Just remember all this when you are supporting the cartels. Your money goes to developing methods and laws to limit your freedoms and to supporting suits against your fellow man.
My personal solution to this is simple. Copy Right protected CDs are never purchased by me. In fact, I never buy CDs.
iTune type systems aren't attractive to me because they have DRM and no physical copy I can keep. The price is right though, and i hope they catch on in order to provide a direct selling venue for artists.
CDs will probably end up as copy protected SACDs or A-DVDs, so they aren't viable to me either. I have CDs that i bought in the early 90's that are absolutely unreadable today, which makes me worry about cartless high density formats like SACD. Personally i think they are designed to scratch to fuel replacement buying. (or at least make 2nd hand purchase harder).
Vinyl is the choice for me, I buy it, i get to listen to it at excellent quality when i want, I download the DRM free MP3s for portable listening, and they last longer than CDs. And of course the covers make excellent wall coverings.
Just my POV!
I see two types of music industry, one marketing orientated type (MTV basically) that panders to people that don't actually like music. (they just like the imagery and style associated with thier particular flavour of pop, the 'Hip hop' guys like eminem, the 'punk' girls like pink etc).
The other type is that real music industry, where bands aren't marketed as a way of life. What is an Aphex Twin fan like? What kind of clothes should i wear if i like Amon Tobin or Sabres of paradise?
Seeing as I am firmly in the second group, I don't care very much what happens to the MTV industry. They never got any of my money, and they probably never will.
Around a week ago i divided my music library into 2 smart playlists, one was 'Songs I own', and the other, 'Songs I don't own'.
Intially there was just around 10 gigs I did own, and 15 i didn't. Then i decided not to add more music unless It was stuff i DID own, and I had to take away correspondingly much from the playlist of music i DIDN'T own.
I now have around 15 gigs I do own, and 10 i don't, which has led me to two points.
(1) Why did I do this, was it because the RIAA are scary? Or am i obsessive compulsive?
(2) The playlist for music i don't own is actually now (now that i've stripped it down to the good stuff), a really good shopping list of music i should buy. And i probably will.
So, does the RIAA tactics work? Am i going to buy new music because of these scary law suits?
I'd hate to see the day when people live to be 180 years old.
Really? You wouldn't like to try it? I would, so i guess you don't speak for me. This sceince seems to be more about giving people the choice to live longer, feel free to not partake of any sceintific advances if you want, and enjoy your 'natural' death at around 40 years old.
I think people really need to 1) stop having children 2) try to accept death a little more.
I think you should look to socially advanced countries with a uniformly middle class and educated populous, like Germany and Sweden, and take a look at thier birth rates.
Re:Blade runner's replicants are part of a *story*
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Tell that to Arthur C. Clarke.
His 'satellites' were part of a story, as was radar.
I am hoping to persue a Ph.D. in the cross over point between nano and bio technologies.
Basically, Nanotech can be seen from two different points, one, where the individual nano-structures are built atom by atom, and the other (where biotech comes into play), where nano structures build, replicate and repair themselves.
A gross example are the structures of "Self Assembled Monolayers", where lots of alkanethiols create a carpet of lipids on a gold surface (all by themselves).
By crossing these self assembling structures with advanced artifically designed amino acids to create complex nano-structures, the need to actually "build" anything is removed. You merely design lego blocks that assemble together in a certain way, and then mix them in a test tube and stand back.
I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.
Perhaps, but that was then (when we all imagined a groovy peaceful Iraq starting a domino effect of democratisation across the Arab world), And this is now, when I can't see the mobile phone market in Iraq being very relevant for the next few years.
Or the Way the US has slammed the EU's fine against Microsoft as the 'opening shot of a trade war', While ignoring its own illegal subsidies and tariffs which have been in place for years.
The saying was, 'war is an extension of politics by other means', Today it has an addition of... " And, Politics is an extension of economics by other means".
I have 6 accounts, And I recieve 0 spam. 2 are private, and the rest are with public mail companies (like yahoo and www.evilemail.com). All i do is keep them relatively private, I use one for registering with companies or websites, and the rest for friends, I never have them in text on my website, always a JPEG of text.
And in years and years of having these address's, I have recieved maybe around 20 spam mails in all. Keeping images unloaded in the preview panel of my mail app stops the address being validated if a spam mail is recieved by me.
I don't want Windows to waste my CPU cycles with hardware-accelerated graphics crap. I don't need fading menus and rotating icons.
The whole point of hardware accelerated GUIs are that they save CPU cycles by offlaoding GUI rendering to the graphics card, hardware designed for rendering graphics.
