Which is exactly why there's a problem. Here in New Zealand, we occasionally vote on multiple things when we vote in the election, but it's fairly rare. Meaning that the votes are able to be counted fairly fast. Personally, I would've thought that America could afford to through more money at the election to make it faster and easier, but I guess that the government would rather spend that money on forcing other countries to adopt a haphazzard democracy.
Why would anyone want one?
Pehaps i'm unusual, but the major advantage of an optical mouse to me is that it can be used on any surface... not with this mouse, gotta be used on the mousepad it comes with.
AND the major advantage of wireless is that the mouse is in no way connected to the computer (apart from a distance/obstruction restraint for the wireless connection)... not with this mouse, you can only use it as far away as the cord for the mousepad will reach.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar but I just honestly can't see any advantages of this. Can someone point some out for me?
This is exactly what game companies keep failing to understand. The harder you make a game to use because of "copy protection", the more attractive the cracked alternative is.
If I buy a game, just let me play the damn thing.
go to a football game and let 20 000 people instantly make copies of those shoes.
quite right, this makes the analogy much better.
I was more trying to point out that the RIAA/MPAA are sueing the tool makers who really don't have much to do with the copying process at all.
To add another point, the way I interperated the article, is that the reason that they think they have a leagal standing is that 90% of the activity on P2P netwrks is illegal, therefore P2P networks should be illegal. I don't know if that statistic is based on any "real" information or not.. I imagine that's one of the arguments that'll happen in court
Anyway, to follow the anaylogy, if 90% of the time, cobbling tools were used to copy shoes illegaly, should cobbling tools be illegal?
My opinion is that they shouldn't, but then again, I'm not on the supreme court.
This is a terrible analogy, a better analogy is this:
I walk up to you in the street, and make an exact replica of your shoes, then go to my friends house and let him make a copy of my copy of your shoes. I haven't stolen anything from you, but have I done something that the shoe company should be worried about?.. and infact, in this case, should the shoe company sue "Wholesale cobbler goods" where I bought the tools to make my copy of your shoes?
Not as clear cut as the riaa would like you to think huh?
It seems to me that "Sender-ID" is pretty much just spf with flaws introduced.
They have some complex algorithm to read email headers.. why would anyone in their right mind even bother looking at email headers when trying to deal with spam? If an opening is there, it won't take long before the spam come gushing through it.
Linux software RAID1 is just as fast as several of the hardware RAID1 setups I've tested using Bonnie++ -- These are fucking fileservers, not renderfarms. The processor's sitting there doing jack shit anyway, and you're more than likely putting a P4 in there since you can't buy anything else with decent reliability. Throw in a decent GigE network card and your processor is STILL at 0% utilization. Make that a RAID5 with hot-standby drive and I would be very surprised if you noticed any difference in the apparent "feel" of the server compared to a hardware RAID solution
Agreed, certainly for fileservers and any other function that's not going to have much cpu usage at the same time as doing a lot of disk i/o on the raid array.
So, for storing dvds, pics, cds, etc, raid controllers are likely to be a waste
Slightly offtopic..
However if you wanted a 1Tb drive for something that was going to be using a lot of disk i/o aswell (like a busy mail sever that's doing virus and spam filtering) then it'd be worth ponying up the dough for raid controllers
With so many different types of media competing for my entertainment dollar, the music industry needs step up and realize they are not alone any longer. People want flexibility with their music because there's many more ways to play a song today than 10 or even 5 years ago. The day of the discman is nearly over.
I couldn't agree more. I listen to mp3's here at work all day but don't listen to as much music at home, so when I buy a CD i'm going to want to rip it to mp3 easily. I recently went into a CD store here, and the 2 CDs that I was planning on geting were both copy protected.. making them significatly more awkward to rip to mp3, significant enough that I didn't end up purchasing the CDs.
I imagine that I'm not the only one who does this, especially with the increase in availability of mp3 players.
