More importantly, a US pint is a bit smaller than a UK one, leading to a general feeling that you're getting subtly fleeced every time you go to the bar...
Well, if it's a bar in just about any city in the US, you *are* getting fleeced. I mean, 6 bucks for a fricking gin and tonic? $5.50 for micheloeb? It's ridiculous. Why would I go out to a bar and buy a crappy mass-produced beer for what a 6 pack should cost? I mean, don't they know I gotta have some money to spend on gold diggers? You know, on a related note, why *are* there so many bars in this country? We have a huge problem with drunk driving, you'd think we'd encourage people to just get drunk at home; that way they wouldn't be head-on ramming school busses anymore. It's not like most of us can walk to the corner pub like andy capp.
No, you didn't. You didn't do anything at all. What you described was impulse parallel to the axis of rotation.
No, that's what you inferred. What I *described* was a general overview of what I did, I didn't say which edge I struck in any previous post. For this reason, it is completely illogical for you to say that I described impulse parallel to the axis of rotation. For your information, I struck each edge, the top, the bottom, and the front, (but not the back because that's where the cables are) so unless the axis of rotation of the disks inside the hard drive changed every time I re-oriented the drive, what you're saying is stupid.
That's right. I was being precise.
Yet Another Eeediot that confuses accuracy and precision. Didn't you learn the difference in school?
Here's an example of the difference between accuracy and precision:
That's a fairly precise number, but if the question is 'What is 3 + 1?', it is a totally inaccurate answer. Just because you want to impress people with how many words you know or something doesn't mean that your carefully researched and constructed statement is true. Also, why use a simple phrase when you can use one that makes you sound like a pompous jackass?
Since I'm not rotating, that wouldn't work.
Why don't you do me a favor and give yourself a twirl next time you're riding some guy's lap? Then you'll have an axis of rotation.
My mother died last winter. Asshole.
Was it from embarassment at how you turned out? Yeah. I'm an asshole because I didn't know something personal about an anonymous poster. (assuming it's true. For all I know you're married to your mom and you're making flipper babies right now.) Your posting is truly an inspiration to retarded ACs everywhere. Why bother with actual intelligence when you can use big words and faulty logic?
Now where's that hard drive you promised?
Don't worry, 'yogi', you'll get that pic-a-nic basket soon, and you won't even have to share it with boo-boo. The question is, will you be able to overcome your cowardly nature and admit you were wrong once you try my experiment? Actually, *if* the address you gave is correct, you'll be receiving a hard drive soon. Otherwise, whoever is actually there will get it. That's another good example of accuracy vs. precision. You gave a fairly precise address. If it's also accurate, you get a free hard drive.
1. No you didn't. I have no reason to believe you did any of these things.
I have no reason to believe you exist. If you're so sure my experiment was flawed, do it yourself. Give me your address, and I'll even send you a free hard drive to test it with. How's *that* for a good deal?
2. Apply impulse perpendicular to the axis of rotation and see what happens.
That's exactly what I did. What happened? Nothing. Well, it made noise, and left a few dents in my desk, but it did nothing to the data flow. You couldn't have just said 'hit it on one of its edges and see what happens', you had to say 'apply impulse perpendicular to the axis of rotation' blah blah. Do you really think you impressed anyone? I'd like to apply impulse perpendicular to YOUR axis of rotation, coward.
3. As I suspected: idiot.
Yes, you are, but perhaps your mother loves you anyway. When you get home, before you make your sad, lonely way into the dank, smelly cave in the basement that you only leave when forced to, you should ask her.
Hey, this invention is terrific for all those paranoid tinhats out there. Imagine putting one of these just inside your bedroom, with a loop of you sleeping projected on it....while in reality, you're crouched in the corner with your shotgun in your lap and a carton of lucky strikes beside you, and when those evil government types come busting in to get you.....you'll GET THEM FIRST! Rejoice, fellow sociopathic paranoid delusionals!
Yeah, but remember everything that America thinks it is good at was invented in Europe (computers, telephone, radio, television, etc. etc....) That and the brits wupped your sorry asses in Full Metal Challange...
