Mod this down -- what a blatant karma whore. I see this crap pasted almost word-for-word every time "prison rape" is mentioned and it's almost pegged at +5 insightful. Christ, guys like you must have bots running 24 / 7 looking for this shit.
What are ordinary people going to do with 100Mpbs next year that they have such a difficulty doing now?
Simple -- download and play HDTV shows and movies on demand and buy music and other pay-per-use bandwidth-intensive high-quality content. This is *really* what the broadband providers have always been counting on as a business model and is where the real money is.
Besides, I could have asked the same question 10 years ago when you had a 14.4 modem and were waiting to a full minute to download a graphics-heavy web page.
You're absolutely correct, of course. I guess I was trying to infer that in original post, so let's say:
it may not even be technologically possible to shut down something like BitTorrent; and
from the Court's perspective, there's a huge difference between the technology and the companies which market / sell them
While the Grokster ruling inevitable spells trouble for the Kazaas, Groksters and other blatant infringers of the world, I don't see it as very likely that BitTorrent will be shut down -- either technically or legally -- any time soon. And even IF such a thing were to happen -- again, however unlikely -- as I said in my original post, it just doesn't matter.
Yeah, and neither is alcohol or coffee, right? It's debatable whether or not it is acknowledged as an addictive drug, but yeah, you're spot on that I was equating Bush's "cocain" addiction (of which there's no credible evidence) with Clinton's pot smoking and ass-grabbing (of which there's a ton of solid, indisputable evidence).
Go ahead, RIAA / MPAA . . . shut down BitTorrent. It doesn't matter, 'cuz in less than a week, a better, more efficient and more anonymous P2P tech will get adopted.
They just don't get it, or are unwilling to concede that they get it -- the genie is out of the bottle, forever.
You are equating free speech with holding public office / obtaining power, which I would argue are two completely things. You may even have a legitimate point that Senators and Congressmen are often more influenced by corporations rather than the common man.
However, this DOES NOT mean that there is no free speech in this country. You are free to walk back and forth in front of the White House, US Capital, etc. in a peaceful, non-threatening way and voice whatever opinion you want about Bush and Cheney (provided you don't threaten their lives). You are allowed to set up a website and put just about anything you want on it as long as it doesn't threaten harm or physical violence to anyone or sexually exploit children.
Try standing on a street corner in Tehran doing a little peaceful Ahmadinejad-bashing with a sandwich board and then we'll see how much free speech you think you have in the US. See if it's worth having your family disappear in the night for posting that you think the mullahs are teh sux0r in a chatroom or forum.
Uhhh . . . I think you've centered Google on one of the Smithsonian buildings on the north side of the Mall. Drag the map east to west (right to left) and you'll see the same old mosaic'd out Capital and office buildings at the east end of the Mall.
the Japanese were likely not the first, and certainly not the last to use prisoners as hostages in this manner.
Actually, in 1864 during the American Civil War, the Union Army held 600 captured Confederate officers and men in front of Foster's Battery on Morris Island for 45 days, partly out of revenge for the relocation of 600 prisoners into Charleston City and partly in an effort to prevent the Confederates holding Charleston Harbor from mounting effective counter-fire. It didn't work -- the Confederates artillery fired back anyway and Charleston didn't fall until the end of the War -- but luckily none of the prisoners were killed.
Up until now, the only thing that's been preventing the movie industry from ending up like the music biz has been the sheer size of decent digital copies and the bandwidth required to move them around. Eventually (within the next 5 - 10 years I'd guess), those hurdles will be gone and perfect (enough) digital copies will be freely available just like music is today, HD DVD / whatever nonwithstanding. An idea like this (ignoring the obvious inconvenience to the consumer for a minute) won't work once people get directly at the data and take the physical media out of the equation. It is inevitable -- just like has happened with music and photographs -- that video, print, and just about all other forms of communication move from physical to inherently more flexible digital formats. It's just a matter of exactly how soon that will happen.
When a guy goes "IE is better then Firefox and just as secure if not MORE secure" you know he's an idiot.
Wrong. You know he's a salesman, and a very, very good one at that. And the very fact that he's head of the world's biggest software company with billions in R & D at his personal disposal makes him perfect front page material. Oh yeah, he's got his own icon too.:-)
/.ers have a bad habit of confusing excellence with success. Yeah, Firefox may be a better browser than IE, and IPod may be a better mp3 player than Brand X, but that doesn't necessarily translate into long-term commercial success -- which is the only thing that matters in the end to publicly-traded companies. I could reference the old DAT vs. analog cassettes or Beta vs. VHS debates, but we all know how those ended.
