You audiophiles with your crystal clear definition phone calls... you can have it! I'll stick to my old-fashioned analog POTS service. It has more warmth with a much richer sound stage. Why, when I hear my friend's record player over the phone (which uses Monster Phone Cord), my insides get darn near toasty from all the compounded warmth.
Reminds me of that story about the retired englishmen doing his crosswords and then looking up on google '*non-domesticated* Asian *donkey*' (you can do the math replacing the ** words by equivalents)
I can already make backup copies of Playstation 3 game DVDs, so the backup is a backup, meaning I can use the copy instead of the original? All that without breaking any DRM? That are news to me.
A Blu-ray disc is simply a bunch of ones and zeros on optical media. Obviously, the technology exists to create BD-ROM masters so you would only need to pull the information off of the disc and make your own BD-ROM master. No DRM breaking required... read the ones and zeros, then write them to a new BD-ROM. However, the cost of doing this is far more expensive than purchasing multiple copies of all your media so nobody does it. But it can be done.
All very valid points. However, the main thrust of my argument is that you already have the means to legally exercise your right to private backup without breaking DRM and such. Regardless of the fact that you can backup both downloaded software as well as physical media without breaking any laws, you're right... it's still your choice to break the DRM and force the PS3 to act as a backup device even though you have other legal options available to you.
On another note, a quick refresh rate can pull up some non-professional images if one isn't careful. For instance in typing latent dirichlet, 'la' pulled up a partially clothed/nude image of lady gaga.This might have been a bit awkward if safe-search wasn't on.
Searching for vagrants or penal colonies is definitely not recommended at work.
There is a difference of a right in the law book and what you think you are entitled to. I'm entitled to 100,000$ but there is nowhere written in the law book that I have a right to 100,000$. But there is a law written that I have a right to private backup copies. Like there is a right of free speech there is a right for a private backup copy. But if I exercise my rights Sony and others will go after me because I have to circumvent DRM.
What you're trying to argue is that you should have a right to hack Sony's software in order to make use of another right. Sorry, the law doesn't work that way -- you can't perform an illegal action in order to exercise your rights. So what are your options? Sony provides a facility within a PS3 to backup the entire system which will cover any downloaded games. And the technology exists for Blu-ray disc mastering and duplication, though it may be unaffordable for you.
You currently have the ability to legally backup both physical discs and downloaded software. The law doesn't say that exercising your rights should be affordable, so quit using the DRM excuse.
Yes, because it was Sony who made Windows vulnerable to a Music CD. Seriously. Shut up. Even Sony's Rootkit fiasco is partially the fault of Microsoft's lousy software.
Your skin is vulnerable to a knife. So if someone wielding a knife were to approach you for no reason and slash you, it's partially your fault. Makes total sense.
You are still entitled by UK law to make a backup copy of any piece of software you buy legally.
The same law exist in Germany and I think in many other countries. Hell, I even pay in Germany a fee on all printers, CDs, DVDs and soon flash drivers for this right. Where are the civil rights groups and when they are going to sue Sony and many more companies to restrict my right to make a private backup copy and to use it?
I'm also entitled to bench press 500 pounds. Just because I'm unable to does not mean the company I purchased my weights from has deprived of that entitlement. You can still make a backup copy of all your PS3 games -- Sony is simply not facilitating this for you.
By those standards, all anti-US terrorists in US history are automatically innocent.
You mean until proven guilty? Or do you think anyone the US labels as an enemy should be considered automatically guilty and get locked away indefinitely with no habeas corpus rights?
What you want are high-back chairs that support the neck so you don't have to support your body the entire time. Also full recline capabilities help, too. Ideally, they'll never have to get up from their chairs.
Frankly, I've been witness to whole Enterprise datacenters going offline and then being brought up system by system in less than a week (candy red button). A week to fix a SAN issue? really? Why not classify it as a Sev0 (public exposure) (probably a somewhat unique code to the company I work for) and get the vendors in THAT DAY to fix it?
Depends on how much storage was in the SAN and the nature of the failure. If it was as easy as replacing a memory card then your point it completely valid. If, however, there was some data corruption then there might have been terabytes of data that needed to be verified and recovered. The article states that 26 state agencies were affected, "some for more than a week" which implies a variable amount of time. Without having more detail, it could have been that some were back up and running the same day but others had to wait for data recovery to occur.
