Sure, but the point is that TPB is well known and everyone's mom is getting some kind of something from there. I am sure that if just 5 nerds got together we could compile a bah-ton of crazy files.
Personally I use Beyond TV to record HD shows and it then converts the files to DIVX. I can keep a couple of TB of shows and movies without batting an eye. I am sure that I could (if I wanted to) put these in a torrent automatically as they finished and share that with some kid that works for Redbox and rips movies all day long... We could amass bah-thousands of video files and probably never have anyone the wiser.
The point is, TPB is all over the place and everyone knows about it. It will likely turn into something like Napster. Everyone used it for a few years and now hardly anyone does, but they must be making some kind of money to still be around.
Truthfully, it sounds like their business model is more close to a cross between YouTube and Pandora or Slacker. They are just going to assume that it is all good, pay people if it is not and remove content if someone wants them to.
Also, if TPB goes away, then MPAA and RIAA will claim victory and maybe chill out a little and quit taking old grandmas to court.
I always thought that in the future we would all be wearing VR goggles and flying through strange landscapes of flying numbers and other weird futuristic landscapes. That's what I was promised in the 90's!
I have had the same experience. I spent over a year working for myself out of my home and found that when I was not bound by the rest of the world's idea of time, that my "days" shifted by being extended about 2 to 3 hours each "night". It did not really bother me, but it was kind of a pain when my "afternoon" started at 5:00 in the A.M. and I could not order a pizza or I had to set my alarm so that I could make it to the post office before they closed. Over all, I found that I was much more productive for longer periods of time and never had that butt dragging feeling that I get in my cubicle cage. I totally need 8 to 9 hours of sleep though.
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. Sept. 19, 2001
"When I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the Old West a wanted poster. It said, Wanted: Dead or Alive." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. Sept. 18, 2001
"I'm confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk takers and capital formators of our country." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2001
Yes, i am curious about this too. I had been looking at getting a Prius and modding it for plug in and an electric only switch. If you operate it in only electric mode, you could only go about 35 mph.:( that would make my commute take twice as long and that would stink.
It would seem to me that the U.S. government has already done a lot of the work for them. Check out Washington DC on google maps and you will see several areas that are cut out of the map. I would assume that means that the government does not want those to be seen because they are "interesting" and would be a potential target for an enemy.
ok, that was tongue in cheek, they are obvious things like the capitol building and the white house. It's not really a secret where they are. (please don't send the black vans)
I agree. This has pretty much already happened with Apple and the iTunes store to some extent and I believe that if Microsoft did it with games, then the same kind of thing would happen: the masses would love it because they are told to. Creators (developers or musicians) would feel screwed because they would pretty much HAVE to release on that platform in order to get a large market share, but would have little say over the pricing or how much they have to pay The Man. Others with half a brain would just not buy into it and use something else.
Yes, but could the Austin WinTower 486/33E SpeakORSpell? I think not! at least not with the provided specs.;)
Also, the keyboard comparison is purely opinion. The eee pc has an integrated keyboard (which I like) AND will take a usb keyboard, which you could argue is fair considering the mouse comparison and the fact that an AT keyboard is externally attached anyway.
I am thinking that the speak and spell could totally take your WinTower in a comparison anyway. I mean, you can make interplanetary phone calls with some simple modifications that enable the "Phone Home" features...
Oooh oooh I know! Compare an Asus EeePC to a Speak and Spell next! Or maybe an Asimo to a Teddy Ruxpin.
I first read the comparison between a C64 and an iPhone and thought that was dumb, but I am surprised to see another "comparison" story.
Yes, back in the day, things were old and different, but comparing them really does not do much.
It might be more useful to compare an array of things like storage methods over time (washing machine platters, real to real tape, cassette, floppy, HD, zip, jazz, optical, cd, dvd, flash). Or maybe interesting memory storage methods, for example, did you know that there was a method of storing data in "memory" by keeping a pulse in a tube of mercury? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory) That is cool.
Any more of these "comparisons" should compare more than one old school item to some modern device. That would make it more interesting and seem a lot less like comparing apples to... rocks.
I figured out that cola was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put old teeth (baby teeth or animal teeth) in cola for a couple of days and let them disintegrate!
You may be mistaken. In 1993 you were probably reading about the amazing gnarly research of storing 700 mb on CD media (what? more than 650!) or the amazing hard drive like 100 mb zip drive! (ooooooh, that is like the SAME size as my hard drive, but it's PORTABLE!)
I jest of course. I DO however remember reading about blue ray tech around 1996 though.
There have been a LOT of developments like this, but the number one determining factor IMHO has been MARKETING, followed by consumer price.
