We, as a consumer group, do have the power to stop RIAA and MPAA cold. How? Stop listening to music on the radio, don't buy any new CDs (used is fine), turn off your TV (and cable/sat/uverse), and don't go to the movies. It will take only about six months to completely destroy RIAA and MPAA if as few as 20% of the people do this
I'm willing to bet it would to the exact opposite.
Once their profits start to plummet, they will blame it on piracy even if that excuse is bogus. Being that the RIAA and MPAA have Washington DC in their back pocket, they will urge for more laws and regulations to be passed in their favor.
Basically, RIAA and MPAA will act like SCO. Paint them into a corner and they will lash out violently. The last thing the RIAA and MPAA will do is fade away quietly into the abyss.
"...after you've been out of America for a while and gotten used to the sanity of daily Chinese life" emphasis mine
I cannot stress how true this is. The nanny-state psuedo science culture is KILLING western civilization.
If your an engineer looking to develop the next generation of technologies, China is the place to do it. It does have it's political downfalls, but for many well worth it temporarily for the job experience.
Did it ever occur to you that Slashdot is mainly left leaning and thus those on the right want to remain anonymous? For good reason: We are persecuted by a bunch of Stalinists. Some of us (such as myself) actually have the balls to stand up and tell it like it is... Obama is WORSE than Carter. And sure, we will be modded as a troll (or worse if given the option), but at least I understand that life is too short to care about what others think about me. I only care about the truth, and how THAT affects the world!
It's obvious the parent was modded a troll because FACTS are disturbing!!! Everyone needs to understand is that genuine evil permeates all of humanity regardless of your beliefs or lack there of.
Human beings are animals. Some are simply more civilized than others depending on whome you associate yourself with. Deal with it.
However, that explanation also leaves open the question of how the drive prevents data loss if it loses power. Worst case, the OS issues a write and the drive copies a 512KiB block to cache and erases the block, and then loses power. Due to remapping, literally anything could be in that half a MiB. The data loss could corrupt the file that was being modified, obviously, but also any other file on the drive, or parts of the filesystem itself.
Good question. I suppose a form of data journaling could be used. Perhaps it's already being implemented in the current firmware. Anyone know for sure?
Hey, how about just open sourcing that firmware and let everybody help make it even better? Just a thought.
Not going to happen.
They're in a competitive market of bleeding edge technologies such as SSD storage. They will want every advantage they can get. This will require both hardware and software optimizations make their product stand out among the competition.
I'm sure Intel will open up the open sourced spigot much like ATI has with older products. Just don't count on them from cutting edge products anytime soon.
Jindal is a anti-science loon. The GOP is an anti-intellectual party and they often make jabs at spending in the sciences. Its pathetic.
That's the biggest flaming ball of flamebait I've seen posted in a long time, and you know it!
Just because it's in the name of "Science" doesn't mean our government should be writing checks to every topic of study. Seriously, just replace "It's for the Children" with Science and you can see just how out of control it can get. Simply put, we have run out out money. What part of America do you live in that doesn't understand we are piss poor BROKE!!!
While not in principle, in practice; fascism is a cousin of communism. Just look around the world at all of the communist governments. China, N.Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela are all lead by a fascist beurocrocy.
A lot of that extra heat is radiated back into outer space as infrared. So no, we don't have to worry about a run-away green house effect so long as carbon emissions stay neutral or plateau in the future. Uncomfortable for us, but global plant life would love it while it remains in abundance (they will sequester it in due time).
If the Earth was unable to shed extra heat exothermically into space, we would have turned into Venus (or worse) long long ago.
I think the thing fucking sucks for doing much other than surfing the web and playing media.
I feel it's the other way around for my BlackBerry Curve 8330. It was a choice between the BB and iPhone. So I chose the superior business functionality that it provides. At least MP3 playback isn't so bad.:-/
So what about those who play games online through PC or X-Box 360? For example: if someone played WOW 6 hours each day for an entire month, what would it's monthly data transfer be?
Misery loves company. That's why many Statists will drag the rest of society down to their level. We must all suffer together so we may be bonded together with a closer kinship they say. Ya, right. Uh huh. Sure....
And people wonder how the horrors of Communism rears its ugly head throughout the world.
Don't worry brother. The church will move back to the underground much like it was during the Roman Empire. Well, at least before Constantine came into power.
I was thinking of a pressed CDROM made of pure platinum because it wont corrode. Expensive per byte; sure. How much is your data worth however?
Another idea is to encode data in DNA sequences spliced into the human genome. I'm not sure if there's a reliable algorithm that can read passed all of the mutations after X amount of generations into the future however.
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I'm willing to bet it would to the exact opposite.
Once their profits start to plummet, they will blame it on piracy even if that excuse is bogus. Being that the RIAA and MPAA have Washington DC in their back pocket, they will urge for more laws and regulations to be passed in their favor.
