But it's also easy to find a GeForce FX 5200 in a PCI card. "Cinematic graphics for everyone" as nVidia puts it, but only at the lowest common denominator. The FX 5200 actually has a slower clock speed than a GF4MX, but OTOH, it does have the CineFX engine.
"The authors concluded that file-sharing has a statistically insignificant impact on record sales."
Granted that the findings of that particular study are hotly debated, I still tend to believe it. As far as I've seen, many users of P2P networks use them like a preview service, then go out and buy the albums.
I can't help wondering, when are the RIAA folks going to get it through their thick heads that suing music fans is much more likely to hurt sales.
Then again, I'm Canadian and can download with impunity, so it doesn't affect me. It sure is fun to watch the madness, though.
Recently, a judge said that sharing songs online is no different than placing a photocopier in a library.
You're right about this. This supports the legality sharing about which there was previously some doubt.
there may be a recent ruling that clarified this and made downloading allowable, but I'm not aware of it.
Downloading was always legal. Laws, you must realize, are sometimes legislated instead of being determined by legal precedent. Now admittedly, IANAL, however as I understand it, it is legal to do something like borrow a friend's cd and make a copy for yourself. However it is not legal for them to make a copy and give it to you because then they are distributing it. In the former case, however, you are technically copying for personal use, which I think is also defined more loosely here. This all extends to downloading in that sharing has essentially been deemed analogous to the lending of the CD, and downloading is analogous to the borrower making a copy.
It's an adaptation of ZipSlack designed to run off a USB memory key. Usually it needs the aid of a boot floppy to get things rolling, but theoretically it can be booted off the memory key alone on systems that support it. Few systems support USB booting properly, though, so I think you'll find you need the floppy.
Admittedly, it is designed for testing a machine's network connection more than anything, but it still has a fairly complete set of packages (basically anything ZipSlack has). If you want to customize, you can just trade off some of the packages in RUNT for the ones you want, or you can get ZipSlack and go from scratch. Using RUNT would be easier, though, since it's already properly configured for using the USB key.
I have a job that's very similar to that, minus the UNIX. The lab computers are Windows boxen, and the servers run UNIX. But what I'm wondering is, why would you get paid minimum wage for a job like that? It requires a fair bit of technical proficiency with the systems you're working with, certainly a larger skillset than your average, foodservice industry, 'any monkey can do it' job. I mean, granted it's more stimulating work and a better environment than foodservice, which puts it on a higher level to start with, but why on earth would it pay the same?
I go to a school of about 20,000 students and I work for the Arts & Sciences IT Department. I deal mostly with Faculty, not students in the residences (thank god).
We do much of what your school does to combat viruses, but now and then we get a professor who refuses to let us near their machine to clean it if it's infected. In that case, we have the authority to just go to the networking hub closets and start ripping out cables so that all the network jacks in that professors office go dead. I don't think we've ever had to actually do that. The threat alone is usually enough.
But anyway, the upshot is that in a large school, you don't have time to mess around with complicated solutions. If someone's a stick-in-the-mud about getting their machine disinfected, you threaten to cut them off, and if they still hold out, you go and fucking cut them off and see how they like it.
Record companies haven't cared about that kind of copying for years. The reason they don't care is because it introduces an 'analog generation' into it. Basically, you might as well have taped it off FM radio for all they care. Even though the quality of the resulting recording can still be very good, despite the analog generation, the record companies only really care about the 'perfect', all-digital copies.
I know mine is. The damn thing takes a leisurely 10 seconds to boot up when I press the power button. I thought it was ridiculous when I got it, and equally ridiculous was the fact that it seems to allow for firmware upgrades.
With modern cellphones incorporating fairly complex computing tasks like voice recognition, internet access, modem functionality, and digital image and video processing, not only are they computers, but they're easily as powerful as desktop PCs were 13 years ago, if not moreso. And , on top of all that, they inherently (being cellphones) have some pretty advanced wireless networking technology with widely accessible connectivity.
And if anybody still doesn't believe me, I'll gladly crack open their cell phone and show them the CPU.
I always thought the holodeck represented what they thought would be the ultimate in video game technology 400 years into the future. However there was a well known problem with it, which in later series' acquired the name 'holoadditcion'. Basically, it created completely immersive worlds that were completely real to all the senses, down to the finesse of actual replicated matter for some elements. It was something so powerful it made Evercrack addiction look like the equivalent of a jones for skittles versus heroin.
Nevertheless, I'd say that a prediction that video games evolving into, or at least approaching, something that involves complete immersion in a photo-realistic, randomly interactive environment is actually nothing new. If you look at the present, we have video cards that can render 'cinematic' quality graphics in real time at resolutions of several megapixels. To put it mildly, we've come a long way from Pong.
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But it's also easy to find a GeForce FX 5200 in a PCI card. "Cinematic graphics for everyone" as nVidia puts it, but only at the lowest common denominator. The FX 5200 actually has a slower clock speed than a GF4MX, but OTOH, it does have the CineFX engine.
