Achilles thought the same. In the book he devised smart grammophones that had cameras instead of physical contact with the record. AFAIR the result was exactly what you suggest - he couldn't play the records.
Moderators are on their usual crack. I wasn't trolling at all, I was just trying to be helpful. I read the mentioned Straight Dope article, but it all wasn't clear enough that I could give the explanation in my own words. That's why I just posted the link with the warning that it's not very clearly written. And you moderate this as troll?!
Because you can just add extra brightness for particular colour channel - it's not the case for reflective images. If you put this e-paper with red image on it and normal red paper, the latter will look much redder. The e-paper will either look pinker (if other cells are turned off and are white) or a darker shade of red (if other cells are on).
It's all very complicated, but you can get some understanding from this Straight Dope article. Basically this will be done in the same way you get bright red in colour magazine.
Have you read "Godel, Escher, Bach. The Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofshtader? The part where the Turtle devises records to destroy Achilles' gramophones.:) May be like that, for every computer program there always exists some input that would crash it.:)))))
Add a new read mode to "complex" CD-ROMs - just read every single fucking byte on the disk and record them just as you read them. That has a side benefit of creating a RAW sound file (almost) for audio disks that can probably be opened by any sound editor.
Troll is a provocative posting, designed to start a flame. Attack on ideal is not a troll per se. I can argue that open source is inherently flawed model and it would be ok. But if I carefully craft my post to elicit a predictable aggressive reaction from other users, it is a troll. The difference is in purpose. For example, see this clever troll. If it didn't have that ending and just was a bit more balanced, it would be a normal post. But the author wanted to start a flaming discussion, so he intentionally provoked with his post. Be careful in your moderations, if you are not sure, don't moderate that particular post.
They're trying to rely in the fact that some audio CD players will be more tolerant than CD-ROM devices. What we need is a situation when CD-ROMs (or CD-RWs/DVD-ROMs/DVD-Rs) become more tolerant than audio CD players (customizable) so that they are able to read/play any content as long as there are at least some bytes on the drive.:) Just like browser will render any HTML, even if it's completely fucked up as far as the W3 standard goes.
WIndows is a sorry mess of an OS, right. I have Win2k with autorun disabled. After messing a bit with virtual CD drives and other crap, I found out that the CD-drive does not refresh the contents when I insert a new disk. That's right. I can insert another disk, but the OS will think it's still the old one. Even refreshing by pressing F5 does not help. The only way to update it is to remove the disk, refresh the drive contents to see that there is nothing there, then insert the new disk...
You already have to go back to the 1920's or so to find any truly public domain works.
Einstain showed that space and time are the one. You can either go further back in time or farther in space. Visit Russia and you'd be surprised at the wealth of the public domain. Even ignoring the de-facto legality of piracy there, copyright is much more reasonable. For example, all films made before 1973 are in public domain already. You wouldn't have to worry about studios, because you'd have the backing of Ministry of Culture that stated this clearly (even providing a helpful list of some of the movies in public domain).
cut down on pointless formatting decisions that seem to endlessly arise
Ha! When I need to type something on my Win2k PC, I can always lunch Notepad. I type whatever I want and leave it as it is. If I feel particularly paranoid, I will save it to desktop. If not, I'll just leave it as it is. I can also launch MS Word and start typing in perfect Times New Roman 12 pt. It's not like Word is asking me what font I want to use before creating the document.:)
This is a great law. I haven't read it, but I know it's great. I don't worry that it won't work, I don't worry if it will create some problems for legitimate commercial e-mail. Look, spam causes large losses for the economy, if we are to believe analysts' estimates, many billions of dollars per year. If you can significantly reduce spam, while only causing losses on the order of, say, tens of millions, it's a working solution. So what if Amazon will have to spend extra 5 grands to ensure compliance? So what if some webmasters of small non-profit sites will have to spend a few days proving they didn't send the spam. Big fucking deal. You can't have a law that works 100% of the time. It's all about the trade-offs. And this new law looks to me like a really good deal.
Yes, and then kids have up to 1 year difference in age when they go to school because of the month in which they were born. All cortect. The only catch is that there have been a shitload of studies and they demostrate no correlation between the birthday and anything personal worth mentioning at all.
Of course, we might find that the season has some minor effect, but that would not validate astrology, just like spaceflight doesn't validate levitation claims.
If you want to make a short film on Mickey Mouse, come to Russia for a short trip. Bring your notebook with you, stay in some nice resort in the countryside and work on your big horror masterpiece. All movies older than 30 years are in public domain in Russian Federation, so you can also kill Bambi, Snowwhite and a whole host of Disney's cartoon characters.:) You will also be able to distribute your new film online (for free or for a fee) from a server located in Russia and not fear any sort of prosecution, because it would be 100% legal.
You see, it is September 22 and I managed to download 1Gb already. And I pay fucking 0.07$/Mb, so I am trying to be careful about how much I download... Fuck! Give me unlimited Internet access or give me death!
Do you expect an insurance company to not pay you when your house burns, you get your leg broken and a car crashed? After all, that would mean they lose money on you...
