Just asking - I mean this article's comment posting is littered with uninformed biased op-ed pieces you could have lifted from the MPAA website or Foxnews. You do realize that your're whoring yourself out in the name of 'being cool on/.' Right?
And why is that? because if it just was about the poor starving artists than someone other than Don Henley or Alanis Morisette would be testifying in Congress. Because if it was about compensating the actual artists then you would hear someone demonstrate how they were actually harmed. They would trot out their facts and figures and point to an amount. But they don't they merely accuse in the blandest of board statements and if you press them they will carp "Well it's unethical and un Judeo-Christian !!!!!" Because the facts don't exist. Prices are up and unit sales are up and this entire issue is about the record industry's ability to dictate the retail price. For if it were not they would come to some compromise about micropayments. Let's say each track was worth a dime - would the MPAA bite? Of course not. What the industry is telling you is they get to set the price and no one else. Micropayments could support.
Same with movie industry. Find me an artist who was impoverished by a movie theater not raising their ticket prices from 7 to 10 dollars. But if you had a way to sell one viewing for a buck would they do it even if that meant distributing that viewing to a hundred million PC's? Of course not - they want your ass in the seat for 10 bucks for the first two weeks of distribution. After 2 weeks the movie theater starts to make some money so the distributor needs to pull it out and replace it with another movie that can make THEM money for 2 weeks.
On a related front did you get a load of the suits on the news yesterday, from Disney who actually said that paying TV and movie writers any more than they get now could destroy the entire industry and imperil the US's place at the top of the entertainment food chain.
But I guess none of that matters when most of the folks here who post are either in the paid employ of PR industry or deluded apologists.
You got this alien race that hacks the human genome, creates humans and then goes off to Jupiter hacks that, causes it to explode and become a half powered sun-2. All before dinnertime.
Ya know anytime I ask questions like that on/. I get dinged for flamebait -
What about - "why or does Whistler impose licencing restrictions that are absurb, prohibitively expensive and don't insure us of anything other than kowtowing to MS - - How does MS actually fucking propose to do anything that helps us administer desktops?"
Is that too fucking obscure for you buddy? Or are too comfortable sitting in the big fucking easy chair carping about your technical fucking purity?
You could tell me the sky is blue and the earth is round and I'd have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sorry but your veracity management problem is of your own doing.
W/ Digital TV after all why don't they just run commercials continuously in a subwindow or along the bottom or overlayed transparently or with an additional audio track. This is all about revenue it's not about programming. So if they want to generate more revenue eg. more 'hits' then they should run commercials continuously. That way they could avoid commercial breaks and we wouldn't be able to escape the adds or skip over them. I mean, what other earthly purpose could there be for this. Does anyone for example really want to see the director's cut of Coyote Ugly? Who gives a shit - just run a digital feed be it broadcast or DVD and force us to watch continual ads. I also want to see ads inside of music videos either inline or cutaway. We don't have attention spans that can last a whole video so we need a break. A commercial is a good thing to put there. Likewise radio cuts. Instead of those lame homebrew mixes just cut in commercials. We can have Biggie and Tupac live on selling shit. I also believe with all my heart that movie theaters need to start cutting away every few minutes for commercials.
Was any IP infringed? No. Company secrets? maybe, hard to prove - perhaps they should pursue that in court. Barring somebody from working because of what they may or may not do is absurd. That's one of the risks you take when you run a business. If you do your own due dilligence then you will lock down legally whatever you can to give yourself an advantage. Blocking somebody from talking about what you as a business haven't had the time, inclination, interest or brain power to worry about is so fucking lame as to be laughable. If the knowledge is so unique why is it unprotected otherwise. You'd think that these assholes who can fire up a team of lawyers to go after SOMEONE could somehow get their pointy heads out of their asses long enough to protect the assets themselves.
I swear to god the number of lawsuits a company has against other people is practically an asset on the balance sheet.
And they were reading newspapers from orbit almost 40 years ago. It doesn't shock me when they say they can pick out a car sized object from a coupla hundred million miles away.
For that would have been at least as great a 'revolution' as the internet. The typewriter put printing albeit low bandwidth in the hands of everyone. And it did not revolutionize our societies. What it did do was streamline the feeds to mass media. Similarly what the Net has done is made it easier to diseminate quasi-information to more people faster.
