So what you're saying is that they're hoping to get a few co-eds who haven't updated their machines while they're dressing, undressing, or being general eye candy.
While this person might be on to something (keep the file too large to be convienently pirated through digital means), it seems counterintiutive to the whole smaller-faster-better-cheaper paradigm that we usually ascribe to technology in general and computers specifically. Furthermore, you'd have to increase quality with that size, or the people will rebel against much larger material costs, not to mention the difficulty of putting such a movie on a removeable medium.
Basically, the idea is sound, but it probably won't fly without better storage mechanisms.
Well, in some fields, especially science, sponsored research is frequently the only research we can get. However, marketing research should usually be taken with a grain of salt. Same thing goes with usage/common practice research when people are wanting to hunt down everybody participating in a certain action, such as downloading movies.
But 1 in 4 internet users download movies? Are we counting freely-distributed porn films or not? If so, that number is a lot higher. If not, it's a really low number.
Very good point. I was just typing in the most exciting idea that came into my head at the time.
Of course, we used to have a supercollider project on the board, but alas, it was axed over 10 years ago. The site's still there...they even have signs for it on I-45 just south of Dallas. Yes, they're still there. It's too big of a hole in the ground not to notice.
They'll probably start colliding particles in order to find a graviton. Though the particle has been postulated, and its properties have been mapped out (they have different theories for different models of the universe--one for point-particle, one for string-particle), they've yet to observe it. Frankly, what would be really cool is if they were able to observe a disappearing graviton, with the proper distortion waves in space to at least postulate that the graviton has left our brane (see M Theory for an explaination of what a brane is).
Perhaps this is why there's such low interest in this year's Games. They've restricted the hell out of them such that we cannot enjoy them freely as we have in the past. As it is now, the Olympics are becoming less of a celebration of freedom and sport and more of an excercise in totalitarianism. What's next? Frisking people to make sure that the only credit card in their wallet is a Visa?
I read the article, and there was nothing in it that made any sense. It was double-talk about proposed new features in Office that will most likely never see the light of day. What wasn't such bull was merely MS doubletalk. They're banking on PHBs getting confused in this smokescreen and thinking, "Oh, we'd better stick to Windows and change our servers over immediately!"
Is this something reasonable? Not really. Doable, yes, but I seriously don't think it'd be something that the average user would even know what to do with such technology without massive training.
Don't register your key. That'll keep it cheap. That, and find a good Yum or APT-Get repository, and you'll stay up-to-date. Yes, they have both out there for RHEL. All that you're purchasing with RHEL is a service contract that says that they'll come out and do maintenence on your RHEL computers without any additional charge.
But, given your first postulation, we have a problem:
Given: Photons are quantized light
Given: Light travels at c
Given: No massive particle can travel at or faster than c
Given: c is defined as the speed of light in a vaccuum
Postulated: Photons have mass
Therefore: Light has mass, as it consists of massive particles
Therefore: Light cannot travel at or faster than c
Therefore: The speed of light is less than c.
Yes, it's far cheaper to get things at Target and WalMart. In fact, if I can, I'll usually get it at Target (the lesser of the two evils). However, the fact is that as you noted, their selection isn't great. It's mainly the music and movies de jure, not the classic rock and movies that I'm looking for most of the time.
So basically, for me, Best Buy is a last resort for such items.
Number five even has a marketing term named for the practice due to it's common practice in many sales areas, especially consumer electronics. Such packages are said to be "nailed to the floor", meaning that they never sell that item, and in fact have very few of that item in stock. They don't sell that particular item for a reason: they don't have it, and the salespeople know it.
As for sales knowledge, it's not uncommon for salespeople in these kinds of stores not to know shit about the products they're selling. It's the idea of getting the most money out of your employees, and thus screwing the customers.
I know that in my neck of the woods, Best Buy has the best CD selection in town, for those of us too chicken/too strapped for bandwidth to download from P2P servers and that cannot get some of our favorite groups on any legal service out there.
Their DVD collection isn't that bad either...and downloading movies can be too tedious. It takes way too long.