Re:The bad side of course...
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Thats insanely short sighted.
If I remember correctly, one of the co-inventors of the first nuke was quoted as saying that it would mean the end of war, as noone would be crazy enough to use it.
Instead, it launched the first cold war, and cost the planet millions of lives and a lot of karma.
The bad side of course...
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...is it could be the start of a new cold war, or at least cause some countries to get a little nervous about the U.S.
Its just simple physics. A liquid evaporating takes heat, so wet stuff is cold, and wet stuff in the wind is very cold (as more relatively dry air flows over the wet surface and takes more water.)
Its nice that he's using pots, but to me its too simple and mundane to garner an award, its like giving an award to someone that 'discovers' a cheap water filter
"Just pour the dirty water through this peice of cloth and voila! "
Here's my question: how are they going to make sure people only have one account each? What's to prevent people from getting dosens and backing up their harddrive?
They don't limit the number of accounts, they just limit attatchment size and keep an eye out for abuses, like hundreds of downloads of from 1 account, or a scripted mailing of hundreds of 10 meg attatchments to any one account.
'The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.'
If I can get a free account, myname@google.com, with 1 GB of storage, and with IMAP or POP3, I don't give a damn if they use my mail for marketing research, or if they keep it long after I'm dead. The reason is I don't work for M16, the KGB or the CIA, I only break little laws and I don't dig child porno. So basically who cares if a few of my mails get left on a server somewhere.
Privay is a real concern, but worrying about this is like worrying about the fact that postmen can read your postcard when you send it. The truth is they can, but they don't give a shit.
But they had a small number of computers (less than they aimed at), and they still managed to get almost half the score required to get in the top 500 list of supercomputers.
While thats not too impressive, it does mean all those Universities with labs and labs of Dells could try something similar. My old Uni had hundreds of 2.4GHz dells with a pretty decent spec, and they were mainly used for checking mail or playing Quake. Perhaps with something like this Flashmob they can be used for something a little more demanding.
If XP has eye candy then I'm superman. The first thing I do on any install is take away that snot green interface and replace it with the classic interface.
To remove 'bad' pictures, you're going to end up with gigs of data. In a single day you might have at least a few hundred pictures to sort through. Thats a lot of time.
(1) If the camera take less pictures and intensively cuts away blurry or dark pictures, you're probably going to end up missing the occasional things you want a picture of.
(2) If the camera takes pictures of everything, every few seconds, you'll have to spend hours going through rubbish pictures to find stuff you actually want to keep.
It sounds a bit far fetched to me at the moment, but who knows?
Sweden again, as an example |(I'm not Swedish, but i do think this country is the most advanced culture in the world).
A whirlpool/electrolux factory was here making microwaves, but 1 person working in the factory cost the company the same amount of money as 40 people working in a Chinese plant.
So, they moved. Swedens old paper/textile industries are largely run by robots, as is thier automotive industry. All the old unskilled labouring jobs are gone, So what did they do?
They have responded as a country by doing what cannot be done in India or China. They have specialised in extreme high tech areas of work, and do shit loads of research.
Biacore systems were INVENTED here for fucks sake. You can't get more high tech and shit cool than shining light at some gold to find out how much cocaine is in the blood on the other side of the fucking gold! The guy who came up with the premise of surface plasmonic resonance lives down the road from me here! This is hardcore research that isn't done in developing countries.
Or, in Ireland, they responded by making taxes on Industry a miniscule little number. So loads of companys set up in Ireland. they make a component (any component) and price it to
themselves as a very expensive commodity, and pay very little tax on it.
In all other countries where this company works, they pay high taxes but can pretend they make cheap components and then as a global company they save a lot of money. And Ireland gets lots of jobs and tax money.
The US is a big country and it can handle itself, I'm sure it will be bouncing back in no time at all.
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Buy a nice shiny Dual G5, stick it in your hallway.
And then buy a couple of 15 feet USB/Firewire cables to extend your keyboard, mouse, and external soundcards into your sound proof recording room.
Voila!
"The President's Council on Bioethics met this month to discuss Age-Retardation: Scientific Possibilities and moral challenges. The consensus was that "aging is a natural part of the life cycle, not a disease." Think Social Security was discussed?" Bruce Sterling's book Holy Fire is a good look at this issue if you find it interesting.
Here's a link...
And a link to the current site of bioethics.gov's views on aging retardation.
Just remember all this when you are supporting the cartels. Your money goes to developing methods and laws to limit your freedoms and to supporting suits against your fellow man.
