Well, for one thing, they're not cheaper. I mean, sure, you can find a DVD of a 1985 movie in the "bargain bin" that'll be cheaper than the brand new Blink 182 album, but when you're comparing apples-to-apples, DVDs are more expensive. A new CD is about $15. A new DVD is about $20. 'Round here, anyway.
I get my movies for 14$ from Circuit City new. If I bought CD's I would get them for about the same cost. They cost about the same.
That may be true if all you were doing was listening to the music. Typically I am doing other things while only having the music in the background. In this case, $16/hr for background noise is way too much.
It is a matter of supply. Though not what you are thinking. IF songs were.5$ per song, then perhaps enough people would start buying music that the P2P companies would have trouble generating advertising revenue. As a result, almost everyone else would be forced to buy the music because the free stuff would be much less available.
We just cut our IT department. I would not recomend this as it makes our development staff our IT department. Paying a programmer to do IT stuff is like paying your contractor (as in home building contractor) to clean your house. Not only is it going to cost you $200 per hour to have a clean house but it is really going to piss off your contractor.
I think that the solution to this one would be to put the domain name in the image. If the porn site was using my image, then the surfer would know that the image came from my site.
I really like your point of view on this. I completely agree. The fruits of the efforts of our ancestors working to "make the world a better place" are there. We just need to notice them and realize that they are not a given constent in the universe. If the world today was such a bad place, it means that all of the efforts of those to make the world a better place have failed. In that light, why bother? If the billions before you have failed what makes you think that you can succeed? The answer is to look around and see that much of the world is better, and some of it is worse. You can still strive to make a little piece of the world better and possibly even succeed. More importantly, you can still focus on the successes of your ancestors and declare the world an alright place (with some maintnence work that needs to be done).
LOL! Yah, you're right there! Last time I left the country, I had to appologize for my fellow americans everywhere I went. Many of those that I met wanted to blame me for his being in power. I had to tell them over and over again that I did not vote for Bush and never would.
The point is, the man with the "finger on the button " should know how to pronounce the word correctly. He makes Americans look like idiots every time he says it wrong.
No, they did not really take much advantage with surround sound in recordings. They did however use surround sound in many of their concerts. One band I can think of in particular that loved using surround sound in concerts was Pink Floyd. I am too young to have ever made it to any origional Pink Floyd concerts, however I have listened to some good remixes made from original concert recordings.
Since the new codec is supposed to be backward compatible, I don't think that existing content is going to be a problem. The question is will the people that make mp3 rippers and players be able to use the new codec or will it cost to much to license it? Additionally, what kind of DRM does it have? If the new codec gets into the new rippers and players, and the DRM is non-existant or non-intrusive then I do not see any reason that it will not become popular. For instance, if you were about to rip a new song, and you had the option of using the surround codec or the normal codec, wouldn't most of you choose the surround codec (esp for some of those great 70's and 80's bands that really took advantage of surround sound)?
Why is greed a bad thing? If it is used to drive our society to good, is greed not a good thing in that case? If greed competes, it will often be good for society as it will generate thought. If John wants the apple, and Jane wants the same apple and both are greedy for it, then if Jane comes up with a better way to get the apple then John does, he will win. The actions of Jane will not be overlooked by a greedy John who will learn by them and use them for his own purposes. The ideas developed by Jane are then given to society as a history lesson, technology improvement, financial tactic, etc.. As a rule, I try to allow my greed to dictate my decisions. As a second rule I try to get the thing that I am most greedy for and ignore those other greeds that will prevent me from getting it. As an example, I have a greed for money. I also have a greed for lazyness. My greed for money is greater than my greed for lazyness, therefore I am at work right now.
I wonder how much influence the big news agencies are using on this issue. I'm sure that most of them would like to see e-voting across the country. Why you ask?
capitalist answer: The votes come in faster and they get a better answer. It's the same reason that all of the remote reporters use GPS phones now.
paranoid answer: How many "news hours" do you think an invalid presidential election due to hacking would produce?
In any case, even as a technology lover I can only see the capitalist answer as a good reason for using e-voting right now. And I don't really think that the risk is worth getting the news an hour earlier.
