That really has nothing at all to do with my point, which was that the technology exists.
That said, consumers accept artificial limitations on all sorts of purchases they make, if said limitation is considered to be the norm. For example, software liscences. Why limit software to one machine? Why not buy one copy of Windows for a 5000 person office? Its a limitation set by the manufacturer, and most people accept it. It is also backed by law (kind of like a speed limit). Yes, there are software pirates out there, just like there are people who re-flash their ECU, but they are the exception.
You forgot about electronic limitors. It's trivial to program a car's ECU to artificaially limit the maximum speed without affecting performance at other speeds.
Anything can happen if current trends don't continue, which if you look at enough trends, is always the case.
Not to pick nits, but if current trends don't continue, then the result of those trends continuing cannot happen. So even in this case anything can't happen.
"New Scientist Reports on a remarkable runaway process of global warming that has been going on in Siberia for the past few years"
Sorry, I stopped reading right there... Did they manage to fit the whole world inside of Siberia? Oh no that's right, its people generalizing localized data again.
Discover magazine wrote an article about this already. To save you from signing up and reading the whole thing, the conclusion was that we won't in the near future have the ability to shoot down a missile with a missile, and the government is wasting its time and money. With current technology its almost exactly like trying to shoot a bullet in mid-flight with another bullet.
So instead of moving my mouse to the volume bar and dragging it, then moving it up to a menu and scrolling down the menu, all with the same motions and buttons... I have to lift something up, move it across my desk, and manipulate it in different ways depending on what i'm doing?
This sounds like something they may have invented before the mouse. Maybe back in the day it was a bunch of blocks all over your desk that you had to move, then eventually they all got consolidated into one universal interface device, the mouse.
If we can make countless games about WWII (BF1942, Allied Assault...), and the vets of that major war are still living, then why can't we make games about a lesser (but of course, still serious) war? Does the fact that we lost change the 'appropriatness' of it?
I actually am currently working in Dayton, the area around Wright Patterson Air Force Base has lots of opportunity. And defense jobs will never be outsourced. You're free to take my job when I go back to school this Fall =)
I guess the big difference between you and I is that you seem to be tied to a state. I'll go wherever the best job is, and luckily my female will follow. I was citing nation-wide search results on monster.com for 'java' or 'c++' which each turned up literally thousands of results. Being limited to a specific state or region can really make all the difference as some places (like upstate New York for instance) really don't have any jobs. However even in such regions I know people who were able to go independent contractor and get some nice money going.
Thats outstanding, I'm sure a meteor could crash through the ceiling right now and kill me. But guess what, it didnt happen. My point was that yes, in theory, all jobs could ship off to India... however I'm seeing people being hired at the same high American wages they have been for the past decade RIGHT NOW. My second point was that these forums are populated by a lot of unemployed bitter people and they present a biased view of the market.
Mod me down as off-topic, but I think this post is relevant to the nature of this thread. These forums are all doom and gloom these days. Is all of/.'s reader base unemployed? I guess this is what I get for reading in the middle of the work day, of course the only posters would be people who are out of work, or in school. ALL IT IS GOING OVERSEAS! NO GEEKS CAN MAKE MONEY! I'm not buying any of it. The numbers of returns for tech job searches on the likes of monster.com in the tech sector have never been higher than they are now. And I'm seeing jr. level programming positions advertising 60-70k/year. I'm in school and my programming internships (with 2 large companies) have paid better than what a lot of people are saying the average full-time salary is these days. Both companies have asked me to return after I graduate for full time positions starting at nice comfortable salaries. I'm no super genius either, I'm a good programmer who works hard. And it's not location, because I've worked in 3 states already. I dunno, maybe I'm young and stupid and not seeing the big picture.
Despite how much we'd all love to do more MS bashing about propoganda for their new search technology, I say, please. This was just some schmuck journalist trying to generate a lot of hits to his article by taking cheap shots at everyone's favorite search engine. Do you really think this web journalist has the goods on the new uber-secret MS search technology? Do you think Bill Gates is standing over his shoulder wispering what to say about Google into his ear? No, this guy knows no more about MS technological developments than anyone else. You've all been had.
What are you burning your paper with, an oven? When you hold a lighter under the center of paper, the fire burns through the center creating a hole, this hole then expands to consume the whole document. You are left with smoke and a pile of black powder.
The record companies don't give a crap if you steal from stores. The Best Buy you stole it from takes the hit. Then they don't have that CD anymore, so they order another from the record company. So essentially shoplifting is the same as a sale to the RIAA.
Unfortuanatly, the $1000 part is where the whole thing falls apart. The record companies could claim that you uploaded one song of a new album the day it came out. Then 5 people got it from you then 5 people got it from each of them, and so on and so on. There is no real way to determine the actual loss of sales resulting from your one upload. If you were the only person who bought and uploaded that song, and now there are 500,000 copies out on Kazaa, you can bet some jackass RIAA lawyer is gonna try to pin 500,000 album sales lost on you. Not that it's logical at all, but hey, they're lawyers.
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Wow really you can't do instant messaging or social networking on an iPhone?
Someone should really tell Apple: http://www.apple.com/webapps/socialnetworking/index_top.html
"Do you watch Battlestar Galactica?"
"No"
"No? Then you're an idiot."