Nice troll. The first 'computer', though, was invented in China. The first telephone was certainly American...and Philo T. Farnsworth wouldn't appreciate you ceding his invention to Europe. Marconi attempted to jack radio from Tesla, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in Tesla's lab fire. What's next? Did the Europeans invent airplanes too? You are teh suck. Next time you're out trolling, try not to use quite such easily disproven lures. Maybe since you Europeans have been living off the fruits of American ingenuity for so long you've deluded yourselves into thinking they're yours by right. In fact, you wouldn't even be able to troll on/. without the Americans. I bet that chaps your unwashed European ass. All you assholes that don't live here and think dissing America is fun should be kneeling at our feet. Without us, you wouldn't even have indoor toilets, moo goo gai pan, automobiles, pens that can write upside down and underwater, plastic, coca cola, disposable lighters....you'd still be watching zootropes and riding everywhere on horses and in carriages. Your filthy streets would smell even worse, and your filthy people would be even more disease-ridden and unhealthy. Of course, you're obviously too unintelligent to understand what I'm telling you here, and you're obviously afraid to post even under a pseudonym, so whatever. Fuck you, Europe. We don't need you, you bloodsucking parasites. You're just lucky we're nice, and dedicated to freedom and democracy, or you'd all be serving Americans today and not just trying your hardest to look, act, and live like Americans. Europe droolz, USA roolz. So there.
P.S. The word is 'challenge', not 'challange'. Didn't some Eurpoeans invent English? Too bad they can't even speak it properly.
You are. I've had a full sized, non-buffered hard drive in my car as an audio system (in a pc) and while I've gone over some very rough road, the hard drive has NEVER messed up. Just to see what would happen to a regular hard drive, I took my old 20 gig off the shelf, hooked it to my system, and performed a virus scan on it while bouncing it around. Guess what? No problems. Then I played a bunch of MP3s and OGGs off of it while bouncing it off my desk. No skips. Then I ran scandisk while *slamming* it repeatedly on the desk. No problems. Moving parts don't have to mean skips. A bit of empirical research would lead you to my conclusions, but I take no responsibility for what happens to anyone copying my experiment. YMMV. Maybe maxtor drives are just super good, or something. I guess it says something that a 3 or 4 year old drive performs like that. I wouldn't have cared if it died, but i didn't even get a minor blip. Not to mention that it has been sitting on a shelf for over a year. I'm guessing if you jog with it tied to your shoe or something you'd cause problems....I didn't test on concrete, just wood.
Yes. Yes. And yes... sort of. It's called an iPod. Portable hard drive, 5-30 GB, fine for jogging thanks to the 32 MB RAM buffer, and a single charge (it's rechargeable) lasts about 10 hours.
You're an idiot...and you almost got away with it. Your post was fine, except for my favorite part: "fine for jogging thanks to the 32 MB RAM buffer". Um, what does the buffer have to do with jogging? It's an AAC/MP3 player. Last time I checked, mp3s didn't skip.
Unfortunately they're required by law to be greedy in the interests of shareholders. If you want the benefits of capitalism, you have to be prepared to put up with its problems...
I have placed the contradictory points of your post in bold. I think what you meant is: Unfortunately they are required by regulation to be greedy in the interests of shareholders. If you want the benefits of regulated capitalism, you have to be prepared to put up with its problems...
True capitalism is unfettered by rules and regulations. Many lament its unfairness, yet it hasn't truly been tried. We have always had regulation, but in my experience, more regulation only helps large companies who can afford to keep up with it, at the expense of small companies who can't keep up with the paperwork/minutia and who are also less able to cope with huge fines for small infractions. If you feel regulation is neccessary, please don't complain about oligopolies, as they're a direct and natural result of increasing regulation.
How does a file on your hard drive format the hard drive?
Okay, so maybe a program could attack a floppy disk in the drive to boot up and format your drive, but I don't see how a file on the drive could, itself, format the drive.
Okay, try this as a test: (only works on M$ boxes)
Remove all floppies from your system. Click start->run and type in cmd (instead type command if you're on win9.x or earlier) when your dos window comes up, type:
format c:/full/y
(where c: is the name of the drive which contains your windows installation.) This will determine whether a file on a drive can format the drive it's on.
And honestly, your argument is also somewhat specious, because if the work wasn't worth your paying for it in the first place, why would you want it to begin with?
