That's heading towards the pedantry section at alarming speed...;)
Unless it commits it to a disk, and doesn't process it real-time (which it would have to, seeing as it's a real-time application), it would be "recording" it. As it isn't, it isn't.:-P
But, if we look at the amount of internet traffic (which should represent the actual computer platforms in use out there), you'll see that windows is way ahead. Unless there's tens of thousands of linux users hacking their user-agent strings, windows really is that common.
No, there's no benefit for the average American worker. There is, however, benefit for the average Indian worker, and seeing as "all humans are created equal", it doesn't matter who gets the jobs, as an indian guy == an american guy.
This is what I don't get. Everyone's screaming to keep jobs away from the thousands of poor Indian guys out there who can do your job for a 3rd of your salary. Heck - that guy's offering a better service than you, yet you're pissed off at him 'cos he's not American. I guess the American dream is only for Americans, huh? Everyone else must be 2nd class...
Your argument is very patriotic, but completely missing the point.
For decades, the US has taken great pleasure in participating in the global market. It's always done well, thanks to an abundance of raw materials and manpower, and technology ahead of most of the world. Unfortunately, now the rest of the world has that technology, more people and more raw materials. Now, the US is the underdog, where things cost far more to produce (and "skilled" staff demand far higher wages). Just those two points mean people will go elsewhere. There's no moral or legal justification to stay. There's no difference between an Indian dude and an American guy - they both get hungry when they don't have a job. If you want something or someone to blame for this, blame your government. By not keeping prices down, it's caused this to happen. Any "Keep our jobs!" legislation passed will be borderline racist and not address the problem at all.
You're right on the money, mate. Seriously - people who are bitching about needing legislation to stop this flow of jobs are barking up the wrong tree. All America has to do is compete with India. If they offer more, the jobs will come flooding back to US soil.
The rules of the game haven't changed, just some players are playing better than others. Unfortunately, America is one of the not-so-good players at the moment, and India has all the good cards.
They didn't take your jobs - Other Americansgave your jobs to them.
Since when is it a bad thing to give jobs to people in other countries? America has had absolutely no problem with being that "other country" the jobs were sent to, but now it's not, America gets all upset about it.
This whole debate has a pseudo-racist tint to it. It seems, and I'm not suggesting you're one of them, that some people have ulterior motives when arguing this point, hence the emotional outbursts we see here commonly.
Face it - trading in the free market means not just money goes abroad. Sometimes it's jobs. But, as with the money, there's give and take. What may be the case one year almost certainly isn't going to be the case the next.
Don't get me wrong - I'm no capitalist (not by a long shot), but I know that if a country such as the US drives up its prices and pays coders such fantastic rates for a job that can be done for much less, the rules of the game dictate the jobs will head to the lower price. It's not as if this is a big shock - it's part of Market Forces 101, and something that should have been painfully obvious to those in the IT sector who demand such high wages for a footloose position.
How can piracy return to FTP? By its very nature, someone has to have their neck on the line to share a file. Also, this is a completely new technology (or, rather, a completely new look at a relatively new technology). Pirates have a multitude more tools at their disposal than FTP, and all are better.
They mention cryptographic hashes and other buzzwords, and I'm sure that's the first thing they thought about when making this. I mean, it's the first thing in mind when developing any p2p software - guaranteeing the source has the same file you're trying to download.
Also, bare in mind that bittorrent has error-checking, so it will immediately be able to tell that a file it's downloading is corrupted (or not the right one).
This will help someone find out what's on TV later, via the TV guide, but it won't stop them from walking into a kid in Ralphs...
I read about a project to develop a portable technology for blind people that turned their environment into a soundscape (via a camera and an earpiece). Not a cheesy avatar-based load of crap with samples, but a real-time sonic rendering of the visual world. To the untrained ear it sounded like a complete noise, but to people who'd been using it for ages, it gives insight into what's going on around them. Another example of the brain's incredible capacity to make sense out of what appears to be complete nonsense.
It doesn't actually record anything, so there's nothing to duplicate any copyrighted material from. Also, the fact the camera is hidden in glasses on a blind person means most people aren't gonna cause a fuss.
But most people will simply copy a windows CD from a friend, and install that. People who are looking for a computer at walmart aren't looking to forward the open source movement, but are looking for an easy computer to use. It doesn't matter how much work they've put into their OS, it's not windows, which is what most people are used to.
This, to me, is just a way for walmart to snip the license cost out of the unit price... they have to ship them functioning, so they include a free OS. Kind of how most bundled windows PCs have (had?) Microsoft Works on it, and not Office - to enable the users to use the machine out of the box, but not charge them a buttload to buy the machine, and how iPods come with shitty white earphones that sound horrible, but make the unit functional.
