I think -1 flamebait is a little unfair for this. The language was offensive but the guy is basically correct, the poster was just paraphrasing the article, and gets modded +5 informative. It really makes you wonder if the mods read the article.
No, its not like that at all.$1 for a tune is a rip off. In the uk it is cheaper to buy albums in ASDA (Wal mart) than it is to download from ITMS. And I dont get the physical media from ITMS. Im afraid that as it stands the price is simply too high. I listen to my music on an Ipod, and yet any music from BMG cannot be put on an ipod without breaking the law. So I am being forced to break the law if I choose to listen to my music on an Ipod. I have always bought and paid for my music, and now I have to pay more. (Cost of downloading stuff with no DRM.).
I think its therefore fair that I now just download one BMG CD for every 2 I buy.
Your "Buy at a low price or dont buy at all" amounts to lying down and doing nothing while the music companies raid your bank account.
How shocking. Im surprised you have a p.c. at all. This is the most incredibly paranoid post I've ever seen, even by slashdot standards. Why wouldnt you be able to play your mp3s on a car mps player ? You can have complete control over them, and the player is designed to play mp3s. The ipod works fine with 2000, thats what i'm doing, although I am running it on a machine that was designed this side of the cold war. For your flash mp3 keychain, just buy a conpactflash card, and one of the mp3 players that take them. Whatever you do, dont buy secure digital, you'll be looking over your shoulder for the RIAA the whole time. As for DVD Ram, you unfortunately have no idea what you are talking about. It is no more random access that any of the other formats. Its loing the race because the discs it burns are expensive to manufacture, and incompatible with many readers. Educate yourself before depriving yourself of a DVD burner.
As for the cost of CDRs, educate yourself again. In the UK I pay about 25p / GB for CDR or DVD-R. For backup purposes I now hae to burn 1/5 the number of discs. 9 DVDs each month rather than 45 CDs. An as for holding of buying a DVD burner for a few months until they are a larger, you are mad. Do you really think there will ever a an affordable backup solution that will put all your data on a single throwaway disc ? Your data, and that created by m$ grows at the same rate as backup storage. No I agree that DRM is evil, but you really should lighten up a little. Sony are not going to turn the DRM on in their burners at a later date. How the hell could they. Will they bang my door down and hijack my pc ? Does my burner have a secret net connection ? Its just a dumb drive using a standard windows 2000 driver.
I disagree. There is a huge difference. Bolting a load of boxes together with ethernet and all the associated overheads can never be as efficient as dedicated hardware for connecting, and sharing the processing load.
Obviously there is a lot more that could affect the performance, such as how memory is implemented. In general though, the system will perform best when each processor is performing calculations, rather than looking after ehernet connections.
I think you have all missed the point. Theyre not censoring tits on TV, just crap tits. Standards need to be maintained, and Janet Jackson has crap tits. They are right to prosecute.
Yes, it is 17.5 % And the 50 % was pretty accurate when you consider its made from 40% income tax, and another 5-7% national insurance, which is compulsory, deducted at point of earning, and given straight to the government coffers. Much like a tax in fact.
I dont get the point ? It doesnt recognise faces, just tells you if theres one there. Thats not exactly state of the art is it ? When other companies are producing systems that can identify people from images, albeit inaccurately.
As you can read above, I did not say ebay was selling anything. But they take a cut of the selling price. And if people stopped paying over the odds for unwarrantied stuff, ebay stop making money.
Im surprised theyre still there not because of their business model, but because its not really that cheap. Often you see things selling on there for more than you would pay in a shop, with all the extra protection that gives you. Any shop stuff is definitely new.
Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut ? Heres an Idea, maybe linux isnt, in fact the answer to this little problem. Im sure the constraints are something like : Low budget (cant afford a PC, doesnt want to put in all the wiring from the PC to the listening stations). Easy (Doesnt want to be writing s/w). Quick (doesnt want ot be debuggin s/w).
The MP3 idea above sounds like the quickest solution. If the audio is short then a rom and a dac can be built in 5 minutes for nothing. They even give them away in greeting cards. (Assuming the audio quality does not need to be great).
My sincere apologies for suggesting something may be solved without using linux. I appreciate this is some form of treason on/.
