Still I do not think there are many who think that law where released music/computer programs/... go immediately to public domain is better.
Speaking as such an individual, I will corroborate your estimation of our numbers. There are few enough of us we would fit on a bus, and we really can't agree on any other points either!;D
For example, I believe any person ought to be allowed the right to communicate any information in their possession to any other person who elects to receive such data. Plain and simple. I honestly believe that business models and laws drafted around this axiom will lead to the best possible outcome, compared to any alternatives I am capable of imagining.
While this happens to be very similar to the use case of Pirate Bay, I am the only human being alive who believes this is morally sound.
Period. I swear to God, I've been around the bus like.. 5 times now.:P
You see, music is free. All you have to do is sing (play, tap - whatever).
I don't know, that melody sounded a lot like "Happy Birthday", so you've just become a theif too.:P
And don't give me that whole "out of copyright in Canada" crap either. Unless intellectual property is governed by globally enforceable law, it is not property. Canadians are not magically allowed to trespass on my lawn, so why should they magically be allowed to copy dead author's works in their hobo jam sessions?
The long and short of it is: you have no right to express yourself so long as you lack the right to express the ideas of others. Copyright is nothing more than the vanguard of political censorship, whereby the powerful seek to perfect their control over global media. Small time producers are seduced to follow suit much like the Outer Party, while being ground like grist in the mill for their troubles.</rant>
No, I don't. I just want people to stop acting like they are doing some noble protesting when in fact they are just downloading stuff from trackers like The Pirate Bay because they just didn't want to pay for it.
I know, right? Where do they get off actually benefiting from their activism instead of suffering for it?
You know who I blame, Ghandi for leading his brethren to make salt from the ocean water. You know, I don't think most of those people knew much about the political angle, they just wanted free salt.
The geek persists in taking these worthless self-serving arguments into an American court and never sees the hangman's noose in the jury's eyes.
Yeah, I've always been suspicious of that hole "Jury of your peers" line of manure too. Screw financial means as an index of social class. If you'll try me for computer related crimes and get Luddites on the stand, they'll see visions of nooses before the charges are read.:P
Hey, there's an interesting bit of anecdote.:3 Per previous comment, 3 of my colleagues now sport G1's (I run a used MDA/Wizard on account of being v. poor:D) and I know tons of people on the Palm Pre, but have yet to see an "iPhone" in the flesh.
And.. I don't know why shiny trumps keyboard for people these days. For real, you would have to pitch me pretty heavily to trade my MDA for an IPhone 3Gs straight across due to that (pretend I can't just resell it for the sake of illustration, also pretend I magically wouldn't have to switch networks..) I text a lot! I also do email and data stuff on my phone. Virtual keyboard for the lose!:P
I guess It's all Status Symbol. Status Symbol all the way down.
Ragh! See my above post. Are you from Washington or Cali then? T-mobile beats AT&T (and everyone else's) coverage in Oregon, and we own 20% of the West Coast. So by all means let me know where you are seeing these coverage challenges? I needs me some intel.:P
Hmm, odd. T-mobile covers my entire state (Oregon) flatly better than any other provider (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Unicell, etc etc etc) from our biggest town (Portland) to our shrubbiest desserts (Burns? Brothers? K falls?). I work at a WISP where we give internets to people who live 1-2 miles from their neighbors, and I've convinced our staff to begrudgingly emigrate from the above mentioned other networks. The effect being that installers no longer "vanish" from cell service when out on jobs. Ever. Anywhere. It's actually a little unnerving as they get into the habit of phoning me with questions before thinking problems through now.;3
Srsly though I just want to know what areas you lot are having problems in. Is it really large cities? Oregon lacks those.. is it Carolina or Minnesota? If I'm going to continue evangelizing, I'd like to know as much as I can about potential caveats. Thx:3
"Authorities are looking for possible insider trading after Global Gaming's jumped a week before Global Gaming announced plans to acquire The Brooklyn Bridge from a trenchcoated man who lives beneath it"
The only negatives mentioned are lack of business-level report generation (the icon apparently is not corn-flower blue) and the observation that response times increased 20 fold depending on time of day.
