In response to the Supremem Court Decision, I respectfully dissent.
First of all - knowing the public uses the software illegally, in general, does not mean that Grokster knows WHO uses it specifically. The reason this is important is because this ruling will eliminate legal uses arbitrarily to stop illegal use.
Essentially, to use a metaphor here, the ruling prevents car manufacturers to sell cars in order to prevent common illegal activities done with cars (speeding).
There is a difference between general illegal use, and specific. In other words, if Toyata sells you a car knowing that you plan to run someone over with it, they can be liable. But, they cannot be liable by selling cars knowing that someoen out there will use it to run someone else over. ie - you cannot outlaw something to prevent a fairly common, albeit unpredectable action.
their laws no longer apply to me.... with time, i won't have to dodge bullets either.
But seriously, what their email gets automatically subscribed, as most emails do. Or if you're in a different country or state? I don't know the law in that respect, but it brings up the point of how can Utah law have jurisdiction on the internet.
When they were reporting on President G-Dub's new iPod and playlist. This is just absurd. IT's not news if an old person is using a cellphone, shut up. And wat the hell does that old hag listen to? Ms. Elton John?
yes, liquid metal was actually used exclusively by Russian submarines. They encountered 1 major problem: When the liquid metal became hard under certain conditions it no longer provided cooling. In fact, that architectural design lead to the death of many russian submariners. Oh and, they now use water as cooling.
I think the value of a dual processor is not shown well in these benchmarks since the dual cores are each at 1.6ghz. Since P4 is reknowned to be a bad performer at lower ghz, I think it's best we wait for AMD's solution to dual core to get a better idea of dual core performance.
...this problem reminds me of "America spending millions of dollars to make a pen write in space, while USSR used a pencil."......Solution::
Put your alarm clock on the other side of your room.
If you had read what I wrote, then you should already have the answer to your question; which is yes - it's socialist (but only if government prevents google from returning child porn results. It's NOT socialist IF google chooses not to provide child porn as a search result On Their Own Volition. In that case that's their business and there's nothing socialist about it at all).
I cannot stand anymore of this socialist/communist nonsense. Google can offer anything they want as their response to your search; they can offer the statisically worst result possible for your search. If it's something the google user doesn't want to see, (on the same grounds that google can post any response they want) the user retains the freedom to either not click on the link or not use google.
Is there a program that can convert the corresponding dvorak letters to qwerty or vice-versa? I'm sure it'd be easy to program, but does one exist?
I was just thinking it'd be a neat way to encrypt messages between friends.
Can you take away rights of the innocent in order to prevent illegal actions?
To me... outlawing p2p (which on its own is legal) to stop illegal file transfers is like outlawing driving cars in order to stop people from speeding.
...although I don't even have the battery power to take as many pictures as my camera can hold; such compression would allow people to save some money on memory cards.
OR - B/C they're fat, they sleep less.
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Moreover, if you accrue 1.8 hours over 7 days that's 25 mins/day of lost sleep - which is not significant.
If you really do 'get away from it all' then the WIFI service will only be as good as the battery on you mobile device. Sounds like a great idea, but it seems very limited with current technology.
I've always hypothesized about a method of beating the lie detector test... And it employs telling the truth.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say you stole a diamond ring and are being interrogated about it on the lie detector. You are asked:
1) Did you steal a diamond ring?
(you want to lie, obviously, and say no. You also happen to be wearing a white shirt). So inside your head you ask yourself, "Am I wearing a black shirt?"
2) Then you answer "No." but in response to your own question to yourself, thus telling the truth. And the the lie detector test you've answered the question regarding the diamond.
Perhaps speed can be a limiting factor, but you can probably come up with two quick and easy questions to ask yourself.
Comparing movies to games in gross sales is overly unfair, and I have noticed of late it has become a common practice. A movie is seen once (per perchase) and that's that; hence the cost of a movie ticket is usually 7 times less than the cost of a video game (which, after purchase is played many times...generally). Consequently, the amount of people required to achieve $100mil in sales for a video game is 7 times less than the amount required for a featured film. Not to mention, the turnover for movies, at least major ones, is higher than that of major games; big blockbusters vs. say, Doom, Halo, or HalfLife franchise. So when a game like Halo2 comes out, each game would proportionally make more sales than each movie.... low turnover increases the concentration of fans higher for games than for movies. The point is; just because games can rake in more money than movies doesn't mean that they are more popular or in greater demand. If games overtake car sales, it won't mean that cars' sales have started to 'wane'.
"They use the phrase 'toiling like galley slaves' to describe EA's programmers." "EA has a formal policy of hiring young, naive people who are willing to work long hours for low pay"
slaves??? Am I the only one that understand the meaning of the word "willing"? - Rhetorical question, the answer is...drum roll...Yes, I'm the only one. If you're willing to work for any or no wages, you're not a slave. new york times ain't nuthin' but a bunch of carpetbaggers; don't worry... my two cents are free!
Who cares? The only thing you need those batteries for is either a cheap watch or the motherboard batteries which have never run out before the computer became obsolete.
Aren't fuel cells on the verge of being available for consumers? Where's Toshiba with their fuel cell laptop?!
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First of all - knowing the public uses the software illegally, in general, does not mean that Grokster knows WHO uses it specifically. The reason this is important is because this ruling will eliminate legal uses arbitrarily to stop illegal use.