I agree, but Im willing to bet that garbage cans (or indeed, rubbish bins ofr us brits) will have chips in the next few years. They will be used by the government to make sure we are recycling responsibly once all our groceries come with rfid tags. And I expect the plastic bags might take the same route. Checking that we are not stealing from the shop (or store in your case).
It does make you wonder why you dont just buy comfortable shoes in the first place though.
I fully agree with what you are saying. I find it interesting however that the prize money has not been increased. The money does not fund the reasearch as such; it merely pays the prize. So what has happened to the original 10 million ?
You post as if you know what you are talking about, which unfortunately you don't. Our coastguard (for you UK based, yet un-enlightened fools) is called the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (www.mcga.gov.uk), and has no financial links with the RNLI. The mcga runs totally on government taxes. I agree that the machine should not be updated, rather replaced, as I hate my taxes being spent on MS.
Unfortunately, there is one more option. That is the cost of maintaining windows systems. Believe it or not, there are people out ther (my self included) who dont have broadband. Please try keeping a windows install up to date over dial-up. It cant be done. Once a month I unplug my machine and take it to a friends house to update it. For people like myself (who exist in our millions) windows cannot be kept up to date, and Gates denys that we exist.
If microsoft were really taking security seriously, then all patches would be included weekly on magazine cover discs. And ISO images would be downloadable from msupdate so that we could download elsewhere. Unfortunately this is not the case and there is _NO_ good reason for it.
Cost is zero to ms.
I agree whole-heartedly. And its so nice that you should all move there immediately. And I give you full permission, on behalf of all Europeans to call it whatever you like.
Now shut the door the door after you.
I know this is a little offtopic, but please would someone explain WHY it is not possible for the shuttle to go to hubble and the ISS in a single mission ? Is it a fuel issue ?
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I think -1 flamebait is a little unfair for this. The language was offensive but the guy is basically correct, the poster was just paraphrasing the article, and gets modded +5 informative. It really makes you wonder if the mods read the article.
The area of the ccd is largely irrelevant. I suspect that the optics on Hubble are many orders of magnitude better than the consumer digicam.
No, its not like that at all.$1 for a tune is a rip off. In the uk it is cheaper to buy albums in ASDA (Wal mart) than it is to download from ITMS. And I dont get the physical media from ITMS. Im afraid that as it stands the price is simply too high. I listen to my music on an Ipod, and yet any music from BMG cannot be put on an ipod without breaking the law. So I am being forced to break the law if I choose to listen to my music on an Ipod. I have always bought and paid for my music, and now I have to pay more. (Cost of downloading stuff with no DRM.).
I think its therefore fair that I now just download one BMG CD for every 2 I buy.
Your "Buy at a low price or dont buy at all" amounts to lying down and doing nothing while the music companies raid your bank account.
I was thinking "3 down, 3 to go".
I think the words you're looking for are centripetal accelleration.
I think you may have read a little too much into this. Can I have some of whatever you're snorting ?
How shocking. Im surprised you have a p.c. at all. This is the most incredibly paranoid post I've ever seen, even by slashdot standards. Why wouldnt you be able to play your mp3s on a car mps player ? You can have complete control over them, and the player is designed to play mp3s.
The ipod works fine with 2000, thats what i'm doing, although I am running it on a machine that was designed this side of the cold war. For your flash mp3 keychain, just buy a conpactflash card, and one of the mp3 players that take them. Whatever you do, dont buy secure digital, you'll be looking over your shoulder for the RIAA the whole time.
As for DVD Ram, you unfortunately have no idea what you are talking about. It is no more random access that any of the other formats. Its loing the race because the discs it burns are expensive to manufacture, and incompatible with many readers. Educate yourself before depriving yourself of a DVD burner.
As for the cost of CDRs, educate yourself again. In the UK I pay about 25p / GB for CDR or DVD-R. For backup purposes I now hae to burn 1/5 the number of discs. 9 DVDs each month rather than 45 CDs. An as for holding of buying a DVD burner for a few months until they are a larger, you are mad.
Do you really think there will ever a an affordable backup solution that will put all your data on a single throwaway disc ? Your data, and that created by m$ grows at the same rate as backup storage.
No I agree that DRM is evil, but you really should lighten up a little. Sony are not going to turn the DRM on in their burners at a later date. How the hell could they. Will they bang my door down and hijack my pc ? Does my burner have a secret net connection ? Its just a dumb drive using a standard windows 2000 driver.
