-level software that a virus or other malware could easily disable. Rather than write something that plugs in to the Windows kernel, they probably wanted to develop a full replacement - something that a virus writer would be hard-pressed to undo. Without source, it would be impossible to write such a replacement and guarantee interoperability with the rest of Windows.
Just point your webcam back at your monitor, and surf the IT portion of Slashdot. The voyeurs out there watching your webcam will go blind in short order.