Ultimately the internet will be a weapon of tyranny.
AOL's relationship to the government as an officially blessed monopoly depends on it. All they're trying to do is get past the whole 'lawsuitness' of it all so they can respond directly to lawyers without a subpoena and law enforcement w/o a search warrant.
All CPUs are about chip yield in the baking process. Take a basic design and manufacture it to a given specification and tolerance and run it up to an arbitrary speed until the failure rate is < 3 Sigma. That is the speed rating of the core. Weigh the value of doing that agains the cost of the yield of a given percentage of wafers that can actually pass that test. That is the watermark for the chip you buy. As the manufacturing process gets better the yield at that testing level gets better which drives the unit cost down. Below a certain cost threshold it now becomes economically feasible to step the testing thresshold up higher - eg. a faster speed and rerun all of your tests to the new test limit for the same > 3 Sigma confidence interval.
Lather Rinse Repeat.
So when you OC all your doing is throwing the dice that your thresshold will work within the limits of the chip already put through the same tests by the manufacturer. So literally your chances of successfully OCing are better the further into the manufacturing lifecycle you are. That is, you probably couldn't reliably OC a Pentium 60 or 66 w/o setting it afire but Celeron 450 - wooo is that tried and true !
Bundle, package and commoditize your own personal information into a privacy object that can be sliced into smaller sub objects and sell or lease that package to whomever wants to pay you for it.
What's the biggie - we all know this is possible it's the production yield/cost that's a bitch. That's why big flat TVs cost as much as a used car. That's why half of the cost of a laptop is the screen and the manufacturers have "an acceptable number of bad pixels" policy on returns. 24" woooeeee. I have an executive briefing center with half a dozen 48 inch flat high rez panels and one that's 72 inches with 200lpi.
People have a reason to use the net more ergo ISP's need to charge more. That's called not estimating consumer demand correctly and then playing catch up. It's called we the consumer don't need your worthless fucking 'portals' anymore so now you have to charge us to cover the pass through advertising rates that dried up. Let's not wrap this in some grand sociological shroud.
With a 351 Cleveland, tricarbs, v gate, rock cruncher, ported polished, 3/4 race cam. I threw a con rod on the NYS Thruway around new Baltimore going 140+ mph.
I had a 1965 Porche Carrera 2 - 2000cc Fuhrman tinker toy DOHC, 8 plugs, replaced the Webbers with a Hilborn mechanical fuel injector. Damn close to a single digit weight to power ratio. Holy hell to tune up.
I redlined an Audi A4 on the A23 in France on the flats with 3 other people in the car. It couldn't push any more air out of the way beyond 190 kph.
I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would want one of these things.
First it was make a new bunch of CDs with all the naughty words removed, now this. Gee can't imagine them not selling guns though that would be unamurrican.
Firms figure that if you buy the SW because of the rebate then the business risk they take in not awarding it to you is worth it. Odds are you'll just fume for a while. You still bought it and you already know that even if software burns your house down you can't return it and have no recourse. So they just screw you.
I'm sure that if I was an astronaut I'd prefer the relative comfort and ease of use and reliability of modern ships compared to Apollo but there's something to be said for the single mindedness of that earlier gear. There was abolutetly NOTHING extra in that box, nada. I spent my formative years designing computational algorithms expressedly for limited resource, slow clock machines. The design goal specifically was "do xxxxxx in 25 ticks or less and using less than x K memory". It puts the fun back into orbital mechanics. By comparison I doubt you could run the diagnostic system that checks the indicator status lights on the space shuttle with one. Nor would you want to either.
You'll need all kinds of special safety certification for all of the in room equipment, right? That sounds to be the most expensive part of the whole deal.
The record for transatlantic travel was by the SS United States 1959 wasn't it? Less than 72 hours I believe.
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Just asking - I mean this article's comment posting is littered with uninformed biased op-ed pieces you could have lifted from the MPAA website or Foxnews. You do realize that your're whoring yourself out in the name of 'being cool on /.' Right?