"20 fold" doesn't mean much without base numbers. They could be comparing 10ms with 200ms. Since they had to do extra measurements to make sure their US/OZ link wasn't tainting the results, it couldn't have been that egregious. For example, just loading TFA does take 20 seconds on my machine, compared to 4 seconds for cnn.com; and TFA is NOT hosted on cloud architecture.
No, no, NO. the movie refers to those as "hard lines", not "land lines".
Seeing as how those exist as digital constructs within the matrix (the first movie shows one being cut using a digital simulation of a wirecutter) and are used to get out of the Matrix securely, I can't see.. really.. how in hell that plot point is even supposed to work.;D
Don't let that stop you with the "Whoosh"ing however, it's like frickin 90 degrees over here! D:
35 year old sedentary American:
Eats a processed diet, high in frozen dinners, pizza, fast food, and soda.
All of which (in the US) contains high levels of High Fructose Corn Syrup
Over-dependence on which upsets serotonin levels
which blocks the neurochemical precursors to feeling "full", encouraging over-eating and weight gain (and profits for food manufacturers, which in turn continue to lobby for corn subsidies)
Serotonin imbalance also leads directly to depression and insomnia.
When you're too fat to get out the door and too unskilled and alienated from society to engage in social functions, really there's not a lot to do aside from game, eat, and post comments to slashdot.
In other news, summary very closely describes me save that I am 32, not 35. And I don't have a flatscreen monitor. D:
Shiftless has nobly volunteered to brave all of our social hangups on behalf of the rest of society, so that nobody else has to put up with our whiny pretentiousness until we've worked it all out against him and his houseguests. Aparently, he would much rather lead us to water than to let us sit at home and brood about life!:D
On the one hand, XP does not support large expanses of RAM.
On the other hand, XP does not consume large expanses of RAM (compared to Vista and Win7)
To make a car analogy out of this, you are suggesting that fuel efficient vehicles with less than 400 gallon gas tanks would become obsolete if petrol suddenly became less expensive.
I suppose my point is that a commodity becoming relatively inexpensive is no excuse to wantonly waste the commodity. I am not a fan of the resource treadmill our technology is currently on where all design mistakes are swept under the rug of Moore's Law.
Does your software have memory leaks? Well, today's hemorrhage will be tomorrow's perspiration. Don't fix it, add more features instead.
What, are you still coding to check for exhausted resource exceptions? What kind of nut are you? There will always be more RAM!:P
No, I think a design limitation at 3.2GB for another year or five would do application developers some good. Eventually even well written software will require more RAM than that, but I really think by that time such software would include a raft of better OSen, making the present day virtualization mantra of "stack bloated kernel atop bloated kernel" a thing of the past.
This is my 02c,YMMV
Wow, if you think I'll get any mileage off of 02c, then I guess you took that car analogy mighty seriously!;D
Man Cliffski, you are right. Why don't slashdotter's simply own up to the fact that whenever someone watches a movie or listens to music without first emptying their wallets and submitting to cavity searches, God kills a recording artist?
Anyway, man, speaking of which, it sure is brave of your to man up and volunteer yourself to have your home tossed, loved ones detained and subcutaneous recording devices installed this way. You know, to show us all that it's ok, and worth it to keep the Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce out of the poor house.
I'm pouring out a 40 for you man, you are an inspiration to us all.
The short of it is: While it is a great improvement over Vista and a marginal improvement over XP, it offers an XP user no benefits worth ripping an OS out of existing hardware. There is nothing groundbreaking to be had. It provides no end-user-visible capacity that XP lacked.