It may store 1.1 terabytes per cubic centimeter but the reader is as big as a room and the writer is as big as your house, but next year they will only be $30 on Woot.
(silly speculation. Not to be confused with researched facts)
There are almost 200 countries in the world. Taking this route is like a step in the direction of taxing any corporation in any country because an American owns stock in that company or because the U.S. government just plain wants to. Other countries are sovereign nations that have their own people, laws, customs and taxes. If you do not like what is in the U.S. you should leave, right? Well that is just what these corporations did. They did not like the taxes here, so they incorporated elsewhere.
Corporations are treated like their own legal entities. If you want them in the U.S., then the U.S. needs to be attractive.
Cities have often times given special tax breaks to large companies in order to get a plant or whatever built in their city (Why do you think Dell is in Round Rock, TX instead of Austin?). The feds should do the same.
This is almost like saying that if I were to give up my U.S. citizenship and become a citizen somewhere else, then the U.S. should be able to come after me and tax me if I do any business with Americans.
I agree. IE8 is still IE, but it is a LOT better for CSS support. In fact, what I have had to do is remove all of the plain [if IE] statements and replace with version specific style sheets because the plain [if IE] statement resolves for IE8 and makes life harder. IE8 has actually been able to use my regular style sheets for Firefox and what not with no problems! Surprise Surprise Surprise
Yes, firebug is a must! There is also a tool for IE7 (built into ie8), I think that it is called IE Developer Tools. It is useful too. It is by far not as good as Firebug, but you do not have that as an option in IE.
I recently devoted many hours to learning CSS and found a couple of things to be true.
1. W3Schools is way useful.
2. browser differences make using CSS a pain in the butt.
3. using CSS makes for tight HTML that you can easily read and write without a WYSIWYG editor.
4. ie6 sucks
5. ie7 sucks
6. Make your site work with Firefox and then break it to work with IE.
7. Wrapping your head around CSS and all of the intricacies of floating elements, fluid site design and ADA considerations is a little tough and a lot frustrating, but once you understand it, you wonder why anyone would do it another way.
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Sure, but the point is that TPB is well known and everyone's mom is getting some kind of something from there. I am sure that if just 5 nerds got together we could compile a bah-ton of crazy files.
Personally I use Beyond TV to record HD shows and it then converts the files to DIVX. I can keep a couple of TB of shows and movies without batting an eye. I am sure that I could (if I wanted to) put these in a torrent automatically as they finished and share that with some kid that works for Redbox and rips movies all day long... We could amass bah-thousands of video files and probably never have anyone the wiser.
The point is, TPB is all over the place and everyone knows about it. It will likely turn into something like Napster. Everyone used it for a few years and now hardly anyone does, but they must be making some kind of money to still be around.
Truthfully, it sounds like their business model is more close to a cross between YouTube and Pandora or Slacker. They are just going to assume that it is all good, pay people if it is not and remove content if someone wants them to.
Also, if TPB goes away, then MPAA and RIAA will claim victory and maybe chill out a little and quit taking old grandmas to court.
I always thought that in the future we would all be wearing VR goggles and flying through strange landscapes of flying numbers and other weird futuristic landscapes. That's what I was promised in the 90's!
I have had the same experience. I spent over a year working for myself out of my home and found that when I was not bound by the rest of the world's idea of time, that my "days" shifted by being extended about 2 to 3 hours each "night". It did not really bother me, but it was kind of a pain when my "afternoon" started at 5:00 in the A.M. and I could not order a pizza or I had to set my alarm so that I could make it to the post office before they closed. Over all, I found that I was much more productive for longer periods of time and never had that butt dragging feeling that I get in my cubicle cage. I totally need 8 to 9 hours of sleep though.
Nice!
Professor Moriarty was not pure evil, he was just an adversary that could defeat Data.
They probably modeled it after the jock that beat them up in high school.
Bush was coherent, right?
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. Sept. 19, 2001
"When I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the Old West a wanted poster. It said, Wanted: Dead or Alive." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. Sept. 18, 2001
"I'm confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk takers and capital formators of our country." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2001
Yes, i am curious about this too. I had been looking at getting a Prius and modding it for plug in and an electric only switch. If you operate it in only electric mode, you could only go about 35 mph. :( that would make my commute take twice as long and that would stink.
It would seem to me that the U.S. government has already done a lot of the work for them. Check out Washington DC on google maps and you will see several areas that are cut out of the map. I would assume that means that the government does not want those to be seen because they are "interesting" and would be a potential target for an enemy.
ok, that was tongue in cheek, they are obvious things like the capitol building and the white house. It's not really a secret where they are. (please don't send the black vans)
What would be interesting is if an AI bot would go beyone learning memes and yelling "p0wned" at other players and would start some of their own.
