Yes I am Canadian. I just figured our laws would be similar. Guess I was wrong. Stupid me. Really doesn't change the point of my post though. What the **** are the FBI doing raiding a school?
Oh and I also noticed that there are a lot of Canadians on this site. Funny that... eh?
Don't be so naïve. Clearly these are not the same thing. If that is the best argument you can come up with for not downloading music you are going to have to do better if you plan on actually convincing anyone they are doing anything wrong.
People buy music they like, based on what they can afford to spend on music. They download songs because they like to listen to music on their computers or MP3 players. Downloading music is not affecting industry profits in any way. The industry has yet to demonstrate anything except diminished profits during a time of recession (holy crap!).
In fact copying music is entirely legal anyway. We have always been alowed to record a friends CD or tape, the radio, TV shows, movies we rent, etc, etc, etc. Now all of the sudden because we can make a digital copy it is a big deal and people need to be fined thousands or go to jail.
Truthfully the only crime (legally) with copying music is not the downloading but the sharing. Distribution of copywritten work is a crime. But this law was intended to combat organized crime style piracy, where the goods are coppied and sold on the black market for money. By real criminals, not to some 11 year old kid using some filesharing software to get the latest lousy Britney Spears video.
Can you honestly say that defending the bank accounts of millionaires (assuming they are actually being threatened) is worth the FBIs time and taxpayer money given that there are many more important things they could be spending their time protecting us from other than the scourge of music sharing?
Copying media, any media, is not akin to breaking into a concert or a movie theater, although given how much is being charged these days for both I can't say I would be outraged over that happening.
As for Unreal Tournament, well, how many sequels of exactly the same game, but with better graphics so you can have a reason to blow $300 bucks on a new video card do they need to sell 100,000 coppies of at $50 a pop before I get to stop caring that some guy pirated it.
The point (after all this rambling) is that two wrongs don't make a right. And the way the RIAA and the MPAA and John Ashcroft are treating this matter is wrong. They are going to far for nothing. Well, actually, possibly for another zero on their profit margins.
I think this is a legitimate point. Although I don't know if Windows or the hardware vendors are more to blame here.
The Nforce audio drivers for linux are not great. You are limited to one program accessing the device at a time (no hardware mixing). Apparently this is because the soundstorm drivers are only available for Windows at the moment and Nvidia's linux drivers... well they suck I guess.
Still these any many other small thing are the reason I still need a dual boot. Otherwise it would be bye-bye Winblows.
Absolutely incredible. But I can't find any links to information on.the.produkkt here? Or on Google. Anyone know who these guys are? Is this open source or commercial release?
I just found out about this software yesterday on Slashdot. No one has mentioned it yet. It looks like some excellent software built with standards and interoperability in mind. Unfortunately with products like Microsofts Sharepoint focusing on... well... Microsofts bottom line interoperability may not be something easy to achieve.
Fingerprinting can be proven pointless in the case of collusion. By taking files with different figerprints and using them to create an average of all of the files the fingerprint becomes undetectable. No mater how robust the fingerprint, if enough people collude to remove it it is removable. I doubt they would bother doing this anyways. And if they did we would probably know about it.
That is only partly true. By cramming more onto a smaller space you increase the problems associated with heat. While the overall heat per transistor has increased the suseptibility of the transistors to heat induced instability is worse and the heat dissapation is worse because there is less area over which to dissapate heat.
Also the distance really has little to do with the voltage, it is more related to the resistance and current. The lower voltages are related to other improvements.
The power savings come from the fact that on a smaller space fewer electrons are needed (for any given voltage) thus less energy is used per transistor switching. But more transitors per/area inevitably means more heat for the chip.
Yes I should have specified liquid cooling in general. I hear LN2 is fairly popular for serious overclocking enthusiasts. Me, never could get comfortable tweaking with my computer that much. Clumsy hands I guess.
I loved the fact that right below Tux there was a Windows XP media center ad on the page. Right in the middle there. I am sure the ad's rotate, but that's what I saw when I loaded it up.
Switch to linux, and while your doing that why not get yourself a copy of Windows XP media center edition. It's the greatest!
'My/. UID is lower than yours. That makes me smarter than you!'