Why would I want to pay for it BEFORE I knew it was worth the money? Let's say I buy a toaster that turns out to be a piece of shit. I can take it back and get my money back. You can't do that with movies or CDs. You can't do that with cars, either, which is why they let you test drive them. For me, downloading is for the purpose of previewing only, and anything I like, I buy. Example: I've been downloading Simpsons episodes for a while, because you couldn't get them anywhere but network tv and I can't get local channels where I live. Then when the DVDs came out, I purchased them, even at the ridiculously inflated price of 40 bucks per season. I KNEW I wanted them, so I bought them. However, I'm not spending 40 bucks on something unless I know I'll like it. It isn't like studios don't KNOW that most of what they release is crap. If they truly don't know, the executives are even dumber than they appear to be. They just figure to sucker in enough people opening weekend to not bomb and make a ton of cash from rental sales, retail sales, and overseas distribution. There are very few movies that are worth paying $8.50 to see. I'm sorry, I'm not a trust fund kid or a country club member, I'm just a poor slob trying to make a living. $8.50 may not be much to a lot of people, but it's a nice dinner out for me. I'm not opposed to paying for entertainment, I'm just oppposed to paying for shite, and previewing prevents me from doing that. However, I still buy lots and lots of movies. Ones that I've seen before. Why would I pay 15 bucks (or more) for a DVD of a movie I haven't seen before and don't know if I like? I'll stop previewing movies and music when the average quality of each goes up, or the price goes down. A lot.
Officer: Do you have a TV license? Person: Nope. Officer: Good, because we don't have those here like in some unfortunate countries. Person: Damn right. You think they need licenses to read books too? Officer: Probably. You know how much it sucks over there. Person: Over where? Officer: Who cares? Person + Officer: Ha hahahah hahahahahhaha!!! Person: Hey, wanna beer? Officer: Whoa there! I'm on duty...so no more than two or three.
Sony also wants a format it has complete control over. It's to help stop pirating to some degree... but more for money I'm sure.
Sony's in it for the money?!?! NO!!!111!11!1 How could that heartless company desire to make a profit off its inventions? Sony should give the hardware away free and make sure it can play PS2 and PS games for free too, and then they should just give away all the games they make for it...cause they shouldn't be in it for the money.
They charge for what you've had and throw out the "last glass" because the cost of the beer to the restaurant is negligable compared to what you paid for it.
Damn, and just the other day I saw some Japanese guy on tv calling Americans 'wasteful'. Yet this is common practice in Japan? Don't order any expensive Scotch whiskey in Japan. They'll just throw the last full glass out, and then call you a wasteful American.
If the waiter no longer had to constantly monitor drinks, it would free them up to handle more customers and/or provide better service.
True...they could throw lots of weird tech and radio frequencies at the problem....or they could just learn how to be a freaking waiter. I mean, it isn't brain surgery. If the glass is empty, ask if they want a refill. If it's full, don't. That doesn't seem like the kind of problem that needs a high-tech solution to me. I'd rather see PDAs for taking orders. I'm tired of getting my food cooked with shit I specifically asked NOT to have it cooked with. Maybe restaurants would just be better off hiring a better waitstaff.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that there are DEGREES to how AA is analysed and enacted. Take AA away, and I have no doubt that the vast majority of southern-state institutions would quickly return to being all-white.
Why on Earth would you suppose that? Do you think that national attention to such a thing would be favorable? Do you think that universities which depend on enrollment but also alumni contributions would stand for such a thing? I really feel that you're slighting the entire south for no reason. The past may not be pretty, but projecting it onto the future is even less pretty. I'd like to see some evidence, perhaps in the form of a current southern university which does not use AA and has become 90% or higher white. AA = racial prejudice or discrimination = the idea that race should be considered in accepting or denying applications = racism, pure and simple. Perhaps young minority people would prefer to earn their way in, rather than being told that they aren't good enough to get in, except for their skin color. That's just ridiculous. Instead of AA, why not just use the anti-discrimination laws already in place to punish those who ARE SHOWN to show racial preference...oh wait, we can't, because then everyone who uses race to determine applicant suitability (AA people) would be in trouble. Instead of fighting a vague and formless group of 'people who would discriminate against minorities if we didn't force them to discriminate against whites', why not punish people with a PROVEN track record of doing such? My guess is that it's easier to say 'oh you know white people, they're all racist' than it is to actually address the problems...where they exist.
