The association also is planning to offer an amnesty program that would exempt from prosecution people who destroy all their illegally downloaded songs.
Soo... Does this mean that someone could get immunity from the RIAA by simply deleting all their stuff once they get a court order? Or would they have to do that before the court order?
It also doesn't help that amateur radio is a very elitist medium. The "old timers" treat anyone interested in getting into the field like they're n00bs as much as we would them getting into computers. I wouldn't mind playing around with APRS and packet radio, but it's hard to find any decent info and get help without being treated like a fucking moron.
What the hell are you talking about? When I got my license about 3 or 4 years ago, I was instantly accepted by the hams in my club (BARC). If I needed help, they'd give it to me. They're the nicest group of people I've ever met, and they're really interesting to be around (they're also a bunch of nerds). I don't know who you met, but I haven't met a single rude or condesending ham in my entire operating period.
They're targeting high school and college students... Who tend to not have much money... Will they really be allowed to ruin the lives of hundreds (if not thousands, or tens of thousands) of people, just so some execs can make a little more cash? And also, don't college students have a tendency to rebel against things like this? There's going to be a gigantic uprising...
I want one of those as my UPS... I wonder how many VA it is (I can't RTFA because it requires a subscription)... How much did this thing cost, BTW? It might have made more sense to create a smaller UPS just to power essential systems (water pumps, hospitals, etc.)...
In February, the FCC freed the ILECs from a requirement that they lease at regulated discounted rates the portion of their networks that competitors use to provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) (i.e., broadband) service.
This means that, with a decrease in competition, we'll see a nice big hike in the cost of DSL... Welcome to America, where the government bows to the will of the big companies...
I'm assuming that sound cards use a decent amount of bandwidth... USB 1.1 (no USB 2.0 sound "cards" that I know of): 12 Mbps. PCI: Ummm... Higher... In the gigabit range, I believe... PCI has a much higher bandwidth than that of USB, so it's better for applications like that (although a USB video card would be useful)... Yeah...
3. Thereby facilitating a new form of social selection in humans, whereby our computers automatically figure out whether we are meant to fall in love, be friends, etc. Will there be an upgrade I can get to automatically find people I don't like and make their computer trigger all their nerves?
Ignoring size, how does the cost of a cluster of fewer, highly specialized computers (with special interconnects, etc.) compare with that of a cluster of more, less specialized computers?
Ah... I didn't know what the test setup would be... I seem to recall stackable modules that were about two inches square, but I don't remember what they were called... Sorry!
Hold on... You'll be giving tests to kids on these and you're equipping them with Wi-Fi? That's just asking for cheating... What kind of test are you giving? Chances are, you could give it without the need for Wi-Fi, and probably without the need for a computer (also the cheapest solution)...
From the article: "But even if Moore's Law could continue to spawn ever-tinier chips, small electronic devices are plagued by a big problem: energy loss, or dissipation, as signals pass from one transistor to the next. Line up all the tiny wires that connect the transistors in a Pentium chip, and the total length would stretch almost a mile. A lot of useful energy is lost as heat as electrons travel that distance. Theoretical physicists at Stanford and the University of Tokyo think they've found a way to solve the dissipation problem by manipulating a neglected property of the electron - its ''spin,'' or orientation, typically described by its quantum state as ''up'' or ''down.'' "
"With lack of dissipation, spintronics may be the best mechanism for creating ever-smaller devices."
Ah, yes. The Metreon, owned (seemingly) by Sony. It's got some kiddie stuff, but some great stores (Sony and Microsoft [hey, they have computers with joysticks and games loaded on them free to play]), and a good arcade that's nothing like what you've seen before (it's all VR stuff)...
On the other side of the cage, a second mouse performs backflips, one per second, for up to 30 minutes at a time. Nah, it was just training for the Olympics...
How's the screen and keyboard? I drooled over the Actius MM10 for months, but when I went to Micro Center I immediately hated it. The 10" screen tries to pack in a resolution of 1024 x 768, and the keyboard is tiny. Heck, the thing is even missing one of the shift keys... Since most of what I do on a subnote is typing (since, given their power, they aren't decent for gaming), screen size and keyboard usability (and battery life) are some of the largest factors for me. My iBook has a great keyboard (the one on the 12" PB G4 is even better), an amazing screen, and a battery life of over four hours. The only thing I don't like about it is the lack of a PCMCIA slot and the fact that Apple tech repair keeps sending it back with problems (the thing is making this really annoying ticking noise, and the ethernet port is shot). The ethernet port wouldn't be such a big deal, except that it has no PCMCIA slot for me to plug an adapter into, there are no Mac drivers for any USB adapters, and they want 600ish bucks to get the motherboard replaced...
Conclusion: Macs make great lightweight notebooks, but have a few design flaws. All in all, they're probably better than the new Sony laptop.
SCO will hold harmless commercial Linux customers that purchase a UnixWare license against any past copyright violations, and for any future use of Linux in a run-only, binary format. Does anybody else think this sounds a bit like blackmail? Also, this undermines the core belief of Linux, which (AFAIK) is that it should be free and modifiable by anyone... What would happen if all the Linux users boycotted the license? It'd probably put SCO down the sh*tter (farther than it already is) I'm not sure where we'd go, though... Maybe BeOS (gasp!) or something... Does anyone know if Plan 9 is based on System V?