My personal solution to this is simple. Copy Right protected CDs are never purchased by me. In fact, I never buy CDs.
iTune type systems aren't attractive to me because they have DRM and no physical copy I can keep. The price is right though, and i hope they catch on in order to provide a direct selling venue for artists.
CDs will probably end up as copy protected SACDs or A-DVDs, so they aren't viable to me either. I have CDs that i bought in the early 90's that are absolutely unreadable today, which makes me worry about cartless high density formats like SACD. Personally i think they are designed to scratch to fuel replacement buying. (or at least make 2nd hand purchase harder).
Vinyl is the choice for me, I buy it, i get to listen to it at excellent quality when i want, I download the DRM free MP3s for portable listening, and they last longer than CDs. And of course the covers make excellent wall coverings.
Just my POV!
William S. Burroughs wrote about the way he survived the streets of Tangiers was to become invisible using a trick he learned from a Toledo mobster
Is this the book 'Junky'? Or which title is it?
I see two types of music industry, one marketing orientated type (MTV basically) that panders to people that don't actually like music. (they just like the imagery and style associated with thier particular flavour of pop, the 'Hip hop' guys like eminem, the 'punk' girls like pink etc).
The other type is that real music industry, where bands aren't marketed as a way of life. What is an Aphex Twin fan like? What kind of clothes should i wear if i like Amon Tobin or Sabres of paradise?
Seeing as I am firmly in the second group, I don't care very much what happens to the MTV industry. They never got any of my money, and they probably never will.
just my 2 centi-'S
Around a week ago i divided my music library into 2 smart playlists, one was 'Songs I own', and the other, 'Songs I don't own'.
Intially there was just around 10 gigs I did own, and 15 i didn't. Then i decided not to add more music unless It was stuff i DID own, and I had to take away correspondingly much from the playlist of music i DIDN'T own.
I now have around 15 gigs I do own, and 10 i don't, which has led me to two points.
(1) Why did I do this, was it because the RIAA are scary? Or am i obsessive compulsive?
(2) The playlist for music i don't own is actually now (now that i've stripped it down to the good stuff), a really good shopping list of music i should buy. And i probably will.
So, does the RIAA tactics work? Am i going to buy new music because of these scary law suits?
(really, i want to know!)
I never learnt to read!
these folks better be pretty damn careful with what they're doing. As with GM foods though, I doubt they will.
Yes, we can only hope they don't repeat the mistakes of the GM scientists, which lead to the great tomato uprising of '96.
Seriously, What the hell are you talking about, GM's biggest problems have been a spastic approach of misinformation by the tabloid press.
I'd hate to see the day when people live to be 180 years old.
Really? You wouldn't like to try it? I would, so i guess you don't speak for me. This sceince seems to be more about giving people the choice to live longer, feel free to not partake of any sceintific advances if you want, and enjoy your 'natural' death at around 40 years old.
I think people really need to 1) stop having children 2) try to accept death a little more.
I think you should look to socially advanced countries with a uniformly middle class and educated populous, like Germany and Sweden, and take a look at thier birth rates.
Tell that to Arthur C. Clarke.
His 'satellites' were part of a story, as was radar.
I am hoping to persue a Ph.D. in the cross over point between nano and bio technologies.
Basically, Nanotech can be seen from two different points, one, where the individual nano-structures are built atom by atom, and the other (where biotech comes into play), where nano structures build, replicate and repair themselves.
A gross example are the structures of "Self Assembled Monolayers", where lots of alkanethiols create a carpet of lipids on a gold surface (all by themselves).
By crossing these self assembling structures with advanced artifically designed amino acids to create complex nano-structures, the need to actually "build" anything is removed. You merely design lego blocks that assemble together in a certain way, and then mix them in a test tube and stand back.
I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.
Perhaps, but that was then (when we all imagined a groovy peaceful Iraq starting a domino effect of democratisation across the Arab world), And this is now, when I can't see the mobile phone market in Iraq being very relevant for the next few years.
This is more akin to how the US has berated china over keeping its currency artifically low against the Dollar, while doing the same thing to Europe.
Or the Way the US has slammed the EU's fine against Microsoft as the 'opening shot of a trade war', While ignoring its own illegal subsidies and tariffs which have been in place for years.
The saying was, 'war is an extension of politics by other means', Today it has an addition of... " And, Politics is an extension of economics by other means".
"everything can be circumvented."
Except good sense...