My recommendation is, when you get a new high end computer, go with a 64 bit beast armed with Win7 instead of XP. For netbooks, pick whichever is cheapest. For your existing iron, 8 or 9 years has not been long enough for M$ to make anything but inches of progress past XP: re-installing all your apps and retweaking your settings will be nowhere near worth your time.
The publisher has said that they don't want anyone in their market, so don't go out of your way to try to be in their market.
No, it's not that they don't want anyone in their market. It is that they want everyone in their market shell shocked and buying the same drivel multiple times. Even if their supply of paying customers dwindles, they can overbill and rebill whoever is clueless enough to continue doing business with them and file for tax breaks against 200% of mis-calculated lost sales in the name of "piracy" while all the time collecting a cut on all blank media sold in the US and collecting on a parade of copyright infringement claims against any entrepreneur who attempts to do anything innovative regarding digital media. All of those funds (left over after lining executives' pockets) are re-invested in ensuring that no sufficiently clueless citizen sees or hears any media they don't happen to be selling.
Aren't you glad we have intellectual property laws on the books to ensure that the market enriches both our creative minds and our public domain so carefully and competently? I, for one, am downright humbled.
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Still I do not think there are many who think that law where released music/computer programs/... go immediately to public domain is better.
Speaking as such an individual, I will corroborate your estimation of our numbers. There are few enough of us we would fit on a bus, and we really can't agree on any other points either! ;D
For example, I believe any person ought to be allowed the right to communicate any information in their possession to any other person who elects to receive such data. Plain and simple. I honestly believe that business models and laws drafted around this axiom will lead to the best possible outcome, compared to any alternatives I am capable of imagining.
While this happens to be very similar to the use case of Pirate Bay, I am the only human being alive who believes this is morally sound.
Period. I swear to God, I've been around the bus like.. 5 times now. :P
You see, music is free. All you have to do is sing (play, tap - whatever).
I don't know, that melody sounded a lot like "Happy Birthday", so you've just become a theif too. :P
And don't give me that whole "out of copyright in Canada" crap either. Unless intellectual property is governed by globally enforceable law, it is not property. Canadians are not magically allowed to trespass on my lawn, so why should they magically be allowed to copy dead author's works in their hobo jam sessions?
The long and short of it is: you have no right to express yourself so long as you lack the right to express the ideas of others. Copyright is nothing more than the vanguard of political censorship, whereby the powerful seek to perfect their control over global media. Small time producers are seduced to follow suit much like the Outer Party, while being ground like grist in the mill for their troubles.</rant>
No, I don't. I just want people to stop acting like they are doing some noble protesting when in fact they are just downloading stuff from trackers like The Pirate Bay because they just didn't want to pay for it.
I know, right? Where do they get off actually benefiting from their activism instead of suffering for it?
You know who I blame, Ghandi for leading his brethren to make salt from the ocean water. You know, I don't think most of those people knew much about the political angle, they just wanted free salt.
Bastards. :P
Yeah because all the users of the site would totally stick around if they were no longer getting all the content for free. *rolls eyes*
I see no star next to your name, so why can't you man up and admit you're a damned, dirty freeloader just like us? Or else drop the rhetoric?
The geek persists in taking these worthless self-serving arguments into an American court and never sees the hangman's noose in the jury's eyes.
Yeah, I've always been suspicious of that hole "Jury of your peers" line of manure too. Screw financial means as an index of social class. If you'll try me for computer related crimes and get Luddites on the stand, they'll see visions of nooses before the charges are read. :P
Is it that easy to joke about human life?
Yes, but I won't be funny. You wouldn't like me when I'm funny.
Hey, there's an interesting bit of anecdote. :3 Per previous comment, 3 of my colleagues now sport G1's (I run a used MDA/Wizard on account of being v. poor :D) and I know tons of people on the Palm Pre, but have yet to see an "iPhone" in the flesh.
