The site linked showed descriptions of Gator and DFC, and how to detect them. It didn't give much detail on how to remove, though. Knowing you're infected is the first step, though, so I'd still say this is A Good Thing(tm).
If music is worth the download, its worth the 15$ for the CD.
Um... not just no, but hell no. There's a HUGE difference between paying $0 (the case in downloading) and paying $15 and going through the hassle of making MP3's (the case in CD-buying).
My point? People who're willing to listen to crap music for free are not necessarily willing to buy crap music for $15.
Very good point. She lip-syncs. Any wonder why she can't perform if there's no electricity, or in a tiny venue? Strange that she can cavort around stage exercising and sweating, but she never ever sounds out of breath.
Similarly, Shania Twain a couple of Superbowls ago. She was clapping her hand to the music, against the wrist of the hand holding the microphone. Funny, though, the sound of her clapping didn't come through. Sure could hear the music & voice, though.
Makes sense, with only one problem: getting lots of distribution through the new channel, without the huge marketing resources of the major labels. For the most part, talent should take care of this, and then let survival of the fittest take over.
For the most part. Not always. So, it would seem that going indie is a great possibility for established bands nearing the end of their current contract, and I would suggest that any established band with a contract should consider it.
They Might Be Giants has gone along this vein, although they've gone to the extreme of offering older songs free on their own website. I'd like to see other established bands go in this direction, and believe that that's what the future will bring us.
Well, Bill's more interested in fighting disease in the 3rd-world, just now. Any other zillionaires out there interested? What's Warren Beatty do with his money? Oh, and Teresa "let them go naked" Heinz has tons, too.
where are these vast stockpiles that Saddam had the country teeming with?
Does fertilizer count?
This's a serious question, actually. Ammunition supply depots have been found with insane amounts of fertilizer stockpiled in drums. Funny, these ammo dumps, in the middle of the desert, don't exactly have big flea infestations. So what's all the fertilizer, hmm?
Okay, so it's not the kind of smoking gun everybody expects, but frankly, do you really expect we'd find clearly-marked barrels saying "these are chemical weapons--don't let the US/UN see, please!"? The people there got really good at hiding what they were doing. So from that, what might you extrapolate? (aside from: clearly, there were no WMD as we haven't found them yet)
Also, the book suggests that there might be a lock-picking group in every city in the U.S., when in fact I am having a difficult time finding one in my are. And I live near D.C. -- You'd think there would be one on every corner around here.
You'd probably be right in that assumption. Your problem is, you're assuming that all the people in the DC area that know how to pick locks are willing to flaunt this ability. 3-letter agents (CIA, NSA, etc), spies from every country in the world, etc, aren't likely to join these groups, even though they're likely to be masters.
An "arcsecond" is a unit of angular measurement. There are 360 degrees in a circle, and 3600 arcseconds in a degree. The full moon is 1800 arcseconds across. A star observed from the best mid-latitude observatories appears to be between 0.5 and 1 arcsecond in diameter. A star observed from Dome C would on average appear to be 0.27 arcseconds in diameter.
How would a telescope at Dome C compare with the Hubble Space Telescope?
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has a 2.4 m mirror, and delivers 0.05 arcsecond resolution at visible wavelengths. The best seeing we measured at Dome C was 0.07 arcseconds, however, this figure becomes lower when corrected for the finite size of the outer scale of turbulence (see Tokovinin, PASP, 114, 1156-1166). We don't have enough information yet to accurately determine the correction. While a 2.4 m telescope on the ground can never equal HST's performance, a somewhat larger telescope, say 4m, at Dome C could well produce images of equivalent resolution to HST for about 10% of the time. And in the near-infrared (e.g., the K band at 2.4 microns), the percentage should go up to 50%.
I'd say it's just more sudden that people have taken notice of it. And the big ones have let it be noticeable--from the Time Warner mention at the bottom of CNN's homepage, to the News Corporation mention in the 20th C Fox logo, to the Viacom (I think) mention in Paramount's logo. This might also be new.
But then it would cost so much less to distribute movies--just the cost of bandwidth from the source to the theaters, even if it's a separate network--and take so many fewer people/jobs. The giant media conglomerates are not about to dramatically cut their costs in this way--then they'd have to cut their prices, too! Whoa, there. Can't have that. They'll keep selling their $10 movie-tickets, thank you.
What, like in the controller itself--for little things that make less sense on the screen? Interesting possibility.
OR, even better, put these on the buttons themselves. Istead of the buttons saying "A B C D" or sqare, triangle, X, O, the button can be named for what it does. Wanna know how to play? Look at the controller, and the buttons will be named for what they do.
Lack of employment != a temporary problem. Also not a small problem, either.
So you're concerned that there's so much animosity about it. What's your solution, then, when jobs are "restructured" elsewhere? Leave IT and be a good plumber?
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I would guess it refers to programs like California.exe, which NAV once told me was infected with a virus called "Wobbler". But I have no idea.
The site linked showed descriptions of Gator and DFC, and how to detect them. It didn't give much detail on how to remove, though. Knowing you're infected is the first step, though, so I'd still say this is A Good Thing(tm).
Which would be why, even though we instantiate it in extreme cases, our system for the most part falls in between the extremes instead.
Reminds me of that creepy chick's line from The Craft.
"We ARE the weirdos."
If music is worth the download, its worth the 15$ for the CD.
... not just no, but hell no. There's a HUGE difference between paying $0 (the case in downloading) and paying $15 and going through the hassle of making MP3's (the case in CD-buying).