Actually, IPV6 has nothing really to do with HTTP or HTML . The web (as many slashdotters can explain even better than I) is built upon many layers.
Digital or Analog physical transmition type (ethernet, optical cable, phone line, radio waves) addressing (IPV4, IPV6, probably more that I am not aware of) transport protical (TCP, UDP, etc...) packet type (http, ftp, gopher, smtp, etc...)
That is why you can change one of the layers and none of the others have to know about it. In other words, you can serve up some http content over a digital ethernet connection using IPV6 and TCP or you can serve up that same http content through an analog phone line using IPV4 on a UDP connection, and the reader of the web page will not know the difference.
So changing to IPV6 is only going to increase the number of addresses on the web (like adding an extra character on a license plate increases the number of cars that can have a license in a given state), and not much else.
Unless you are telling someone how to modify (hack) their own equipment. Then you are in danger of breaking the censorship provided by the DMCA and it does not matter what medium you supply that information on.
That does not mean that it is good behavior. Maybe *nix should adapt? Personally I find that behavior very annoying since replacing text is just that much more complicated. Most *nix programs are built on the old philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. It seems odd that any *nix user or programmer would therefore argue in favor of using one action to do more than one thing and do it poorly. Just a thought. A side note here... since you have the source code to my favorite operating system, you can change the behavior if you want to.
One major problem that I have with his theory is this:
"a parallel universe is only detectable between universes that are very alike. In short, because these events are extremely rare, so is the detection of parallel universes is difficult."
Given the evidence presented for multiple universes, there would have to be 1 universe for every possibility (even down to whether this photon from the sun goes here or there). In other words, Infinite universes would exist. So, if you apply some basic math regarding infinite possibilities, that means that there are infinite universes that are very close to ours (one photon on the other side of the universe goes a different way, a butterfly flaps down instead of up, etc.). So, wouldn't we see the evidence that he mentions constantly.
Additionally, I have read some better interpretations of this phenomenon before. If you are interested, you should read "Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. Also, "QED" by Richard Feynman is an excellent read.
"but from what I heard not even the Intel engineers liked dealing with RDRAM. "
I can attest to that. I bought an Intel mother board back at the beginning of this fiasco. I can't remember which one. The mother board was designed to run with either RDRAM or DDR. Since a couple of megs of RDRAM cost more than my entire system including software (gotta love OSS), I opted for a much larger amount of DDR memory. It turns out that the DDR controller did not work correctly and Intel had to recall all of their boards. They gave customers the option of either getting a cheaper board + some weenie amount of RDRAM (thus forcing the customer to shell out a couple hundred more bucks to even match the current "recommended" amount of RAM for the current version of Windows) or get a check in the mail for $150 (about the cost of the motherboard). I wrote in big letters "Send Check not replacement motherboard!" all over the packaging and forms that I sent to them having little faith that the minion at their offices would actually take notice of the little check mark next to my desired choice. None the less, a couple of months later my new replacement motherboard arrived in the mail. I sold it a week later to a co-worker for $150.
I hope I have wasted as much of your work time as I wasted in writing this pointless story...:)
Yah, no kidding. 152K is not exactly very much. At the current rate of cost of living increases, 152K will probably only keep you alive for 2-5 years and that is if you are careful with your money. Not bad for 40 years of saving. Yah right...
Here here... I can get plenty of good listening out of the Pink Floyd and Led Zeplin cd's that I already own.
I don't know how the legal issues arround copyright material is going to work out, however I can still "opt-out" of the whole mess by not giving them my business. When I see artists that sell their music independently (especially those that distribute online) only then will I even think about buying the music. I like to encourage that business model as much as I can.
What really sucks is laws like those in Canada where the consumer pays a pirate tax just for buying something that could possibly be used to make copies (legal or not) of copyrighted material.
Who says? I'm sure we can figure out a way around that. Though, it will get a little scary when we lose our centerfold models. Maybe they can come too.
Maybe if all of us techies leave and invade some other country, kicking all of the non-techies out... we could rule the world! Talk about nerd nation. We could let the rest of the world fall into the dark ages, then take over.
So, now all we have to do is decide which country... How about the moon?