So its obviously a more subtle approach to show how many people actually do contribute to a film and are affected by digital copying.
What I wonder is how big a piece of the profits the gaffers and grips and costume and set designers get. Oh wait, none! They're paid and on another project long before the movie even comes out. I realize that the **AA claims that piracy will lead to fewer movies being made, but with all the total shit that's been passing for 'entertainment' lately, is that a bad thing? Are we obligated to prop up a bloated and completely out of touch industry full of whining prima donnas and overpaid idiots whose only reason for fame is their devilish good looks? I personally say...no. If it wasn't for cable tv, and to a much lesser extent pirated movies, I'd watch no movies at all, and be just as happy. They aren't losing any money from me that they hadn't ALREADY lost by putting out tripe like 'summer catch' and 'set it off' and whatever that new stupid pop singer chick movie is...and the worst...that justin and kelly movie...i mean, the previews alone make me vomit, I can't imagine how anyone could sit through the whole thing.
Um, I think 35 trillion, 350 trillion, or whatever, is a good word for the number, don't you?
What makes all you idiots think that thirty-five trillion or three hundred and fifty trillion or however many trillion is ONE WORD? it doesn't say 'a number so big it cannot be described at all', it says a number so big there isn't A WORD for it. the largest number you can express in ONE word is ninety. (shut the fuck up about infinity, yeah, I heard you. If you think infinity is a number, write it out for me.) Anything larger than that requires qualification. Yes, the guy's a dumbass...but not for the reasons you're supposing.
Hello? There's this thing called NAT, you see, and in many ways it's preferable to not have every one of your 100 IP-enabled devices sitting there on the real internet just waiting to get hacked.
Well, I for one hope that someone hacks my washer and dryer and starts em so I don't have to actually *type out* 'cycle start -extra_rinse Y -cycle_type delicate -second_spin Y -no_buzzer' yay for the days of just pushing the button on the front of the thing. you know, when you put the clothes in.... and really, what does an ip-enabled coffeemaker do that one with a timer doesn't? I mean, besides sending you an IM when your coffee's done. Don't you have to actually walk to the fucking thing to put in ingredients/take out finished product anyway? Are we going to have to carry a PDA around now, just so the fridge opens? Sometimes I think we should all go back to reel mowers and boiling coffee on the stove. Pretty soon we're all going to look like fucking veal cattle.
IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number,"
The uk liberal-democrats supported the disgusting oil heist in iraq -- can't get much more right wing than that.
you mean where France was getting tons of oil for cash (instead of the food/medicine they were meant to send) that went directly to Saddam and his kid's porno collection instead of to the people of Iraq? Yeah, that *was* disgusting.
the American world view is so narrow that it creates ignorance and stupidity in within itself.
What a truly ironic statement to cap what has to be one of the most narrowminded posts I've seen today...and this is slashdot, so that's saying something.
Not children. Just foreigners. And American citizens who are friends with foreigners. Oh, all right, and maybe some foreign children.
Either you don't actually live in America, you're being purposfully idiotic, or your tin foil hat is on too tight. Get a grip on reality. Stop acting like the American government or the Republican party or any other huge group is a single person with a single mission/ideal. That's just stupid. I'm certainly no Republican, but your characterization of them only makes YOU look foolish.
Why are Americans so stupid? Is it really that hard to look up the definition of "liberal" (as in "liberalism")?
Did you mean Liberal, as in Liberalism? Because it's only when capitalised (I used the 's', just for you) that it means what you intended to convey. The definition of liberal with a small l could be many things, including generous or fit for a lady or gentleman of high birth. Are you stupid for not knowing that there is more than one definition for the word?
Why is it any better to assume that Americans should know your definition of Liberal than it is to assume that you should know Americans' definition of liberal? Why is it that Americans are stupid for defining liberal as left wing and non-Americans aren't stupid for defining it as right wing? Why is anti-Americanism any better than blind Americanism? Oh yeah, because people outside America are just as prejudicial as those inside. You shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass country.
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More importantly, a US pint is a bit smaller than a UK one, leading to a general feeling that you're getting subtly fleeced every time you go to the bar...