I got to admit. The first message did seem like a troll (the fact that you practically pre-suggested it notwithstanding). 'Let's trash open source just for the hell of it on/. and see if I get a reaction.' This message seems like flamebait. 'If that doesn't work lets trash/.'rs in general and see what happens then.'
I must have read more messages, because it seems like there were many different view points. Personally, I think open source people are way more likely to admit the flaws of open source than the commercial industry is. Probably something to do with vested interests or lack therof. That's one of the reasons I like to read/. A few open source zealots is no reason to get defensive.
Nothing wrong with defending big Bill, just no need to get offensive about it, eh?
Yeah except the pentagon has its own nuclear generator if I am not entirely mistaken.
Still you have a point. It is not as if the internet is the most efficient model for networking and communications. Highly redundant, routing delays, spam and of course terrabytes and terrabytes of dirty smut!
It's definitely self-healing though, with the exception of damage done by trojans, DDoS, e-mail viruses, and of course the daily downloading of terrabytes of dirty smut!
Battery Life is a serious problem with all portable devices. Despite several pointless marketing campaigns by Energizer and Duracell there has been little if any inovation in chemical energy storage technology. Hopefully something new will come along soon, because these devices are using more power every year, not less.
True enough, but irrelevent. Virus writers will probably always be out there. Much like car theifs. And neither is easy to catch. That is why the police tell you to lock your damn car. So if your computer gets a virus because you didn't patch, yes it is stupid, and your fault. Blaming others for your problem is no way to solve them.
If someone actually creates a virus that beats the patches out there (which never seems to happen) then it won't be your fault.
Yes, I hear that Space-Time coding is the 'new deal' for Rayleigh type fading channels. A few people in my dept. have been doing research into these codes. I should probably read the work whenever I don't have other projects, assignments, TA duties, marking, etc. to do.;-).
What amazes me is how far behind these companies are in actually implementing this technology. 10-years old is actually new.
A friend of mine was saying that even when new research developments are implemented in new hardware the IT people (read: customers) don't understand how to use it anyways or just don't configure it at all (his comments applied specifically to high-end network hardware and new routing schemes). Reminds me of people who setup the company wireless network with 'default'.
I have been dying for an article in my field to post on! Actually new classes of LDPC codes based on finite geometries have shown that you can construct them at almost any size (say 1000 bits, much more practical). These 'algebraic' LDPC codes perform much better than both Turbo codes and other LDPC codes mostly because they have more structure and are not generated by random computer searches.
Also they don't require the more time consuming decoding algorithm needed for Turbo Codes (although they can be used). Check 'em out, you can search for papers on IEEE Xplore. Also someone is working on research to show Turbo Codes are LDPC codes! Crazy.
I almost crapped my pants when I saw that statement that Turbo codes were new.;-)
I'm not sure you see the point. "Free and in Freedom" as most people put it. Not free as in free-for-all. The GPL is a licence. If they wanted it to be free like that there would be NO licence.
I think all of the people who own GPL software distributed by $CO should revoke their licence to distribute, but not to use it. It would encourage more users of $CO to look elsewhere for their computing needs.
This whole thing sucks and the fact that the U.S. Justice system is even listening to $CO prooves they have absolutely no understanding of Technology and the laws relating to it (probably because neither do the law makers (e.g. DMCA).
This is so typically American. Look somewhere else for the problem, so you can ignore the problems at home. While anyone can agree that terrorism is a problem, it is the problems at home that we can actually do something about. Fretting about terrorists is exactly what the terrorists want if I'm not mistaken. Looks like the terrorist and Big Brother have something in common.
I don't see how this research shows the effect of anything but malnutrition. The abstract says they used a magnetic field of strength 0.01mT. The Earth's magnetic field strength is approx. 0.05mT, and we are exposed to that 24/7 (granted it isn't operating at 60Hz). The study also suggests that vitamins like Vitamin E and Iron will counteract the effects.
I think all this shows is you should eat your beans and get some vitamin E. Also, it would appear that depriving rats of nutrients in a magnetic field is not good for their health.
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Yes I am Canadian. I just figured our laws would be similar. Guess I was wrong. Stupid me. Really doesn't change the point of my post though. What the **** are the FBI doing raiding a school?
Oh and I also noticed that there are a lot of Canadians on this site. Funny that... eh?