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Like the Red Cross who found several international law violations and found that there were missing prisoners?
Well, for one thing, they're not cheaper. I mean, sure, you can find a DVD of a 1985 movie in the "bargain bin" that'll be cheaper than the brand new Blink 182 album, but when you're comparing apples-to-apples, DVDs are more expensive. A new CD is about $15. A new DVD is about $20. 'Round here, anyway.
I get my movies for 14$ from Circuit City new. If I bought CD's I would get them for about the same cost. They cost about the same.
That may be true if all you were doing was listening to the music. Typically I am doing other things while only having the music in the background. In this case, $16/hr for background noise is way too much.
It is a matter of supply. Though not what you are thinking. IF songs were .5$ per song, then perhaps enough people would start buying music that the P2P companies would have trouble generating advertising revenue. As a result, almost everyone else would be forced to buy the music because the free stuff would be much less available.
We just cut our IT department. I would not recomend this as it makes our development staff our IT department. Paying a programmer to do IT stuff is like paying your contractor (as in home building contractor) to clean your house. Not only is it going to cost you $200 per hour to have a clean house but it is really going to piss off your contractor.
I think that the solution to this one would be to put the domain name in the image. If the porn site was using my image, then the surfer would know that the image came from my site.
I really like your point of view on this. I completely agree. The fruits of the efforts of our ancestors working to "make the world a better place" are there. We just need to notice them and realize that they are not a given constent in the universe. If the world today was such a bad place, it means that all of the efforts of those to make the world a better place have failed. In that light, why bother? If the billions before you have failed what makes you think that you can succeed? The answer is to look around and see that much of the world is better, and some of it is worse. You can still strive to make a little piece of the world better and possibly even succeed. More importantly, you can still focus on the successes of your ancestors and declare the world an alright place (with some maintnence work that needs to be done).
LOL! Yah, you're right there! Last time I left the country, I had to appologize for my fellow americans everywhere I went. Many of those that I met wanted to blame me for his being in power. I had to tell them over and over again that I did not vote for Bush and never would.
The point is, the man with the "finger on the button
" should know how to pronounce the word correctly. He makes Americans look like idiots every time he says it wrong.
Yes however none of the engineers can get any work done. Every time W calls it "nucular" (and he usualy does), they bust up in a fit of laughter!
No, they did not really take much advantage with surround sound in recordings. They did however use surround sound in many of their concerts. One band I can think of in particular that loved using surround sound in concerts was Pink Floyd. I am too young to have ever made it to any origional Pink Floyd concerts, however I have listened to some good remixes made from original concert recordings.
Since the new codec is supposed to be backward compatible, I don't think that existing content is going to be a problem. The question is will the people that make mp3 rippers and players be able to use the new codec or will it cost to much to license it? Additionally, what kind of DRM does it have? If the new codec gets into the new rippers and players, and the DRM is non-existant or non-intrusive then I do not see any reason that it will not become popular. For instance, if you were about to rip a new song, and you had the option of using the surround codec or the normal codec, wouldn't most of you choose the surround codec (esp for some of those great 70's and 80's bands that really took advantage of surround sound)?
Why is greed a bad thing? If it is used to drive our society to good, is greed not a good thing in that case? If greed competes, it will often be good for society as it will generate thought. If John wants the apple, and Jane wants the same apple and both are greedy for it, then if Jane comes up with a better way to get the apple then John does, he will win. The actions of Jane will not be overlooked by a greedy John who will learn by them and use them for his own purposes. The ideas developed by Jane are then given to society as a history lesson, technology improvement, financial tactic, etc..
As a rule, I try to allow my greed to dictate my decisions. As a second rule I try to get the thing that I am most greedy for and ignore those other greeds that will prevent me from getting it. As an example, I have a greed for money. I also have a greed for lazyness. My greed for money is greater than my greed for lazyness, therefore I am at work right now.
I wonder how much influence the big news agencies are using on this issue. I'm sure that most of them would like to see e-voting across the country. Why you ask?
capitalist answer: The votes come in faster and they get a better answer. It's the same reason that all of the remote reporters use GPS phones now.
paranoid answer: How many "news hours" do you think an invalid presidential election due to hacking would produce?