Well, if it's a bar in just about any city in the US, you *are* getting fleeced. I mean, 6 bucks for a fricking gin and tonic? $5.50 for micheloeb?
It's ridiculous. Why would I go out to a bar and buy a crappy mass-produced beer for what a 6 pack should cost? I mean, don't they know I gotta have some money to spend on gold diggers?
You know, on a related note, why *are* there so many bars in this country? We have a huge problem with drunk driving, you'd think we'd encourage people to just get drunk at home; that way they wouldn't be head-on ramming school busses anymore. It's not like most of us can walk to the corner pub like andy capp.
No, you didn't. You didn't do anything at all. What you described was impulse parallel to the axis of rotation.
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No, that's what you inferred. What I *described* was a general overview of what I did, I didn't say which edge I struck in any previous post. For this reason, it is completely illogical for you to say that I described impulse parallel to the axis of rotation. For your information, I struck each edge, the top, the bottom, and the front, (but not the back because that's where the cables are) so unless the axis of rotation of the disks inside the hard drive changed every time I re-oriented the drive, what you're saying is stupid.
That's right. I was being precise.
Yet Another Eeediot that confuses accuracy and precision. Didn't you learn the difference in school?
Here's an example of the difference between accuracy and precision:
2.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
That's a fairly precise number, but if the question is 'What is 3 + 1?', it is a totally inaccurate answer. Just because you want to impress people with how many words you know or something doesn't mean that your carefully researched and constructed statement is true. Also, why use a simple phrase when you can use one that makes you sound like a pompous jackass?
Since I'm not rotating, that wouldn't work.
Why don't you do me a favor and give yourself a twirl next time you're riding some guy's lap? Then you'll have an axis of rotation.
My mother died last winter. Asshole.
Was it from embarassment at how you turned out?
Yeah. I'm an asshole because I didn't know something personal about an anonymous poster. (assuming it's true. For all I know you're married to your mom and you're making flipper babies right now.) Your posting is truly an inspiration to retarded ACs everywhere. Why bother with actual intelligence when you can use big words and faulty logic?
Now where's that hard drive you promised?
Don't worry, 'yogi', you'll get that pic-a-nic basket soon, and you won't even have to share it with boo-boo. The question is, will you be able to overcome your cowardly nature and admit you were wrong once you try my experiment?
Actually, *if* the address you gave is correct, you'll be receiving a hard drive soon. Otherwise, whoever is actually there will get it.
That's another good example of accuracy vs. precision. You gave a fairly precise address. If it's also accurate, you get a free hard drive.
1. No you didn't. I have no reason to believe you did any of these things.
I have no reason to believe you exist. If you're so sure my experiment was flawed, do it yourself. Give me your address, and I'll even send you a free hard drive to test it with. How's *that* for a good deal?
2. Apply impulse perpendicular to the axis of rotation and see what happens.
That's exactly what I did. What happened? Nothing.
Well, it made noise, and left a few dents in my desk, but it did nothing to the data flow. You couldn't have just said 'hit it on one of its edges and see what happens', you had to say 'apply impulse perpendicular to the axis of rotation' blah blah. Do you really think you impressed anyone? I'd like to apply impulse perpendicular to YOUR axis of rotation, coward.
3. As I suspected: idiot.
Yes, you are, but perhaps your mother loves you anyway. When you get home, before you make your sad, lonely way into the dank, smelly cave in the basement that you only leave when forced to, you should ask her.
Hey, this invention is terrific for all those paranoid tinhats out there. Imagine putting one of these just inside your bedroom, with a loop of you sleeping projected on it....while in reality, you're crouched in the corner with your shotgun in your lap and a carton of lucky strikes beside you, and when those evil government types come busting in to get you.....you'll GET THEM FIRST!
Rejoice, fellow sociopathic paranoid delusionals!
Yeah, but remember everything that America thinks it is good at was invented in Europe (computers, telephone, radio, television, etc. etc....) That and the brits wupped your sorry asses in Full Metal Challange...