I agree. This has pretty much already happened with Apple and the iTunes store to some extent and I believe that if Microsoft did it with games, then the same kind of thing would happen: the masses would love it because they are told to. Creators (developers or musicians) would feel screwed because they would pretty much HAVE to release on that platform in order to get a large market share, but would have little say over the pricing or how much they have to pay The Man. Others with half a brain would just not buy into it and use something else.
Yes, but could the Austin WinTower 486/33E Speak OR Spell? I think not! at least not with the provided specs. ;)
Also, the keyboard comparison is purely opinion. The eee pc has an integrated keyboard (which I like) AND will take a usb keyboard, which you could argue is fair considering the mouse comparison and the fact that an AT keyboard is externally attached anyway.
I am thinking that the speak and spell could totally take your WinTower in a comparison anyway. I mean, you can make interplanetary phone calls with some simple modifications that enable the "Phone Home" features...
Oooh oooh I know! Compare an Asus EeePC to a Speak and Spell next! Or maybe an Asimo to a Teddy Ruxpin. ... rocks.
I first read the comparison between a C64 and an iPhone and thought that was dumb, but I am surprised to see another "comparison" story.
Yes, back in the day, things were old and different, but comparing them really does not do much.
It might be more useful to compare an array of things like storage methods over time (washing machine platters, real to real tape, cassette, floppy, HD, zip, jazz, optical, cd, dvd, flash). Or maybe interesting memory storage methods, for example, did you know that there was a method of storing data in "memory" by keeping a pulse in a tube of mercury? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory) That is cool.
Any more of these "comparisons" should compare more than one old school item to some modern device. That would make it more interesting and seem a lot less like comparing apples to
And you would only need 64k of memory!
I figured out that cola was bad for you when I heard of the school science experiment where you put old teeth (baby teeth or animal teeth) in cola for a couple of days and let them disintegrate!
According to the article, the people were drinking 3 to 7 LITERS a day. That is a lot.
You may be mistaken. In 1993 you were probably reading about the amazing gnarly research of storing 700 mb on CD media (what? more than 650!) or the amazing hard drive like 100 mb zip drive! (ooooooh, that is like the SAME size as my hard drive, but it's PORTABLE!) I jest of course. I DO however remember reading about blue ray tech around 1996 though. There have been a LOT of developments like this, but the number one determining factor IMHO has been MARKETING, followed by consumer price.
It may store 1.1 terabytes per cubic centimeter but the reader is as big as a room and the writer is as big as your house, but next year they will only be $30 on Woot.
(silly speculation. Not to be confused with researched facts)
There are almost 200 countries in the world. Taking this route is like a step in the direction of taxing any corporation in any country because an American owns stock in that company or because the U.S. government just plain wants to. Other countries are sovereign nations that have their own people, laws, customs and taxes. If you do not like what is in the U.S. you should leave, right? Well that is just what these corporations did. They did not like the taxes here, so they incorporated elsewhere.
Corporations are treated like their own legal entities. If you want them in the U.S., then the U.S. needs to be attractive.
Cities have often times given special tax breaks to large companies in order to get a plant or whatever built in their city (Why do you think Dell is in Round Rock, TX instead of Austin?). The feds should do the same.
This is almost like saying that if I were to give up my U.S. citizenship and become a citizen somewhere else, then the U.S. should be able to come after me and tax me if I do any business with Americans.
Get a grip!
Dude, that is funny. :( i have no mod points.
I agree. IE8 is still IE, but it is a LOT better for CSS support. In fact, what I have had to do is remove all of the plain [if IE] statements and replace with version specific style sheets because the plain [if IE] statement resolves for IE8 and makes life harder. IE8 has actually been able to use my regular style sheets for Firefox and what not with no problems! Surprise Surprise Surprise
Yes, firebug is a must! There is also a tool for IE7 (built into ie8), I think that it is called IE Developer Tools. It is useful too. It is by far not as good as Firebug, but you do not have that as an option in IE.
I think that you have it all wrong. The complexity is not in the CSS standard, it is in the IMPLEMENTATION that was non standard across browsers.
I recently devoted many hours to learning CSS and found a couple of things to be true.
1. W3Schools is way useful.
2. browser differences make using CSS a pain in the butt.
3. using CSS makes for tight HTML that you can easily read and write without a WYSIWYG editor.
4. ie6 sucks
5. ie7 sucks
6. Make your site work with Firefox and then break it to work with IE.
7. Wrapping your head around CSS and all of the intricacies of floating elements, fluid site design and ADA considerations is a little tough and a lot frustrating, but once you understand it, you wonder why anyone would do it another way.
I guess the real question is how many spyware apps can you run at once?