You are ignoring lossless compression. And with lossy compression you can't tell the difference except using a high end set-up. For playing on crappy ear buds while you walk down the street, lossless copies are not going to provide any benefit (incidentally this is why they master the music to clip in the first place).
Copyright law has various parameters that must be met before something is considered a "creative work" under the legislation. A short essay would probably meet the criteria, a two sentence post is likely to fall short of being considered a "creative work". And that is before you even need to worry about any notion of "fair use".
When I beat someone so badly that they have to resort to those sorts of tactics, I feel like the winner. If that happened to me I would brag for years how I had beaten 1337d00d94 so badly that he had to DDOS me.
.... the girl was arrested BEFORE the police attempted to contact her parents. I don't know what kind of totalitarian hellhole you live in, but here in Australia the schools don't call in the cops for disruptive students. The girl should have been taken aside by a senior teacher, and her parents contacted from the numbers on file.Seriously what kind of shit hole do you live in that the police can arrest you for not cooperating with their investigations into your own behaviour? I don't even have to identify myself to police here, and that is the way I like it.
This will get kicked out in court and this dumbass cop will get a rap on the knuckles and some bad press.
N.W.A. said it best (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiX7GTelTPM).
The reason "just using the off switch" won't work for this, is because the end-goal is to create the "right" that parents can plunk their children down in front of the digital idiot box, just as they used to do with the analogue idiot box, and have it mind their children.
This is the reason behind the filtering in Australia. It isn't really about making children "safer" but about making the parents life easier.
Just as "adult" programs are proscribed to certain times and broadcasters heavily punished for any "adult" material that slips through, expect more and more attempts at legislating away parental responsibility. Although it can never work without cutting off nearly all international networks, these attempts will not stop until citizens of these countries stop being sheep and remember what self-sufficiency is.
I like survival horror, but DooM was a derivative shockfest, it is what your typical big budget horror movie is to real horror movies. DooM III tried to be System Shock and failed (even copying the audio diary story telling format).
Hint: When something jumps out of every corner it ceases to be a surprise. I "won" DooM III when I realised the level designers would put the monster door right in the spot an FPS player would put their back to instinctively. After that point I would know roughly where the monsters were going to be.
The ATOM isn't "x86", and Intel hasn't released a new "x86" for over a decade. The ATOM just interprets x86 machine code into its RISCy real code, just like a Core 2 does. And ATOM has a different performance envelope from the desktop Intel chips for exactly the reason of optimisation for low power.
The ATOM is ridiculously low power, the current generation northbridge is what use the power.
Given Seagates increasingly poor product quality, this has guaranteed I will never buy another Seagate drive. They used to be my favourite manufacturer, but this kind of sloppiness is unacceptable. Obviously all they care about is turning out high density cheap drives, with no thought to real quality assurance.
With the economy as it is this could spell the death of Seagate.
Taxation of virtual worlds will mean players will have ownership over their accounts (currently trying to monetize your WoW assets is a bannable offence), and fraud and theft in virtual worlds will fall under standard criminal statutes.
Trying to enforce that mess will drain resources from trying to create copyright cops or other nonsense.
No, they are a separate branch (ie the USMC was authorised by congress, not just a creation of the USN), they are administratively overseen by the Department of the Navy (which isn't the same as the US Navy).
Exactly what I was about to post. This idiot lawsuit exists because Nintendo "knew about the problem, and didn't take sufficient measures".
If they invented kitchen knives in today's legal eta, they would have a 100kg enclosure (securely bolted to the bench) that allowed only enough room for the insertion of vegetables, and had a system to detect human fingers before allowing actuation of the blade.
No, "we" don't have thousands of ten warhead MIRV missiles (that would require a massive booster). Most MIRV missiles are in the range of two to four warheads, and the US only intends to have just over 2000 operational warheads in the near future (with a handful of two warhead MIRV missiles).
Also from the most recent material I have read the threat of a "nuclear winter" was a gross beat up. We have had multiple volcanic events that discharged more particles into the atmosphere than would happen with optimal usage of warheads to cause a "nuclear winter", and in a normal scenario they wouldn't be used optimally for that scenario.
