Every stream of bits can be interpreted as audio, so technically, if you're using the internet, you're "downloading music". Not to mention how many times your computer copies it around.
Someone been reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
Because he was too tired to think particularly constructively tonight he savagely selected and copied a whole swathe of figures from the spreadsheet at random, pasted them into his own conversion program, which scaled and filtered and manipulated the figures according to his own experimental algorithms, loaded the converted file into Performer, a powerful sequencer program, and played the result through random MIDI channels to whichever synthesizers happened to be on at the moment.
The result was a short burst of the most hideous cacophony, and he stopped it.
He ran the conversion program again, this time instructing it to force-map the pitch values into G minor. This was a utility he was determined in the end to get rid of because he regarded it as cheating. If there was any basis to his firmly held belief that the rhythms and harmonies of music which he found most satisfying could be found in, or at least derived from, the rhythms and harmonies of naturally occurring phenomena, then satisfying forms of modality and intonation should emerge naturally as well, rather than being forced.
For the moment, though, he forced it.
The result was a short burst of the most hideous cacophony in G minor.
Try getting a static IP with most ISP's these days. Usually that's "Business" and you have to give up your ability to have other services if you get it.
I have five static IPs with my ADSL service and free hosting of one domain with ssh login at my ISP. And that's under their "DSL Basic" plan. All the plans available include at least one static IP.
Currently the states retain the power to create monopolies if they are foolish enough to do so however, an amendment to the constitution forbidding state and federally created monopolies or one at the state level would suffice.
That won't do much to prevent cities from establishing their own monopolies, which is where most of them get established anyway around here.
"One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality principles," Genachowski said....
I'd be happier if they vowed to enforce the principles, rather than their violation.
1G is acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Earth, 9.8 m/s^2.
An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. An object in acceleration will cease to be in acceleration when the outside force is removed. As the force reduces, the acceleration reduces.
0.6G means if you stand with your head in the direction of acceleration, you'll weigh 3/5ths your weight on Earth. 0.6c means you're moving 3/5ths the speed of light.
Because their parents suck, politically-correct panty-waisted fools....
Wait wait wait. "Politically-correct" parents are responsible for kids growing up thinking that the sort of behavior seen on Jerry Springer was normal? "Politically-correct" parents would let their kids watch South Park?
I mention this only because you repeated the error of your parent post (and there has been a rash of this mistake on Slashdot stories in the past few weeks): there is no hyphen in "politically correct". Indeed, there should be no such thing as an adverb with an "-ly" ending being immediately followed by a hyphen ever. The "-ly" adverb has taken the job of the hyphen, so the hyphen is redundant. It is one of the few hard and fast rules of English.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments over trivial matters.
I can program my VCR. I just don't see the point of doing it anymore as I don't R with it.
Future generations though will still do things that are impossible, such as voice-dial a phone and rewind the MP3 stored on their SSD, long after the rotary phone and spools of tape needing to be rewound are gone.
And I for one would like to see the end of the CD jewel case. They're far too fragile with their hinges always snapping off, even in moderately jostled storage. I'm glad DVDs did away with their version of them (though I did get one DVD case where the hinge was completely crushed, held together only by the wrap-around plastic holding the cover insert, which insert also neatly hid the damage).
I only have two DVD jewel cases in my collection: Evil Dead and The Wraith. (The latter was an obligatory purchase and not a recommendation.)
It's worse then you think. Copyright laws and terms have been dictated by international treaties since the mid 1970's. Sure, we negotiated those treaties but it's a world wide effort. Even the DMCA is a combination of two WIPO treaties.
Treaties, huh? And what concessions did we get in return?
I'd gladly wait until something is in the public domain before I could get it for free.
Problem is, the system has been rigged so that nothing that was new during my lifetime will ever be in the public domain within my lifetime.
Further, the right to preserve copyrighted works for their entry into the public domain has been restricted to those who produce them (DMCA), resulting in either their premature destruction so they can never become PD or paywalling them encased in DRMed formats forever. Even if I were to jump ahead a century, everything that was part of my culture in the past will be destroyed or locked away in private collections only to be enjoyed by the richest hoarders of world culture.
I have no expectation that, for example, the complete musical works of Michael Jackson will be available for free come 2079 or even 2099 absent the illegal actions of individuals to preserve them outside his estate.
And if I didn't expect to be dead by then, I'd wager that such preserved works would be deemed illegal as well as fruits of the poisonous tree and that all PD works must initially come from the last holder of the expired copyright.
The copyrighting industries have broken the copyright contract. I have no problem with anyone breaking it back.
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It was written for publication by The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.
You don't want to know how the acronym is spelled in the Maximegalon native tongue.
And anyway, who wants to be continuously reviewing the same 6502 Read/Write Track Sector assembly code over and over again?
For me, it was playing a game CD that had CD audio tracks in a CD player that was too old to know to skip trying to play data tracks.
The earlier just happens to be one of my favorite Douglas Adams bits.
It could be worse. They could be accusing anyone singing in the workplace of stealing music as well.
You could be wished into the cornfield for that!
Every stream of bits can be interpreted as audio, so technically, if you're using the internet, you're "downloading music". Not to mention how many times your computer copies it around.
Someone been reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
they got free rain to set up an email server.
It's "free reign". Like being king of your own IP.