Um
My point? People who're willing to listen to crap music for free are not necessarily willing to buy crap music for $15.
Very good point. She lip-syncs. Any wonder why she can't perform if there's no electricity, or in a tiny venue? Strange that she can cavort around stage exercising and sweating, but she never ever sounds out of breath.
Similarly, Shania Twain a couple of Superbowls ago. She was clapping her hand to the music, against the wrist of the hand holding the microphone. Funny, though, the sound of her clapping didn't come through. Sure could hear the music & voice, though.
Makes sense, with only one problem: getting lots of distribution through the new channel, without the huge marketing resources of the major labels. For the most part, talent should take care of this, and then let survival of the fittest take over.
For the most part. Not always. So, it would seem that going indie is a great possibility for established bands nearing the end of their current contract, and I would suggest that any established band with a contract should consider it.
They Might Be Giants has gone along this vein, although they've gone to the extreme of offering older songs free on their own website. I'd like to see other established bands go in this direction, and believe that that's what the future will bring us.
Along that line, then: do you support capital punishment? The murder rate in Texas seems to prove the above point ...
He he, well, there went MY karma. What I get for forgetting the AC box, I guess.
Yes, because ignoring uninteresting (in your opinion) stories that come along every so often is so hard to do. Cry me a river.
Well, Bill's more interested in fighting disease in the 3rd-world, just now. Any other zillionaires out there interested? What's Warren Beatty do with his money? Oh, and Teresa "let them go naked" Heinz has tons, too.
where are these vast stockpiles that Saddam had the country teeming with?
Does fertilizer count?
This's a serious question, actually. Ammunition supply depots have been found with insane amounts of fertilizer stockpiled in drums. Funny, these ammo dumps, in the middle of the desert, don't exactly have big flea infestations. So what's all the fertilizer, hmm?
Okay, so it's not the kind of smoking gun everybody expects, but frankly, do you really expect we'd find clearly-marked barrels saying "these are chemical weapons--don't let the US/UN see, please!"? The people there got really good at hiding what they were doing. So from that, what might you extrapolate? (aside from: clearly, there were no WMD as we haven't found them yet)
You know, it really made me wonder when they chose Dan Rather to report about it ...
Also, the book suggests that there might be a lock-picking group in every city in the U.S., when in fact I am having a difficult time finding one in my are. And I live near D.C. -- You'd think there would be one on every corner around here.
You'd probably be right in that assumption. Your problem is, you're assuming that all the people in the DC area that know how to pick locks are willing to flaunt this ability. 3-letter agents (CIA, NSA, etc), spies from every country in the world, etc, aren't likely to join these groups, even though they're likely to be masters.
At least I'm not the only one ... I don't know, either. I would guess, though, that it might be something "pre-hardened" against the /. Effect.
Forgot to mention--that's from the FAQ, not me.
What is an "arcsecond"?
An "arcsecond" is a unit of angular measurement. There are 360 degrees in a circle, and 3600 arcseconds in a degree. The full moon is 1800 arcseconds across. A star observed from the best mid-latitude observatories appears to be between 0.5 and 1 arcsecond in diameter. A star observed from Dome C would on average appear to be 0.27 arcseconds in diameter.
How would a telescope at Dome C compare with the Hubble Space Telescope?
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has a 2.4 m mirror, and delivers 0.05 arcsecond resolution at visible wavelengths. The best seeing we measured at Dome C was 0.07 arcseconds, however, this figure becomes lower when corrected for the finite size of the outer scale of turbulence (see Tokovinin, PASP, 114, 1156-1166). We don't have enough information yet to accurately determine the correction. While a 2.4 m telescope on the ground can never equal HST's performance, a somewhat larger telescope, say 4m, at Dome C could well produce images of equivalent resolution to HST for about 10% of the time. And in the near-infrared (e.g., the K band at 2.4 microns), the percentage should go up to 50%.
I'd say it's just more sudden that people have taken notice of it. And the big ones have let it be noticeable--from the Time Warner mention at the bottom of CNN's homepage, to the News Corporation mention in the 20th C Fox logo, to the Viacom (I think) mention in Paramount's logo. This might also be new.
But then it would cost so much less to distribute movies--just the cost of bandwidth from the source to the theaters, even if it's a separate network--and take so many fewer people/jobs. The giant media conglomerates are not about to dramatically cut their costs in this way--then they'd have to cut their prices, too! Whoa, there. Can't have that. They'll keep selling their $10 movie-tickets, thank you.
What, like in the controller itself--for little things that make less sense on the screen? Interesting possibility.
OR, even better, put these on the buttons themselves. Istead of the buttons saying "A B C D" or sqare, triangle, X, O, the button can be named for what it does. Wanna know how to play? Look at the controller, and the buttons will be named for what they do.
And Zarqawi. And Al-Sadr. I guess they didn't get that ... uh ... memo.
So you think Peter Jackson will go against the Hollywood grain and not come out with a "LoTR 2: The Revenge" offering in a few years?
Slashdot: where racism against Indians is OK...
It's not racism, per se. It's selfish greed--which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Not according to Hillary. When asked what was the biggest event during Bush's first 4 years, what'd she say? The economy in the tubes.
Lack of employment != a temporary problem. Also not a small problem, either.
So you're concerned that there's so much animosity about it. What's your solution, then, when jobs are "restructured" elsewhere? Leave IT and be a good plumber?