/. without the Americans. I bet that chaps your unwashed European ass. All you assholes that don't live here and think dissing America is fun should be kneeling at our feet. Without us, you wouldn't even have indoor toilets, moo goo gai pan, automobiles, pens that can write upside down and underwater, plastic, coca cola, disposable lighters....you'd still be watching zootropes and riding everywhere on horses and in carriages. Your filthy streets would smell even worse, and your filthy people would be even more disease-ridden and unhealthy. Of course, you're obviously too unintelligent to understand what I'm telling you here, and you're obviously afraid to post even under a pseudonym, so whatever. Fuck you, Europe. We don't need you, you bloodsucking parasites. You're just lucky we're nice, and dedicated to freedom and democracy, or you'd all be serving Americans today and not just trying your hardest to look, act, and live like Americans. Europe droolz, USA roolz. So there.
Nice troll. The first 'computer', though, was invented in China. The first telephone was certainly American...and Philo T. Farnsworth wouldn't appreciate you ceding his invention to Europe. Marconi attempted to jack radio from Tesla, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in Tesla's lab fire. What's next? Did the Europeans invent airplanes too? You are teh suck. Next time you're out trolling, try not to use quite such easily disproven lures. Maybe since you Europeans have been living off the fruits of American ingenuity for so long you've deluded yourselves into thinking they're yours by right.
In fact, you wouldn't even be able to troll on
P.S. The word is 'challenge', not 'challange'. Didn't some Eurpoeans invent English? Too bad they can't even speak it properly.
Who's the idiot here?
You are. I've had a full sized, non-buffered hard drive in my car as an audio system (in a pc) and while I've gone over some very rough road, the hard drive has NEVER messed up. Just to see what would happen to a regular hard drive, I took my old 20 gig off the shelf, hooked it to my system, and performed a virus scan on it while bouncing it around. Guess what? No problems. Then I played a bunch of MP3s and OGGs off of it while bouncing it off my desk. No skips. Then I ran scandisk while *slamming* it repeatedly on the desk. No problems. Moving parts don't have to mean skips. A bit of empirical research would lead you to my conclusions, but I take no responsibility for what happens to anyone copying my experiment. YMMV. Maybe maxtor drives are just super good, or something. I guess it says something that a 3 or 4 year old drive performs like that. I wouldn't have cared if it died, but i didn't even get a minor blip. Not to mention that it has been sitting on a shelf for over a year. I'm guessing if you jog with it tied to your shoe or something you'd cause problems....I didn't test on concrete, just wood.
Yes. Yes. And yes... sort of. It's called an iPod. Portable hard drive, 5-30 GB, fine for jogging thanks to the 32 MB RAM buffer, and a single charge (it's rechargeable) lasts about 10 hours.
You're an idiot...and you almost got away with it. Your post was fine, except for my favorite part: "fine for jogging thanks to the 32 MB RAM buffer". Um, what does the buffer have to do with jogging? It's an AAC/MP3 player. Last time I checked, mp3s didn't skip.
Unfortunately they're required by law to be greedy in the interests of shareholders. If you want the benefits of capitalism, you have to be prepared to put up with its problems...
I have placed the contradictory points of your post in bold. I think what you meant is:
Unfortunately they are required by regulation to be greedy in the interests of shareholders. If you want the benefits of regulated capitalism, you have to be prepared to put up with its problems...
True capitalism is unfettered by rules and regulations. Many lament its unfairness, yet it hasn't truly been tried. We have always had regulation, but in my experience, more regulation only helps large companies who can afford to keep up with it, at the expense of small companies who can't keep up with the paperwork/minutia and who are also less able to cope with huge fines for small infractions. If you feel regulation is neccessary, please don't complain about oligopolies, as they're a direct and natural result of increasing regulation.
How does a file on your hard drive format the hard drive?
/full /y
Okay, so maybe a program could attack a floppy disk in the drive to boot up and format your drive, but I don't see how a file on the drive could, itself, format the drive.
Okay, try this as a test: (only works on M$ boxes)
Remove all floppies from your system.
Click start->run and type in cmd
(instead type command if you're on win9.x or earlier)
when your dos window comes up, type:
format c:
(where c: is the name of the drive which contains your windows installation.)
This will determine whether a file on a drive can format the drive it's on.
Happy computing!
And honestly, your argument is also somewhat specious, because if the work wasn't worth your paying for it in the first place, why would you want it to begin with?