Essentially, to use a metaphor here, the ruling prevents car manufacturers to sell cars in order to prevent common illegal activities done with cars (speeding).
There is a difference between general illegal use, and specific. In other words, if Toyata sells you a car knowing that you plan to run someone over with it, they can be liable. But, they cannot be liable by selling cars knowing that someoen out there will use it to run someone else over. ie - you cannot outlaw something to prevent a fairly common, albeit unpredectable action.
at least it's no worse than Utah.
their laws no longer apply to me. ... with time, i won't have to dodge bullets either.
But seriously, what their email gets automatically subscribed, as most emails do. Or if you're in a different country or state? I don't know the law in that respect, but it brings up the point of how can Utah law have jurisdiction on the internet.
Next week's headlines won't read: "Bionic man circumcized after unsuccessful attempting to pleasure himself."
can it solve the mysteries of all those scientists googling for dating advice?
When they were reporting on President G-Dub's new iPod and playlist. This is just absurd. IT's not news if an old person is using a cellphone, shut up. And wat the hell does that old hag listen to? Ms. Elton John?
Most slashdotters are not in tune with the definition. *duck*
Author & Researcher of article "Innovators are Older Than Ever" turns 60.
yes, liquid metal was actually used exclusively by Russian submarines. They encountered 1 major problem: When the liquid metal became hard under certain conditions it no longer provided cooling. In fact, that architectural design lead to the death of many russian submariners. Oh and, they now use water as cooling.
I think the value of a dual processor is not shown well in these benchmarks since the dual cores are each at 1.6ghz. Since P4 is reknowned to be a bad performer at lower ghz, I think it's best we wait for AMD's solution to dual core to get a better idea of dual core performance.
Nerds around the world rejoice!
If you had read what I wrote, then you should already have the answer to your question; which is yes - it's socialist (but only if government prevents google from returning child porn results. It's NOT socialist IF google chooses not to provide child porn as a search result On Their Own Volition. In that case that's their business and there's nothing socialist about it at all).
I cannot stand anymore of this socialist/communist nonsense. Google can offer anything they want as their response to your search; they can offer the statisically worst result possible for your search. If it's something the google user doesn't want to see, (on the same grounds that google can post any response they want) the user retains the freedom to either not click on the link or not use google.
Is there a program that can convert the corresponding dvorak letters to qwerty or vice-versa? I'm sure it'd be easy to program, but does one exist? I was just thinking it'd be a neat way to encrypt messages between friends.
Can you take away rights of the innocent in order to prevent illegal actions? To me... outlawing p2p (which on its own is legal) to stop illegal file transfers is like outlawing driving cars in order to stop people from speeding.
...although I don't even have the battery power to take as many pictures as my camera can hold; such compression would allow people to save some money on memory cards.
Moreover, if you accrue 1.8 hours over 7 days that's 25 mins/day of lost sleep - which is not significant.
If you really do 'get away from it all' then the WIFI service will only be as good as the battery on you mobile device. Sounds like a great idea, but it seems very limited with current technology.
and people STILL buy them?
I've always hypothesized about a method of beating the lie detector test... And it employs telling the truth. Hypothetically speaking, let's say you stole a diamond ring and are being interrogated about it on the lie detector. You are asked: 1) Did you steal a diamond ring? (you want to lie, obviously, and say no. You also happen to be wearing a white shirt). So inside your head you ask yourself, "Am I wearing a black shirt?" 2) Then you answer "No." but in response to your own question to yourself, thus telling the truth. And the the lie detector test you've answered the question regarding the diamond. Perhaps speed can be a limiting factor, but you can probably come up with two quick and easy questions to ask yourself.
To say that 'age of movies is waning' is naive.
Comparing movies to games in gross sales is overly unfair, and I have noticed of late it has become a common practice. A movie is seen once (per perchase) and that's that; hence the cost of a movie ticket is usually 7 times less than the cost of a video game (which, after purchase is played many times...generally). Consequently, the amount of people required to achieve $100mil in sales for a video game is 7 times less than the amount required for a featured film. Not to mention, the turnover for movies, at least major ones, is higher than that of major games; big blockbusters vs. say, Doom, Halo, or HalfLife franchise. So when a game like Halo2 comes out, each game would proportionally make more sales than each movie.... low turnover increases the concentration of fans higher for games than for movies. The point is; just because games can rake in more money than movies doesn't mean that they are more popular or in greater demand. If games overtake car sales, it won't mean that cars' sales have started to 'wane'.
"They use the phrase 'toiling like galley slaves' to describe EA's programmers." "EA has a formal policy of hiring young, naive people who are willing to work long hours for low pay" slaves??? Am I the only one that understand the meaning of the word "willing"? - Rhetorical question, the answer is...drum roll...Yes, I'm the only one. If you're willing to work for any or no wages, you're not a slave. new york times ain't nuthin' but a bunch of carpetbaggers; don't worry... my two cents are free!
waking life was filmed as a movie then 'cartooned.' Nothing new.
Who cares? The only thing you need those batteries for is either a cheap watch or the motherboard batteries which have never run out before the computer became obsolete. Aren't fuel cells on the verge of being available for consumers? Where's Toshiba with their fuel cell laptop?!