Don't be so naïve. Clearly these are not the same thing. If that is the best argument you can come up with for not downloading music you are going to have to do better if you plan on actually convincing anyone they are doing anything wrong.
People buy music they like, based on what they can afford to spend on music. They download songs because they like to listen to music on their computers or MP3 players. Downloading music is not affecting industry profits in any way. The industry has yet to demonstrate anything except diminished profits during a time of recession (holy crap!).
In fact copying music is entirely legal anyway. We have always been alowed to record a friends CD or tape, the radio, TV shows, movies we rent, etc, etc, etc. Now all of the sudden because we can make a digital copy it is a big deal and people need to be fined thousands or go to jail.
Truthfully the only crime (legally) with copying music is not the downloading but the sharing. Distribution of copywritten work is a crime. But this law was intended to combat organized crime style piracy, where the goods are coppied and sold on the black market for money. By real criminals, not to some 11 year old kid using some filesharing software to get the latest lousy Britney Spears video.
Can you honestly say that defending the bank accounts of millionaires (assuming they are actually being threatened) is worth the FBIs time and taxpayer money given that there are many more important things they could be spending their time protecting us from other than the scourge of music sharing?
Copying media, any media, is not akin to breaking into a concert or a movie theater, although given how much is being charged these days for both I can't say I would be outraged over that happening.
As for Unreal Tournament, well, how many sequels of exactly the same game, but with better graphics so you can have a reason to blow $300 bucks on a new video card do they need to sell 100,000 coppies of at $50 a pop before I get to stop caring that some guy pirated it.
The point (after all this rambling) is that two wrongs don't make a right. And the way the RIAA and the MPAA and John Ashcroft are treating this matter is wrong. They are going to far for nothing. Well, actually, possibly for another zero on their profit margins.
I think this is a legitimate point. Although I don't know if Windows or the hardware vendors are more to blame here.
The Nforce audio drivers for linux are not great. You are limited to one program accessing the device at a time (no hardware mixing). Apparently this is because the soundstorm drivers are only available for Windows at the moment and Nvidia's linux drivers... well they suck I guess.
Still these any many other small thing are the reason I still need a dual boot. Otherwise it would be bye-bye Winblows.
Absolutely incredible. But I can't find any links to information on .the .produkkt here? Or on Google. Anyone know who these guys are? Is this open source or commercial release?
I got the .zip file and it is .exe (sigh).
I just found out about this software yesterday on Slashdot. No one has mentioned it yet. It looks like some excellent software built with standards and interoperability in mind. Unfortunately with products like Microsofts Sharepoint focusing on... well... Microsofts bottom line interoperability may not be something easy to achieve.
Fingerprinting can be proven pointless in the case of collusion. By taking files with different figerprints and using them to create an average of all of the files the fingerprint becomes undetectable. No mater how robust the fingerprint, if enough people collude to remove it it is removable. I doubt they would bother doing this anyways. And if they did we would probably know about it.
That is only partly true. By cramming more onto a smaller space you increase the problems associated with heat. While the overall heat per transistor has increased the suseptibility of the transistors to heat induced instability is worse and the heat dissapation is worse because there is less area over which to dissapate heat.
Also the distance really has little to do with the voltage, it is more related to the resistance and current. The lower voltages are related to other improvements.
The power savings come from the fact that on a smaller space fewer electrons are needed (for any given voltage) thus less energy is used per transistor switching. But more transitors per/area inevitably means more heat for the chip.
Yes I should have specified liquid cooling in general. I hear LN2 is fairly popular for serious overclocking enthusiasts. Me, never could get comfortable tweaking with my computer that much. Clumsy hands I guess.
Yeah, your computer will be bigger, better and faster if you just use it underwater. Try it at home!
As these chips get smaller and smaller, 'cool' is the only thing that isn't going to be synonymous with these chips.
Any idea how they are going to deal with stability and cooling of these new chips. New computers already use some pretty crazy cooling systems.
Will watercooled systems become the norm?
I loved the fact that right below Tux there was a Windows XP media center ad on the page. Right in the middle there. I am sure the ad's rotate, but that's what I saw when I loaded it up.
Switch to linux, and while your doing that why not get yourself a copy of Windows XP media center edition. It's the greatest!
'My /. UID is lower than yours. That makes me smarter than you!'
