suddenly the hard drive manufacturers want to inflate the size of their drives to deceive customers;
It isn't sudden, sonny. They've been using metric measure of hard drive capacity back when hard drives were still measured in megabytes.
And remember those high-density 1.44 MB 3.5-inch disks? That "MB" is a combination of a metric 1000 and a binary 1024 factor. They're actually 1440 KiB disks.
For a long time the discrepancy between metric and binary maeasure was glossed over by saying it was "unformatted capacity" and that "formatted capacity" was much less. The truth is that the actual space taken up by formatting a drive for a particular filesystem is miniscule compared to the difference between a GB and a GiB. Yet people still quote the "formatted capacity" myth when trying to explain why their new 500 TB drive comes up 50 GB short.
It's just wrong to make people learn one special meaning of kilo- for computer memory and have every other unit in the world using the standard meaning. Or do you think a Liter of water should have a mass of 1024 grams?
It gets worse when you have to consider whether metric or binary measure is intended, especially when people are using them in DSL transfer rates. It's bad enough that people can't keep their bit and byte unit capitalization consistent (b vs. B). Is that megabytes per second or megabits per second? Surely not millibits per second! And is that mega- as in million or mega as in 1,048,576? Or is it 1,024,000? I know of one ISP that said their DSL transfer caps were metric. They wouldn't start charging for overages until the binary threshhold was passed, but the overage charge would be calculated from the amount you were over in metric units.
I too first objected to "kibibytes" as so much kibitzing (and snickered at my own cleverness at that), but the rationale behind it is sound. When I want to be absolutely clear, I will use GiB for binary gigabytes and metric-GB for metric gigabytes.
Besides, when you're talking about hundreds of gigabytes of storage, do you really care that the block size is a power of two anymore?
"Get with the times?" The time you want me to get with is the 20th Century. You should get with the 3rd Millennium.
Get with the times. The metric meanings as applied to units of bits and bytes have been officially adopted and tbe binary meanings are now tera-binary-bytes, tebibytes, or TiB and giga-binary-bytes, gibibytes, or GiB. (Similarly for MiB and KiB, and up the scale too.)
Google gibibytes to find out more, both for the official words and people still complaining about it (i.e. get both sides). Frankly, adopting kilo- because 1024 is close to 1000 was a bad idea from the start, and that choice is why there is a difference of nearly 0.1 TB between 1 TB and 1 TiB.
Just to be clear (in case I was being too subtle and/or obscure) mine was the following quote:
"We decided to make it a female so that it would be more docile and controllable." "More docile and controllable, huh? Well I guess you boys don't get out much."
-- Xavier Fitch, Preston Lennox; Species
Remember the ruling that if you advertise your software as having the function of violating copyright you are liable for contributory infringement?
Now extend that to advertising your software as creating barriers to law enforcement investigations. Conspiracy to obstruct justice in an investigation to which national security is attached?
The one thing they should not do is promote this as a feature of their browsers!
Meanwhile, with the open source browsers, this should give ideas to people who do want to hide this information to modify the source to make the information even more obfuscated and how to make attempts to use the browser itself to extract the information cause the data to self-destruct. The more unique your build, the better.
G4 wasn't carried in enough markets. TechTV was widely carried. G4 wanted TechTV's market penetration, and the price was right.
There are only two shows I currently watch on G4: X-Play and Anime Unleashed. I didn't watch Call For Help on TechTV, but I'll be recording it tomorrow, and get today's episode as a rerun on Saturday.
You misunderstand. I'm not talking about advertisements on free content, I'm talking about advertisements as free content. People don't expect to pay for the ads they receive, yet they can still derive entertainment value from them.
Now one could reasonably say that web-based ads aren't entertaining. There's not much you can do with an animated GIF and Flash ads are used to make them harder to ignore == more annoying.
But I am also part of that TiVo crowd and I will still watch an ad if it looks like it will be interesting. I'll replay good ads to friends, and sometimes even really bad ones ("You ever think you might have hworms?"). And I capture some to my computer and burn them to disks.
I expect my advertisements for free, which is why I don't visit adcritic.com since they went to a pay subscription model, pricing themselves for the advertising executive market (because they have to pay for their bandwidth so must charge to recoup their expenses--it was too popular to remain free).
That stil doesn't answer the question as to how a person can determine whether downloading a particular file is legal or not without seeing what data that file contains.