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Which is exactly why there's a problem. Here in New Zealand, we occasionally vote on multiple things when we vote in the election, but it's fairly rare. Meaning that the votes are able to be counted fairly fast. Personally, I would've thought that America could afford to through more money at the election to make it faster and easier, but I guess that the government would rather spend that money on forcing other countries to adopt a haphazzard democracy.
Why would anyone want one? ... not with this mouse, gotta be used on the mousepad it comes with. ... not with this mouse, you can only use it as far away as the cord for the mousepad will reach.
Pehaps i'm unusual, but the major advantage of an optical mouse to me is that it can be used on any surface
AND the major advantage of wireless is that the mouse is in no way connected to the computer (apart from a distance/obstruction restraint for the wireless connection)
I'm not trying to start a flamewar but I just honestly can't see any advantages of this. Can someone point some out for me?
This is exactly what game companies keep failing to understand. The harder you make a game to use because of "copy protection", the more attractive the cracked alternative is.
If I buy a game, just let me play the damn thing.
go to a football game and let 20 000 people instantly make copies of those shoes.
.. I imagine that's one of the arguments that'll happen in court
quite right, this makes the analogy much better.
I was more trying to point out that the RIAA/MPAA are sueing the tool makers who really don't have much to do with the copying process at all. To add another point, the way I interperated the article, is that the reason that they think they have a leagal standing is that 90% of the activity on P2P netwrks is illegal, therefore P2P networks should be illegal. I don't know if that statistic is based on any "real" information or not
Anyway, to follow the anaylogy, if 90% of the time, cobbling tools were used to copy shoes illegaly, should cobbling tools be illegal?
My opinion is that they shouldn't, but then again, I'm not on the supreme court.
This is a terrible analogy, a better analogy is this:
.. and infact, in this case, should the shoe company sue "Wholesale cobbler goods" where I bought the tools to make my copy of your shoes?
I walk up to you in the street, and make an exact replica of your shoes, then go to my friends house and let him make a copy of my copy of your shoes. I haven't stolen anything from you, but have I done something that the shoe company should be worried about?
Not as clear cut as the riaa would like you to think huh?
It seems to me that "Sender-ID" is pretty much just spf with flaws introduced. .. why would anyone in their right mind even bother looking at email headers when trying to deal with spam? If an opening is there, it won't take long before the spam come gushing through it.
They have some complex algorithm to read email headers
Linux software RAID1 is just as fast as several of the hardware RAID1 setups I've tested using Bonnie++ -- These are fucking fileservers, not renderfarms. The processor's sitting there doing jack shit anyway, and you're more than likely putting a P4 in there since you can't buy anything else with decent reliability. Throw in a decent GigE network card and your processor is STILL at 0% utilization. Make that a RAID5 with hot-standby drive and I would be very surprised if you noticed any difference in the apparent "feel" of the server compared to a hardware RAID solution
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Agreed, certainly for fileservers and any other function that's not going to have much cpu usage at the same time as doing a lot of disk i/o on the raid array.
So, for storing dvds, pics, cds, etc, raid controllers are likely to be a waste
Slightly offtopic
However if you wanted a 1Tb drive for something that was going to be using a lot of disk i/o aswell (like a busy mail sever that's doing virus and spam filtering) then it'd be worth ponying up the dough for raid controllers
With so many different types of media competing for my entertainment dollar, the music industry needs step up and realize they are not alone any longer. People want flexibility with their music because there's many more ways to play a song today than 10 or even 5 years ago. The day of the discman is nearly over.
.. making them significatly more awkward to rip to mp3, significant enough that I didn't end up purchasing the CDs.
I couldn't agree more. I listen to mp3's here at work all day but don't listen to as much music at home, so when I buy a CD i'm going to want to rip it to mp3 easily. I recently went into a CD store here, and the 2 CDs that I was planning on geting were both copy protected
I imagine that I'm not the only one who does this, especially with the increase in availability of mp3 players.