Let's say you get 3 strikes and suddenly your bandwidth is "shaped" so that you can get email...slowly... and that's about it.
Are you going to stop listening to music? No.
So. You go over your friend's house with a blank hard drive and copy his entire collection. Ding. Done.
I have 35,056 songs in iTunes. I've downloaded, at most, 100 of them. Much of what I have is from my massive CD/LP collection (2300 units). The rest? LAN parties.
Right now I could easily slip a USB drive in the mail and send 16 gigs of audio (about 3000 songs) to a friend. They then copy it to their drive at their leisure, and don't have to deal with bandwidth issues. They then erase the drive and send me 16 gigs back.
Not that I would do that (16 gig drives are still too expensive, IMHO) but I'm simply pointing out that this won't stop file sharing. Period.
Note the three people advocating:
Lily Allen: marginally talented hack and hypocrite.
Sandie Shaw: has been who never was much and had her last top 10 hit when the Beatles were still together.
George Michael: has been whose value was created during the age of vinyl and the early CD period, making what is best described as "pop bilge".
No, I think it's more akin to "Oh yeah? Your mother wears army boots!"
HAHAHAHAA!
Yeah - you've got a point. From my end, I used to work at ATT back in the evil early 80s, and it was one of the most corrupt and arrogant places I was ever involved with. And they were always the people bringing a knife to a gun fight - fighting this year's war with last year's technology and last decade's strategy. Clusterfuck central. There are ways to deal with all of this, but ATT lacks the creativity, and Google is too opportunistic to work any of it out. Sigh. Trainwreck on the count of three... 1... 2...
I know it's frustrating. I *am* a socialist. I also don't live in the USA. And while you and I can argue about the merits of these differing ideologies, and might even get heated about it, as long as we're using facts in the language of fact, then we're not trolling and we're not flamebaiting. but that seems to be the modus operandi of many of the mods / fellow posters and readers here on slashdot.
I think a way to eliminate this problem would be to de-anonymise modding. A post's mods should transparent to all.
Another thing that could help would be to open up another dimension of rating - kind of how stories have tag lines. But as it is, the present system, while not broken, is clearly dysfunctional.
Parent is NOT a troll. Angry and sharp, yes, but he's not trolling. I don't agree with him much, but he did point out useful facts, and just because you disagree with someone is no reason to call them a troll. I found this post to be insightful, if misguided. I'd critique it further, but I'm simply out of time today. This use of "Troll mod to all who disagree with me" is far too common here on slashdot.
They won't of course, and this will be a good thing: FINALLY Yahoo will stop feeding me their noisome bullshit they call "news". I go there for email. I don't care about the biggest hamburger of all time, or what the latest scoop is on the Hollywood douchebag du jour. Likely, "news" will then become a feature of the "Premier" or paid account on Yahoo, which is FINE BY ME. Good grief, I could vomit with all the details I've been bombarded about Jon and Kate, and I don't even watch the damn show or have slightest care who the fuck these idiots are.
The entire film crew, actors, and craft people are friend into plasma because they were Acting Like Terrorists.
It's just another bloated pentagon pork project of no real value or merit. We see this all the time. It reminds me of avant garde art, only 10,000x more expensive and twice as pointless. But only half as ugly.
I agree. I do a lot of mixing and some mastering work. Just out of curiosity - what do you use for audio standard candle listening?
I use these:
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat, remastered. (specifically, the title track and Joan of Arc)
Dave Brubeck - Take Five (hissy from the old tape, but a WONDERFUL recording)
Espers - The Weed Tree (stunningly well recorded. They sound like they are in your room. amazing.)
the Band - The Band (but only one track: #17 the out-take of Whispering Pines. Amazing recording quality. Performance is awesome, but flawed in a few minor places. The released version is a great performance, but sucks ass in sound quality.)
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (the latest rev - not the first CD release. And only the first three minutes of the first song. After that the mellotron comes in and the mix turns to shit.)
There are others that I use, but those area few of my base recordings for testing.
He's not trolling. Who ever modded him a troll is an asshole. And I am not trolling , either - just stating facts. He was polite, and well spoken. Just because you disagree with him doesn't make him a troll.
I don't have a cellphone because I hate being tethered. I don't have an iPod or Zune because I don't need one - I am blessed/cursed with a musical memory and have thousands of songs stored up in my head. It's nice when it works well, but for a week I had the theme to "Captain Kangaroo" in my noggin. Still, I don't need an iPod thingie. I don't need a GPS - I have an excellent sense of direction, and my car has (lots of) maps in it. My computer is a laptop that rarely moves from the desk, as my desk and chair in my home office ROCK and I have a top notch sound system for background music when my brain doesn't have the cycles to think and churn tunes for me. Video player is in the TV room. I rarely watch - I'm too busy, usually.
As a consequence, I don't get the hype - I don't see the value in much of the technical gadgetry. That said, I am thinking of getting an iPod, if only for the reason of putting music in the car for guests who don't have access to my mind's jukebox or care for my singing voice...
I think that is an excellent question. It's the classic divide between Einstein and Bohr. For Einstein, gravity is geometric, for Bohr et al, it is a product of Stuff and Stuff exists as particles, waves, and/or both.