Indeed, while it would be illegal to, say, download a song by Madonna on P2P, it would not be illegal to download a file that purported to be that same song by Madonna but was instead a loop of her saying, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
She or her agents made that recording available for P2P. Even though she does still retain copyright over it, she has released it for distribution over that media. Any copies made over P2P of that WTFDYTYD recording are implicitly legal as the original "infringement" is in fact the copyright holder who cannot infringe the copyright of their own work.
It's like posting to Usenet and getting upset that millions of copies of your (by Berne Convention automatically copyrighted) message get made without your explicit permission. By posting to a medium where copying is inherent to the automatic function of the medium, you've given implicit permission for such copying.
so the fact that you bought them in the end made it any better?
"Yeah, I stole their single from the music store, but that made me want to buy the album with real money, so it's OK!"
As opposed to people being paid to work somewhere where the music is played and deciding to buy it? Or hearing it for free on the radio? Seems the difference is your argument requires the misappropriation of a physical object.
Last I checked they still sell devices in retail stores which will record music from radio signals to non-DRMed media! And they don't have to be hacked to do it; that ability is part of their intended design!
spell checkers won't catch their/they're/there or its/it's
"The... download now correctly rotate slots, aculeate and rotate contours and gives a correct dimension to be held for slots and holes."
The above was formed by joining three sentences (subject change from "we" resulting in the non-agreeing verbs), one too many characters getting deleted, an arguably missing comma, and a suggested correction from a spelling checker: the non-word "alculate" apparently was suggested to be replaced with "aculeate" instead of "calculate", which shows that even with a spelling checker, you still need to know what you're doing, or at least pay attention.
Personally I wish they could agree on a media-independent content structure (i.e. you can make a CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blue-Ray and the only difference was capacity), but no such luck.
I'm just hoping the burners come out fast enough and the players are good enough to play back multiple DVD images stored on a single HD-DVD/Blu-Ray burned disk, similar to how some players will play CD-Rs as DVDs if the filesystem is right. (No, I'm not talking about Video-CD.) It would be nice to be able to fit a whole SD run of a series on one disk, or at least a season or three, playing them back either as mountable images or remastered as one really big DVD filesystem.
Otherwise, with hard drives occasionally dropping to 8 GB for a dollar (160 GB for $120 - $20 coupon - $50 rebate - $30 rebate), I might just replace the DVD drive of a suitable player with a swappable drive bay.
Nah, part of the fun is to see if people recognize the quotes. Disclosing it would eliminate the fun. Take the last bit after the blockquote for example.
Seriously, MS has set up a bunch of machines that actively surf the web trolling for vulnerabilities. I guess it's the "If we can't code securely, at least we can find the holes to plug." theory. Considering IE, it's not a bad idea.
I'd have called them canaries.
In the 19th Century, when miners went down a pit, they'd lower a canary down first in a little cage, and if the atmosphere was noxious, as it frequently was, guess what the canary did. It died!
The canary's job was to go into the most dangerous, unpleasant, and smeggy situations and see if it could stay alive. Then they'd know if it was safe to send in the important people.
Also, in one of the many wars on our miserable little planet, we used to drive sheep across minefields. The principle is the same.
No music, but you could do the same with Copy ][ Plus an 800 KB RAMdisk.
And ProDOS made it pretty easy to write your own sector copy code in assembly, so no tell-tale UI. The built-in disassembler even recognized the calls.
More like getting rid of first sale doctrine. This is saying you don't own your player or your media, you're licensing it, except without the concomitant reduction in price.
With such a communication channel, they could also still-birth the used HD-DVD/Blu-Ray market and control who is allowed to offer rental services. Individual disks could be married to individual players, divorceable only by paying an additional fee (bulk discounts for Blockbuster, NetFlix locked out, or use it to gather data about the rental market).
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suddenly the hard drive manufacturers want to inflate the size of their drives to deceive customers;
It isn't sudden, sonny. They've been using metric measure of hard drive capacity back when hard drives were still measured in megabytes.
And remember those high-density 1.44 MB 3.5-inch disks? That "MB" is a combination of a metric 1000 and a binary 1024 factor. They're actually 1440 KiB disks.
For a long time the discrepancy between metric and binary maeasure was glossed over by saying it was "unformatted capacity" and that "formatted capacity" was much less. The truth is that the actual space taken up by formatting a drive for a particular filesystem is miniscule compared to the difference between a GB and a GiB. Yet people still quote the "formatted capacity" myth when trying to explain why their new 500 TB drive comes up 50 GB short.