I expect the company to stick to the agreement. If they say unlimited traffic, that better mean unlimited traffic or else...
P.S. Just for the note, I currently pay 0.07$ per Mb, but I would fight to the death for your right to download tens of gigabytes per month from P2P.;)
Wow, that was good.:) You almost persuaded me to uninstall eMule and KaZaA.:) Still, the common sense took me back over.;)
P2P doesn't create much noise. Actually you can easily get the whole traffic picturee simply by measuring your own searching and download traffic. You'll see. Dedicated server might be a good idea in theory, but the truth is, it's not so bulletproof. Just look at Steam and it's recent problems and compare it with eDonkey2000. Do you think eDonkey will slow to crawl when Half-Life 2 is released? I don't.;) But anyway, P2P was specifically designed to avoid the need for servers. It's not its fault, it's part of the specification. And claiming that P2P users consume more electricity is just plain nonsense. But you might want trying to sell this idea to RIAA for their PR^H^H FUD campaign.:)
Now back to topic. When P2P was created, there simply wasn't a feasible alternative authorised by labels. To deny labels' partial responsiblility for the emergence of P2P is to ignore reality. Today there are such alternative (still not perfect) and people gradually start using them. But the problem is that users are now accustomed to another consumption patterns and labels still try to ignore that. People want a more active role in selection of the music. They want to taste much more than before and only then buy what they like. Labels still can't face this reality and continue pushing their 15$ CDs, now copy-protected. That's simply not what consumers want and in the end consumers always win.
May be, if labels had offered online music services in 1995, P2P would not emerge and online piracy would remain confined to Usenet, IRC and private FTP. But now people know the taste of music without limits and nobody will be able to take it away. At least I hope so.
This is not a protest. This is you deciding not to play. If you though the net effect was negative, of course, go ahead and stop playing. But what if you enjoyed the game but was annoyed by bugs or some other things? You want to continue playing, but you want stuff to be fixed. What to do? Protest by doing sit-ins, demonstrations, rallies, distributing pamphlets, etc.
You give the e-mail once, you get spam from tens or even hundreds of unrelated sites. Good examples would be "Teens-In-Mail" or "Free porn, no credit card needed". You give the e-mail and you get spammed almost instantly.
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Achilles thought the same. In the book he devised smart grammophones that had cameras instead of physical contact with the record. AFAIR the result was exactly what you suggest - he couldn't play the records.
Moderators are on their usual crack. I wasn't trolling at all, I was just trying to be helpful. I read the mentioned Straight Dope article, but it all wasn't clear enough that I could give the explanation in my own words. That's why I just posted the link with the warning that it's not very clearly written. And you moderate this as troll?!
Because you can just add extra brightness for particular colour channel - it's not the case for reflective images. If you put this e-paper with red image on it and normal red paper, the latter will look much redder. The e-paper will either look pinker (if other cells are turned off and are white) or a darker shade of red (if other cells are on).
It's all very complicated, but you can get some understanding from this Straight Dope article. Basically this will be done in the same way you get bright red in colour magazine.
Have you read "Godel, Escher, Bach. The Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofshtader? The part where the Turtle devises records to destroy Achilles' gramophones. :) May be like that, for every computer program there always exists some input that would crash it. :)))))
Add a new read mode to "complex" CD-ROMs - just read every single fucking byte on the disk and record them just as you read them. That has a side benefit of creating a RAW sound file (almost) for audio disks that can probably be opened by any sound editor.
May be it's because of extra (or different) protection layer on normal CDs that also protects the brittle shit from shattering?
Troll is a provocative posting, designed to start a flame. Attack on ideal is not a troll per se. I can argue that open source is inherently flawed model and it would be ok. But if I carefully craft my post to elicit a predictable aggressive reaction from other users, it is a troll. The difference is in purpose. For example, see this clever troll. If it didn't have that ending and just was a bit more balanced, it would be a normal post. But the author wanted to start a flaming discussion, so he intentionally provoked with his post. Be careful in your moderations, if you are not sure, don't moderate that particular post.
They're trying to rely in the fact that some audio CD players will be more tolerant than CD-ROM devices. :) Just like browser will render any HTML, even if it's completely fucked up as far as the W3 standard goes.
What we need is a situation when CD-ROMs (or CD-RWs/DVD-ROMs/DVD-Rs) become more tolerant than audio CD players (customizable) so that they are able to read/play any content as long as there are at least some bytes on the drive.
WIndows is a sorry mess of an OS, right. I have Win2k with autorun disabled. After messing a bit with virtual CD drives and other crap, I found out that the CD-drive does not refresh the contents when I insert a new disk. That's right. I can insert another disk, but the OS will think it's still the old one. Even refreshing by pressing F5 does not help. The only way to update it is to remove the disk, refresh the drive contents to see that there is nothing there, then insert the new disk...
You already have to go back to the 1920's or so to find any truly public domain works.
