Could you provide more details on the process? I Bought a chair from office max (or depot not sure) and im still waiting on the 40 dollar check they "sent" me 5 weeks ago. This was one of my first purchases with my credit card (trying to build up credit).
Pretty much, The SEC has some real teeth and they have consistently chosen not to use it for fear of...who knows what.
This is apparent in all the financial scandals in the past few years including the newest mutual fund scandals.
The only person who has been doing anything is the NY attorney general, but I don't think SCO is in his scope, he gets jurisdiction on a lot of these matters because lots of the financial companies are located in NYC. An even then the SEC have been known to go behind his back and do closed door settlements with companies.
Pisses me off, and it should piss off all investors, people need to write their congress reps and senators and ask them to hold the SEC accountable for its non actions.
I have never bought music, and probably never will, it has never interested me. I download an mp3 every once in a blue moon but I listen to it a few times and then it gets filed away and I never hear it again...
Plus, when was the last time anyone got RIAA sponsored music off of kazaa that was actually what they wanted?
Usually it's a blank file, or only the first few seconds, or entirely mislabeled, just a waste of bandwidth...
The more I learn of economics in college the more I find that organized labor and minimum wages are not always needed.
Organized labor makes wages artificially high causing the outsourcing... why don't programmers of today accept pay decreases from their huge salaries, this would decrease and eventually stop the outsourcing.
But, if anyone believes this story they are out of their minds.
The economy is on the up turn jobs will be here by 04 or 05 (as much as I selfishly don't want them to be there for the sake of removing bush from office) The whole world economy will be on the up turn in 2007 by the time I get out of college and if its not, I will go back to school and supplement my BS in Comp Sci with a business degree and it shouldn't be hard to run my own consulting business (freelance tech mentioned on Slashdot before) or get a job with my extra ordinary credentials.
And if that doesn't work, I can get another degree...:-)
The point is you should be working a crap job while getting an education and then when the time is right you will have the credentials to make the big bucks. It is extremely rare to see what happened in the 90's people shouldn't expect more than 50k out of school, nor should you demand it, better to take a lower salary and work your way up the ladder than to remain jobless because of your stubbornness because you believe your skills are worth more than the labor market has shown it to be worth.
Look people patenting "genes" and other things IS dumb and shouldnt be allowed, but they are patenting a process and a product (the engineered virus) to cure cancers. They would never have done this with out the financial incentive, that is how our economy allocates resources (return on investment)
This isnt one of those fony patents. this is a good one, and patents dont last that long anyways, unlike copyrights.
That is awesome some friends and I all run apache servers for our little dumb personal websites and stuff like that. Some times my room mate puts up some large files one our 45 KB/s limited upstream.... it gets hit hard (relatively) the day of the update. If this auto torrentization of files over a certain size were available today, im sure it would help... and it wouldn't take long before either an equation or empirical evidence would show what the best threshold for torrentization is, given your upload, bandwidth, and the likely upload bandwidth of your readers, the number of readers, and the length of your spike (how long before a certain percentage of your regular readers have found out about and read your new post/downloaded linked to movies.
While I admittedly don't know much about the calculations in ray tracing I would guess that if you wanted it to look nice and behave well you would have to use floating point numbers larger than 16 bits to get all the precision in the angles of reflection/refraction
Wow, I was up last night at like 5 am (Central US time) and I was going to watch some TV before going to bed and alls I hear is "Saddam has been captured" I was like "holy shit" so I decided to stay up until the new conference and man Saddam looks like a man who has given up, I would have never expected such a peaceful end to his capture. But you gotta love when you see rich dictator in such crappy condition that they now look worse that most of the poor civilian that he ruled over.
Look, I was against the war in Iraq, because I think the US had better things to do, like find Osama. However I think everyone recognizes that Saddam was a terrible person and that it is a relief for those of us in the US (hoping Iraq might become stable and get the troops home faster) and more importantly the Iraqis who have lived in fear for 30 years.
Traditionally the capital B is used to refer to Bytes and a lower case b is for bits... I don't know of any 1MBps (8 Mbps) ISP that is cheap outside of Korea... I have a 2 Mbps cable modem in Austin, Texas from road runner...
Wireless (802.11) links over 20km get a lot of attention on Slashdot but are very uncommon, and they might be persistent connections but they are much slower than 11 mbps.
And if you meant microwave antenna... damn those are super expensive and need perfect line of sight.... The pigeon idea is both novel and apparently, when no falcons are around, also practical.