In any case, even as a technology lover I can only see the capitalist answer as a good reason for using e-voting right now. And I don't really think that the risk is worth getting the news an hour earlier.
Actually, IPV6 has nothing really to do with HTTP or HTML . The web (as many slashdotters can explain even better than I) is built upon many layers.
Digital or Analog
physical transmition type (ethernet, optical cable, phone line, radio waves)
addressing (IPV4, IPV6, probably more that I am not aware of)
transport protical (TCP, UDP, etc...)
packet type (http, ftp, gopher, smtp, etc...)
That is why you can change one of the layers and none of the others have to know about it. In other words, you can serve up some http content over a digital ethernet connection using IPV6 and TCP or you can serve up that same http content through an analog phone line using IPV4 on a UDP connection, and the reader of the web page will not know the difference.
So changing to IPV6 is only going to increase the number of addresses on the web (like adding an extra character on a license plate increases the number of cars that can have a license in a given state), and not much else.
Unless you are telling someone how to modify (hack) their own equipment. Then you are in danger of breaking the censorship provided by the DMCA and it does not matter what medium you supply that information on.
That does not mean that it is good behavior. Maybe *nix should adapt? Personally I find that behavior very annoying since replacing text is just that much more complicated. Most *nix programs are built on the old philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. It seems odd that any *nix user or programmer would therefore argue in favor of using one action to do more than one thing and do it poorly. Just a thought. A side note here... since you have the source code to my favorite operating system, you can change the behavior if you want to.
"a parallel universe is only detectable between universes that are very alike. In short, because these events are extremely rare, so is the detection of parallel universes is difficult."
Given the evidence presented for multiple universes, there would have to be 1 universe for every possibility (even down to whether this photon from the sun goes here or there). In other words, Infinite universes would exist. So, if you apply some basic math regarding infinite possibilities, that means that there are infinite universes that are very close to ours (one photon on the other side of the universe goes a different way, a butterfly flaps down instead of up, etc.). So, wouldn't we see the evidence that he mentions constantly.
Additionally, I have read some better interpretations of this phenomenon before. If you are interested, you should read "Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. Also, "QED" by Richard Feynman is an excellent read.
"but from what I heard not even the Intel engineers liked dealing with RDRAM. "
:)
I can attest to that. I bought an Intel mother board back at the beginning of this fiasco. I can't remember which one. The mother board was designed to run with either RDRAM or DDR. Since a couple of megs of RDRAM cost more than my entire system including software (gotta love OSS), I opted for a much larger amount of DDR memory. It turns out that the DDR controller did not work correctly and Intel had to recall all of their boards. They gave customers the option of either getting a cheaper board + some weenie amount of RDRAM (thus forcing the customer to shell out a couple hundred more bucks to even match the current "recommended" amount of RAM for the current version of Windows) or get a check in the mail for $150 (about the cost of the motherboard). I wrote in big letters "Send Check not replacement motherboard!" all over the packaging and forms that I sent to them having little faith that the minion at their offices would actually take notice of the little check mark next to my desired choice. None the less, a couple of months later my new replacement motherboard arrived in the mail. I sold it a week later to a co-worker for $150.
I hope I have wasted as much of your work time as I wasted in writing this pointless story...
Yah, no kidding. 152K is not exactly very much. At the current rate of cost of living increases, 152K will probably only keep you alive for 2-5 years and that is if you are careful with your money. Not bad for 40 years of saving. Yah right...
I wonder if any of that equipment is working, and if so why it has not caught on fire?
I don't know how the legal issues arround copyright material is going to work out, however I can still "opt-out" of the whole mess by not giving them my business. When I see artists that sell their music independently (especially those that distribute online) only then will I even think about buying the music. I like to encourage that business model as much as I can.
What really sucks is laws like those in Canada where the consumer pays a pirate tax just for buying something that could possibly be used to make copies (legal or not) of copyrighted material.
Who says? I'm sure we can figure out a way around that. Though, it will get a little scary when we lose our centerfold models. Maybe they can come too.
So, now all we have to do is decide which country... How about the moon?
Wouldn't that be MATIE?