Additionally long time large increases in radioactivity can not happen. Most fall out from a nuclear attack is gone in weeks, what is left is not enough to destroy life. Something like Chernobyl is far more dangerous to the bio-sphere, and the Chernobyl area is still teeming with life.
Global thermonuclear war is not an extinction level event with even the levels of armament at the peak of the Cold War.
The cold war is over, no one is interested in the best military equipment, price rules. The stealthy Seawolf subs got cancelled in favour of the cheaper Virginias.
What gave you the idea that XML was meant for text layout? Before it became a buzzword, the most common proposed purpose for XML was data interchange between old/propriety systems.
You took the first systems data, turned it to XML, and the second system had a parser that turned the XML into its format). The advantage of this was that you didn't have to modify either of the two systems, you just wrote the XML generators/interpreters.
There are dozens of formats for text layout, some suitable for academic work, so why would you advocate the re-creation of them in XML? XML isn't magic glue that needs to be incorporated in every data format.
Be less ignorant. Socialism is not the same as "command economy" (what you are calling socialism). Socialism at its base means the "workers" are in control of "production", but in Soviet style communism the State decided it was the "workers" and implemented a command economy.
Socialism can also be anarchic communes in which there is no central authority, but the workers in a particular production unit are in charge of controlling that unit.
Also Hitler hardly socialised the country prior to engaging in total war (during which every other nation basically socialised the economy to the same degree).
1) It is hard. Most programmers can't beat out the compilers auto-optimisations.
2) A lot of low level hackery to optimise your code, often makes it unportable and unmaintainable.
3) Hardware is massively cheaper than programmers hours. This is the whole point of languages like Python.
4) Most of the RAM bloat in modern systems is for the fancy GUI. Reducing the RAM usage in that case normally means increasing the CPU load. RAM is easier to scale then CPU.
It is fair because it shows the "War on Drugs" priorities are out of whack, if their actual goal is reducing death and other harm caused by addictive drug use. It also makes the "War on Terror" equally laughable, where are those trillions to fight legal drug and disease deaths?
Millions of people aren't going to take up mainlining heroin just because it gets de-criminalised. Having clean heroin of a known dosage, would also reduce a lot of those deaths (OD's spike when junkies change supplier because of the purity issue).
P.S. For it be a totally fair comparison you would need to compare tobacco and heroin users from the same socio-economic class, and account for other variables like the amount of medical treatment they received to counter the negative effects of their drug of choice.
Does it have an 80% of full sized keyboard or bigger, and at least 800x600 resolution? If not it isn't competing with sub-notebooks. The sub-notebook form factor is about input and output devices [b]not[/b] computational power. It is about getting the smallest notebook you can with a usable keyboard and monitor. Unless you can sit there for four plus hours typing text on this thing, it isn't competitive. It is the reason I didn't buy an early EEEpc, and waited for the competitors with bigger keyboards to come out.
The Atoms aren't like other CPU's from Intel. They only really have what Intel decided was the most common instructions for their domain implemented in real hardware, the rest don't have dedicated hardware. So depending on what instructions a program is using, the Atom can perform slower then a much lower rated CPU (I have seen benchmarks where they get beaten by 400-500Mhz Celerons).
That said, I own an Acer Aspire One, and it feels faster then any of the computers I owned up until 2005.
"Non-profit organisation" does not mean the organisation makes no profit. It means the organisation puts the money back into itself rather than paying out dividends etc. It doesn't mean they operate at a loss and require constant donations to remain functional.
Some "non-profits" have even been run with the purpose of making its directors etc richer (eg they just jack up their salaries).
The biggest flaw in the arguments of people who want creationism or intelligent design taught in schools, is that they are doing it to "back door" in their religion. However neither creationism or intelligent design are Judeo-Christian specific. That was the whole point of the flying spaghetti monster satire, to make the IDer's admit that they just wanted to teach Christianity, and not an "alternative theory".
ID supports everything from alien's doing the designing, to Vishnu, to the Great Arkleseizure.
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You are ignoring lossless compression. And with lossy compression you can't tell the difference except using a high end set-up. For playing on crappy ear buds while you walk down the street, lossless copies are not going to provide any benefit (incidentally this is why they master the music to clip in the first place).