Basically, RIAA and MPAA will act like SCO. Paint them into a corner and they will lash out violently. The last thing the RIAA and MPAA will do is fade away quietly into the abyss.
I would choose A
We need the Oil and Defense Industry. The media industry however we can do without, especially due to draconian laws passed in their favor against us.
Seriously, when has BIG Oil and Defense sued thousands of kids on the basis of intellectual property (non-tangible resource)?
"...after you've been out of America for a while and gotten used to the sanity of daily Chinese life" emphasis mine
I cannot stress how true this is. The nanny-state psuedo science culture is KILLING western civilization.
If your an engineer looking to develop the next generation of technologies, China is the place to do it. It does have it's political downfalls, but for many well worth it temporarily for the job experience.
You're the one that's Astroturfing.
Did it ever occur to you that Slashdot is mainly left leaning and thus those on the right want to remain anonymous? For good reason: We are persecuted by a bunch of Stalinists. Some of us (such as myself) actually have the balls to stand up and tell it like it is... Obama is WORSE than Carter. And sure, we will be modded as a troll (or worse if given the option), but at least I understand that life is too short to care about what others think about me. I only care about the truth, and how THAT affects the world!
I'm glad you know where your priorities are in life and those around you.
Thank you for fucking America just so you could get your rocks off.
What proof is there that they were right last time?
We are discussing what we know today looking back. There are lessons to be learned in life you know.
What's that old saying? "Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame on me."
Getting a virus is free of charge. Running them is very costly!
Well then, it's settled. Microsoft should own the hardware in much the same way Apple owns theirs.
What, that scares you?! Get over it. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Is it reliable (as in stable)? Sure. I have yet to have Vista bomb out on me that wasn't due to a buggy 3rd party driver or faulty hardware.
Is it safe? Heh, so says the wife beater of software...
*sigh*
It's obvious the parent was modded a troll because FACTS are disturbing!!! Everyone needs to understand is that genuine evil permeates all of humanity regardless of your beliefs or lack there of.
Human beings are animals. Some are simply more civilized than others depending on whome you associate yourself with. Deal with it.
Good question. I suppose a form of data journaling could be used. Perhaps it's already being implemented in the current firmware. Anyone know for sure?
Hey, how about just open sourcing that firmware and let everybody help make it even better? Just a thought.
Not going to happen.
They're in a competitive market of bleeding edge technologies such as SSD storage. They will want every advantage they can get. This will require both hardware and software optimizations make their product stand out among the competition.
I'm sure Intel will open up the open sourced spigot much like ATI has with older products. Just don't count on them from cutting edge products anytime soon.
That's the biggest flaming ball of flamebait I've seen posted in a long time, and you know it!
Just because it's in the name of "Science" doesn't mean our government should be writing checks to every topic of study. Seriously, just replace "It's for the Children" with Science and you can see just how out of control it can get. Simply put, we have run out out money. What part of America do you live in that doesn't understand we are piss poor BROKE!!!
While not in principle, in practice; fascism is a cousin of communism. Just look around the world at all of the communist governments. China, N.Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela are all lead by a fascist beurocrocy.
A lot of that extra heat is radiated back into outer space as infrared. So no, we don't have to worry about a run-away green house effect so long as carbon emissions stay neutral or plateau in the future. Uncomfortable for us, but global plant life would love it while it remains in abundance (they will sequester it in due time).
If the Earth was unable to shed extra heat exothermically into space, we would have turned into Venus (or worse) long long ago.
I think the thing fucking sucks for doing much other than surfing the web and playing media.
I feel it's the other way around for my BlackBerry Curve 8330. It was a choice between the BB and iPhone. So I chose the superior business functionality that it provides. At least MP3 playback isn't so bad. :-/
So what about those who play games online through PC or X-Box 360? For example: if someone played WOW 6 hours each day for an entire month, what would it's monthly data transfer be?
Misery loves company. That's why many Statists will drag the rest of society down to their level. We must all suffer together so we may be bonded together with a closer kinship they say. Ya, right. Uh huh. Sure....
And people wonder how the horrors of Communism rears its ugly head throughout the world.
Don't be naive. Did you really think the Internet would remain some wild-wild-west fantasy of freedom?
Individual freedom is the antithesis to Political control.
They're politicians. It's their *job* to be assholes and douchbags.
You were asking a serious question right?
Don't worry brother. The church will move back to the underground much like it was during the Roman Empire. Well, at least before Constantine came into power.
What was one old becomes new again.
Close.
I was thinking of a pressed CDROM made of pure platinum because it wont corrode. Expensive per byte; sure. How much is your data worth however?
Another idea is to encode data in DNA sequences spliced into the human genome. I'm not sure if there's a reliable algorithm that can read passed all of the mutations after X amount of generations into the future however.
It's sick, and VILE! A life a fucking an puppy popping is all they do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyIJSsiJSs&feature=related
That's because they're statists. Nothing new here.
Umm, how many forklifts and 18 wheelers does it take to swap out 4.5 petabytes worth of data each day?