Jeez I love these people that cry racist at at every turn.
The difference between a college kid who has downloaded a few MP3s and a DJ is the latter is making his living (and probably millions if he's famous) from re-marketing other peoples music under his own name, as a business.
Also if he has a recording contract then his record company are also guilty and should have known better.
The good thing about the internet is that its allowing artists to market their own music directly, cutting out the greedy middlemen like Sony etc.
Thats the real reason for DRM, as the record comapnies are trying to squeeze tighter as they have had their monopoply on control of the marketplace broken, and don't like the fact that they are not needed any more.
I don't agree that low numbers of women in engineering is in itself actually harming the software industry as a whole somehow. Why should women get given an artificial positive advantage just because of their gender? If anyone (man or woman) isn't competetive with their peer engineers an equal basis then they wouldn't do as good a job anyway so don't deserve a place. From my own work experiences, female engineers do actually get treated at least as well as male engineers already. The harm done to the industry by having an uneven playing-field based on gender would be far worse than any current gender imbalance. You need to want to be a software engineer. Its a knowledge industry. We all had to work to get to know enough to be good. In this respect, everyone already has an equal chance. why should anyone get a free leg-up based on some aspect of their DNA? This was exactly what Martin Luther King was fighting against. The only thing holding anyone back (men or women) from entering engineering is their own misconceptions and their own wish to do something else instead.
Have you ever stopped to consider it could actually be Microsoft or some other big comapny doing it? I've often wondered how many companies actually secretly engage in hacking and releasing competitors products.
4.4 gig is only better for downloading not for watching. To get an HD movie that small they ave repacked it with a very lossy compression, so the picture quality suffers badly comapred to the original.
will be warning placards on water supplies and bottles.
This ranks up there with the stupid woman who sued and won beacuse her microwave didn't have a sticker saying not to put pets in it. She tried to dry her poodle in the microwave and it exploded.
>> The host of the competition IS at FAULT for her DEATH.
Baloney. Your comment perfectly highlights the ridiculous blame/litigate mentality prevalent in the US that people shouldn't be responsible for their own stupid actions.
..and exist at all. Just like crops. You know, food, the stuff we all need to live. Lets not even get into the freak weather conditions that will smash cities and change society as we know it.
>> This will produce some positive effects, and some negative effects.
Try Canada and northern Europe dissapearing int a new ice age. And freak weather conditions like you've never seen before casuing crops to fail and wildlife to die out world wide. Your lifestyle will deteriorate in accordance. Thats the reality. Yes it sounds impossible but so did the nuclear bomb until someone dropped one.
It only takes a few degrees to upset the delicate balance of the weather and ecosystem and we're a long way down that road and making it worse every day with no sign of a real policy shift.
>> We simply don't know if GW is even a problem yet.
You must be an American then, as everyone else in the world doesn't have any doubts. All the scientists of the world clearly agree its a problem (except some American ones that have been bought-off by Exxon) yet somehow that fact seems to have escaped most Americans.
I suppose Bush and his oil-cronies program of disimformation combined with the fact that americans are greedy enough to not give up their gas-guzzling lifestyles even at the cost of the planet, all help them to bury their heads in the sand and go along in complete denial.
>> If GW happens, we may have to spend TONS more on Heating in homes
heh. Is that all you think will happen? a bigger power bill?
old Cree Indian proverb: "Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money."
You demonstrate the actual problem very well, which is that too many people actually believe those day-to-day people-centric issues are more important than the survival of our planet itself.
Disks still get a hammering for other reasons. Imagine a database server.
Also Windows does all sorts of crap even when its just sat there and not running any user-apps.
Its very scary to run a registry monitor tool and see all the registry writes going on even when there's nothing (other than the OS) running. No wonder windows is slow.
Flash memory has (depending on which technology) a limited life of 10^5 or 10^6 write operations. Now imagine your swap space being on flash.
Get used to the notion that this will mean you have to buy a new drive as these wear out now too. and older drives will start developing mysterious read errors, so will also need additional space-consuming data-redundancy for an error recovery strategy.
The algorithm covering up/down ratio and bandwidth on bittorrent sucks...