"The authors concluded that file-sharing has a statistically insignificant impact on record sales."
Granted that the findings of that particular study are hotly debated, I still tend to believe it. As far as I've seen, many users of P2P networks use them like a preview service, then go out and buy the albums.
I can't help wondering, when are the RIAA folks going to get it through their thick heads that suing music fans is much more likely to hurt sales.
Then again, I'm Canadian and can download with impunity, so it doesn't affect me. It sure is fun to watch the madness, though.
You're right about this. This supports the legality sharing about which there was previously some doubt.
Downloading was always legal. Laws, you must realize, are sometimes legislated instead of being determined by legal precedent. Now admittedly, IANAL, however as I understand it, it is legal to do something like borrow a friend's cd and make a copy for yourself. However it is not legal for them to make a copy and give it to you because then they are distributing it. In the former case, however, you are technically copying for personal use, which I think is also defined more loosely here. This all extends to downloading in that sharing has essentially been deemed analogous to the lending of the CD, and downloading is analogous to the borrower making a copy.
I saw this and I immediately thought of RUNT!
It's an adaptation of ZipSlack designed to run off a USB memory key. Usually it needs the aid of a boot floppy to get things rolling, but theoretically it can be booted off the memory key alone on systems that support it. Few systems support USB booting properly, though, so I think you'll find you need the floppy.
Admittedly, it is designed for testing a machine's network connection more than anything, but it still has a fairly complete set of packages (basically anything ZipSlack has). If you want to customize, you can just trade off some of the packages in RUNT for the ones you want, or you can get ZipSlack and go from scratch. Using RUNT would be easier, though, since it's already properly configured for using the USB key.
Yes, they do, and here's why.
I assume you mean the CRIA.
I wouldn't say they shot themselves in the foot, though. The organizations that collect on this levy reap about $24 million between them each year.
I have a job that's very similar to that, minus the UNIX. The lab computers are Windows boxen, and the servers run UNIX. But what I'm wondering is, why would you get paid minimum wage for a job like that? It requires a fair bit of technical proficiency with the systems you're working with, certainly a larger skillset than your average, foodservice industry, 'any monkey can do it' job. I mean, granted it's more stimulating work and a better environment than foodservice, which puts it on a higher level to start with, but why on earth would it pay the same?
I go to a school of about 20,000 students and I work for the Arts & Sciences IT Department. I deal mostly with Faculty, not students in the residences (thank god).
We do much of what your school does to combat viruses, but now and then we get a professor who refuses to let us near their machine to clean it if it's infected. In that case, we have the authority to just go to the networking hub closets and start ripping out cables so that all the network jacks in that professors office go dead. I don't think we've ever had to actually do that. The threat alone is usually enough.
But anyway, the upshot is that in a large school, you don't have time to mess around with complicated solutions. If someone's a stick-in-the-mud about getting their machine disinfected, you threaten to cut them off, and if they still hold out, you go and fucking cut them off and see how they like it.
Two words: air conditioners!
There are two huge and incredibly noisy air conditioners in my office (for the adjacent rooms). There are no windows because it's a basement office.
Never let yourself get stuck with the basement office.
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Right, so you throw the access point out of the plane, and whoever manages to find it, get close enough, and connect before hitting the ground wins.
Sounds like fun. =)Laptop refueling stations! Fill 'er up with premium, Bob!
Record companies haven't cared about that kind of copying for years. The reason they don't care is because it introduces an 'analog generation' into it. Basically, you might as well have taped it off FM radio for all they care. Even though the quality of the resulting recording can still be very good, despite the analog generation, the record companies only really care about the 'perfect', all-digital copies.
It's dumb, I know.
Never say "never", it almost did.
The Canadian dollar was, breifly and ever so slightly, higher than the U.S. dollar.
I know mine is. The damn thing takes a leisurely 10 seconds to boot up when I press the power button. I thought it was ridiculous when I got it, and equally ridiculous was the fact that it seems to allow for firmware upgrades.
With modern cellphones incorporating fairly complex computing tasks like voice recognition, internet access, modem functionality, and digital image and video processing, not only are they computers, but they're easily as powerful as desktop PCs were 13 years ago, if not moreso. And , on top of all that, they inherently (being cellphones) have some pretty advanced wireless networking technology with widely accessible connectivity.
And if anybody still doesn't believe me, I'll gladly crack open their cell phone and show them the CPU.
I always thought the holodeck represented what they thought would be the ultimate in video game technology 400 years into the future. However there was a well known problem with it, which in later series' acquired the name 'holoadditcion'. Basically, it created completely immersive worlds that were completely real to all the senses, down to the finesse of actual replicated matter for some elements. It was something so powerful it made Evercrack addiction look like the equivalent of a jones for skittles versus heroin. Nevertheless, I'd say that a prediction that video games evolving into, or at least approaching, something that involves complete immersion in a photo-realistic, randomly interactive environment is actually nothing new. If you look at the present, we have video cards that can render 'cinematic' quality graphics in real time at resolutions of several megapixels. To put it mildly, we've come a long way from Pong.