IMHO, Gates is correct in following a tremendous opportunity in the form of Microsoft software running on billions of mobile devices. What other segment right now holds that type of potential growth for Microsoft?
Agreed. I have tried XM Online on both its low and high bandwidth settings. On its low bandwidth setting, it is completely unlistenable due to frequent dropouts. Its high bandwidth setting has the classic whooshing cheap-ass encoder sound to it, as if you're running everything through a $29 flanger stompbox, and there's no dynamic range AT ALL -- the audio is squashed completely flat. This is the main reason I haven't sold my XM PCR, which I was hoping to do once XM Online came out.
Another problem is the 42 XM Liquid Metal is now an Online-only channel.:-( Between that and no NFL coverage, I may have to give Sirius another look.
I immediately write off as "clueless" any author that suggests that MySQL is a good tool to use for things that require security like shopping carts, or for anything close to mission critical.
I guess SAP is well, clueless, being that MySQL MaxDB has been their open source database of choice for years.
You silly sausage . . . check your facts first next time before posting such knee-jerk drivel.
When configuring your Vonage account, you're forced to jump through a series of acknowledgement screen which plainly state, in very easy-to-understand text, that when you dial 911, your call will not go to the regular 911 switchboard but rather a separate emergency service, which will then notify the local police, fire, etc. You have to run through this enablement process for each number you're enabling. So while it's perhaps possible that dumbass people using Vonage won't bother to read up on the issue, it's plain that Vonage has gone out of their way to let their users know 911 won't behave in the normal fashion.
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Been listening to too much death metal, huh?
Mod this down -- what a blatant karma whore. I see this crap pasted almost word-for-word every time "prison rape" is mentioned and it's almost pegged at +5 insightful. Christ, guys like you must have bots running 24 / 7 looking for this shit.
What are ordinary people going to do with 100Mpbs next year that they have such a difficulty doing now?
Simple -- download and play HDTV shows and movies on demand and buy music and other pay-per-use bandwidth-intensive high-quality content. This is *really* what the broadband providers have always been counting on as a business model and is where the real money is.
Besides, I could have asked the same question 10 years ago when you had a 14.4 modem and were waiting to a full minute to download a graphics-heavy web page.You're absolutely correct, of course. I guess I was trying to infer that in original post, so let's say:
While the Grokster ruling inevitable spells trouble for the Kazaas, Groksters and other blatant infringers of the world, I don't see it as very likely that BitTorrent will be shut down -- either technically or legally -- any time soon. And even IF such a thing were to happen -- again, however unlikely -- as I said in my original post, it just doesn't matter.
Yeah, and neither is alcohol or coffee, right? It's debatable whether or not it is acknowledged as an addictive drug, but yeah, you're spot on that I was equating Bush's "cocain" addiction (of which there's no credible evidence) with Clinton's pot smoking and ass-grabbing (of which there's a ton of solid, indisputable evidence).
Yeah, which explains why we don't have an ex-cocain addict running the whitehouse. Oh. Yeah.
Yeah, which explains why we don't have an ex-marijuana addict / womanizer running the whitehouse. Oh. Yeah.
Go ahead, RIAA / MPAA . . . shut down BitTorrent. It doesn't matter, 'cuz in less than a week, a better, more efficient and more anonymous P2P tech will get adopted.
They just don't get it, or are unwilling to concede that they get it -- the genie is out of the bottle, forever.
You are equating free speech with holding public office / obtaining power, which I would argue are two completely things. You may even have a legitimate point that Senators and Congressmen are often more influenced by corporations rather than the common man.
However, this DOES NOT mean that there is no free speech in this country. You are free to walk back and forth in front of the White House, US Capital, etc. in a peaceful, non-threatening way and voice whatever opinion you want about Bush and Cheney (provided you don't threaten their lives). You are allowed to set up a website and put just about anything you want on it as long as it doesn't threaten harm or physical violence to anyone or sexually exploit children.
Try standing on a street corner in Tehran doing a little peaceful Ahmadinejad-bashing with a sandwich board and then we'll see how much free speech you think you have in the US. See if it's worth having your family disappear in the night for posting that you think the mullahs are teh sux0r in a chatroom or forum.