On average, nearly all torrents I've ever downloaded have always maxxed out at around 5-20k/sec download, which makes a download that ftp would do in several minutes take hours or even days on bittorrent. This seems true even if there are hundreds of other users/seeders on the same torrent.
Also it nearly always turns out that you have to upload 3 or 4 times the amount of data than downloaded before the download finishes. That means the algorithm is (still) broken. Assuming others on the torrent are also experiencing the same thing, where is all the extra data going and why is bittorrent so slow if so much uploading is happening?
OK now imagine the power consumed by all the macs in the US in standby mode: Apparently a single powered off mac still consumes 0.035A I cant find actual numbers of macs currently in use but in the last quarter of 2005 apple annouced sales of 1.3 million macs. Lest call that 5 million/yr. Now lets say macs have a life of 3 years. Thats 15 million = 525000 amps = 57 million watts of power just running macs in standalone mode.
I like the idea of a standardized low power supply and think it could be done.
Nearly every powerblock I've ever had is either 12 volts or 6. Very rarely (e.g. on my printer and laptop) they are higher than 12v.
If we standardized on 2 power supplies, say 48v and 12v and a standard (different) connector on each, all items could simply chose which voltage to use as a base by providing the appropriate connector, and then internally use a small voltage regulator to step down from the base voltage to the voltage it actually requires.
1) Off buttons that really turn off the power, not just put the device in a 'standby mode'.
2) Manufacturers should be obliged to make low-voltage devices have transformers internal(and wired after the power switch), and make those really annoying power bricks you now get with everything illegal.
Apart from usually being a ridiculous single-piece design that occludes several other sockets in a power strip, they cause massive cable tangles and practical use requires that they be left permanently powered-on.
More to the point, all those movies are available via netflix which don't charge based on a per-rental basis, so are already basically free elsewhere anyway.
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Jeez I love these people that cry racist at at every turn.
The difference between a college kid who has downloaded a few MP3s and a DJ is the latter is making his living (and probably millions if he's famous) from re-marketing other peoples music under his own name, as a business.
Also if he has a recording contract then his record company are also guilty and should have known better.
The good thing about the internet is that its allowing artists to market their own music directly, cutting out the greedy middlemen like Sony etc.
Thats the real reason for DRM, as the record comapnies are trying to squeeze tighter as they have had their monopoply on control of the marketplace broken, and don't like the fact that they are not needed any more.
I don't agree that low numbers of women in engineering is in itself actually harming the software industry as a whole somehow.
Why should women get given an artificial positive advantage just because of their gender?
If anyone (man or woman) isn't competetive with their peer engineers an equal basis then they wouldn't do as good a job anyway so don't deserve a place.
From my own work experiences, female engineers do actually get treated at least as well as male engineers already. The harm done to the industry by having an uneven playing-field based on gender would be far worse than any current gender imbalance.
You need to want to be a software engineer. Its a knowledge industry. We all had to work to get to know enough to be good. In this respect, everyone already has an equal chance. why should anyone get a free leg-up based on some aspect of their DNA? This was exactly what Martin Luther King was fighting against.
The only thing holding anyone back (men or women) from entering engineering is their own misconceptions and their own wish to do something else instead.
Have you ever stopped to consider it could actually be Microsoft or some other big comapny doing it?
I've often wondered how many companies actually secretly engage in hacking and releasing competitors products.
4.4 gig is only better for downloading not for watching.
To get an HD movie that small they ave repacked it with a very lossy compression, so the picture quality suffers badly comapred to the original.
I mean...the poodle exploded not the microwave.(well, more like inflated and ruptured I guess).
will be warning placards on water supplies and bottles.
This ranks up there with the stupid woman who sued and won beacuse her microwave didn't have a sticker saying not to put pets in it. She tried to dry her poodle in the microwave and it exploded.
>> The host of the competition IS at FAULT for her DEATH.
Baloney.
Your comment perfectly highlights the ridiculous blame/litigate mentality prevalent in the US that people shouldn't be responsible for their own stupid actions.
>> would be obligated to implement "reasonably available and economically reasonable" copy-protection technology aimed at preventing "music theft.
I propose ROT-13. Its free and easily available.
>> if and to whom I don't know.
Sony
..and exist at all. Just like crops. You know, food, the stuff we all need to live.