And.. I don't know why shiny trumps keyboard for people these days. For real, you would have to pitch me pretty heavily to trade my MDA for an IPhone 3Gs straight across due to that (pretend I can't just resell it for the sake of illustration, also pretend I magically wouldn't have to switch networks..) I text a lot! I also do email and data stuff on my phone. Virtual keyboard for the lose! :P
I guess It's all Status Symbol. Status Symbol all the way down.
Ragh! See my above post. Are you from Washington or Cali then? T-mobile beats AT&T (and everyone else's) coverage in Oregon, and we own 20% of the West Coast. So by all means let me know where you are seeing these coverage challenges? I needs me some intel. :P
srsly, I think replying with "mod parent up" is more effective than having mod points and doing it yourself.
Kind of like Lobbying is better than voting. Man, I wish I understood moar game theory. ;3
Oh, and mod parent up. :) (tip your waitress, I'm here til Thursday.. try the smoked salmon!)
Hmm, odd. T-mobile covers my entire state (Oregon) flatly better than any other provider (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Unicell, etc etc etc) from our biggest town (Portland) to our shrubbiest desserts (Burns? Brothers? K falls?). I work at a WISP where we give internets to people who live 1-2 miles from their neighbors, and I've convinced our staff to begrudgingly emigrate from the above mentioned other networks. The effect being that installers no longer "vanish" from cell service when out on jobs. Ever. Anywhere. It's actually a little unnerving as they get into the habit of phoning me with questions before thinking problems through now. ;3
Srsly though I just want to know what areas you lot are having problems in. Is it really large cities? Oregon lacks those.. is it Carolina or Minnesota? If I'm going to continue evangelizing, I'd like to know as much as I can about potential caveats. Thx :3
With species-appropriate teeth, you wouldn't even have to really brush them (just eat something harder).
orly? Go tell the Elephants that, you insensitive clod. :/
I .. want to *whoosh* here but I'm not sure if I'll just be *whooshed* for the trouble. 8I
mod parent up :3
"Authorities are looking for possible insider trading after Global Gaming's jumped a week before Global Gaming announced plans to acquire The Brooklyn Bridge from a trenchcoated man who lives beneath it"
Actually, TFA doesn't show anything of the sort.
The only negatives mentioned are lack of business-level report generation (the icon apparently is not corn-flower blue) and the observation that response times increased 20 fold depending on time of day.
"20 fold" doesn't mean much without base numbers. They could be comparing 10ms with 200ms. Since they had to do extra measurements to make sure their US/OZ link wasn't tainting the results, it couldn't have been that egregious. For example, just loading TFA does take 20 seconds on my machine, compared to 4 seconds for cnn.com; and TFA is NOT hosted on cloud architecture.
I call "sensationalist summary and headline".
No, no, NO. the movie refers to those as "hard lines", not "land lines".
Seeing as how those exist as digital constructs within the matrix (the first movie shows one being cut using a digital simulation of a wirecutter) and are used to get out of the Matrix securely, I can't see.. really.. how in hell that plot point is even supposed to work. ;D
Don't let that stop you with the "Whoosh"ing however, it's like frickin 90 degrees over here! D:
35 year old sedentary American:
Eats a processed diet, high in frozen dinners, pizza, fast food, and soda.
All of which (in the US) contains high levels of High Fructose Corn Syrup
Over-dependence on which upsets serotonin levels
which blocks the neurochemical precursors to feeling "full", encouraging over-eating and weight gain (and profits for food manufacturers, which in turn continue to lobby for corn subsidies)
Serotonin imbalance also leads directly to depression and insomnia.
When you're too fat to get out the door and too unskilled and alienated from society to engage in social functions, really there's not a lot to do aside from game, eat, and post comments to slashdot.
In other news, summary very closely describes me save that I am 32, not 35. And I don't have a flatscreen monitor. D:
Sweet! You hear that, my nerdy breathren?
LAN party/mixer at Shiftless's house!