If they don't find gravity waves in this attempt, I would suspect the following to happen:
A: One bunch, the Einsteins of the lot will say "Well, I toldja so..."
B: The Quantum types will simple demand more money for an even bigger test that will look at clusters of Galaxies or some such conglomeration of Stuff.
When that test fails, go back to step A. Rinse. Repeat.
Even more, unfortunately, screen clickers have to be set when the design is finalised, and any changes require changes to the click tests. From my experience, given the expense of hiring 3 QA programmers, you can hire 1 programmer (to write white and grey box QA tests) 1 black box tester and 6 temporary testers for a few weeks. The black box tester writes the tests and the 6 hired monkeys come in and bang on shit till it breaks.
It's easier to keep a team informed than it is to rewrite scripts, and then test the scripts (for black box stuff).
for white box (unit testing, code check, verification, section testing, etc.) you do need a programmer. For grey box (like build engineering, code repository, server balancing, load testing, transaction tracing, etc.) you need a programmer,but not one as sophisticated as the white box stuff.
Bah. EBay makes jillions of dollars. A room full of such machines is peanuts to them. And legacy machines? even cheaper.
The machines are of little expense - a full blown quadcore is what? $3000?
No, it's Labour. They don't want to hire a fleet of people they see as little more than monkeys pushing buttons, much less training them, paying them a salary, and health benefits. Even a low end flunky in Silicon Valley is $50k. With benefits, the company will pay $75k. Multiply that by (however many you need), and now you're talking real money... and since teams over 10 or 12 get unweildly, you need "lead" QA and they cost more...
You can ship it to India, but then you have even more problems with cultural expectations and differences. Then it all comes back to CA. No, frankly there is no substitute for quality QA. It makes the difference between a hackjob and something that works.
Look at Apollo 13. it is still the greatest single failure of hardware in space, and the mission was successful, if not totally complete, thanks in large part to direct human control.
Nonsense. Apollo 13 did not land on the moon. They got part way there, shit blowed up, and they got the nickel tour of the backside of the moon to slingshot back to earth. The missions was NOT successful, except in the sense that people went into space and came back alive.
Barely.
A robotic mission that blew up en route to the moon would be a bummer and just as much a failure as 13, but less of a problem as no humans would be scrambling with duct tape flashlights and pencils trying to survive. There are no funerals after a robotic mission failure. And: they are cheaper.
Unmanned space exploration has proven to be so much more enlightening and worthwhile. What the HST, Voyager, Cassini, the Mars Rovers, and countless other probes and satellites, and soon, Kepler, have provided us has completely dwarfed the ISS and Apollo.
FF 3.5 is a crashy mess. I have NO plug ins. It regularly refuses to render a page. I click try again and BANG, it renders. I'm pretty sick of FF doing that. It also crashes a lot.
Opera works fine - its quick and has never crashed. I don't care for the UI much. It has a built in Torrent client, so I like using it in te background sometimes.
Chromes is not on the mac. Boo.
Camino is also lightweight but not super snappy, and sometimes things render completely wrong and ugly.
Safari sucks hairy donkey balls.
So, as a consequence, I tend to run FF or Camino. If Chrome was on the Mac, I'd certainly give it a solid run. I am very serious about FF's screw ups. It's very disappointing.
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make Firefox better than Chrome, so people won't bother with Chrome frames. Until then, STFU.
Are you going to stop listening to music? No.
So. You go over your friend's house with a blank hard drive and copy his entire collection. Ding. Done.
I have 35,056 songs in iTunes. I've downloaded, at most, 100 of them. Much of what I have is from my massive CD/LP collection (2300 units). The rest? LAN parties.
Right now I could easily slip a USB drive in the mail and send 16 gigs of audio (about 3000 songs) to a friend. They then copy it to their drive at their leisure, and don't have to deal with bandwidth issues. They then erase the drive and send me 16 gigs back.
Not that I would do that (16 gig drives are still too expensive, IMHO) but I'm simply pointing out that this won't stop file sharing. Period.
Note the three people advocating:
Lily Allen: marginally talented hack and hypocrite.
Sandie Shaw: has been who never was much and had her last top 10 hit when the Beatles were still together.
George Michael: has been whose value was created during the age of vinyl and the early CD period, making what is best described as "pop bilge".
Losers. The lot of them.
Proceed.
RS
HAHAHAHAA!
Yeah - you've got a point. From my end, I used to work at ATT back in the evil early 80s, and it was one of the most corrupt and arrogant places I was ever involved with. And they were always the people bringing a knife to a gun fight - fighting this year's war with last year's technology and last decade's strategy. Clusterfuck central. There are ways to deal with all of this, but ATT lacks the creativity, and Google is too opportunistic to work any of it out. Sigh. Trainwreck on the count of three... 1... 2...
I think a way to eliminate this problem would be to de-anonymise modding. A post's mods should transparent to all.
Another thing that could help would be to open up another dimension of rating - kind of how stories have tag lines. But as it is, the present system, while not broken, is clearly dysfunctional.
cheers,
RS
...get shot by those who don't.