Lets not even get into the freak weather conditions that will smash cities and change society as we know it.
>> This will produce some positive effects, and some negative effects.
Try Canada and northern Europe dissapearing int a new ice age. And freak weather conditions like you've never seen before casuing crops to fail and wildlife to die out world wide. Your lifestyle will deteriorate in accordance. Thats the reality. Yes it sounds impossible but so did the nuclear bomb until someone dropped one.
It only takes a few degrees to upset the delicate balance of the weather and ecosystem and we're a long way down that road and making it worse every day with no sign of a real policy shift.
>> We simply don't know if GW is even a problem yet.
You must be an American then, as everyone else in the world doesn't have any doubts.
All the scientists of the world clearly agree its a problem (except some American ones that have been bought-off by Exxon) yet somehow that fact seems to have escaped most Americans.
I suppose Bush and his oil-cronies program of disimformation combined with the fact that americans are greedy enough to not give up their gas-guzzling lifestyles even at the cost of the planet, all help them to bury their heads in the sand and go along in complete denial.
>> posting a lot of political stories which have generally taken a large step to the left. This story is another example of such.
What? Why do you consider the survival of our whole planet is just a left-wing issue? (Although I must admit Bush is acting that way).
>> If GW happens, we may have to spend TONS more on Heating in homes
heh. Is that all you think will happen? a bigger power bill?
old Cree Indian proverb:
"Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money."
You demonstrate the actual problem very well, which is that too many people actually believe those day-to-day people-centric issues are more important than the survival of our planet itself.
Disks still get a hammering for other reasons. Imagine a database server.
Also Windows does all sorts of crap even when its just sat there and not running any user-apps.
Its very scary to run a registry monitor tool and see all the registry writes going on even when there's nothing (other than the OS) running. No wonder windows is slow.
>> How long do you see Intel maintaining its dominance in the home PC market?
As long as commercial PC games Developers don't provide source code or binaries for any other architecture.
Flash memory has (depending on which technology) a limited life of 10^5 or 10^6 write operations. Now imagine your swap space being on flash.
Get used to the notion that this will mean you have to buy a new drive as these wear out now too. and older drives will start developing mysterious read errors, so will also need additional space-consuming data-redundancy for an error recovery strategy.
The algorithm covering up/down ratio and bandwidth on bittorrent sucks...
On average, nearly all torrents I've ever downloaded have always maxxed out at around 5-20k/sec download, which makes a download that ftp would do in several minutes take hours or even days on bittorrent.
This seems true even if there are hundreds of other users/seeders on the same torrent.
Also it nearly always turns out that you have to upload 3 or 4 times the amount of data than downloaded before the download finishes. That means the algorithm is (still) broken. Assuming others on the torrent are also experiencing the same thing, where is all the extra data going and why is bittorrent so slow if so much uploading is happening?
knohow can you stand to look at yourself in the mirror every morning?
OK now imagine the power consumed by all the macs in the US in standby mode: Apparently a single powered off mac still consumes 0.035A
I cant find actual numbers of macs currently in use but in the last quarter of 2005 apple annouced sales of 1.3 million macs. Lest call that 5 million/yr. Now lets say macs have a life of 3 years. Thats 15 million = 525000 amps = 57 million watts of power just running macs in standalone mode.
I like the idea of a standardized low power supply and think it could be done.
Nearly every powerblock I've ever had is either 12 volts or 6. Very rarely (e.g. on my printer and laptop) they are higher than 12v.
If we standardized on 2 power supplies, say 48v and 12v and a standard (different) connector on each, all items could simply chose which voltage to use as a base by providing the appropriate connector, and then internally use a small voltage regulator to step down from the base voltage to the voltage it actually requires.
1) Off buttons that really turn off the power, not just put the device in a 'standby mode'.
2) Manufacturers should be obliged to make low-voltage devices have transformers internal(and wired after the power switch), and make those really annoying power bricks you now get with everything illegal.
Apart from usually being a ridiculous single-piece design that occludes several other sockets in a power strip, they cause massive cable tangles and practical use requires that they be left permanently powered-on.
More to the point, all those movies are available via netflix which don't charge based on a per-rental basis, so are already basically free elsewhere anyway.