I got to admit. The first message did seem like a troll (the fact that you practically pre-suggested it notwithstanding). 'Let's trash open source just for the hell of it on /. and see if I get a reaction.' This message seems like flamebait. 'If that doesn't work lets trash /.'rs in general and see what happens then.'
I must have read more messages, because it seems like there were many different view points. Personally, I think open source people are way more likely to admit the flaws of open source than the commercial industry is. Probably something to do with vested interests or lack therof. That's one of the reasons I like to read /. A few open source zealots is no reason to get defensive.
Nothing wrong with defending big Bill, just no need to get offensive about it, eh?
Yeah except the pentagon has its own nuclear generator if I am not entirely mistaken.
Still you have a point. It is not as if the internet is the most efficient model for networking and communications. Highly redundant, routing delays, spam and of course terrabytes and terrabytes of dirty smut!
It's definitely self-healing though, with the exception of damage done by trojans, DDoS, e-mail viruses, and of course the daily downloading of terrabytes of dirty smut!
Battery Life is a serious problem with all portable devices. Despite several pointless marketing campaigns by Energizer and Duracell there has been little if any inovation in chemical energy storage technology. Hopefully something new will come along soon, because these devices are using more power every year, not less.
Energon cubes perhaps?
Maybe they use DOS ;-). /. users are just a little too picky.
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Then again maybe
-Take that Lisa's beliefs!
True enough, but irrelevent. Virus writers will probably always be out there. Much like car theifs. And neither is easy to catch. That is why the police tell you to lock your damn car. So if your computer gets a virus because you didn't patch, yes it is stupid, and your fault. Blaming others for your problem is no way to solve them.
If someone actually creates a virus that beats the patches out there (which never seems to happen) then it won't be your fault.
Yes, I hear that Space-Time coding is the 'new deal' for Rayleigh type fading channels. A few people in my dept. have been doing research into these codes. I should probably read the work whenever I don't have other projects, assignments, TA duties, marking, etc. to do. ;-).
What amazes me is how far behind these companies are in actually implementing this technology. 10-years old is actually new.
A friend of mine was saying that even when new research developments are implemented in new hardware the IT people (read: customers) don't understand how to use it anyways or just don't configure it at all (his comments applied specifically to high-end network hardware and new routing schemes). Reminds me of people who setup the company wireless network with 'default'.
I have been dying for an article in my field to post on! Actually new classes of LDPC codes based on finite geometries have shown that you can construct them at almost any size (say 1000 bits, much more practical). These 'algebraic' LDPC codes perform much better than both Turbo codes and other LDPC codes mostly because they have more structure and are not generated by random computer searches.
;-)
Also they don't require the more time consuming decoding algorithm needed for Turbo Codes (although they can be used). Check 'em out, you can search for papers on IEEE Xplore. Also someone is working on research to show Turbo Codes are LDPC codes! Crazy.
I almost crapped my pants when I saw that statement that Turbo codes were new.
-Take that Lisa's beliefs!
I'm not sure you see the point. "Free and in Freedom" as most people put it. Not free as in free-for-all. The GPL is a licence. If they wanted it to be free like that there would be NO licence. I think all of the people who own GPL software distributed by $CO should revoke their licence to distribute, but not to use it. It would encourage more users of $CO to look elsewhere for their computing needs. This whole thing sucks and the fact that the U.S. Justice system is even listening to $CO prooves they have absolutely no understanding of Technology and the laws relating to it (probably because neither do the law makers (e.g. DMCA).
This is so typically American. Look somewhere else for the problem, so you can ignore the problems at home. While anyone can agree that terrorism is a problem, it is the problems at home that we can actually do something about. Fretting about terrorists is exactly what the terrorists want if I'm not mistaken. Looks like the terrorist and Big Brother have something in common.
I don't see how this research shows the effect of anything but malnutrition. The abstract says they used a magnetic field of strength 0.01mT. The Earth's magnetic field strength is approx. 0.05mT, and we are exposed to that 24/7 (granted it isn't operating at 60Hz). The study also suggests that vitamins like Vitamin E and Iron will counteract the effects. I think all this shows is you should eat your beans and get some vitamin E. Also, it would appear that depriving rats of nutrients in a magnetic field is not good for their health.