Parent is NOT a troll. Angry and sharp, yes, but he's not trolling. I don't agree with him much, but he did point out useful facts, and just because you disagree with someone is no reason to call them a troll. I found this post to be insightful, if misguided. I'd critique it further, but I'm simply out of time today. This use of "Troll mod to all who disagree with me" is far too common here on slashdot.
I would like to see how the computer grades for insight.
RS
It's just another bloated pentagon pork project of no real value or merit. We see this all the time. It reminds me of avant garde art, only 10,000x more expensive and twice as pointless. But only half as ugly.
RS
We don't need more carbon in the atmosphere. The oil is worth more as material: plastic / carbon fibre / nanotubes / etc.
Eeeeew! I don't think so!
I use these:
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat, remastered. (specifically, the title track and Joan of Arc)
Dave Brubeck - Take Five (hissy from the old tape, but a WONDERFUL recording)
Espers - The Weed Tree (stunningly well recorded. They sound like they are in your room. amazing.)
the Band - The Band (but only one track: #17 the out-take of Whispering Pines. Amazing recording quality. Performance is awesome, but flawed in a few minor places. The released version is a great performance, but sucks ass in sound quality.)
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (the latest rev - not the first CD release. And only the first three minutes of the first song. After that the mellotron comes in and the mix turns to shit.)
There are others that I use, but those area few of my base recordings for testing.
RS
He's not trolling. Who ever modded him a troll is an asshole. And I am not trolling , either - just stating facts. He was polite, and well spoken. Just because you disagree with him doesn't make him a troll.
As a consequence, I don't get the hype - I don't see the value in much of the technical gadgetry. That said, I am thinking of getting an iPod, if only for the reason of putting music in the car for guests who don't have access to my mind's jukebox or care for my singing voice...
RS
If they don't find gravity waves in this attempt, I would suspect the following to happen:
A: One bunch, the Einsteins of the lot will say "Well, I toldja so..."
B: The Quantum types will simple demand more money for an even bigger test that will look at clusters of Galaxies or some such conglomeration of Stuff.
When that test fails, go back to step A. Rinse. Repeat.
RS
And disabling the GPS would be trivial.
Idiots.
RS
Even more, unfortunately, screen clickers have to be set when the design is finalised, and any changes require changes to the click tests. From my experience, given the expense of hiring 3 QA programmers, you can hire 1 programmer (to write white and grey box QA tests) 1 black box tester and 6 temporary testers for a few weeks. The black box tester writes the tests and the 6 hired monkeys come in and bang on shit till it breaks.
It's easier to keep a team informed than it is to rewrite scripts, and then test the scripts (for black box stuff).
for white box (unit testing, code check, verification, section testing, etc.) you do need a programmer. For grey box (like build engineering, code repository, server balancing, load testing, transaction tracing, etc.) you need a programmer ,but not one as sophisticated as the white box stuff.
cheers,
HW
The machines are of little expense - a full blown quadcore is what? $3000?
No, it's Labour. They don't want to hire a fleet of people they see as little more than monkeys pushing buttons, much less training them, paying them a salary, and health benefits. Even a low end flunky in Silicon Valley is $50k. With benefits, the company will pay $75k. Multiply that by (however many you need), and now you're talking real money... and since teams over 10 or 12 get unweildly, you need "lead" QA and they cost more...
You can ship it to India, but then you have even more problems with cultural expectations and differences. Then it all comes back to CA. No, frankly there is no substitute for quality QA. It makes the difference between a hackjob and something that works.
I want to EAT the ancient plant! NOM NOM NOM...
RS
God ferbid they spend a dime on honest to goodness black box QA testing on all platforms and browsers.
Nonsense. Apollo 13 did not land on the moon. They got part way there, shit blowed up, and they got the nickel tour of the backside of the moon to slingshot back to earth. The missions was NOT successful, except in the sense that people went into space and came back alive.
Barely.
A robotic mission that blew up en route to the moon would be a bummer and just as much a failure as 13, but less of a problem as no humans would be scrambling with duct tape flashlights and pencils trying to survive. There are no funerals after a robotic mission failure. And: they are cheaper.
How much would a manned mission to Titan cost?
Been there, done that, with robots.
How much would a manned mission to Venus cost?
Been there, done that with robots.
RS
RS
got it rolling - WAY better than FF. Fast, crisp, no nonsense. We are pleased. Thanks for the url!
thanks! I'll look into that...
FF 3.5 is a crashy mess. I have NO plug ins. It regularly refuses to render a page. I click try again and BANG, it renders. I'm pretty sick of FF doing that. It also crashes a lot.
Opera works fine - its quick and has never crashed. I don't care for the UI much. It has a built in Torrent client, so I like using it in te background sometimes.
Chromes is not on the mac. Boo.
Camino is also lightweight but not super snappy, and sometimes things render completely wrong and ugly.
Safari sucks hairy donkey balls.
So, as a consequence, I tend to run FF or Camino. If Chrome was on the Mac, I'd certainly give it a solid run. I am very serious about FF's screw ups. It's very disappointing.