Send an investigator out to talk to anyone living at an address with more than (e.g.) six registered names.
I've got multiple personality disorder, you insensitive clod, and all of me are out of work!
Uhhh . . . I think you've centered Google on one of the Smithsonian buildings on the north side of the Mall. Drag the map east to west (right to left) and you'll see the same old mosaic'd out Capital and office buildings at the east end of the Mall.
Check out this mosaic'd TerraServer view of the US Capital and Senate / Congressional office buildings in Washington, DC.
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the Japanese were likely not the first, and certainly not the last to use prisoners as hostages in this manner.
Actually, in 1864 during the American Civil War, the Union Army held 600 captured Confederate officers and men in front of Foster's Battery on Morris Island for 45 days, partly out of revenge for the relocation of 600 prisoners into Charleston City and partly in an effort to prevent the Confederates holding Charleston Harbor from mounting effective counter-fire. It didn't work -- the Confederates artillery fired back anyway and Charleston didn't fall until the end of the War -- but luckily none of the prisoners were killed.
"Send more cops!"
as long as they make OS X available for any Intel based system and don't try to lock people into using just their hardware
Sorry, but no such luck. :-(
"Wayans brothers talk White Chicks sequel" -- good God man! WHen will these Hollywood types learn to let things well enough alone!
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No way, man . . . Clint Eastwood climbed it back in the '70s while people were trying to kill him, so how hard can it be?
Up until now, the only thing that's been preventing the movie industry from ending up like the music biz has been the sheer size of decent digital copies and the bandwidth required to move them around. Eventually (within the next 5 - 10 years I'd guess), those hurdles will be gone and perfect (enough) digital copies will be freely available just like music is today, HD DVD / whatever nonwithstanding. An idea like this (ignoring the obvious inconvenience to the consumer for a minute) won't work once people get directly at the data and take the physical media out of the equation. It is inevitable -- just like has happened with music and photographs -- that video, print, and just about all other forms of communication move from physical to inherently more flexible digital formats. It's just a matter of exactly how soon that will happen.
When a guy goes "IE is better then Firefox and just as secure if not MORE secure" you know he's an idiot.
Wrong. You know he's a salesman, and a very, very good one at that. And the very fact that he's head of the world's biggest software company with billions in R & D at his personal disposal makes him perfect front page material. Oh yeah, he's got his own icon too. :-)
/.ers have a bad habit of confusing excellence with success. Yeah, Firefox may be a better browser than IE, and IPod may be a better mp3 player than Brand X, but that doesn't necessarily translate into long-term commercial success -- which is the only thing that matters in the end to publicly-traded companies. I could reference the old DAT vs. analog cassettes or Beta vs. VHS debates, but we all know how those ended.
IMHO, Gates is correct in following a tremendous opportunity in the form of Microsoft software running on billions of mobile devices. What other segment right now holds that type of potential growth for Microsoft?
Agreed. I have tried XM Online on both its low and high bandwidth settings. On its low bandwidth setting, it is completely unlistenable due to frequent dropouts. Its high bandwidth setting has the classic whooshing cheap-ass encoder sound to it, as if you're running everything through a $29 flanger stompbox, and there's no dynamic range AT ALL -- the audio is squashed completely flat. This is the main reason I haven't sold my XM PCR, which I was hoping to do once XM Online came out.
Another problem is the 42 XM Liquid Metal is now an Online-only channel. :-( Between that and no NFL coverage, I may have to give Sirius another look.
I immediately write off as "clueless" any author that suggests that MySQL is a good tool to use for things that require security like shopping carts, or for anything close to mission critical.
I guess SAP is well, clueless, being that MySQL MaxDB has been their open source database of choice for years.
You silly sausage . . . check your facts first next time before posting such knee-jerk drivel.
When configuring your Vonage account, you're forced to jump through a series of acknowledgement screen which plainly state, in very easy-to-understand text, that when you dial 911, your call will not go to the regular 911 switchboard but rather a separate emergency service, which will then notify the local police, fire, etc. You have to run through this enablement process for each number you're enabling. So while it's perhaps possible that dumbass people using Vonage won't bother to read up on the issue, it's plain that Vonage has gone out of their way to let their users know 911 won't behave in the normal fashion.
. . . get the answer here.
I doubt it has tight integration with iTunes, which is a major selling point of the various iPods.