Reports I continue to hear is of blocks going bad (meaning that overall storage is reduced by measurable chunks, rather than failing all at once the way a head-crash on rotating media can happen) in as short as weeks of use. Especially when the drive is rather full to start with, since wear leveling doesn't tend to move stored data to empty slots.
Until that time is years, instead of weeks, I don't see myself preferring more expensive, or even equal cost SSD, over rotating media drives.
I'm not actually pro-copyright infringement, but a demonstration of advertised content being un-downloadable really swaying a jury. Or better yet I would love the RIAA to sue someone who wasn't sharing because of firewalls and who had meticulous firewall logs, so that they could get roasted.
Your problem is that MediaSentry DID download the files from SOME UNIDENTIFIED COMPUTER that happened to have an IP address traced to the defendant's ISP account. While they can't sue on the basis of those downloads (letting the owner of the copyright, or his agents, download his own material is not an infringement of copyright since the owner can't infringe himself), downloading was clearly possible.
It's just that it's possible -- even likely -- that nobody else ever downloaded those particular tracks, or possibly any tracks. And that means no infringement actually happened because no Distribution actually happened.
I have to post a correction to the original post. They did NOT argue that someone ripping a copy of the CD to the computer was unauthorized - it was the placement of a copy in the share folder for Kazaa.
And I have to post a correction to your correction.
ANY FOLDER is a share folder for KaZaA. This is true for most, if not all, filesharing programs. Any set of folders on an available hard drive, optical drive, jump/thumb drive, or other mass storage including networked drives, may be designated for sharing. It's not like he said, hey I'm ripping my CD's to my hard drive, and just for fun let's put them in KaZaA's one and only magical mystical Share Folder.
By the way, the proof that even the RIAA lawyers know that their theory is baseless is that they have abandoned it and omitted it from all of the complaints they've filed during the past 5 months or so.
If they know its clearly bogus, then why don't they, in fairness, also drop all the previous cases where they argued this in the first place?
I'll make you a bet. That all those wonderful, warm, modern vinyl records all come from digital master tapes. The days of direct-to-disc recording are long gone.
Yeah, and I can get a CD player with actual tubes in it to warm up the sound -- and the room itself. They even put them in the front behind a screen so that you can see that they're working.
Truth is, people have been arguing about what reproduces the best sound since recorded sound started, and they're not likely to stop now. It's a lot like wine -- enjoy what you like.
'Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl,'
That's crap. How about rewording it to be a bit more truthful (and accurate): 'Highly-compressed, far less than CD quality sound, on an iPod has had an impact on some people looking for alternatives, including vinyl,'
This kid may have 1000 records, but that pales compared to 100,000,000 iPod sales and still growing.
Besides, portable music is the Big Thing. How are you going to play that vinyl on your portable music player? In fact, it's hard to even find a great turntable at an affordable price any longer. It's not like the old days when a couple hundred bucks could buy a great Dual 1237. Mine still sits next to my computer -- and isn't for sale!
A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts. In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election.
Isn't this just wonderful!
Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct. The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton. The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton.
What good is 2L if you can't virtually explore the things there that aren't possible, safe, legal, or some combination of all of these virtually? I don't need every part of my life to have training wheels.
So how long before virtual sex entirely is gone too?
Followed by avatars who are too sexy, or provacative.
2L was a place were you could learn life lessons by being stupid. Now it seems intending to become one of the more restrictive Middle East countries instead.
Database skills are as important as programming skills. It's hard to write a program of any complexity that doesn't interface with a database. You should be able to design and administer your own major database project (SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2) to be more of a complete solutions person.
I'm betting yes. So when do my stock options arrive?
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First, professional writers need only minimal formatting capability. Formatting is someone else's job. Any formatting done by the author will just interfere with page makeup later. Writers need to be able to insert chapter breaks, and that's about it.