Certainly he has just proven that the free market has already put a price on private information. And for things that arent legally traded such as SSN the government could put an arbitrary high value but not an extreme one, and of course the value of such data could be changed from tiem to time through acts of congress or executive order...
I havent read the article only a ton of comments mostly because I'm not a Linux guy so I dont understand half of thats on that page.
Anyways, I think i read some people asking how to access ntfs formatted removable media.
Couldnt this driver when first used cache the NTFS.sys file on to your linux file system and then when ever the wrapper is used it will search the cache location first and if not found then search all the drives.
I dont know if each drive has a moddified NTFS.sys on it, I'm not sure how that works. But if they are all the same, then I dont see the problem.
I'm assuming the problem is that NTFS.sys is only located on the booting partition and not on other things such as a ntfs formatted zip disk.
I thought the video was interesting, gave me something to do while being bored.
But more importantly I like how that BT site works, for once someone figured out how they are supposed to use BT, BT wasn't made to be some wares pedaling p2p app. The ideal set up was a main download server just like regular servers, and then whenever anyone was downloading from that server they shared their upload bandwidth with all others.
So its kind of a Central main distro for speed + p2p for scaling. I love it when there are so many people downloading a torrent that i set my upload speed all the ay up for 35 KB/s just 5 shy of my max and i only end up uploading at 15 KB/s when I am a seed. That means that the bandwidth provided exceeds the bandwidth demanded by a factor of 2, that's awesome.
One day something like BT needs to be built into the operating system, so that when people download they share the load across themselves and even spread out the distribution geographically reducing the effect of choke points.
And when people offer popular things for download the bandwidth spike is a much smoother bump than the current sharp edged mountain.
I think it has something to do with the Free/OS Software Community not liking to pay outrageous prices for things they know they could put together themselves....
The answer of "Buy a Mac" was just stupid
Dumb Ass Mac Zealots always trying to push Jobs' wares....UGH!
"The project was funded in part by the Department of Energy, which hopes to create microbes that would capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce hydrogen or clean the environment.
Okay, so let's assume we do something like this, with the perfectly innocent intention of cleaning up some level of carbon dioxide. Okay, well you're counting on the virus to reproduce, but what if it gets out of control? It eats up ALL the carbon dioxide. All the trees and plants suffocate and die, but that might not happen before the atmosphere goes up in flames since that carbon dioxide is being turned into hydrogen."
Um that was a "this,this, or this" statement not an "and" statement so there would be no carbon dioxide to hydrogen conversion going on.... instead it might be one OR the other
Why is it that people always quote these economic theories when they only hold true when certain other things are true. Such as having many companies offering very similar products and no buyer or seller has enough power to influence the market.... Oh and all buyers and sellers have good information on that they are dealing with and if they don't like it they have good substitutes.
Very large companies do not obey normal economic theory because they aren't in a ultra competitive market.
All those theories only hold true when all decisions are based on supply and demand.
So yes if these were not just free markets but GOOD markets then your blatant regulations suck argument would be valid. But the world doesn't work like that, especially when it comes to the phone companies or anything else the FCC regulates.
IM has been around for 10 years, market forces have done a shitty ass job of creating a standard for IM communications. This because the market for instant messaging doesn't have normal forces acting on it, instead it has 3 huge players vying for control and neither will ever win and consumers will lose out.
The only way for consumers to convey opinions in such a market is through their government. I'm not suggesting that we should have congress force us onto one of the protocols or another but instead should crate a body that comes up with a different protocol from the ground up where it receives input form all the current players and anyone else who uses or builds IM networks/applications. Then all the companies could be forced over to that standard and they wouldn't hate it too much because they all had some input in the construction of the standard and will continue to have input during the lifespan of the protocol.
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You aren't responsible for your customers' actions.
eh, I dont see the point in taxing corporations... either tax people or businesses, but not both, double taxation is wrong.
yes, eventually this will be cool, but a stove with a recipe is worthless if it cant fix the meal for you...
But hey, let 'em at it, maybe something cool will come out of this.
Atleast it is a standard!
Could you provide more details on the process? I Bought a chair from office max (or depot not sure) and im still waiting on the 40 dollar check they "sent" me 5 weeks ago. This was one of my first purchases with my credit card (trying to build up credit).
Pretty much, The SEC has some real teeth and they have consistently chosen not to use it for fear of...who knows what.