And why is that? because if it just was about the poor starving artists than someone other than Don Henley or Alanis Morisette would be testifying in Congress. Because if it was about compensating the actual artists then you would hear someone demonstrate how they were actually harmed. They would trot out their facts and figures and point to an amount. But they don't they merely accuse in the blandest of board statements and if you press them they will carp "Well it's unethical and un Judeo-Christian !!!!!" Because the facts don't exist. Prices are up and unit sales are up and this entire issue is about the record industry's ability to dictate the retail price. For if it were not they would come to some compromise about micropayments. Let's say each track was worth a dime - would the MPAA bite? Of course not. What the industry is telling you is they get to set the price and no one else. Micropayments could support.
Same with movie industry. Find me an artist who was impoverished by a movie theater not raising their ticket prices from 7 to 10 dollars. But if you had a way to sell one viewing for a buck would they do it even if that meant distributing that viewing to a hundred million PC's? Of course not - they want your ass in the seat for 10 bucks for the first two weeks of distribution. After 2 weeks the movie theater starts to make some money so the distributor needs to pull it out and replace it with another movie that can make THEM money for 2 weeks.
On a related front did you get a load of the suits on the news yesterday, from Disney who actually said that paying TV and movie writers any more than they get now could destroy the entire industry and imperil the US's place at the top of the entertainment food chain.
But I guess none of that matters when most of the folks here who post are either in the paid employ of PR industry or deluded apologists.
I always said driving in Japan is like an computer game. Someone set us up the car.
You got this alien race that hacks the human genome, creates humans and then goes off to Jupiter hacks that, causes it to explode and become a half powered sun-2. All before dinnertime.
Pretty fucking cool.
Ya know anytime I ask questions like that on /. I get dinged for flamebait -
What about - "why or does Whistler impose licencing restrictions that are absurb, prohibitively expensive and don't insure us of anything other than kowtowing to MS - - How does MS actually fucking propose to do anything that helps us administer desktops?"
Is that too fucking obscure for you buddy? Or are too comfortable sitting in the big fucking easy chair carping about your technical fucking purity?
Is it strange that EVERYTHING at the N-I-Standards-T is decidedly UNSTANDARD?
Did MS pick the questions they would agree to answer or did /. select the questions? These are fairly softball questions.
You could tell me the sky is blue and the earth is round and I'd have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sorry but your veracity management problem is of your own doing.
W/ Digital TV after all why don't they just run commercials continuously in a subwindow or along the bottom or overlayed transparently or with an additional audio track. This is all about revenue it's not about programming. So if they want to generate more revenue eg. more 'hits' then they should run commercials continuously. That way they could avoid commercial breaks and we wouldn't be able to escape the adds or skip over them. I mean, what other earthly purpose could there be for this. Does anyone for example really want to see the director's cut of Coyote Ugly? Who gives a shit - just run a digital feed be it broadcast or DVD and force us to watch continual ads. I also want to see ads inside of music videos either inline or cutaway. We don't have attention spans that can last a whole video so we need a break. A commercial is a good thing to put there. Likewise radio cuts. Instead of those lame homebrew mixes just cut in commercials. We can have Biggie and Tupac live on selling shit. I also believe with all my heart that movie theaters need to start cutting away every few minutes for commercials.
Was any IP infringed? No. Company secrets? maybe, hard to prove - perhaps they should pursue that in court. Barring somebody from working because of what they may or may not do is absurd. That's one of the risks you take when you run a business. If you do your own due dilligence then you will lock down legally whatever you can to give yourself an advantage. Blocking somebody from talking about what you as a business haven't had the time, inclination, interest or brain power to worry about is so fucking lame as to be laughable. If the knowledge is so unique why is it unprotected otherwise. You'd think that these assholes who can fire up a team of lawyers to go after SOMEONE could somehow get their pointy heads out of their asses long enough to protect the assets themselves.
I swear to god the number of lawsuits a company has against other people is practically an asset on the balance sheet.
And they were reading newspapers from orbit almost 40 years ago. It doesn't shock me when they say they can pick out a car sized object from a coupla hundred million miles away.
For that would have been at least as great a 'revolution' as the internet. The typewriter put printing albeit low bandwidth in the hands of everyone. And it did not revolutionize our societies. What it did do was streamline the feeds to mass media. Similarly what the Net has done is made it easier to diseminate quasi-information to more people faster.
Ultimately the internet will be a weapon of tyranny.
You want answers watch Jeopardy - you want miracles talk to God.
