Then they sue you. It doesn't really matter if you put everything you own in your partners name. Bush and the Republicans just shoved a new law through, declaring bankruptcy does nothing for you. A part of any money you make from now on will go to the folks you owe money to (RIAA in this case). So unless you are able to somehow never work again, your pretty much SOL for the rest of your life if they have the evidence against you.
How much does it cost to have your lawyer send out a boiler plate letter threatening a lawsuit if you don't settle for $5,000? Even if you need to have your lawyer talk to them for a couple hours?
Probably $500 investment for a $5,000 profit. Not a bad return on investment. I don't think they will throw in the towel on that rate of return anytime soon.
He didn't say that galaxy, he said that side of the universe. Light from the earth, headed for that lens (wherever the lens is now, if it's sill in a similar orientation) might be picked up by some other galaxy that happens to be drifting by the other side of it in 11 billion years or so.
Oh really? I'm sending #3 over to see you. After a bit of tourture, you will no longer claim that SPECTRE does not exist. James Bond will not save you this time!
People convicted of DUI often get a slap on the hand, and often get 6, 7, etc repeat convictions and still drive! They are only putting lives of innocent drivers and pedestrians in dangers.
Forget punnishing them, but a college kid who P2P's a movie? 3 years.
Let's see, maybe 10 million college kids P2Ping movies, x3 years in prison... We could potentially have one heck of a bill to pay as taxpyers to enforce this one.
Sorry, the only ones that I have to cater to are the users of my email servers. If they don't like it, then I have an issue. If they don't mind AOHell spammers being blocked, then it's not an issue. No need to justify it to you.
I've got a couple real slate tablets at work. Old Fujitsu models. They are nice, but often times, you really want to plug in a keyboard. A spare keyboard is a PITA to carry around with you 'just in case' you decide to do something where the pen stylus just isn't going to cut it. These hybrids make a lot of sense.
You need an LCD screen on both sides of the lid. That way, you both can see it easily at the same time. You'd just need to put a nice thick replacable plexiglass cover over the 'outside' LCD.
I've got 40 year old prints that have faded away badly. I wonder what percentage of modern prints are made on the 'good' paper? I take it those are black and white. How do you think colors will hold up?
I forgot the other reason I went away from png. JPG is much more universal of a format. I burned most of the images to DVD and sent them out to my relatives. Almost all TV-DVD players will play a slideshow of jpgs, but png support on dvd players is very far from universal.
BTW, I saved the jpgs under the '12' quality setting in photoshop. It's not quite loseless jpg, but the quality is still pretty good.
Good point, although I for those pics, I wasn't really concerned about getting the best possible image. I just wanted something you could show on a computer or TV screen to bring back the memories. (Few were of decent quality even to begin with - we've got bad amature photographers in the family:) A 1-2 megapixel jpeg is penty to bring back the memory. A few good/special photos I did save as high resolution TIFFs. For most of them, I was just concerned about getting them scanned in quickly before they had faded away. Next time I get a batch, I might use png instead.
Do you really think film will make it over 10 generations with less degredation than a digital image will? I've got my doubts about how good those negatives will look after 200 years. The prints are definitely going to look bad.
Certainly, someday 3 megapixel jpgs will be thought of as something from a kids toy. We will all be using holographic displays then;)
Seriously though, I just got done scanning in a few thousand old family photo's, mainly from the 60's and 70's. A lot of the photos were very faded and overall the colders on many had shifted toward red or yellow. It took a good bit of photoshop'ing to bring things back closer to the way they originally had been. Old prints don't last forever, and neither do negatives. So if you've got old family photo's, I'd start scanning/rescuing them now into electronic versions. If jpeg becomes outdated, you can always keep converting them to the next big file type.
The article in this case, isn't of much more use. It's very ambiguous. It looks like we'll have to wait to read an actual paper in a scientific journal to get the real details.
Significant? Your joking, right? (BTW, I've got a 12" powerbook in addition to an XP laptop). The changes between OSX have been relatively minor, that's why they have been point releases and we aren't on OS11, OS12, or OS13 by now. The speed increases have been nice, but were very necessary because 10.0 was sluggish as hell.
That sounds like a crappily written app. The thread originator was talking about doing backups, which should not re-write so many times as that crappware.