This is apparent in all the financial scandals in the past few years including the newest mutual fund scandals.
The only person who has been doing anything is the NY attorney general, but I don't think SCO is in his scope, he gets jurisdiction on a lot of these matters because lots of the financial companies are located in NYC. An even then the SEC have been known to go behind his back and do closed door settlements with companies.
Pisses me off, and it should piss off all investors, people need to write their congress reps and senators and ask them to hold the SEC accountable for its non actions.
There were no injunctions/stays provided by the courts, therefore the earlier rulings by the lower courts stood until they were overturned.
So the ISPs had to comply out of fear.
All the ISPs are fighting the RIAA, including the case you mentioned. Verizon has been appealing over and over again and they finally won.
I cant believe they switched out dark angel for this shit, ugh pissed me off so much!!! I hate fox!
I have never bought music, and probably never will, it has never interested me. I download an mp3 every once in a blue moon but I listen to it a few times and then it gets filed away and I never hear it again...
Plus, when was the last time anyone got RIAA sponsored music off of kazaa that was actually what they wanted?
Usually it's a blank file, or only the first few seconds, or entirely mislabeled, just a waste of bandwidth...
I would have to agree.
:-)
The more I learn of economics in college the more I find that organized labor and minimum wages are not always needed.
Organized labor makes wages artificially high causing the outsourcing... why don't programmers of today accept pay decreases from their huge salaries, this would decrease and eventually stop the outsourcing.
But, if anyone believes this story they are out of their minds.
The economy is on the up turn jobs will be here by 04 or 05 (as much as I selfishly don't want them to be there for the sake of removing bush from office) The whole world economy will be on the up turn in 2007 by the time I get out of college and if its not, I will go back to school and supplement my BS in Comp Sci with a business degree and it shouldn't be hard to run my own consulting business (freelance tech mentioned on Slashdot before) or get a job with my extra ordinary credentials.
And if that doesn't work, I can get another degree...
The point is you should be working a crap job while getting an education and then when the time is right you will have the credentials to make the big bucks. It is extremely rare to see what happened in the 90's people shouldn't expect more than 50k out of school, nor should you demand it, better to take a lower salary and work your way up the ladder than to remain jobless because of your stubbornness because you believe your skills are worth more than the labor market has shown it to be worth.
Look people patenting "genes" and other things IS dumb and shouldnt be allowed, but they are patenting a process and a product (the engineered virus) to cure cancers. They would never have done this with out the financial incentive, that is how our economy allocates resources (return on investment)
This isnt one of those fony patents. this is a good one, and patents dont last that long anyways, unlike copyrights.
I wish I could mod you up..... :(
That is awesome some friends and I all run apache servers for our little dumb personal websites and stuff like that. Some times my room mate puts up some large files one our 45 KB/s limited upstream.... it gets hit hard (relatively) the day of the update. If this auto torrentization of files over a certain size were available today, im sure it would help... and it wouldn't take long before either an equation or empirical evidence would show what the best threshold for torrentization is, given your upload, bandwidth, and the likely upload bandwidth of your readers, the number of readers, and the length of your spike (how long before a certain percentage of your regular readers have found out about and read your new post/downloaded linked to movies.
While I admittedly don't know much about the calculations in ray tracing I would guess that if you wanted it to look nice and behave well you would have to use floating point numbers larger than 16 bits to get all the precision in the angles of reflection/refraction
Wow, I was up last night at like 5 am (Central US time) and I was going to watch some TV before going to bed and alls I hear is "Saddam has been captured" I was like "holy shit" so I decided to stay up until the new conference and man Saddam looks like a man who has given up, I would have never expected such a peaceful end to his capture. But you gotta love when you see rich dictator in such crappy condition that they now look worse that most of the poor civilian that he ruled over.
Look, I was against the war in Iraq, because I think the US had better things to do, like find Osama. However I think everyone recognizes that Saddam was a terrible person and that it is a relief for those of us in the US (hoping Iraq might become stable and get the troops home faster) and more importantly the Iraqis who have lived in fear for 30 years.
What a wonderful early Christmas gift!
OK so there are a few places where you can get such awsome speeds, but... this is in New Zealand...
:-)
I have posted so I can't moderate, but you made me laugh lol
Traditionally the capital B is used to refer to Bytes and a lower case b is for bits... I don't know of any 1MBps (8 Mbps) ISP that is cheap outside of Korea... I have a 2 Mbps cable modem in Austin, Texas from road runner...