The exception to your rule is for screenwriters. Scripts are required to be in proper format for consideration - even original master scripts. Although I've done scripts in WP and MSWord, my preferred script tool is Final Draft, which simplifies what I previously had macros and styles for in MSWord. FD also does a very smart job of importing MSWord documents and formatting the properly. So some writers do have special needs.
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Perfect for the exec who chooses his PA on bust size rather than on organisational skills.
If she can organize her large bust to keep it out of the way when she needs to get other things done, she might be great at other organizational skills as well.
Lucky thing for this writer that she had MSWord to limp along with all these years until she could find something better. Heaven Forbid if she'd had to use a manual Underwood, or even worse -- quill pens!
I believe writing is in the mind, and a good tool can do little for a bad writer. However, a good writer will get his/her thoughts out regardless of what's available to them.
Of course I was lucky, my first serious writing tool was a brand new IBM Dual-Pitch, Correcting Selectric II. The finest machine of its kind at the time -- and it cost more than a good Dell computer, WP program, and printer does today.
it's certainly much easier to get hydrogen than helium.
And it lifts better too!
Of course vacuum would provide the best lift of all in the atmosphere. So why is it that my beautiful 21" crt monitor, which is little more than a big cube of vacuum, is so damn heavy?
"The Aeroscraft ML866's potentially revolutionary Control of Static Heaviness system compresses and decompresses helium in the 210-ft.-long envelope, changing this proposed sky yacht's buoyancy during takeoff and landings,"
It was only about 40 years or so I read about this system. Of course, this was the Mad Scientists Club in Boy's Life magazine that competed in a balloon race and handled the buoyancy problem in this advanced manner. Maybe some of those Boy Scouts grew up to fly like Eagles and design airships.
(P.S. I also read Arthur Clarke's original short story Sunjammer in BL, before he had to go and change the title to the far less elegant The Wind From The Sun title, after some other author also used the same original title in another story that same year.)
Reading the posts here, it would seem that everybody hates the current copyright law except for the **AA, and Congress. You'd think that would be enough to push a change through.
I agree that copyright terms are insane. One of the things the Founding Fathers specifically put into the Constitution was a ban on perpetual copyrights. They'd seen them in Europe, and weren't going to have them here. Secure for a limited time... is what it says.
What I would put into law are 2 specific reforms:
1: Copyright cannot be extended beyond its original term. The reason for this is simple. Copyright exists to encourage creation and publication of the arts. Once that art is created under the copyright terms of the time, copyright has served its entire purpose. Anything beyond that is just giving more unnecessary rewards to a few at the expense of the many.
2: Copyright is lost to any item not available for new sale in a 3 year period at a fair price. If you're no longer selling it, then you have no right to prevent other people from duplicating it and keeping it available.
Change on any issue starts when people start talking about it. Let copyright change begin here now!
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Until that time is years, instead of weeks, I don't see myself preferring more expensive, or even equal cost SSD, over rotating media drives.
Or the file sharing program he loaded for some other reason automatically went out, found them, and shared them...
Your problem is that MediaSentry DID download the files from SOME UNIDENTIFIED COMPUTER that happened to have an IP address traced to the defendant's ISP account. While they can't sue on the basis of those downloads (letting the owner of the copyright, or his agents, download his own material is not an infringement of copyright since the owner can't infringe himself), downloading was clearly possible.
It's just that it's possible -- even likely -- that nobody else ever downloaded those particular tracks, or possibly any tracks. And that means no infringement actually happened because no Distribution actually happened.
And I have to post a correction to your correction.
ANY FOLDER is a share folder for KaZaA. This is true for most, if not all, filesharing programs. Any set of folders on an available hard drive, optical drive, jump/thumb drive, or other mass storage including networked drives, may be designated for sharing. It's not like he said, hey I'm ripping my CD's to my hard drive, and just for fun let's put them in KaZaA's one and only magical mystical Share Folder.
If they know its clearly bogus, then why don't they, in fairness, also drop all the previous cases where they argued this in the first place?
I'll make you a bet. That all those wonderful, warm, modern vinyl records all come from digital master tapes. The days of direct-to-disc recording are long gone.
