Maybe I don't understand this correctly. Assume I have 2 friends that are in bands and I decide to start an internet radio station that plays songs from only those two bands. I negotiate deals with both of those bands to be able to play their music for a certain price and I pay them. You're telling me that I still need to pay SoundExchange for something? Even though I never played any music that they control.
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be sent during a set period of time. Per second in this case. Latency is how quickly the smallest piece of information takes to be sent.
I dont know about that. My roommate bought a few dozen off of iTunes and he doesn't have an iPod. When his current MP3 player dies the ability to play those songs will probably push him to get a iPod.
Turnitin probablably has a license agreement that has to be accepted when submitting a paper. They probably also force people to agree that the paper submitted can be used in Turnitin's database. So chances are it's really the professors that are giving Turnitin permission that they do not have the authority to give, therefore the students should be sueing their own professors and not Turnitin.
1) Not everyone wants a dynamic typed language. I for one prefer my compiler to do some checking for me and verify that the types are correct. I'm pretty sure most large (read: enterprise level) systems would be a lot more difficult to develop if they did not use a statically typed language.
2) Thread a = new Thread() {
public void run() {//Do something
}
}
a.start();
Yup, no anonymous classes in Java. While I do agree anonymous functions would be nice, named classes can be used with only a little bit more effort...and the result is more readable (see #1).
Now, I'll admit, for small projects with 1 or maybe 2 developers a dynamically typed language and anonymous functions are nice, but I doubt things like that will scale to huge projects where the majority of developers are just average programmers.
The alternative is other forms of entertainment. RIAA music competes with local/independent music. MPAA movies compete with film students, YouTube, TV, videogames, etc...
Just because there is no alternative for a particular product, doesn't mean there is no alternative.
Example: A Mercedes SL 55AMG is nearly $100,000, but the high price doesn't mean that people have to go without cars.
I think the idea of a channel will change. There will be people that create a series of videos (which may or may not contain differet types of content), and when you get home you can watch that series...either from the start or from a good insertion point. You will choose which series you like and which "people" you trust to give you new series.
But if it's the median intelligence of everyone in the world, and our society only kills those that belong to the society with an IQ under 120, then we will continue to survive.
"the task's nature changes significantly or the task outright goes away."
I remember early in grad school I finished off a project a few days after it was assigned. Then the profressor did just that and I had to significantly modify my program. The worst part is, when I asked him, "What about the people that have already done the project?" His response was, "They should have procrastinated."
How can you know all the future practical uses? Also, how can a computer tell the difference between legal and illegal copying? Will the computer know that I have 15 different music playing devices in my house and that I tend to have bad luck with harddrives so I have an offsite backup of the content(in addition to multiple onsite backups)?
Personally, I like the idea of watermarking music. It doesn't prevent anything, but it stops people that legally buy music from casual copying and it makes it easy to identify if music originated from a legal source or not.
I agree with you, but if religion wants the word marriage, I say we let them have it. My only concern is that the government recognise marriage if it's a religious term. A simple proposal that's been made by many: Marriage should no longer be recognised by our government. Civil Unions should be a voluntary contract between 2 or more entities that allows that group to act like they are related (sharing of wealth, hospital visitation rights, etc...).
I just got mine yesterday. I was really excited about Marvel: Ultimate Allliance, but that ended up not being very fun. Zelda was very addictive, I put the game in and 3 hours later I realized I should get some sleep. Of course before going to bed I decided to try Wii Sports, and I have to say that I think Wii Sports is the most fun game out yet.
I've never understood why nuclear power is considered to "solve" global warming.
Here is the situation as I see it: Temperature = energy coming in to the Earth (radiation/light, gravitational effects) + energy released in the Earth (nuclear, burning fossil fuels, etc...) - Energy stored in the each (creating fossil fuels, etc...) - energy irradiated away from the Earth (radiation/light, gravitational effects).
So, while stopping the use of fossil fuels will increase the energy irradiated, the energy released will go up due to nuclear energy.
Now, I can see nuclear energy being a stop-gap measure to slow down global warming, but the only way to solve it is to not release new energy.
I'm sure my argument has plenty of flaws, please point them out.
With especially close friends, yes, but dinner parties often consist of people that are not close friends. I've met at least one new person at all the dinner parties I've been to this last year.
Many. Some consider it impolite to talk about certain emotional political situations in company that may have different views. Examples: abortion, war, etc...
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Maybe I don't understand this correctly.
Assume I have 2 friends that are in bands and I decide to start an internet radio station that plays songs from only those two bands. I negotiate deals with both of those bands to be able to play their music for a certain price and I pay them.
You're telling me that I still need to pay SoundExchange for something? Even though I never played any music that they control.
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be sent during a set period of time. Per second in this case.
Latency is how quickly the smallest piece of information takes to be sent.