Copyright law has various parameters that must be met before something is considered a "creative work" under the legislation. A short essay would probably meet the criteria, a two sentence post is likely to fall short of being considered a "creative work". And that is before you even need to worry about any notion of "fair use".
When I beat someone so badly that they have to resort to those sorts of tactics, I feel like the winner. If that happened to me I would brag for years how I had beaten 1337d00d94 so badly that he had to DDOS me.
.... the girl was arrested BEFORE the police attempted to contact her parents. I don't know what kind of totalitarian hellhole you live in, but here in Australia the schools don't call in the cops for disruptive students. The girl should have been taken aside by a senior teacher, and her parents contacted from the numbers on file.Seriously what kind of shit hole do you live in that the police can arrest you for not cooperating with their investigations into your own behaviour? I don't even have to identify myself to police here, and that is the way I like it.
This will get kicked out in court and this dumbass cop will get a rap on the knuckles and some bad press.
N.W.A. said it best (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiX7GTelTPM).
The reason "just using the off switch" won't work for this, is because the end-goal is to create the "right" that parents can plunk their children down in front of the digital idiot box, just as they used to do with the analogue idiot box, and have it mind their children.
This is the reason behind the filtering in Australia. It isn't really about making children "safer" but about making the parents life easier.
Just as "adult" programs are proscribed to certain times and broadcasters heavily punished for any "adult" material that slips through, expect more and more attempts at legislating away parental responsibility. Although it can never work without cutting off nearly all international networks, these attempts will not stop until citizens of these countries stop being sheep and remember what self-sufficiency is.
I like survival horror, but DooM was a derivative shockfest, it is what your typical big budget horror movie is to real horror movies. DooM III tried to be System Shock and failed (even copying the audio diary story telling format).
Hint: When something jumps out of every corner it ceases to be a surprise. I "won" DooM III when I realised the level designers would put the monster door right in the spot an FPS player would put their back to instinctively. After that point I would know roughly where the monsters were going to be.
Will the Marines in this game remember about duct tape?
The ATOM isn't "x86", and Intel hasn't released a new "x86" for over a decade. The ATOM just interprets x86 machine code into its RISCy real code, just like a Core 2 does. And ATOM has a different performance envelope from the desktop Intel chips for exactly the reason of optimisation for low power.
The ATOM is ridiculously low power, the current generation northbridge is what use the power.
Given Seagates increasingly poor product quality, this has guaranteed I will never buy another Seagate drive. They used to be my favourite manufacturer, but this kind of sloppiness is unacceptable. Obviously all they care about is turning out high density cheap drives, with no thought to real quality assurance.
With the economy as it is this could spell the death of Seagate.
Taxation of virtual worlds will mean players will have ownership over their accounts (currently trying to monetize your WoW assets is a bannable offence), and fraud and theft in virtual worlds will fall under standard criminal statutes.
Trying to enforce that mess will drain resources from trying to create copyright cops or other nonsense.
No, they are a separate branch (ie the USMC was authorised by congress, not just a creation of the USN), they are administratively overseen by the Department of the Navy (which isn't the same as the US Navy).
Exactly what I was about to post. This idiot lawsuit exists because Nintendo "knew about the problem, and didn't take sufficient measures".
If they invented kitchen knives in today's legal eta, they would have a 100kg enclosure (securely bolted to the bench) that allowed only enough room for the insertion of vegetables, and had a system to detect human fingers before allowing actuation of the blade.
No, "we" don't have thousands of ten warhead MIRV missiles (that would require a massive booster). Most MIRV missiles are in the range of two to four warheads, and the US only intends to have just over 2000 operational warheads in the near future (with a handful of two warhead MIRV missiles).
Also from the most recent material I have read the threat of a "nuclear winter" was a gross beat up. We have had multiple volcanic events that discharged more particles into the atmosphere than would happen with optimal usage of warheads to cause a "nuclear winter", and in a normal scenario they wouldn't be used optimally for that scenario.
Additionally long time large increases in radioactivity can not happen. Most fall out from a nuclear attack is gone in weeks, what is left is not enough to destroy life. Something like Chernobyl is far more dangerous to the bio-sphere, and the Chernobyl area is still teeming with life.