Truth is, people have been arguing about what reproduces the best sound since recorded sound started, and they're not likely to stop now. It's a lot like wine -- enjoy what you like.
That's crap. How about rewording it to be a bit more truthful (and accurate): 'Highly-compressed, far less than CD quality sound, on an iPod has had an impact on some people looking for alternatives, including vinyl,'
This kid may have 1000 records, but that pales compared to 100,000,000 iPod sales and still growing.
Besides, portable music is the Big Thing. How are you going to play that vinyl on your portable music player? In fact, it's hard to even find a great turntable at an affordable price any longer. It's not like the old days when a couple hundred bucks could buy a great Dual 1237. Mine still sits next to my computer -- and isn't for sale!
Isn't this just wonderful!
And this too!
Suspicious minds would surmise...
Now it's the banks.
What good is 2L if you can't virtually explore the things there that aren't possible, safe, legal, or some combination of all of these virtually? I don't need every part of my life to have training wheels.
So how long before virtual sex entirely is gone too?
Followed by avatars who are too sexy, or provacative.
2L was a place were you could learn life lessons by being stupid. Now it seems intending to become one of the more restrictive Middle East countries instead.
Database skills are as important as programming skills. It's hard to write a program of any complexity that doesn't interface with a database. You should be able to design and administer your own major database project (SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2) to be more of a complete solutions person.
You have a choice. Here it's either Comcast, or a pathetic DSL connection that has less fibre in its entire network than a box of shredded wheat.
Nobody has it yet.
1 person will have it in 2008.
That's all well and good, but tell us about the quality and quantity of Booth Babes this year.
I'm betting yes. So when do my stock options arrive?
The exception to your rule is for screenwriters. Scripts are required to be in proper format for consideration - even original master scripts. Although I've done scripts in WP and MSWord, my preferred script tool is Final Draft, which simplifies what I previously had macros and styles for in MSWord. FD also does a very smart job of importing MSWord documents and formatting the properly. So some writers do have special needs.
If she can organize her large bust to keep it out of the way when she needs to get other things done, she might be great at other organizational skills as well.
I believe writing is in the mind, and a good tool can do little for a bad writer. However, a good writer will get his/her thoughts out regardless of what's available to them.
Of course I was lucky, my first serious writing tool was a brand new IBM Dual-Pitch, Correcting Selectric II. The finest machine of its kind at the time -- and it cost more than a good Dell computer, WP program, and printer does today.
Interesting that your drunk hillbilly would select a cartridge that's now 102 years old in design. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere.
And it lifts better too!
Of course vacuum would provide the best lift of all in the atmosphere. So why is it that my beautiful 21" crt monitor, which is little more than a big cube of vacuum, is so damn heavy?
It was only about 40 years or so I read about this system. Of course, this was the Mad Scientists Club in Boy's Life magazine that competed in a balloon race and handled the buoyancy problem in this advanced manner. Maybe some of those Boy Scouts grew up to fly like Eagles and design airships.
(P.S. I also read Arthur Clarke's original short story Sunjammer in BL, before he had to go and change the title to the far less elegant The Wind From The Sun title, after some other author also used the same original title in another story that same year.)
I actually believe he has been, and she's looking for a new one to handle her appeal.
Reading the posts here, it would seem that everybody hates the current copyright law except for the **AA, and Congress. You'd think that would be enough to push a change through.
Copyright covers far more than just popular music. Books, movies, computer software...
You do need to take all of those into account.
What I would put into law are 2 specific reforms:
1: Copyright cannot be extended beyond its original term. The reason for this is simple. Copyright exists to encourage creation and publication of the arts. Once that art is created under the copyright terms of the time, copyright has served its entire purpose. Anything beyond that is just giving more unnecessary rewards to a few at the expense of the many.
2: Copyright is lost to any item not available for new sale in a 3 year period at a fair price. If you're no longer selling it, then you have no right to prevent other people from duplicating it and keeping it available.
Change on any issue starts when people start talking about it. Let copyright change begin here now!