You are paying by listening to the advertisements. As we all know, that's how radio stations get the money to pay for the right to play those songs.
To me, the argument the parent makes about pirating music being basically the same as stealing makes some sense. You can argue that you wouldn't have bought the music anyway but that changes nothing. I could say I wouldn't have bought that car if I had to pay for it, but that doesn't give me the right to drive off the lot with it.
Has anyone used these services? Do they encode at 128kbps or something higher? I'm hoping it's at least 256kbps or the quality just isn't close enough to a CD. Of course, for portable MP3 players, it might be nice to be able to lower the bit rate if you feel like it, to keep the file size reasonable. Do these services allow that?
I'm assuming that the parent of your message was using a little humor in saying you can simply scan something and retrieve its contents perfectly.
That being said, depending on the type of data you scan you may very well be able to retrieve it all. As a simple example, you can scan a page of plain text and get it all back via OCR with good reliability. I would guess that with a high enough quality scanner you could get pixel-level-accurate scans of a high quality printing. That equipment is probably out of most of our budgets though.
Remember that special they had on FOX with all the conspiracy theorists concerning the moon landings? One of their arguments was that the paper-thin linings on the space suits would have done nothing to protect the astronauts from the intense radiation between here and the moon. I can't remember the details but they showed a picture of a cosmonaut with some pretty bad skin damage. Supposedly his spacecraft ventured past the radiation belt and got burned pretty bad. Anyone else remember that? I only have a vauge memory of it.
The University of Texas system (state-wide) has a deal with MS where students are able to buy MS software dirt-cheap. I picked up a copy of Visual Studio.NET and Office XP for $30 each and Windows XP for $10. These aren't crippled versions either, they are the professional versions. At that price, it just doesn't make sense to pirate it. I'm sure there are plenty of other universities with the same deal.
You can be biased towards bashing or biased at the other end of the spectrum. Does anyone remember the reviews Linux Journal used to do way-back-when? They were incredibly biased. They basically gave great reviews for anything that was linux related. It has only been in the last couple years that they have started pointing out the bad parts of what they are reviewing. I'd prefer someone to bash than to make something sound better than it's not. At least you won't be tempted to waste money on something that is actually not worth it.
Sure, kernel compiles are fairly speedy but large projects still take forever to compile. Even on my AthlonXP 1900+. I downloaded the latest CVS snapshots of KDE in an attempt to de-bluecurve my new RH 8.0 machine and it took a couple hours to compile everything. Depressing.
Thanks for the info. I think I am just going to uninstall my redhat KDE packages, download the latest KDE packages from kde.org and compile them myself. That's probably the best way to make sure my KDE install is the "real" KDE.
I have been a RH user since 4.2 and a KDE user since before their first 1.0 release. I just bought RH 8.0 and the tweeking of KDE that they have done irks me to no end. I have just started to look at it, but it appears that you can't simply change themes back to the KDE default to recover the KDE 3 look and feel. Would anyone like to share their experience with how they recovered the KDE 3 look? I know it must be simple but I haven't had time to probe into it much. Sorry for the OT post.
Pacemakers and other implantables typically communicate with external devices using low power RF signals. It's quite possible that this networking could interfere with operation of the device. There are rumors of airport security x-ray machines causing havoc in some types of devices. It's the responsibility of the medical device manufacturer to make sure an implant meets certain criteria for EMI/RFI but those requirements are not all that strenuous to meet.
Say what you want. This person was "stealing credit card numbers and other personal information." How would you like to be one of those people whose credit card information was stolen? What is the governemnt supposed to do? Sit around and let us get ripped off by foreign crackers? I for one don't think so. Every time the subject of spam is brought up on slashdot we are all about going after them with everything we have regardless of what it takes. What this guy was doing is far worse, he deserved what he got.
No one would expect a business to be running a beta version of a Linux distro as a webserver. That said, and considering that they JUST released version 1.0 of their distro, I would not expect them to be running their own stuff yet. Now maybe in 6 months if they still aren't that could be another story.
The role of a college education isn't force you to memorize facts, but to learn how to solve problems. That's why a good number of engineering classes these days are open-book or open-notes. The only time I have found this to not be the case is when the professor has had a hard time finding meaningful questions that wouldn't require a couple hours to complete. In those cases closed-book was necessary to allow some "show me what you remember" type questions to creep in. Simply memorizing facts gets you nowhere, although you MAY be able to dazzle an easily intimidated interviewer by spewing out some facts.