Actually, it's "free rein" as in letting your horses run without restraint.
Damn, I forgot about that one. You're completely right.
It can be a tricky language, even for native speakers.
Yes, it can, can't it?
Yes. And, thank you! I am appropriately humbled.
Try getting a static IP with most ISP's these days. Usually that's "Business" and you have to give up your ability to have other services if you get it.
I have five static IPs with my ADSL service and free hosting of one domain with ssh login at my ISP. And that's under their "DSL Basic" plan. All the plans available include at least one static IP.
Currently the states retain the power to create monopolies if they are foolish enough to do so however, an amendment to the constitution forbidding state and federally created monopolies or one at the state level would suffice.
That won't do much to prevent cities from establishing their own monopolies, which is where most of them get established anyway around here.
If the person was willing to purchase a static IP then they got free rain to set up an email server.
It's "free reign". Like being king of your own IP.
Oh, and "reliably receive".
(It can be a tricky language, even for native speakers. See the FCC chairman's quote in the summary for one.)
"One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality principles," Genachowski said....
I'd be happier if they vowed to enforce the principles, rather than their violation.
So much for ensuring that there is no confusion!
"Well, why doesn't she take it?"
"Because I loathe bananas!"
"Zira!"
Perhaps they like The Chipmunks.
(Damn summary.) G is acceleration. g is grams.
1G is acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Earth, 9.8 m/s^2.
An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
An object in acceleration will cease to be in acceleration when the outside force is removed. As the force reduces, the acceleration reduces.
0.6G means if you stand with your head in the direction of acceleration, you'll weigh 3/5ths your weight on Earth.
0.6c means you're moving 3/5ths the speed of light.
And who's going to stop you once you've got to 0.6g ? last time I've check there was no friction in vacuum.
"Once you've got to 0.6g"?
g is acceleration! c is velocity!
1g is the rate of acceleration due to gravity on Earth 9.8 m/s^2. 1c is the speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s.
If you don't put in more energy, you're gonna stop accelerating, friction or no friction!
Kilometers-to-AU translation errors
How about just g to c translation errors?
For the same reason you 'dial' a telephone by pushing buttons.
You don't even do that anymore. Now you "voice-dial" a telephone by saying the name of the person you're calling.
... and U2 sucks.
That has always been true.
How long must they sing that song?!
What's a book?
It's a non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare. You should 'ave one.
Because their parents suck, politically-correct panty-waisted fools....
Wait wait wait. "Politically-correct" parents are responsible for kids growing up thinking that the sort of behavior seen on Jerry Springer was normal? "Politically-correct" parents would let their kids watch South Park?
I mention this only because you repeated the error of your parent post (and there has been a rash of this mistake on Slashdot stories in the past few weeks): there is no hyphen in "politically correct". Indeed, there should be no such thing as an adverb with an "-ly" ending being immediately followed by a hyphen ever. The "-ly" adverb has taken the job of the hyphen, so the hyphen is redundant. It is one of the few hard and fast rules of English.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments over trivial matters.
they can't program their VCR
I can program my VCR. I just don't see the point of doing it anymore as I don't R with it.
Future generations though will still do things that are impossible, such as voice-dial a phone and rewind the MP3 stored on their SSD, long after the rotary phone and spools of tape needing to be rewound are gone.
I know exactly who the Green Giant is and have eaten several of its products.
But do you know who Sprout is?
And I for one would like to see the end of the CD jewel case. They're far too fragile with their hinges always snapping off, even in moderately jostled storage. I'm glad DVDs did away with their version of them (though I did get one DVD case where the hinge was completely crushed, held together only by the wrap-around plastic holding the cover insert, which insert also neatly hid the damage).
I only have two DVD jewel cases in my collection: Evil Dead and The Wraith. (The latter was an obligatory purchase and not a recommendation.)
Quick summary is that Burning Man has made a rights grab, and their response is to say, but we're only going to use our powers for good, not evil.
Very likely true. I believe them.
They are authoring the contract; they can put terms in it that clearly limit themselves against being evil, eliminating the need for trust.
It's worse then you think. Copyright laws and terms have been dictated by international treaties since the mid 1970's. Sure, we negotiated those treaties but it's a world wide effort. Even the DMCA is a combination of two WIPO treaties.
Treaties, huh? And what concessions did we get in return?
Everything digital should be free eventually!
I'd gladly wait until something is in the public domain before I could get it for free.
Problem is, the system has been rigged so that nothing that was new during my lifetime will ever be in the public domain within my lifetime.
Further, the right to preserve copyrighted works for their entry into the public domain has been restricted to those who produce them (DMCA), resulting in either their premature destruction so they can never become PD or paywalling them encased in DRMed formats forever. Even if I were to jump ahead a century, everything that was part of my culture in the past will be destroyed or locked away in private collections only to be enjoyed by the richest hoarders of world culture.
I have no expectation that, for example, the complete musical works of Michael Jackson will be available for free come 2079 or even 2099 absent the illegal actions of individuals to preserve them outside his estate.
And if I didn't expect to be dead by then, I'd wager that such preserved works would be deemed illegal as well as fruits of the poisonous tree and that all PD works must initially come from the last holder of the expired copyright.
The copyrighting industries have broken the copyright contract. I have no problem with anyone breaking it back.