Seriously, talk to a lawyer.
AOL's relationship to the government as an officially blessed monopoly depends on it. All they're trying to do is get past the whole 'lawsuitness' of it all so they can respond directly to lawyers without a subpoena and law enforcement w/o a search warrant.
All CPUs are about chip yield in the baking process. Take a basic design and manufacture it to a given specification and tolerance and run it up to an arbitrary speed until the failure rate is < 3 Sigma. That is the speed rating of the core. Weigh the value of doing that agains the cost of the yield of a given percentage of wafers that can actually pass that test. That is the watermark for the chip you buy. As the manufacturing process gets better the yield at that testing level gets better which drives the unit cost down. Below a certain cost threshold it now becomes economically feasible to step the testing thresshold up higher - eg. a faster speed and rerun all of your tests to the new test limit for the same > 3 Sigma confidence interval.
Lather Rinse Repeat.
So when you OC all your doing is throwing the dice that your thresshold will work within the limits of the chip already put through the same tests by the manufacturer. So literally your chances of successfully OCing are better the further into the manufacturing lifecycle you are. That is, you probably couldn't reliably OC a Pentium 60 or 66 w/o setting it afire but Celeron 450 - wooo is that tried and true !
Bundle, package and commoditize your own personal information into a privacy object that can be sliced into smaller sub objects and sell or lease that package to whomever wants to pay you for it.
What's the biggie - we all know this is possible it's the production yield/cost that's a bitch. That's why big flat TVs cost as much as a used car. That's why half of the cost of a laptop is the screen and the manufacturers have "an acceptable number of bad pixels" policy on returns. 24" woooeeee. I have an executive briefing center with half a dozen 48 inch flat high rez panels and one that's 72 inches with 200lpi.
People have a reason to use the net more ergo ISP's need to charge more. That's called not estimating consumer demand correctly and then playing catch up. It's called we the consumer don't need your worthless fucking 'portals' anymore so now you have to charge us to cover the pass through advertising rates that dried up. Let's not wrap this in some grand sociological shroud.
Do you?
That's the point.
With a 351 Cleveland, tricarbs, v gate, rock cruncher, ported polished, 3/4 race cam. I threw a con rod on the NYS Thruway around new Baltimore going 140+ mph.
I had a 1965 Porche Carrera 2 - 2000cc Fuhrman tinker toy DOHC, 8 plugs, replaced the Webbers with a Hilborn mechanical fuel injector. Damn close to a single digit weight to power ratio. Holy hell to tune up.
I redlined an Audi A4 on the A23 in France on the flats with 3 other people in the car. It couldn't push any more air out of the way beyond 190 kph.
I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would want one of these things.
First it was make a new bunch of CDs with all the naughty words removed, now this. Gee can't imagine them not selling guns though that would be unamurrican.
Firms figure that if you buy the SW because of the rebate then the business risk they take in not awarding it to you is worth it. Odds are you'll just fume for a while. You still bought it and you already know that even if software burns your house down you can't return it and have no recourse. So they just screw you.
I'm sorry, I thought you got the memo.
I'm sure that if I was an astronaut I'd prefer the relative comfort and ease of use and reliability of modern ships compared to Apollo but there's something to be said for the single mindedness of that earlier gear. There was abolutetly NOTHING extra in that box, nada. I spent my formative years designing computational algorithms expressedly for limited resource, slow clock machines. The design goal specifically was "do xxxxxx in 25 ticks or less and using less than x K memory". It puts the fun back into orbital mechanics. By comparison I doubt you could run the diagnostic system that checks the indicator status lights on the space shuttle with one. Nor would you want to either.
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You'll need all kinds of special safety certification for all of the in room equipment, right? That sounds to be the most expensive part of the whole deal.
The record for transatlantic travel was by the SS United States 1959 wasn't it? Less than 72 hours I believe.
We reserve the right to:
eat breakfast at your house
service or get serviced by your wife
dress up your kids in funny costumes
sell your dog
impersonate you while we rob a bank
take all your money
make you cluck like a chicken
tattoo you
shave your head, laugh at you and point
take all your money
spy on you
threaten you
prosecute you
take all your money
allow other people to spy on you
allow other people to threaten or prosecute you
make you dance naked around a fire
take all your money
If you can read this you already agreed to it.