I noticed that one of the other plantiffs listed on the webpage is Dover. I have bought quite a few of their books in the past. They are great, mostly reprints of old texts bound in paperback and sold dirt-cheap. Their cheap price but good quality makes them a great additional reference for when you have to go through calculus, physics, etc. The extension of the copyright most likely means they have fewer choices for books they can print. That's too bad.
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What would make this any better than the cool looking mini computers from shuttle? This thing is $489 and I just saw that Fry's has the Shuttle P4 computer for about $300. The OpenBrick machine has a PCMCIA and CF slot but unless you are a laptop user you most likely aren't wanting PCMCIA anyway and CF card readers that plug into USB are fairly cheap.
Since the NYT requires registration to view articles people used to always say something like "free registration required" when they submitted stories from the site. People are so tired of reading that with every submission that we see people writing blurbs like blah-di-blah in place of saying free registration is required.
Most likely the reason they left Mozilla with the old-style Netscape skin was that a vast majority of us are very familiar with it. I instantly associate that look with Netscape. If you want the desktop to look familiar to Windows users then a Netscape look-a-like browser is a good start.
Could be implemented either way. The software I use at work that is key-locked (uses FlexLM) checks other than just at startup. Seems that certain events trigger a recheck such as opening files.
After all, Newton came up with the calculus as a means for describing physics (ir gravity). And yes I know Newton wasn't the only contributor to calculus.
Problem is the hardware is the least of the concerns. When I worked at Raytheon we had similar problems. We had systems written in fortran/assembly and hardware using discrete logic ICs. Redoing the hardware was simple and we often replaced a board full of ICs with a single Xilinx FPGA. But who cares about the logic ICs? Redoing that was as simple as redrawing the schematic. Maintaining the software written for a PDP-11 was the hard part.
I agree, this is somewhat encouraging. However, 1 milion is a paltry amount of money compared to what is at the disposal of the music/movie industry. A couple lawsuits could eat that up in no time.
I know most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time but there is something different about using cell phones. We just can't seem to use them and do anything else at the same time. Just as bad is going out for dinner and having to listen to some ultra-annoying tune blasting out of some idiots cell phone. Do you really need to be in communication 24-7?
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You are paying by listening to the advertisements. As we all know, that's how radio stations get the money to pay for the right to play those songs.
To me, the argument the parent makes about pirating music being basically the same as stealing makes some sense. You can argue that you wouldn't have bought the music anyway but that changes nothing. I could say I wouldn't have bought that car if I had to pay for it, but that doesn't give me the right to drive off the lot with it.
I don't know about you, but the thought of buying all that MS software does not make me want to blow my wad ;)
Has anyone used these services? Do they encode at 128kbps or something higher? I'm hoping it's at least 256kbps or the quality just isn't close enough to a CD. Of course, for portable MP3 players, it might be nice to be able to lower the bit rate if you feel like it, to keep the file size reasonable. Do these services allow that?
I'm assuming that the parent of your message was using a little humor in saying you can simply scan something and retrieve its contents perfectly.
That being said, depending on the type of data you scan you may very well be able to retrieve it all. As a simple example, you can scan a page of plain text and get it all back via OCR with good reliability. I would guess that with a high enough quality scanner you could get pixel-level-accurate scans of a high quality printing. That equipment is probably out of most of our budgets though.
Remember that special they had on FOX with all the conspiracy theorists concerning the moon landings? One of their arguments was that the paper-thin linings on the space suits would have done nothing to protect the astronauts from the intense radiation between here and the moon. I can't remember the details but they showed a picture of a cosmonaut with some pretty bad skin damage. Supposedly his spacecraft ventured past the radiation belt and got burned pretty bad. Anyone else remember that? I only have a vauge memory of it.
The University of Texas system (state-wide) has a deal with MS where students are able to buy MS software dirt-cheap. I picked up a copy of Visual Studio .NET and Office XP for $30 each and Windows XP for $10. These aren't crippled versions either, they are the professional versions. At that price, it just doesn't make sense to pirate it. I'm sure there are plenty of other universities with the same deal.
You can be biased towards bashing or biased at the other end of the spectrum. Does anyone remember the reviews Linux Journal used to do way-back-when? They were incredibly biased. They basically gave great reviews for anything that was linux related. It has only been in the last couple years that they have started pointing out the bad parts of what they are reviewing. I'd prefer someone to bash than to make something sound better than it's not. At least you won't be tempted to waste money on something that is actually not worth it.