It's just wrong to make people learn one special meaning of kilo- for computer memory and have every other unit in the world using the standard meaning. Or do you think a Liter of water should have a mass of 1024 grams?
It gets worse when you have to consider whether metric or binary measure is intended, especially when people are using them in DSL transfer rates. It's bad enough that people can't keep their bit and byte unit capitalization consistent (b vs. B). Is that megabytes per second or megabits per second? Surely not millibits per second! And is that mega- as in million or mega as in 1,048,576? Or is it 1,024,000? I know of one ISP that said their DSL transfer caps were metric. They wouldn't start charging for overages until the binary threshhold was passed, but the overage charge would be calculated from the amount you were over in metric units.
I too first objected to "kibibytes" as so much kibitzing (and snickered at my own cleverness at that), but the rationale behind it is sound. When I want to be absolutely clear, I will use GiB for binary gigabytes and metric-GB for metric gigabytes.
Besides, when you're talking about hundreds of gigabytes of storage, do you really care that the block size is a power of two anymore?
"Get with the times?" The time you want me to get with is the 20th Century. You should get with the 3rd Millennium.
unless he plans on retiring he would not make that bold of claims.
They certainly are bold claims. In fact, almost the whole damn site is in bold type!
Get with the times. The metric meanings as applied to units of bits and bytes have been officially adopted and tbe binary meanings are now tera-binary-bytes, tebibytes, or TiB and giga-binary-bytes, gibibytes, or GiB. (Similarly for MiB and KiB, and up the scale too.)
Google gibibytes to find out more, both for the official words and people still complaining about it (i.e. get both sides). Frankly, adopting kilo- because 1024 is close to 1000 was a bad idea from the start, and that choice is why there is a difference of nearly 0.1 TB between 1 TB and 1 TiB.
Terrabyte? My god, the disks must be the size of a planet!
species sucked
What's your point?
Just to be clear (in case I was being too subtle and/or obscure) mine was the following quote:
"We decided to make it a female so that it would be more docile and controllable."
"More docile and controllable, huh? Well I guess you boys don't get out much."
-- Xavier Fitch, Preston Lennox; Species
It has 2 n's.
And the way to remember it is to remember how it is derived:
mille == thousand, annus == years, thus millennium == a thousand years
whereas:
mille == thousand, anus == anal orifice, thus millenium == a thousand assholes
Similarly, milenium == a mile of assholes.
Understanding language can be fun.
Remember the ruling that if you advertise your software as having the function of violating copyright you are liable for contributory infringement?
Now extend that to advertising your software as creating barriers to law enforcement investigations. Conspiracy to obstruct justice in an investigation to which national security is attached?
The one thing they should not do is promote this as a feature of their browsers!
Meanwhile, with the open source browsers, this should give ideas to people who do want to hide this information to modify the source to make the information even more obfuscated and how to make attempts to use the browser itself to extract the information cause the data to self-destruct. The more unique your build, the better.
Maybe this would be a cure for violent criminal men. They would be a lot more docile as women.
Go rent the movie Species.
Seriously, I never understood why they merged.
G4 wasn't carried in enough markets. TechTV was widely carried. G4 wanted TechTV's market penetration, and the price was right.
There are only two shows I currently watch on G4: X-Play and Anime Unleashed. I didn't watch Call For Help on TechTV, but I'll be recording it tomorrow, and get today's episode as a rerun on Saturday.
Just what is with the Furry Fridays on G4?
You misunderstand. I'm not talking about advertisements on free content, I'm talking about advertisements as free content. People don't expect to pay for the ads they receive, yet they can still derive entertainment value from them.
Now one could reasonably say that web-based ads aren't entertaining. There's not much you can do with an animated GIF and Flash ads are used to make them harder to ignore == more annoying.
But I am also part of that TiVo crowd and I will still watch an ad if it looks like it will be interesting. I'll replay good ads to friends, and sometimes even really bad ones ("You ever think you might have hworms?"). And I capture some to my computer and burn them to disks.
I expect my advertisements for free, which is why I don't visit adcritic.com since they went to a pay subscription model, pricing themselves for the advertising executive market (because they have to pay for their bandwidth so must charge to recoup their expenses--it was too popular to remain free).
And just out of curiosity, what new business model (paid content) works when people think that they're entitled to it for free?
Advertisement.