Why would I want to pay for it BEFORE I knew it was worth the money? Let's say I buy a toaster that turns out to be a piece of shit. I can take it back and get my money back. You can't do that with movies or CDs. You can't do that with cars, either, which is why they let you test drive them. For me, downloading is for the purpose of previewing only, and anything I like, I buy. Example: I've been downloading Simpsons episodes for a while, because you couldn't get them anywhere but network tv and I can't get local channels where I live. Then when the DVDs came out, I purchased them, even at the ridiculously inflated price of 40 bucks per season. I KNEW I wanted them, so I bought them. However, I'm not spending 40 bucks on something unless I know I'll like it. It isn't like studios don't KNOW that most of what they release is crap. If they truly don't know, the executives are even dumber than they appear to be. They just figure to sucker in enough people opening weekend to not bomb and make a ton of cash from rental sales, retail sales, and overseas distribution. There are very few movies that are worth paying $8.50 to see. I'm sorry, I'm not a trust fund kid or a country club member, I'm just a poor slob trying to make a living. $8.50 may not be much to a lot of people, but it's a nice dinner out for me. I'm not opposed to paying for entertainment, I'm just oppposed to paying for shite, and previewing prevents me from doing that. However, I still buy lots and lots of movies. Ones that I've seen before. Why would I pay 15 bucks (or more) for a DVD of a movie I haven't seen before and don't know if I like? I'll stop previewing movies and music when the average quality of each goes up, or the price goes down. A lot.
In America, it would sound like this:
Officer: Do you have a TV license?
Person: Nope.
Officer: Good, because we don't have those here like in some unfortunate countries.
Person: Damn right. You think they need licenses to read books too?
Officer: Probably. You know how much it sucks over there.
Person: Over where?
Officer: Who cares?
Person + Officer: Ha hahahah hahahahahhaha!!!
Person: Hey, wanna beer?
Officer: Whoa there! I'm on duty...so no more than two or three.
Sony also wants a format it has complete control over. It's to help stop pirating to some degree... but more for money I'm sure.
Sony's in it for the money?!?! NO!!!111!11!1
How could that heartless company desire to make a profit off its inventions? Sony should give the hardware away free and make sure it can play PS2 and PS games for free too, and then they should just give away all the games they make for it...cause they shouldn't be in it for the money.
They charge for what you've had and throw out the "last glass" because the cost of the beer to the restaurant is negligable compared to what you paid for it.
Damn, and just the other day I saw some Japanese guy on tv calling Americans 'wasteful'. Yet this is common practice in Japan? Don't order any expensive Scotch whiskey in Japan. They'll just throw the last full glass out, and then call you a wasteful American.
If the waiter no longer had to constantly monitor drinks, it would free them up to handle more customers and/or provide better service.
True...they could throw lots of weird tech and radio frequencies at the problem....or they could just learn how to be a freaking waiter. I mean, it isn't brain surgery. If the glass is empty, ask if they want a refill. If it's full, don't. That doesn't seem like the kind of problem that needs a high-tech solution to me. I'd rather see PDAs for taking orders. I'm tired of getting my food cooked with shit I specifically asked NOT to have it cooked with. Maybe restaurants would just be better off hiring a better waitstaff.
Maybe people will start being more polite online now...
Fuck you.
Your sig is the best one I've ever seen on slashdot. Of course, I'm just an infrared clone...
One thing you have to keep in mind is that there are DEGREES to how AA is analysed and enacted. Take AA away, and I have no doubt that the vast majority of southern-state institutions would quickly return to being all-white.
Why on Earth would you suppose that? Do you think that national attention to such a thing would be favorable? Do you think that universities which depend on enrollment but also alumni contributions would stand for such a thing? I really feel that you're slighting the entire south for no reason. The past may not be pretty, but projecting it onto the future is even less pretty. I'd like to see some evidence, perhaps in the form of a current southern university which does not use AA and has become 90% or higher white. AA = racial prejudice or discrimination = the idea that race should be considered in accepting or denying applications = racism, pure and simple. Perhaps young minority people would prefer to earn their way in, rather than being told that they aren't good enough to get in, except for their skin color. That's just ridiculous. Instead of AA, why not just use the anti-discrimination laws already in place to punish those who ARE SHOWN to show racial preference...oh wait, we can't, because then everyone who uses race to determine applicant suitability (AA people) would be in trouble. Instead of fighting a vague and formless group of 'people who would discriminate against minorities if we didn't force them to discriminate against whites', why not punish people with a PROVEN track record of doing such? My guess is that it's easier to say 'oh you know white people, they're all racist' than it is to actually address the problems...where they exist.