Sure, kernel compiles are fairly speedy but large projects still take forever to compile. Even on my AthlonXP 1900+. I downloaded the latest CVS snapshots of KDE in an attempt to de-bluecurve my new RH 8.0 machine and it took a couple hours to compile everything. Depressing.
Thanks for the info. I think I am just going to uninstall my redhat KDE packages, download the latest KDE packages from kde.org and compile them myself. That's probably the best way to make sure my KDE install is the "real" KDE.
I have been a RH user since 4.2 and a KDE user since before their first 1.0 release. I just bought RH 8.0 and the tweeking of KDE that they have done irks me to no end. I have just started to look at it, but it appears that you can't simply change themes back to the KDE default to recover the KDE 3 look and feel. Would anyone like to share their experience with how they recovered the KDE 3 look? I know it must be simple but I haven't had time to probe into it much. Sorry for the OT post.
Pacemakers and other implantables typically communicate with external devices using low power RF signals. It's quite possible that this networking could interfere with operation of the device. There are rumors of airport security x-ray machines causing havoc in some types of devices. It's the responsibility of the medical device manufacturer to make sure an implant meets certain criteria for EMI/RFI but those requirements are not all that strenuous to meet.
Say what you want. This person was "stealing credit card numbers and other personal information." How would you like to be one of those people whose credit card information was stolen? What is the governemnt supposed to do? Sit around and let us get ripped off by foreign crackers? I for one don't think so. Every time the subject of spam is brought up on slashdot we are all about going after them with everything we have regardless of what it takes. What this guy was doing is far worse, he deserved what he got.
No one would expect a business to be running a beta version of a Linux distro as a webserver. That said, and considering that they JUST released version 1.0 of their distro, I would not expect them to be running their own stuff yet. Now maybe in 6 months if they still aren't that could be another story.
The role of a college education isn't force you to memorize facts, but to learn how to solve problems. That's why a good number of engineering classes these days are open-book or open-notes. The only time I have found this to not be the case is when the professor has had a hard time finding meaningful questions that wouldn't require a couple hours to complete. In those cases closed-book was necessary to allow some "show me what you remember" type questions to creep in. Simply memorizing facts gets you nowhere, although you MAY be able to dazzle an easily intimidated interviewer by spewing out some facts.
I noticed that one of the other plantiffs listed on the webpage is Dover. I have bought quite a few of their books in the past. They are great, mostly reprints of old texts bound in paperback and sold dirt-cheap. Their cheap price but good quality makes them a great additional reference for when you have to go through calculus, physics, etc. The extension of the copyright most likely means they have fewer choices for books they can print. That's too bad.
What would make this any better than the cool looking mini computers from shuttle? This thing is $489 and I just saw that Fry's has the Shuttle P4 computer for about $300. The OpenBrick machine has a PCMCIA and CF slot but unless you are a laptop user you most likely aren't wanting PCMCIA anyway and CF card readers that plug into USB are fairly cheap.
Since the NYT requires registration to view articles people used to always say something like "free registration required" when they submitted stories from the site. People are so tired of reading that with every submission that we see people writing blurbs like blah-di-blah in place of saying free registration is required.
Most likely the reason they left Mozilla with the old-style Netscape skin was that a vast majority of us are very familiar with it. I instantly associate that look with Netscape. If you want the desktop to look familiar to Windows users then a Netscape look-a-like browser is a good start.
Further translation: In addition, we also do not want to invite the money-hungry RIAA lawyers to our doorstep.
Could be implemented either way. The software I use at work that is key-locked (uses FlexLM) checks other than just at startup. Seems that certain events trigger a recheck such as opening files.
Beep beep beep beep beep. Bummer.
After all, Newton came up with the calculus as a means for describing physics (ir gravity). And yes I know Newton wasn't the only contributor to calculus.
Problem is the hardware is the least of the concerns. When I worked at Raytheon we had similar problems. We had systems written in fortran/assembly and hardware using discrete logic ICs. Redoing the hardware was simple and we often replaced a board full of ICs with a single Xilinx FPGA. But who cares about the logic ICs? Redoing that was as simple as redrawing the schematic. Maintaining the software written for a PDP-11 was the hard part.
I agree, this is somewhat encouraging. However, 1 milion is a paltry amount of money compared to what is at the disposal of the music/movie industry. A couple lawsuits could eat that up in no time.
I know most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time but there is something different about using cell phones. We just can't seem to use them and do anything else at the same time. Just as bad is going out for dinner and having to listen to some ultra-annoying tune blasting out of some idiots cell phone. Do you really need to be in communication 24-7?