I can see that for some examples (NE) but I have no idea how it would work with DC
I dont know about that. My roommate bought a few dozen off of iTunes and he doesn't have an iPod. When his current MP3 player dies the ability to play those songs will probably push him to get a iPod.
Turnitin probablably has a license agreement that has to be accepted when submitting a paper. They probably also force people to agree that the paper submitted can be used in Turnitin's database. So chances are it's really the professors that are giving Turnitin permission that they do not have the authority to give, therefore the students should be sueing their own professors and not Turnitin.
I didn't realize that, but it makes sense.
Multiple domains can map to one ip address and then at the server HTTP server can split them into multiple websites based on dns
Laptops next to the "work machines"
1) Not everyone wants a dynamic typed language. I for one prefer my compiler to do some checking for me and verify that the types are correct. I'm pretty sure most large (read: enterprise level) systems would be a lot more difficult to develop if they did not use a statically typed language.
//Do something
2) Thread a = new Thread() {
public void run() {
}
}
a.start();
Yup, no anonymous classes in Java. While I do agree anonymous functions would be nice, named classes can be used with only a little bit more effort...and the result is more readable (see #1).
Now, I'll admit, for small projects with 1 or maybe 2 developers a dynamically typed language and anonymous functions are nice, but I doubt things like that will scale to huge projects where the majority of developers are just average programmers.
With only 2 datapoints there isn't a trend. It could be linear (12.6%), exponential (~630,000%),logarithmic (???), or something else (???).
The alternative is other forms of entertainment. RIAA music competes with local/independent music. MPAA movies compete with film students, YouTube, TV, videogames, etc...
Just because there is no alternative for a particular product, doesn't mean there is no alternative.
Example: A Mercedes SL 55AMG is nearly $100,000, but the high price doesn't mean that people have to go without cars.
Isn't Apple in trouble for not licensing fairplay to others, which prevents others from selling audio with DRM that will work on the ipod?
Apple doesn't need the studios to not require DRM for them to license fairplay to others.
I think the idea of a channel will change. There will be people that create a series of videos (which may or may not contain differet types of content), and when you get home you can watch that series...either from the start or from a good insertion point. You will choose which series you like and which "people" you trust to give you new series.
But if it's the median intelligence of everyone in the world, and our society only kills those that belong to the society with an IQ under 120, then we will continue to survive.
Wow, you really must be grown up to get really upset about a post on slashdot and calling people names.
"the task's nature changes significantly or the task outright goes away."
I remember early in grad school I finished off a project a few days after it was assigned. Then the profressor did just that and I had to significantly modify my program. The worst part is, when I asked him, "What about the people that have already done the project?" His response was, "They should have procrastinated."
How can you know all the future practical uses?
Also, how can a computer tell the difference between legal and illegal copying? Will the computer know that I have 15 different music playing devices in my house and that I tend to have bad luck with harddrives so I have an offsite backup of the content(in addition to multiple onsite backups)?
Personally, I like the idea of watermarking music. It doesn't prevent anything, but it stops people that legally buy music from casual copying and it makes it easy to identify if music originated from a legal source or not.
Didn't the razr start at the same price? The price will drop, and in 2 years it'll be $100 with a new contract.
I agree with you, but if religion wants the word marriage, I say we let them have it. My only concern is that the government recognise marriage if it's a religious term.
A simple proposal that's been made by many: Marriage should no longer be recognised by our government. Civil Unions should be a voluntary contract between 2 or more entities that allows that group to act like they are related (sharing of wealth, hospital visitation rights, etc...).
I just got mine yesterday. I was really excited about Marvel: Ultimate Allliance, but that ended up not being very fun. Zelda was very addictive, I put the game in and 3 hours later I realized I should get some sleep. Of course before going to bed I decided to try Wii Sports, and I have to say that I think Wii Sports is the most fun game out yet.
Okay, I was wrong...Black Friday is scary...I'm going to stay inside my house next year...
I can see deal seakers at the mall and at big retailers, but I doubt any will go to a strip mall with only a few stores in it.
I've never understood why nuclear power is considered to "solve" global warming.
Here is the situation as I see it:
Temperature = energy coming in to the Earth (radiation/light, gravitational effects) + energy released in the Earth (nuclear, burning fossil fuels, etc...) - Energy stored in the each (creating fossil fuels, etc...) - energy irradiated away from the Earth (radiation/light, gravitational effects).
So, while stopping the use of fossil fuels will increase the energy irradiated, the energy released will go up due to nuclear energy.
Now, I can see nuclear energy being a stop-gap measure to slow down global warming, but the only way to solve it is to not release new energy.
I'm sure my argument has plenty of flaws, please point them out.
With especially close friends, yes, but dinner parties often consist of people that are not close friends. I've met at least one new person at all the dinner parties I've been to this last year.
Many. Some consider it impolite to talk about certain emotional political situations in company that may have different views. Examples: abortion, war, etc...