So its obviously a more subtle approach to show how many people actually do contribute to a film and are affected by digital copying.
What I wonder is how big a piece of the profits the gaffers and grips and costume and set designers get. Oh wait, none! They're paid and on another project long before the movie even comes out. I realize that the **AA claims that piracy will lead to fewer movies being made, but with all the total shit that's been passing for 'entertainment' lately, is that a bad thing? Are we obligated to prop up a bloated and completely out of touch industry full of whining prima donnas and overpaid idiots whose only reason for fame is their devilish good looks?
I personally say...no. If it wasn't for cable tv, and to a much lesser extent pirated movies, I'd watch no movies at all, and be just as happy. They aren't losing any money from me that they hadn't ALREADY lost by putting out tripe like 'summer catch' and 'set it off' and whatever that new stupid pop singer chick movie is...and the worst...that justin and kelly movie...i mean, the previews alone make me vomit, I can't imagine how anyone could sit through the whole thing.
Um, I think 35 trillion, 350 trillion, or whatever, is a good word for the number, don't you?
What makes all you idiots think that thirty-five trillion or three hundred and fifty trillion or however many trillion is ONE WORD? it doesn't say 'a number so big it cannot be described at all', it says a number so big there isn't A WORD for it. the largest number you can express in ONE word is ninety. (shut the fuck up about infinity, yeah, I heard you. If you think infinity is a number, write it out for me.) Anything larger than that requires qualification. Yes, the guy's a dumbass...but not for the reasons you're supposing.
Hello? There's this thing called NAT, you see, and in many ways it's preferable to not have every one of your 100 IP-enabled devices sitting there on the real internet just waiting to get hacked.
Well, I for one hope that someone hacks my washer and dryer and starts em so I don't have to actually *type out* 'cycle start -extra_rinse Y -cycle_type delicate -second_spin Y -no_buzzer'
yay for the days of just pushing the button on the front of the thing. you know, when you put the clothes in....
and really, what does an ip-enabled coffeemaker do that one with a timer doesn't? I mean, besides sending you an IM when your coffee's done. Don't you have to actually walk to the fucking thing to put in ingredients/take out finished product anyway? Are we going to have to carry a PDA around now, just so the fridge opens? Sometimes I think we should all go back to reel mowers and boiling coffee on the stove. Pretty soon we're all going to look like fucking veal cattle.
IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number,"
how about "thirty six trillion" ?
Uhh...that's *three* words. RTFA.
The uk liberal-democrats supported the disgusting oil heist in iraq -- can't get much more right wing than that.
you mean where France was getting tons of oil for cash (instead of the food/medicine they were meant to send) that went directly to Saddam and his kid's porno collection instead of to the people of Iraq? Yeah, that *was* disgusting.
the American world view is so narrow that it creates ignorance and stupidity in within itself.
What a truly ironic statement to cap what has to be one of the most narrowminded posts I've seen today...and this is slashdot, so that's saying something.
Not children. Just foreigners. And American citizens who are friends with foreigners. Oh, all right, and maybe some foreign children.
Either you don't actually live in America, you're being purposfully idiotic, or your tin foil hat is on too tight. Get a grip on reality. Stop acting like the American government or the Republican party or any other huge group is a single person with a single mission/ideal. That's just stupid. I'm certainly no Republican, but your characterization of them only makes YOU look foolish.
Why are Americans so stupid? Is it really that hard to look up the definition of "liberal" (as in "liberalism")?
Did you mean Liberal, as in Liberalism? Because it's only when capitalised (I used the 's', just for you) that it means what you intended to convey. The definition of liberal with a small l could be many things, including generous or fit for a lady or gentleman of high birth. Are you stupid for not knowing that there is more than one definition for the word?
Why is it any better to assume that Americans should know your definition of Liberal than it is to assume that you should know Americans' definition of liberal? Why is it that Americans are stupid for defining liberal as left wing and non-Americans aren't stupid for defining it as right wing? Why is anti-Americanism any better than blind Americanism? Oh yeah, because people outside America are just as prejudicial as those inside. You shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass country.