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money. If you work it out, that's almost 30 thousand dollars every hour for 10 years (I didn't even take out weekends or holidays or anything). That's ~890,000 per month.
That's about $20 million/month ($240 million per year / 12 months/year).
I like the term some other European languages use for "organic" food, which is "ecological". Presumably, meaning something which is part of the ecosystem without human intervention.
Makes sense. After all, inorganic food is rather difficult to digest.
Hell, there are so many sensors and so strict procedures in place that alarms go off like mad if there is even a tiny leak somewhere...
...And you don't think that could be part of the problem? Whenever alarms sound for tiny little problems, people grow deaf to them.
Only if those tiny little alarms happen quite a lot, and when no action is taken as a result. If you get a tiny little alarm once a week which is responded to promptly, professionally, and in such a manner that the alarm is silenced because the problem was properly fixed according to the strict procedures... I can't see how that would be an issue.
My church encourages critical thinking, has a lot of mathematicians and scientists among its members, and the level of education is, as far as I can tell, at least, quite a bit higher than that of the average (mostly non-Christian) population.
Did they publish a peer-reviewed study applying their critical thinking to the existence of god? Did they perform an experiment, stating their hypothesis, and testing that hypothesis in order to arrive at the conclusion that god exists? Were the methods used rigorous and unbiased? Was the experiment repeatable, with others able to replicate very similar results? What is the accuracy of their conclusion?
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You audiophiles with your crystal clear definition phone calls... you can have it! I'll stick to my old-fashioned analog POTS service. It has more warmth with a much richer sound stage. Why, when I hear my friend's record player over the phone (which uses Monster Phone Cord), my insides get darn near toasty from all the compounded warmth.
Reminds me of that story about the retired englishmen doing his crosswords and then looking up on google '*non-domesticated* Asian *donkey*' (you can do the math replacing the ** words by equivalents)
Ah yes... feral asian equidae.
I can already make backup copies of Playstation 3 game DVDs, so the backup is a backup, meaning I can use the copy instead of the original? All that without breaking any DRM? That are news to me.
A Blu-ray disc is simply a bunch of ones and zeros on optical media. Obviously, the technology exists to create BD-ROM masters so you would only need to pull the information off of the disc and make your own BD-ROM master. No DRM breaking required... read the ones and zeros, then write them to a new BD-ROM. However, the cost of doing this is far more expensive than purchasing multiple copies of all your media so nobody does it. But it can be done.
All very valid points. However, the main thrust of my argument is that you already have the means to legally exercise your right to private backup without breaking DRM and such. Regardless of the fact that you can backup both downloaded software as well as physical media without breaking any laws, you're right... it's still your choice to break the DRM and force the PS3 to act as a backup device even though you have other legal options available to you.
On another note, a quick refresh rate can pull up some non-professional images if one isn't careful. For instance in typing latent dirichlet, 'la' pulled up a partially clothed/nude image of lady gaga.This might have been a bit awkward if safe-search wasn't on.
Searching for vagrants or penal colonies is definitely not recommended at work.
There is a difference of a right in the law book and what you think you are entitled to. I'm entitled to 100,000$ but there is nowhere written in the law book that I have a right to 100,000$. But there is a law written that I have a right to private backup copies. Like there is a right of free speech there is a right for a private backup copy. But if I exercise my rights Sony and others will go after me because I have to circumvent DRM.
What you're trying to argue is that you should have a right to hack Sony's software in order to make use of another right. Sorry, the law doesn't work that way -- you can't perform an illegal action in order to exercise your rights. So what are your options? Sony provides a facility within a PS3 to backup the entire system which will cover any downloaded games. And the technology exists for Blu-ray disc mastering and duplication, though it may be unaffordable for you.
You currently have the ability to legally backup both physical discs and downloaded software. The law doesn't say that exercising your rights should be affordable, so quit using the DRM excuse.
It's not essential to see all the pixels, but when you have 1080p material and a phone, wouldn't it be good if the latter could play the former?
And maybe played by the phone itself? I know, it's a craaaazy idea but some people might actually want that...
You mean if the latter played the former? Wow, that IS a crazy idea!
Yes, because it was Sony who made Windows vulnerable to a Music CD. Seriously. Shut up. Even Sony's Rootkit fiasco is partially the fault of Microsoft's lousy software.
Your skin is vulnerable to a knife. So if someone wielding a knife were to approach you for no reason and slash you, it's partially your fault. Makes total sense.