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Then they sue you. It doesn't really matter if you put everything you own in your partners name. Bush and the Republicans just shoved a new law through, declaring bankruptcy does nothing for you. A part of any money you make from now on will go to the folks you owe money to (RIAA in this case). So unless you are able to somehow never work again, your pretty much SOL for the rest of your life if they have the evidence against you.
Probably $500 investment for a $5,000 profit. Not a bad return on investment. I don't think they will throw in the towel on that rate of return anytime soon.
He didn't say that galaxy, he said that side of the universe. Light from the earth, headed for that lens (wherever the lens is now, if it's sill in a similar orientation) might be picked up by some other galaxy that happens to be drifting by the other side of it in 11 billion years or so.
Read the friggin article. It's 7 billion LY away.
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In the US we stopped making beer cans out of the heavy stuff way back in the 70's. Welcome to the modern age. ;)
People convicted of DUI often get a slap on the hand, and often get 6, 7, etc repeat convictions and still drive! They are only putting lives of innocent drivers and pedestrians in dangers.
Forget punnishing them, but a college kid who P2P's a movie? 3 years.
Let's see, maybe 10 million college kids P2Ping movies, x3 years in prison... We could potentially have one heck of a bill to pay as taxpyers to enforce this one.
Sorry, the only ones that I have to cater to are the users of my email servers. If they don't like it, then I have an issue. If they don't mind AOHell spammers being blocked, then it's not an issue. No need to justify it to you.
There are so many mods and customizatins that are often done to those scripts to make auto updating near impossible except for vanilla installs.
Any other questions?
I've got a couple real slate tablets at work. Old Fujitsu models. They are nice, but often times, you really want to plug in a keyboard. A spare keyboard is a PITA to carry around with you 'just in case' you decide to do something where the pen stylus just isn't going to cut it. These hybrids make a lot of sense.
You need an LCD screen on both sides of the lid. That way, you both can see it easily at the same time. You'd just need to put a nice thick replacable plexiglass cover over the 'outside' LCD.
I've got 40 year old prints that have faded away badly. I wonder what percentage of modern prints are made on the 'good' paper? I take it those are black and white. How do you think colors will hold up?
BTW, I saved the jpgs under the '12' quality setting in photoshop. It's not quite loseless jpg, but the quality is still pretty good.
Good point, although I for those pics, I wasn't really concerned about getting the best possible image. I just wanted something you could show on a computer or TV screen to bring back the memories. (Few were of decent quality even to begin with - we've got bad amature photographers in the family :) A 1-2 megapixel jpeg is penty to bring back the memory. A few good/special photos I did save as high resolution TIFFs. For most of them, I was just concerned about getting them scanned in quickly before they had faded away. Next time I get a batch, I might use png instead.
Do you really think film will make it over 10 generations with less degredation than a digital image will? I've got my doubts about how good those negatives will look after 200 years. The prints are definitely going to look bad.
Seriously though, I just got done scanning in a few thousand old family photo's, mainly from the 60's and 70's. A lot of the photos were very faded and overall the colders on many had shifted toward red or yellow. It took a good bit of photoshop'ing to bring things back closer to the way they originally had been. Old prints don't last forever, and neither do negatives. So if you've got old family photo's, I'd start scanning/rescuing them now into electronic versions. If jpeg becomes outdated, you can always keep converting them to the next big file type.
Doggone it, FreeVMS was what I was thinking of. I'm sorry to hear it's gone stale. :(
You mean like OpenVMS? If you really cared, you would know it's already out there.
The same can happen in a relational database. What solution do these people pose that is a better solution?
The article in this case, isn't of much more use. It's very ambiguous. It looks like we'll have to wait to read an actual paper in a scientific journal to get the real details.
The general masses don't want to 'put the finishing touches' on their desktop OS. They want it to just work.
Windows (NT and later) already had a much better security model. That of VMS. The problem was it was horribly horribly implemented.
Significant? Your joking, right? (BTW, I've got a 12" powerbook in addition to an XP laptop). The changes between OSX have been relatively minor, that's why they have been point releases and we aren't on OS11, OS12, or OS13 by now. The speed increases have been nice, but were very necessary because 10.0 was sluggish as hell.
That sounds like a crappily written app. The thread originator was talking about doing backups, which should not re-write so many times as that crappware.