Einstain showed that space and time are the one. You can either go further back in time or farther in space. Visit Russia and you'd be surprised at the wealth of the public domain. Even ignoring the de-facto legality of piracy there, copyright is much more reasonable. For example, all films made before 1973 are in public domain already. You wouldn't have to worry about studios, because you'd have the backing of Ministry of Culture that stated this clearly (even providing a helpful list of some of the movies in public domain).
rzbx already outlined most of your mistakes. Here is another one.
This is why EULA's only hold up when a crime isn't being committed. A EULA will never hold up in a case where it's being used to hide a crime.
Sharing MP3s is not a crime. That's why RIAA files civil lawsuits against file-sharers.
Or if I break into your house to see if you hide any dead bodies there. ;)
I'd rather have to deal with a spyware client and have Google censor KaZaA Lite results, than let RIAA destroy P2P.
The more I read about all this, the more I think that a bloody revolution is long overdue...
Why bother with algorithms? Just make a neural network and train it.
cut down on pointless formatting decisions that seem to endlessly arise
:)
Ha! When I need to type something on my Win2k PC, I can always lunch Notepad. I type whatever I want and leave it as it is. If I feel particularly paranoid, I will save it to desktop. If not, I'll just leave it as it is. I can also launch MS Word and start typing in perfect Times New Roman 12 pt. It's not like Word is asking me what font I want to use before creating the document.
This is a great law. I haven't read it, but I know it's great. I don't worry that it won't work, I don't worry if it will create some problems for legitimate commercial e-mail. Look, spam causes large losses for the economy, if we are to believe analysts' estimates, many billions of dollars per year. If you can significantly reduce spam, while only causing losses on the order of, say, tens of millions, it's a working solution. So what if Amazon will have to spend extra 5 grands to ensure compliance? So what if some webmasters of small non-profit sites will have to spend a few days proving they didn't send the spam. Big fucking deal. You can't have a law that works 100% of the time. It's all about the trade-offs. And this new law looks to me like a really good deal.
Yes, and then kids have up to 1 year difference in age when they go to school because of the month in which they were born. All cortect. The only catch is that there have been a shitload of studies and they demostrate no correlation between the birthday and anything personal worth mentioning at all.
Of course, we might find that the season has some minor effect, but that would not validate astrology, just like spaceflight doesn't validate levitation claims.
If you want to make a short film on Mickey Mouse, come to Russia for a short trip. Bring your notebook with you, stay in some nice resort in the countryside and work on your big horror masterpiece. All movies older than 30 years are in public domain in Russian Federation, so you can also kill Bambi, Snowwhite and a whole host of Disney's cartoon characters. :) You will also be able to distribute your new film online (for free or for a fee) from a server located in Russia and not fear any sort of prosecution, because it would be 100% legal.
You see, it is September 22 and I managed to download 1Gb already. And I pay fucking 0.07$/Mb, so I am trying to be careful about how much I download... Fuck! Give me unlimited Internet access or give me death!
Do you expect an insurance company to not pay you when your house burns, you get your leg broken and a car crashed? After all, that would mean they lose money on you...
;)
I expect the company to stick to the agreement. If they say unlimited traffic, that better mean unlimited traffic or else...
P.S. Just for the note, I currently pay 0.07$ per Mb, but I would fight to the death for your right to download tens of gigabytes per month from P2P.
Wow, that was good. :) You almost persuaded me to uninstall eMule and KaZaA. :) Still, the common sense took me back over. ;)
;) But anyway, P2P was specifically designed to avoid the need for servers. It's not its fault, it's part of the specification. And claiming that P2P users consume more electricity is just plain nonsense. But you might want trying to sell this idea to RIAA for their PR^H^H FUD campaign. :)
P2P doesn't create much noise. Actually you can easily get the whole traffic picturee simply by measuring your own searching and download traffic. You'll see. Dedicated server might be a good idea in theory, but the truth is, it's not so bulletproof. Just look at Steam and it's recent problems and compare it with eDonkey2000. Do you think eDonkey will slow to crawl when Half-Life 2 is released? I don't.
Now back to topic. When P2P was created, there simply wasn't a feasible alternative authorised by labels. To deny labels' partial responsiblility for the emergence of P2P is to ignore reality. Today there are such alternative (still not perfect) and people gradually start using them. But the problem is that users are now accustomed to another consumption patterns and labels still try to ignore that. People want a more active role in selection of the music. They want to taste much more than before and only then buy what they like. Labels still can't face this reality and continue pushing their 15$ CDs, now copy-protected. That's simply not what consumers want and in the end consumers always win.
May be, if labels had offered online music services in 1995, P2P would not emerge and online piracy would remain confined to Usenet, IRC and private FTP. But now people know the taste of music without limits and nobody will be able to take it away. At least I hope so.
This is not a protest. This is you deciding not to play. If you though the net effect was negative, of course, go ahead and stop playing. But what if you enjoyed the game but was annoyed by bugs or some other things? You want to continue playing, but you want stuff to be fixed. What to do? Protest by doing sit-ins, demonstrations, rallies, distributing pamphlets, etc.
You give the e-mail once, you get spam from tens or even hundreds of unrelated sites. Good examples would be "Teens-In-Mail" or "Free porn, no credit card needed". You give the e-mail and you get spammed almost instantly.