That really has nothing at all to do with my point, which was that the technology exists. That said, consumers accept artificial limitations on all sorts of purchases they make, if said limitation is considered to be the norm. For example, software liscences. Why limit software to one machine? Why not buy one copy of Windows for a 5000 person office? Its a limitation set by the manufacturer, and most people accept it. It is also backed by law (kind of like a speed limit). Yes, there are software pirates out there, just like there are people who re-flash their ECU, but they are the exception.
You forgot about electronic limitors. It's trivial to program a car's ECU to artificaially limit the maximum speed without affecting performance at other speeds.
Anything can happen if current trends don't continue, which if you look at enough trends, is always the case.
Not to pick nits, but if current trends don't continue, then the result of those trends continuing cannot happen. So even in this case anything can't happen.
That already exists thanks to Alexa opening up their API: http://www.musipedia.org/
Sorry, I stopped reading right there ... Did they manage to fit the whole world inside of Siberia? Oh no that's right, its people generalizing localized data again.
Discover magazine wrote an article about this already. To save you from signing up and reading the whole thing, the conclusion was that we won't in the near future have the ability to shoot down a missile with a missile, and the government is wasting its time and money.
With current technology its almost exactly like trying to shoot a bullet in mid-flight with another bullet.
This sounds like something they may have invented before the mouse. Maybe back in the day it was a bunch of blocks all over your desk that you had to move, then eventually they all got consolidated into one universal interface device, the mouse.
Step in the wrong direction if you ask me.
This trailer has been on Kazaa since the second movie opened.
If we can make countless games about WWII (BF1942, Allied Assault ...), and the vets of that major war are still living, then why can't we make games about a lesser (but of course, still serious) war? Does the fact that we lost change the 'appropriatness' of it?
What ever happened to 2d6?
Face it, that's your experience. I got mine all on my own.
I actually am currently working in Dayton, the area around Wright Patterson Air Force Base has lots of opportunity. And defense jobs will never be outsourced. You're free to take my job when I go back to school this Fall =)
I guess the big difference between you and I is that you seem to be tied to a state. I'll go wherever the best job is, and luckily my female will follow. I was citing nation-wide search results on monster.com for 'java' or 'c++' which each turned up literally thousands of results. Being limited to a specific state or region can really make all the difference as some places (like upstate New York for instance) really don't have any jobs. However even in such regions I know people who were able to go independent contractor and get some nice money going.
Thats outstanding, I'm sure a meteor could crash through the ceiling right now and kill me. But guess what, it didnt happen. My point was that yes, in theory, all jobs could ship off to India ... however I'm seeing people being hired at the same high American wages they have been for the past decade RIGHT NOW. My second point was that these forums are populated by a lot of unemployed bitter people and they present a biased view of the market.
Mod me down as off-topic, but I think this post is relevant to the nature of this thread. These forums are all doom and gloom these days. Is all of /.'s reader base unemployed? I guess this is what I get for reading in the middle of the work day, of course the only posters would be people who are out of work, or in school. ALL IT IS GOING OVERSEAS! NO GEEKS CAN MAKE MONEY! I'm not buying any of it. The numbers of returns for tech job searches on the likes of monster.com in the tech sector have never been higher than they are now. And I'm seeing jr. level programming positions advertising 60-70k/year. I'm in school and my programming internships (with 2 large companies) have paid better than what a lot of people are saying the average full-time salary is these days. Both companies have asked me to return after I graduate for full time positions starting at nice comfortable salaries. I'm no super genius either, I'm a good programmer who works hard. And it's not location, because I've worked in 3 states already. I dunno, maybe I'm young and stupid and not seeing the big picture.
Despite how much we'd all love to do more MS bashing about propoganda for their new search technology, I say, please. This was just some schmuck journalist trying to generate a lot of hits to his article by taking cheap shots at everyone's favorite search engine. Do you really think this web journalist has the goods on the new uber-secret MS search technology? Do you think Bill Gates is standing over his shoulder wispering what to say about Google into his ear? No, this guy knows no more about MS technological developments than anyone else. You've all been had.
What are you burning your paper with, an oven? When you hold a lighter under the center of paper, the fire burns through the center creating a hole, this hole then expands to consume the whole document. You are left with smoke and a pile of black powder.
IANAL but I think that if you get sued and win, you can countersue for 'wrongful prossecution' in the amount of your legal fees.
Welcome to the internet, is this your first time here? Anonymous n00b.
Then I guess, by your rules, you're goin to jail seein' how you copied my post without my expressed written permission. Enjoy Bubba.
What's the difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, and DVD-RAM?
The record companies don't give a crap if you steal from stores. The Best Buy you stole it from takes the hit. Then they don't have that CD anymore, so they order another from the record company. So essentially shoplifting is the same as a sale to the RIAA.
Unfortuanatly, the $1000 part is where the whole thing falls apart. The record companies could claim that you uploaded one song of a new album the day it came out. Then 5 people got it from you then 5 people got it from each of them, and so on and so on. There is no real way to determine the actual loss of sales resulting from your one upload. If you were the only person who bought and uploaded that song, and now there are 500,000 copies out on Kazaa, you can bet some jackass RIAA lawyer is gonna try to pin 500,000 album sales lost on you. Not that it's logical at all, but hey, they're lawyers.