Wireless (802.11) links over 20km get a lot of attention on Slashdot but are very uncommon, and they might be persistent connections but they are much slower than 11 mbps.
And if you meant microwave antenna... damn those are super expensive and need perfect line of sight.... The pigeon idea is both novel and apparently, when no falcons are around, also practical.
I dont have any mod points :(
Certainly he has just proven that the free market has already put a price on private information. And for things that arent legally traded such as SSN the government could put an arbitrary high value but not an extreme one, and of course the value of such data could be changed from tiem to time through acts of congress or executive order...
I havent read the article only a ton of comments mostly because I'm not a Linux guy so I dont understand half of thats on that page.
Anyways, I think i read some people asking how to access ntfs formatted removable media.
Couldnt this driver when first used cache the NTFS.sys file on to your linux file system and then when ever the wrapper is used it will search the cache location first and if not found then search all the drives.
I dont know if each drive has a moddified NTFS.sys on it, I'm not sure how that works. But if they are all the same, then I dont see the problem.
I'm assuming the problem is that NTFS.sys is only located on the booting partition and not on other things such as a ntfs formatted zip disk.
LOL, well I doubt it, but I suppose it could be a possibility...
But I think the argument was more about riping off Mac than anything else and he felt the need to defend his baby.
I thought the video was interesting, gave me something to do while being bored.
But more importantly I like how that BT site works, for once someone figured out how they are supposed to use BT, BT wasn't made to be some wares pedaling p2p app. The ideal set up was a main download server just like regular servers, and then whenever anyone was downloading from that server they shared their upload bandwidth with all others.
So its kind of a Central main distro for speed + p2p for scaling. I love it when there are so many people downloading a torrent that i set my upload speed all the ay up for 35 KB/s just 5 shy of my max and i only end up uploading at 15 KB/s when I am a seed. That means that the bandwidth provided exceeds the bandwidth demanded by a factor of 2, that's awesome.
One day something like BT needs to be built into the operating system, so that when people download they share the load across themselves and even spread out the distribution geographically reducing the effect of choke points.
And when people offer popular things for download the bandwidth spike is a much smoother bump than the current sharp edged mountain.
I think it has something to do with the Free/OS Software Community not liking to pay outrageous prices for things they know they could put together themselves....
The answer of "Buy a Mac" was just stupid
Dumb Ass Mac Zealots always trying to push Jobs' wares....UGH!
I found chapter 2 while channel surfing one day and never to to see any of the other parts, thanks poster!
"The project was funded in part by the Department of Energy, which hopes to create microbes that would capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce hydrogen or clean the environment.
Okay, so let's assume we do something like this, with the perfectly innocent intention of cleaning up some level of carbon dioxide. Okay, well you're counting on the virus to reproduce, but what if it gets out of control? It eats up ALL the carbon dioxide. All the trees and plants suffocate and die, but that might not happen before the atmosphere goes up in flames since that carbon dioxide is being turned into hydrogen."
Um that was a "this,this, or this" statement not an "and" statement so there would be no carbon dioxide to hydrogen conversion going on.... instead it might be one OR the other
Why is it that people always quote these economic theories when they only hold true when certain other things are true. Such as having many companies offering very similar products and no buyer or seller has enough power to influence the market.... Oh and all buyers and sellers have good information on that they are dealing with and if they don't like it they have good substitutes.
Very large companies do not obey normal economic theory because they aren't in a ultra competitive market.
All those theories only hold true when all decisions are based on supply and demand.
So yes if these were not just free markets but GOOD markets then your blatant regulations suck argument would be valid. But the world doesn't work like that, especially when it comes to the phone companies or anything else the FCC regulates.
IM has been around for 10 years, market forces have done a shitty ass job of creating a standard for IM communications. This because the market for instant messaging doesn't have normal forces acting on it, instead it has 3 huge players vying for control and neither will ever win and consumers will lose out.
The only way for consumers to convey opinions in such a market is through their government. I'm not suggesting that we should have congress force us onto one of the protocols or another but instead should crate a body that comes up with a different protocol from the ground up where it receives input form all the current players and anyone else who uses or builds IM networks/applications. Then all the companies could be forced over to that standard and they wouldn't hate it too much because they all had some input in the construction of the standard and will continue to have input during the lifespan of the protocol.