Shiftless has nobly volunteered to brave all of our social hangups on behalf of the rest of society, so that nobody else has to put up with our whiny pretentiousness until we've worked it all out against him and his houseguests. Aparently, he would much rather lead us to water than to let us sit at home and brood about life! :D
BYOB, RSVP with Liskula Cohen to get the address. See you there! ;D
Well, I'm glad we're all in agreement then. :D
Reply to GP: harryfeet
On the one hand, XP does not support large expanses of RAM.
On the other hand, XP does not consume large expanses of RAM (compared to Vista and Win7)
To make a car analogy out of this, you are suggesting that fuel efficient vehicles with less than 400 gallon gas tanks would become obsolete if petrol suddenly became less expensive.
I suppose my point is that a commodity becoming relatively inexpensive is no excuse to wantonly waste the commodity. I am not a fan of the resource treadmill our technology is currently on where all design mistakes are swept under the rug of Moore's Law.
Does your software have memory leaks? Well, today's hemorrhage will be tomorrow's perspiration. Don't fix it, add more features instead.
What, are you still coding to check for exhausted resource exceptions? What kind of nut are you? There will always be more RAM! :P
No, I think a design limitation at 3.2GB for another year or five would do application developers some good. Eventually even well written software will require more RAM than that, but I really think by that time such software would include a raft of better OSen, making the present day virtualization mantra of "stack bloated kernel atop bloated kernel" a thing of the past.
This is my 02c,YMMV
Wow, if you think I'll get any mileage off of 02c, then I guess you took that car analogy mighty seriously! ;D
Mod parent up 8I
Look, uh... Speaking as sysadmin for a US based ISP, I have never heard of any such "identifier" before, or any kind of a standard for one.
Even if there was such a thing, would that not be a "Customer ID" instead of a "Computer ID"?
If I didn't know any better, I would say this legislation exists for no reason other than to troll slashdotters for the lulz. :P
Man Cliffski, you are right. Why don't slashdotter's simply own up to the fact that whenever someone watches a movie or listens to music without first emptying their wallets and submitting to cavity searches, God kills a recording artist?
Anyway, man, speaking of which, it sure is brave of your to man up and volunteer yourself to have your home tossed, loved ones detained and subcutaneous recording devices installed this way. You know, to show us all that it's ok, and worth it to keep the Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce out of the poor house.
I'm pouring out a 40 for you man, you are an inspiration to us all.
I DO NOT believe there will be a significant number of 32 bit XP machines converting to Windows 7.
The long of it can be read in an article I wrote after my experience with trying Windows 7.
The short of it is: While it is a great improvement over Vista and a marginal improvement over XP, it offers an XP user no benefits worth ripping an OS out of existing hardware. There is nothing groundbreaking to be had. It provides no end-user-visible capacity that XP lacked.
My recommendation is, when you get a new high end computer, go with a 64 bit beast armed with Win7 instead of XP. For netbooks, pick whichever is cheapest. For your existing iron, 8 or 9 years has not been long enough for M$ to make anything but inches of progress past XP: re-installing all your apps and retweaking your settings will be nowhere near worth your time.
The publisher has said that they don't want anyone in their market, so don't go out of your way to try to be in their market.
No, it's not that they don't want anyone in their market. It is that they want everyone in their market shell shocked and buying the same drivel multiple times. Even if their supply of paying customers dwindles, they can overbill and rebill whoever is clueless enough to continue doing business with them and file for tax breaks against 200% of mis-calculated lost sales in the name of "piracy" while all the time collecting a cut on all blank media sold in the US and collecting on a parade of copyright infringement claims against any entrepreneur who attempts to do anything innovative regarding digital media. All of those funds (left over after lining executives' pockets) are re-invested in ensuring that no sufficiently clueless citizen sees or hears any media they don't happen to be selling.
Aren't you glad we have intellectual property laws on the books to ensure that the market enriches both our creative minds and our public domain so carefully and competently? I, for one, am downright humbled.