Difficult to undo? Ctrl+shift+escape loads task manager, where you can run regedit, or even explorer (and resume normal windows activities, and ample opportunity to fix what's going on)...
It's AC powered, numbnuts. I mean, it's fine to be first up slamming a device, but please get your facts right first. It's a network device, not a portable audio player. It has no storage. It's designed to be put in one place and left to it. Sheesh.
I think your analogy is slightly wrong... Most people who drive cars aren't bank robbers, whereas most people on p2p (lets face it, most) are sharing illegal music/apps/whatever. For your analogy to be correct, it would have to be "After the invention of the car, bank robberies rose 5,000% and lead to 98% of all car users being bank robbers, leaving 2% of all drivers driving legally". I'm not supporting this bullshit of prosecuting p2p users, but if we're gonna take them on, we should at least get our analogys straight;)
The dude in the caddy with the JATO (jet-assisted take-off)? That one was debunked ages ago. The problem with the darwin awards is it attracts so many fakes. Nearly every example of a darwin-award nominee is faked. It's annoying, as it's really philosophically (and comically) interesting...
But he didn't do anything about it. He enacted lots of showy laws and procedures that did absolutely nothing to stop terrorism, just to spend your money and piss everyone off in the process.
He's a vapid and superficial president. He only cares about his wallet and what looks good. If he thinks he can be seen as doing his job, he's happy. If he says he's beaten terrorism and there isn't an attack for 6 months, he'll claim that it's his work. If there's an attack in 6 months, he'll deny all knowledge, blame someone, kick up a fuss and ask for another $3bn for anal probes at JFK.
There's a conflict in interests if a president (or indeed any politician, in office or not) can use a national tragedy for personal gain. If it works, what's to stop future presidents from engineering such feats to ensure their reelection? Exactly - nothing.
Bush has done nothing to distance himself from the cause of 9/11. He's impeded the investigation into what happened. He's done seemingly everything he can to stir up international terrorism (invading iraq & afghanistan, funding israel and using guantanamo bay are the largest ones I can pick off the top of my head). A man with his track record, no matter how factually lacking it is (which, in this case it isn't - it's rock solid) shouldn't use 9/11 as leverage, simply out of respect for those who died, and their families.
Bush was president when it happened, but he has done absolutely nothing to earn 9/11 as a medal. He hasn't helped anyone before, or since.
Whereas we all know what a stellar job Bush has been doing.
Anyone who blames a comment on "typical [insert political belief here]" is clutching at straws, using misdirection to prove their point, as opposed to tackling the argument head-on like an adult.
Shouldn't the systems be locked down instead, so they can't do any damage, as opposed to having a rapid-reaction force to pry the keyboard from their mischievous hands? That seems like putting all your eggs in a very wobbly basket:-P
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Unless it commits it to a disk, and doesn't process it real-time (which it would have to, seeing as it's a real-time application), it would be "recording" it. As it isn't, it isn't. :-P
But, if we look at the amount of internet traffic (which should represent the actual computer platforms in use out there), you'll see that windows is way ahead. Unless there's tens of thousands of linux users hacking their user-agent strings, windows really is that common.
This is what I don't get. Everyone's screaming to keep jobs away from the thousands of poor Indian guys out there who can do your job for a 3rd of your salary. Heck - that guy's offering a better service than you, yet you're pissed off at him 'cos he's not American. I guess the American dream is only for Americans, huh? Everyone else must be 2nd class...
For decades, the US has taken great pleasure in participating in the global market. It's always done well, thanks to an abundance of raw materials and manpower, and technology ahead of most of the world. Unfortunately, now the rest of the world has that technology, more people and more raw materials. Now, the US is the underdog, where things cost far more to produce (and "skilled" staff demand far higher wages). Just those two points mean people will go elsewhere. There's no moral or legal justification to stay. There's no difference between an Indian dude and an American guy - they both get hungry when they don't have a job. If you want something or someone to blame for this, blame your government. By not keeping prices down, it's caused this to happen. Any "Keep our jobs!" legislation passed will be borderline racist and not address the problem at all.
The rules of the game haven't changed, just some players are playing better than others. Unfortunately, America is one of the not-so-good players at the moment, and India has all the good cards.
Since when is it a bad thing to give jobs to people in other countries? America has had absolutely no problem with being that "other country" the jobs were sent to, but now it's not, America gets all upset about it.
This whole debate has a pseudo-racist tint to it. It seems, and I'm not suggesting you're one of them, that some people have ulterior motives when arguing this point, hence the emotional outbursts we see here commonly.