Wake up, youll enjoy life a lot more.
Watch out for the black helicopters though !
I disagree. There is a huge difference. Bolting a load of boxes together with ethernet and all the associated overheads can never be as efficient as dedicated hardware for connecting, and sharing the processing load.
Obviously there is a lot more that could affect the performance, such as how memory is implemented. In general though, the system will perform best when each processor is performing calculations, rather than looking after ehernet connections.
I think you have all missed the point. Theyre not censoring tits on TV, just crap tits. Standards need to be maintained, and Janet Jackson has crap tits. They are right to prosecute.
Phew, Thank god for that, I like to believe that buffy is real ....
"Will these things actually happen? "
.... oh, .. .wait a minute.....
No, I doubt it, I expect theres more chance of M$ making a secure
I have solved this, my PC _IS_ my hairdryer. I dry my hair and check my email at the same time, saving 0.05 hours per day.
Yes, it is 17.5 % And the 50 % was pretty accurate when you consider its made from 40% income tax, and another 5-7% national insurance, which is compulsory, deducted at point of earning, and given straight to the government coffers. Much like a tax in fact.
I dont get the point ? It doesnt recognise faces, just tells you if theres one there. Thats not exactly state of the art is it ? When other companies are producing systems that can identify people from images, albeit inaccurately.
As you can read above, I did not say ebay was selling anything. But they take a cut of the selling price. And if people stopped paying over the odds for unwarrantied stuff, ebay stop making money.
Im surprised theyre still there not because of their business model, but because its not really that cheap. Often you see things selling on there for more than you would pay in a shop, with all the extra protection that gives you. Any shop stuff is definitely new.
Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut ? Heres an Idea, maybe linux isnt, in fact the answer to this little problem. Im sure the constraints are something like : Low budget (cant afford a PC, doesnt want to put in all the wiring from the PC to the listening stations). Easy (Doesnt want to be writing s/w). Quick (doesnt want ot be debuggin s/w). The MP3 idea above sounds like the quickest solution. If the audio is short then a rom and a dac can be built in 5 minutes for nothing. They even give them away in greeting cards. (Assuming the audio quality does not need to be great). My sincere apologies for suggesting something may be solved without using linux. I appreciate this is some form of treason on /.
I agree, but Im willing to bet that garbage cans (or indeed, rubbish bins ofr us brits) will have chips in the next few years. They will be used by the government to make sure we are recycling responsibly once all our groceries come with rfid tags. And I expect the plastic bags might take the same route. Checking that we are not stealing from the shop (or store in your case). It does make you wonder why you dont just buy comfortable shoes in the first place though.
I fully agree with what you are saying. I find it interesting however that the prize money has not been increased. The money does not fund the reasearch as such; it merely pays the prize. So what has happened to the original 10 million ?
You post as if you know what you are talking about, which unfortunately you don't. Our coastguard (for you UK based, yet un-enlightened fools) is called the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (www.mcga.gov.uk), and has no financial links with the RNLI. The mcga runs totally on government taxes. I agree that the machine should not be updated, rather replaced, as I hate my taxes being spent on MS.
http://www.mcga.gov.uk). The RNLI are voluntary over here.
Unfortunately, there is one more option. That is the cost of maintaining windows systems. Believe it or not, there are people out ther (my self included) who dont have broadband. Please try keeping a windows install up to date over dial-up. It cant be done. Once a month I unplug my machine and take it to a friends house to update it. For people like myself (who exist in our millions) windows cannot be kept up to date, and Gates denys that we exist. If microsoft were really taking security seriously, then all patches would be included weekly on magazine cover discs. And ISO images would be downloadable from msupdate so that we could download elsewhere. Unfortunately this is not the case and there is _NO_ good reason for it. Cost is zero to ms.
I expect that would work really well at 70 mph. Alarm ... whats that for .... ohh .
oops.
I agree whole-heartedly. And its so nice that you should all move there immediately. And I give you full permission, on behalf of all Europeans to call it whatever you like. Now shut the door the door after you.
I know this is a little offtopic, but please would someone explain WHY it is not possible for the shuttle to go to hubble and the ISS in a single mission ? Is it a fuel issue ?