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Soo... Does this mean that someone could get immunity from the RIAA by simply deleting all their stuff once they get a court order? Or would they have to do that before the court order?
Anybody know what speed processor the thing uses? The Imageon would be great, though...
What the hell are you talking about? When I got my license about 3 or 4 years ago, I was instantly accepted by the hams in my club (BARC). If I needed help, they'd give it to me. They're the nicest group of people I've ever met, and they're really interesting to be around (they're also a bunch of nerds). I don't know who you met, but I haven't met a single rude or condesending ham in my entire operating period.
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They're targeting high school and college students... Who tend to not have much money... Will they really be allowed to ruin the lives of hundreds (if not thousands, or tens of thousands) of people, just so some execs can make a little more cash? And also, don't college students have a tendency to rebel against things like this? There's going to be a gigantic uprising...
I want one of those as my UPS... I wonder how many VA it is (I can't RTFA because it requires a subscription)... How much did this thing cost, BTW? It might have made more sense to create a smaller UPS just to power essential systems (water pumps, hospitals, etc.)...
Too much water will kill you.
Duh!
I'm assuming that sound cards use a decent amount of bandwidth... USB 1.1 (no USB 2.0 sound "cards" that I know of): 12 Mbps. PCI: Ummm... Higher... In the gigabit range, I believe...
PCI has a much higher bandwidth than that of USB, so it's better for applications like that (although a USB video card would be useful)... Yeah...
3. Thereby facilitating a new form of social selection in humans, whereby our computers automatically figure out whether we are meant to fall in love, be friends, etc.
Will there be an upgrade I can get to automatically find people I don't like and make their computer trigger all their nerves?
Ignoring size, how does the cost of a cluster of fewer, highly specialized computers (with special interconnects, etc.) compare with that of a cluster of more, less specialized computers?
Ah... I didn't know what the test setup would be... I seem to recall stackable modules that were about two inches square, but I don't remember what they were called... Sorry!
Hold on... You'll be giving tests to kids on these and you're equipping them with Wi-Fi? That's just asking for cheating... What kind of test are you giving? Chances are, you could give it without the need for Wi-Fi, and probably without the need for a computer (also the cheapest solution)...
Thus, you won't be able to have a daughter. Clean floors! :P
"But even if Moore's Law could continue to spawn ever-tinier chips, small electronic devices are plagued by a big problem: energy loss, or dissipation, as signals pass from one transistor to the next. Line up all the tiny wires that connect the transistors in a Pentium chip, and the total length would stretch almost a mile. A lot of useful energy is lost as heat as electrons travel that distance. Theoretical physicists at Stanford and the University of Tokyo think they've found a way to solve the dissipation problem by manipulating a neglected property of the electron - its ''spin,'' or orientation, typically described by its quantum state as ''up'' or ''down.'' "
"With lack of dissipation, spintronics may be the best mechanism for creating ever-smaller devices."
I think trying to take Linux over and undermining one of the main things it stands for (the GPL) is malicious intent to damage it...
Ah, yes. The Metreon, owned (seemingly) by Sony. It's got some kiddie stuff, but some great stores (Sony and Microsoft [hey, they have computers with joysticks and games loaded on them free to play]), and a good arcade that's nothing like what you've seen before (it's all VR stuff)...
... and get an arrhythmia...
Why embed all of Mozilla? I'm positive that for most of these apps, all that would be needed is Firebird...
Will this put an end to the multitude of distros that we all know and love? I don't like being locked into a single distro...
Would Flash work for something like that? I'm not sure how the speed compares to Java, though...
On the other side of the cage, a second mouse performs backflips, one per second, for up to 30 minutes at a time.
Nah, it was just training for the Olympics...
How's the screen and keyboard? I drooled over the Actius MM10 for months, but when I went to Micro Center I immediately hated it. The 10" screen tries to pack in a resolution of 1024 x 768, and the keyboard is tiny. Heck, the thing is even missing one of the shift keys... Since most of what I do on a subnote is typing (since, given their power, they aren't decent for gaming), screen size and keyboard usability (and battery life) are some of the largest factors for me. My iBook has a great keyboard (the one on the 12" PB G4 is even better), an amazing screen, and a battery life of over four hours. The only thing I don't like about it is the lack of a PCMCIA slot and the fact that Apple tech repair keeps sending it back with problems (the thing is making this really annoying ticking noise, and the ethernet port is shot). The ethernet port wouldn't be such a big deal, except that it has no PCMCIA slot for me to plug an adapter into, there are no Mac drivers for any USB adapters, and they want 600ish bucks to get the motherboard replaced... Conclusion: Macs make great lightweight notebooks, but have a few design flaws. All in all, they're probably better than the new Sony laptop.
Oh shit... The aliens got out of Area 51... Where's Will Smith when you need him?
SCO will hold harmless commercial Linux customers that purchase a UnixWare license against any past copyright violations, and for any future use of Linux in a run-only, binary format.
Does anybody else think this sounds a bit like blackmail? Also, this undermines the core belief of Linux, which (AFAIK) is that it should be free and modifiable by anyone... What would happen if all the Linux users boycotted the license? It'd probably put SCO down the sh*tter (farther than it already is) I'm not sure where we'd go, though... Maybe BeOS (gasp!) or something... Does anyone know if Plan 9 is based on System V?