Global thermonuclear war is not an extinction level event with even the levels of armament at the peak of the Cold War.
The cold war is over, no one is interested in the best military equipment, price rules. The stealthy Seawolf subs got cancelled in favour of the cheaper Virginias.
What gave you the idea that XML was meant for text layout? Before it became a buzzword, the most common proposed purpose for XML was data interchange between old/propriety systems.
You took the first systems data, turned it to XML, and the second system had a parser that turned the XML into its format). The advantage of this was that you didn't have to modify either of the two systems, you just wrote the XML generators/interpreters.
There are dozens of formats for text layout, some suitable for academic work, so why would you advocate the re-creation of them in XML? XML isn't magic glue that needs to be incorporated in every data format.
Be less ignorant. Socialism is not the same as "command economy" (what you are calling socialism). Socialism at its base means the "workers" are in control of "production", but in Soviet style communism the State decided it was the "workers" and implemented a command economy.
Socialism can also be anarchic communes in which there is no central authority, but the workers in a particular production unit are in charge of controlling that unit.
Also Hitler hardly socialised the country prior to engaging in total war (during which every other nation basically socialised the economy to the same degree).
Oh great, expect that in a few years they will be running this on international travellers as a standard part of customs.
Got to stop that kiddie porn. Everyone knows they are too stupid to traffic it via encrypted Internet traffic, or DVD's mailed in the post.
Wow, now I can get a feel what it will be like here when the government implements its thinkofthechildrenâ filter!
1) It is hard. Most programmers can't beat out the compilers auto-optimisations.
2) A lot of low level hackery to optimise your code, often makes it unportable and unmaintainable.
3) Hardware is massively cheaper than programmers hours. This is the whole point of languages like Python.
4) Most of the RAM bloat in modern systems is for the fancy GUI. Reducing the RAM usage in that case normally means increasing the CPU load. RAM is easier to scale then CPU.
It is fair because it shows the "War on Drugs" priorities are out of whack, if their actual goal is reducing death and other harm caused by addictive drug use. It also makes the "War on Terror" equally laughable, where are those trillions to fight legal drug and disease deaths?
Millions of people aren't going to take up mainlining heroin just because it gets de-criminalised. Having clean heroin of a known dosage, would also reduce a lot of those deaths (OD's spike when junkies change supplier because of the purity issue).
P.S. For it be a totally fair comparison you would need to compare tobacco and heroin users from the same socio-economic class, and account for other variables like the amount of medical treatment they received to counter the negative effects of their drug of choice.
Does it have an 80% of full sized keyboard or bigger, and at least 800x600 resolution? If not it isn't competing with sub-notebooks. The sub-notebook form factor is about input and output devices [b]not[/b] computational power. It is about getting the smallest notebook you can with a usable keyboard and monitor. Unless you can sit there for four plus hours typing text on this thing, it isn't competitive. It is the reason I didn't buy an early EEEpc, and waited for the competitors with bigger keyboards to come out.
The Atoms aren't like other CPU's from Intel. They only really have what Intel decided was the most common instructions for their domain implemented in real hardware, the rest don't have dedicated hardware. So depending on what instructions a program is using, the Atom can perform slower then a much lower rated CPU (I have seen benchmarks where they get beaten by 400-500Mhz Celerons).
That said, I own an Acer Aspire One, and it feels faster then any of the computers I owned up until 2005.
"Non-profit organisation" does not mean the organisation makes no profit. It means the organisation puts the money back into itself rather than paying out dividends etc. It doesn't mean they operate at a loss and require constant donations to remain functional.
Some "non-profits" have even been run with the purpose of making its directors etc richer (eg they just jack up their salaries).
The biggest flaw in the arguments of people who want creationism or intelligent design taught in schools, is that they are doing it to "back door" in their religion. However neither creationism or intelligent design are Judeo-Christian specific. That was the whole point of the flying spaghetti monster satire, to make the IDer's admit that they just wanted to teach Christianity, and not an "alternative theory".
ID supports everything from alien's doing the designing, to Vishnu, to the Great Arkleseizure.
So Intel marketing would like people to forget their SSDthat is in the Acer Aspire One>? Which is notorious among the Aspire community for being a dog.