I have 6 accounts, And I recieve 0 spam. 2 are private, and the rest are with public mail companies (like yahoo and www.evilemail.com). All i do is keep them relatively private, I use one for registering with companies or websites, and the rest for friends, I never have them in text on my website, always a JPEG of text.
And in years and years of having these address's, I have recieved maybe around 20 spam mails in all. Keeping images unloaded in the preview panel of my mail app stops the address being validated if a spam mail is recieved by me.
I don't want Windows to waste my CPU cycles with hardware-accelerated graphics crap. I don't need fading menus and rotating icons.
The whole point of hardware accelerated GUIs are that they save CPU cycles by offlaoding GUI rendering to the graphics card, hardware designed for rendering graphics.
Thats insanely short sighted.
If I remember correctly, one of the co-inventors of the first nuke was quoted as saying that it would mean the end of war, as noone would be crazy enough to use it.
Instead, it launched the first cold war, and cost the planet millions of lives and a lot of karma.
...is it could be the start of a new cold war, or at least cause some countries to get a little nervous about the U.S.
Specifically, China.
Its just simple physics. A liquid evaporating takes heat, so wet stuff is cold, and wet stuff in the wind is very cold (as more relatively dry air flows over the wet surface and takes more water.)
Its nice that he's using pots, but to me its too simple and mundane to garner an award, its like giving an award to someone that 'discovers' a cheap water filter
"Just pour the dirty water through this peice of cloth and voila! "
Here's my question: how are they going to make sure people only have one account each? What's to prevent people from getting dosens and backing up their harddrive?
They don't limit the number of accounts, they just limit attatchment size and keep an eye out for abuses, like hundreds of downloads of from 1 account, or a scripted mailing of hundreds of 10 meg attatchments to any one account.
'The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.'
If I can get a free account, myname@google.com, with 1 GB of storage, and with IMAP or POP3, I don't give a damn if they use my mail for marketing research, or if they keep it long after I'm dead. The reason is I don't work for M16, the KGB or the CIA, I only break little laws and I don't dig child porno. So basically who cares if a few of my mails get left on a server somewhere.
Privay is a real concern, but worrying about this is like worrying about the fact that postmen can read your postcard when you send it. The truth is they can, but they don't give a shit.
But they had a small number of computers (less than they aimed at), and they still managed to get almost half the score required to get in the top 500 list of supercomputers.
While thats not too impressive, it does mean all those Universities with labs and labs of Dells could try something similar. My old Uni had hundreds of 2.4GHz dells with a pretty decent spec, and they were mainly used for checking mail or playing Quake. Perhaps with something like this Flashmob they can be used for something a little more demanding.
If XP has eye candy then I'm superman. The first thing I do on any install is take away that snot green interface and replace it with the classic interface.
To remove 'bad' pictures, you're going to end up with gigs of data. In a single day you might have at least a few hundred pictures to sort through. Thats a lot of time.
(1) If the camera take less pictures and intensively cuts away blurry or dark pictures, you're probably going to end up missing the occasional things you want a picture of.
(2) If the camera takes pictures of everything, every few seconds, you'll have to spend hours going through rubbish pictures to find stuff you actually want to keep.
It sounds a bit far fetched to me at the moment, but who knows?
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- L. Peter Deutsch
When it's over, all that happens is that someone now has a couch they don't have room for.
A couch worth 2 billion dollars.
thats something i wouldn't mind getting off my ex-wife.
Sweden again, as an example |(I'm not Swedish, but i do think this country is the most advanced culture in the world).
A whirlpool/electrolux factory was here making microwaves, but 1 person working in the factory cost the company the same amount of money as 40 people working in a Chinese plant. So, they moved. Swedens old paper/textile industries are largely run by robots, as is thier automotive industry. All the old unskilled labouring jobs are gone, So what did they do?
They have responded as a country by doing what cannot be done in India or China. They have specialised in extreme high tech areas of work, and do shit loads of research. Biacore systems were INVENTED here for fucks sake. You can't get more high tech and shit cool than shining light at some gold to find out how much cocaine is in the blood on the other side of the fucking gold! The guy who came up with the premise of surface plasmonic resonance lives down the road from me here! This is hardcore research that isn't done in developing countries.
Or, in Ireland, they responded by making taxes on Industry a miniscule little number. So loads of companys set up in Ireland. they make a component (any component) and price it to themselves as a very expensive commodity, and pay very little tax on it. In all other countries where this company works, they pay high taxes but can pretend they make cheap components and then as a global company they save a lot of money. And Ireland gets lots of jobs and tax money. The US is a big country and it can handle itself, I'm sure it will be bouncing back in no time at all.