That stil doesn't answer the question as to how a person can determine whether downloading a particular file is legal or not without seeing what data that file contains.
Indeed, while it would be illegal to, say, download a song by Madonna on P2P, it would not be illegal to download a file that purported to be that same song by Madonna but was instead a loop of her saying, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
She or her agents made that recording available for P2P. Even though she does still retain copyright over it, she has released it for distribution over that media. Any copies made over P2P of that WTFDYTYD recording are implicitly legal as the original "infringement" is in fact the copyright holder who cannot infringe the copyright of their own work.
It's like posting to Usenet and getting upset that millions of copies of your (by Berne Convention automatically copyrighted) message get made without your explicit permission. By posting to a medium where copying is inherent to the automatic function of the medium, you've given implicit permission for such copying.
IANAL
so the fact that you bought them in the end made it any better?
"Yeah, I stole their single from the music store, but that made me want to buy the album with real money, so it's OK!"
As opposed to people being paid to work somewhere where the music is played and deciding to buy it? Or hearing it for free on the radio? Seems the difference is your argument requires the misappropriation of a physical object.
Last I checked they still sell devices in retail stores which will record music from radio signals to non-DRMed media! And they don't have to be hacked to do it; that ability is part of their intended design!
I still don't know anybody who's ever bought a piece of dual layer media though...
Well then, I have three. I haven't used them yet though. I'm still working through my earlier bulk purchase of 500 DVD-Rs.
So he originally wrote "an early adopter", then inserted "so called" and forgot to change "an" to "a" to agree. It's an easy enough mistake to make.
spell checkers won't catch their/they're/there or its/it's
"The... download now correctly rotate slots, aculeate and rotate contours and gives a correct dimension to be held for slots and holes."
The above was formed by joining three sentences (subject change from "we" resulting in the non-agreeing verbs), one too many characters getting deleted, an arguably missing comma, and a suggested correction from a spelling checker: the non-word "alculate" apparently was suggested to be replaced with "aculeate" instead of "calculate", which shows that even with a spelling checker, you still need to know what you're doing, or at least pay attention.
But at least "dimention" was caught.
I'll bet on whatever format the Porn industry chooses. 8^).
Don't think the porn industry won't go both ways (and a few others besides).
Seriously though, there was porn available on BetaMax. That industry is big enough to be able to afford covering all the bases.
Personally I wish they could agree on a media-independent content structure (i.e. you can make a CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blue-Ray and the only difference was capacity), but no such luck.
I'm just hoping the burners come out fast enough and the players are good enough to play back multiple DVD images stored on a single HD-DVD/Blu-Ray burned disk, similar to how some players will play CD-Rs as DVDs if the filesystem is right. (No, I'm not talking about Video-CD.) It would be nice to be able to fit a whole SD run of a series on one disk, or at least a season or three, playing them back either as mountable images or remastered as one really big DVD filesystem.
Otherwise, with hard drives occasionally dropping to 8 GB for a dollar (160 GB for $120 - $20 coupon - $50 rebate - $30 rebate), I might just replace the DVD drive of a suitable player with a swappable drive bay.
Nah, part of the fun is to see if people recognize the quotes. Disclosing it would eliminate the fun. Take the last bit after the blockquote for example.
I'd have called them canaries.
Also, in one of the many wars on our miserable little planet, we used to drive sheep across minefields. The principle is the same.
r00t3dz0rd: Either I don't get it or that's just not funny.
Or did you just misspell your l33t? (And how would one tell?)
No music, but you could do the same with Copy ][ Plus an 800 KB RAMdisk.
And ProDOS made it pretty easy to write your own sector copy code in assembly, so no tell-tale UI. The built-in disassembler even recognized the calls.
Isn't this a violation of fair use?
More like getting rid of first sale doctrine. This is saying you don't own your player or your media, you're licensing it, except without the concomitant reduction in price.
With such a communication channel, they could also still-birth the used HD-DVD/Blu-Ray market and control who is allowed to offer rental services. Individual disks could be married to individual players, divorceable only by paying an additional fee (bulk discounts for Blockbuster, NetFlix locked out, or use it to gather data about the rental market).
No company in their right mind would require the end user to have to wire out an ethernet connection to these boxes in order to simply play a disc.
At least, not again.
well, I don't think any game can really be replicated in the real world (legally). Especially not FPS...
Sure you can. They're doing it now in Iraq. And almost anyone can join in.
Metaphysically however, I don't think you can replicate the respawning.