You are still entitled by UK law to make a backup copy of any piece of software you buy legally.
The same law exist in Germany and I think in many other countries. Hell, I even pay in Germany a fee on all printers, CDs, DVDs and soon flash drivers for this right. Where are the civil rights groups and when they are going to sue Sony and many more companies to restrict my right to make a private backup copy and to use it?
I'm also entitled to bench press 500 pounds. Just because I'm unable to does not mean the company I purchased my weights from has deprived of that entitlement. You can still make a backup copy of all your PS3 games -- Sony is simply not facilitating this for you.
dead comments mislead the person following later into believing a lie a lie that could potentially have major impacts on the software.
// the following code delivers cake to the subject
By those standards, all anti-US terrorists in US history are automatically innocent.
You mean until proven guilty? Or do you think anyone the US labels as an enemy should be considered automatically guilty and get locked away indefinitely with no habeas corpus rights?
What you want are high-back chairs that support the neck so you don't have to support your body the entire time. Also full recline capabilities help, too. Ideally, they'll never have to get up from their chairs.
Is this the new Herman Miller Wall-e chair?
Frankly, I've been witness to whole Enterprise datacenters going offline and then being brought up system by system in less than a week (candy red button). A week to fix a SAN issue? really? Why not classify it as a Sev0 (public exposure) (probably a somewhat unique code to the company I work for) and get the vendors in THAT DAY to fix it?
Depends on how much storage was in the SAN and the nature of the failure. If it was as easy as replacing a memory card then your point it completely valid. If, however, there was some data corruption then there might have been terabytes of data that needed to be verified and recovered. The article states that 26 state agencies were affected, "some for more than a week" which implies a variable amount of time. Without having more detail, it could have been that some were back up and running the same day but others had to wait for data recovery to occur.
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money. If you work it out, that's almost 30 thousand dollars every hour for 10 years (I didn't even take out weekends or holidays or anything). That's ~890,000 per month.
That's about $20 million/month ($240 million per year / 12 months/year).
I like the term some other European languages use for "organic" food, which is "ecological". Presumably, meaning something which is part of the ecosystem without human intervention.
Makes sense. After all, inorganic food is rather difficult to digest.
One in a million occurences would happen daily if there were millions of oil rigs out there. There aren't.
So if there are only 6000 oil rigs out there, we can expect two to explode a year? That's about right for one in a million odds.
Hell, there are so many sensors and so strict procedures in place that alarms go off like mad if there is even a tiny leak somewhere...
Only if those tiny little alarms happen quite a lot, and when no action is taken as a result. If you get a tiny little alarm once a week which is responded to promptly, professionally, and in such a manner that the alarm is silenced because the problem was properly fixed according to the strict procedures... I can't see how that would be an issue.
My church encourages critical thinking, has a lot of mathematicians and scientists among its members, and the level of education is, as far as I can tell, at least, quite a bit higher than that of the average (mostly non-Christian) population.
Did they publish a peer-reviewed study applying their critical thinking to the existence of god? Did they perform an experiment, stating their hypothesis, and testing that hypothesis in order to arrive at the conclusion that god exists? Were the methods used rigorous and unbiased? Was the experiment repeatable, with others able to replicate very similar results? What is the accuracy of their conclusion?
because if it does, I'll have a killer suit against Burger King for making their food too delicious.
Nah, let's start a class action suit against Slashdot. :)
Didn't Berkeley prove back in the 60s and 70s that acid was scalable?
It's completely ridiculous, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
The ridiculous and surprising part is his legal defense:
"He explains that he believed a warning about the update, downloaded on April 1st, was just an April Fool's joke."
If I were the judge, I would have adjourned the case until April 1st and then handed down the victory to Sony then.
You've created a unique combination of errors in your sentence. I am baffled as to what's going on in your head.
I of had to read worse English.
Why, cray tell, does it run so slowly?
You do realize the Cray-1 is from the late 1970s, right? 80MHz with this architecture was smoking fast.
Nah, 98 ft is just right for a GBU-28. No need for a nuke.
"It proved capable of penetrating over 30 metres (100 ft) of earth or 6 metres (20 ft) of solid concrete."
This is 30 meters of granite, not earth. Still, I wouldn't want to be underneath it.
I would be interested in knowing what books you would assign as requited reading in "English Lit."
I would assign Romeo and Juliet, though that would be on the unrequited reading list.