Face it - trading in the free market means not just money goes abroad. Sometimes it's jobs. But, as with the money, there's give and take. What may be the case one year almost certainly isn't going to be the case the next.
Don't get me wrong - I'm no capitalist (not by a long shot), but I know that if a country such as the US drives up its prices and pays coders such fantastic rates for a job that can be done for much less, the rules of the game dictate the jobs will head to the lower price. It's not as if this is a big shock - it's part of Market Forces 101, and something that should have been painfully obvious to those in the IT sector who demand such high wages for a footloose position.
How can piracy return to FTP? By its very nature, someone has to have their neck on the line to share a file. Also, this is a completely new technology (or, rather, a completely new look at a relatively new technology). Pirates have a multitude more tools at their disposal than FTP, and all are better.
Also, bare in mind that bittorrent has error-checking, so it will immediately be able to tell that a file it's downloading is corrupted (or not the right one).
I read about a project to develop a portable technology for blind people that turned their environment into a soundscape (via a camera and an earpiece). Not a cheesy avatar-based load of crap with samples, but a real-time sonic rendering of the visual world. To the untrained ear it sounded like a complete noise, but to people who'd been using it for ages, it gives insight into what's going on around them. Another example of the brain's incredible capacity to make sense out of what appears to be complete nonsense.
It doesn't actually record anything, so there's nothing to duplicate any copyrighted material from. Also, the fact the camera is hidden in glasses on a blind person means most people aren't gonna cause a fuss.
Like the fact bittorrent doesn't necessarily stream from the beginning of a file, for one... :-P
errr... the queen mum died a while back... :-P *salutes*
drivers license?p. Just because it's not called a "national ID card" doesn't mean to say it isn't one...
If the US stopped payrolling Israel's war machine (tanks & helicopters against stones and dynamite), there would be much more peace in the world.
This, to me, is just a way for walmart to snip the license cost out of the unit price... they have to ship them functioning, so they include a free OS. Kind of how most bundled windows PCs have (had?) Microsoft Works on it, and not Office - to enable the users to use the machine out of the box, but not charge them a buttload to buy the machine, and how iPods come with shitty white earphones that sound horrible, but make the unit functional.
It's not ideology at work here, but finance.
Difficult to undo? Ctrl+shift+escape loads task manager, where you can run regedit, or even explorer (and resume normal windows activities, and ample opportunity to fix what's going on)...
I know this is slashdot, but please...
I think your analogy is slightly wrong... Most people who drive cars aren't bank robbers, whereas most people on p2p (lets face it, most) are sharing illegal music/apps/whatever. For your analogy to be correct, it would have to be "After the invention of the car, bank robberies rose 5,000% and lead to 98% of all car users being bank robbers, leaving 2% of all drivers driving legally". I'm not supporting this bullshit of prosecuting p2p users, but if we're gonna take them on, we should at least get our analogys straight ;)
And? Want a medal?
heh.
The dude in the caddy with the JATO (jet-assisted take-off)? That one was debunked ages ago. The problem with the darwin awards is it attracts so many fakes. Nearly every example of a darwin-award nominee is faked. It's annoying, as it's really philosophically (and comically) interesting...
Selling != (evil || violating the gpl)
He's a vapid and superficial president. He only cares about his wallet and what looks good. If he thinks he can be seen as doing his job, he's happy. If he says he's beaten terrorism and there isn't an attack for 6 months, he'll claim that it's his work. If there's an attack in 6 months, he'll deny all knowledge, blame someone, kick up a fuss and ask for another $3bn for anal probes at JFK.
There's a conflict in interests if a president (or indeed any politician, in office or not) can use a national tragedy for personal gain. If it works, what's to stop future presidents from engineering such feats to ensure their reelection? Exactly - nothing.
Bush has done nothing to distance himself from the cause of 9/11. He's impeded the investigation into what happened. He's done seemingly everything he can to stir up international terrorism (invading iraq & afghanistan, funding israel and using guantanamo bay are the largest ones I can pick off the top of my head). A man with his track record, no matter how factually lacking it is (which, in this case it isn't - it's rock solid) shouldn't use 9/11 as leverage, simply out of respect for those who died, and their families.
Bush was president when it happened, but he has done absolutely nothing to earn 9/11 as a medal. He hasn't helped anyone before, or since.
Anyone who blames a comment on "typical [insert political belief here]" is clutching at straws, using misdirection to prove their point, as opposed to tackling the argument head-on like an adult.
Go figure.
Shouldn't the systems be locked down instead, so they can't do any damage, as opposed to having a rapid-reaction force to pry the keyboard from their mischievous hands? That seems like putting all your eggs in a very wobbly basket :-P