To run on Linux:
$ java -jar (name of.jar archive)
Of course, if you don't want to run in the terminal, you can create a launcher that does just that from the menu.
Go to Freshrpms, and you can get the APT-GET tool (that one's for FC2) and the Synaptic package (also for FC2, both are the downloads), and load the RPMs. It's actually quite nice. Even works when you have cruddy wiring at home, and therefore cannot get Yum to work.
That'd be really painful. Especially on a dial-up connection or a slower high-speed connection. Or if your house's wiring isn't up to par, so your computer craps out on you because it just can't get enough juice.
I was really using Dubya as an extremely well-known example of the typical American. He really exemplifies the role. He does what he's told by those he regards as superiors, who also control parts of the media right now. Also, he exemplifies the general American attitude that there is no signifigant world beyond our borders. Bush didn't spring up overnight, but was made into the idiot he is by the same process most Americans went through. He's merely an example of what happens when such a person comes into power.
So I really wasn't trying to be too overly political here. Unfortunately, the best-known example of an "average" American mindset seems to lie in a controversial political leader, who just so happens to be up for re-election. The problem is that America didn't just create one person like Bush, but that it has produced hundreds of millions of them.
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There's a very simple reason for this: tech companies, including those offering bandwidth, love to seperate Americans from their money. It's a simple issue of the fact that a good chunk of the American populace is stupid enough to go for whatever they'll sell you at whatever prices you demand, as Americans have money. This mass of money and refusal to know anything outside of where to get food, drink, clothing, and shelter has caused the greedy executives (who know this information from experience) to restrict our bandwidth to super-slow speeds and raise our rates through the roof. Yeah, they make a good profit doing this. Most know that laying the cable isn't as expensive as they make it sound, and that the service isn't too hard to offer. They've seen Europe and Asia. They know what they can do. However, most Americans, who don't leave the country, and in fact barely know that the world isn't defined by our borders, don't know what the Internet providers can do at this time.
Of course, if you need an example of how Americans are more than willing to be ignorant of anything, take a look at our president. He's as willfully ignorant as most Americans. That's why so many people still support him...aside from those who know that their money allows them to control him. It's all a matter of collusion and pocketbook-raping the stupid, overmoneyed Americans.
But what about repeat offenders? Those that open up a new website and advertize by spam on that site, too? Setting up a webpage isn't too hard these days, and one could always send one's servers offshore. This needs to be an international policy.
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So what you're saying is that they're hoping to get a few co-eds who haven't updated their machines while they're dressing, undressing, or being general eye candy.
While this person might be on to something (keep the file too large to be convienently pirated through digital means), it seems counterintiutive to the whole smaller-faster-better-cheaper paradigm that we usually ascribe to technology in general and computers specifically. Furthermore, you'd have to increase quality with that size, or the people will rebel against much larger material costs, not to mention the difficulty of putting such a movie on a removeable medium.
Basically, the idea is sound, but it probably won't fly without better storage mechanisms.
Okay, you got me. If I were to put Dag Wieers' repository in there, I'd actually have something up-to-date.
But apt is easier to use than Yum, in my experience
That's why they have a version of the APT-Get tool for Fedora. And of course, there's always Yum, but that tends to be a bit behind the times.
Well, in some fields, especially science, sponsored research is frequently the only research we can get. However, marketing research should usually be taken with a grain of salt. Same thing goes with usage/common practice research when people are wanting to hunt down everybody participating in a certain action, such as downloading movies.
But 1 in 4 internet users download movies? Are we counting freely-distributed porn films or not? If so, that number is a lot higher. If not, it's a really low number.
Very good point. I was just typing in the most exciting idea that came into my head at the time.
Of course, we used to have a supercollider project on the board, but alas, it was axed over 10 years ago. The site's still there...they even have signs for it on I-45 just south of Dallas. Yes, they're still there. It's too big of a hole in the ground not to notice.
They'll probably start colliding particles in order to find a graviton. Though the particle has been postulated, and its properties have been mapped out (they have different theories for different models of the universe--one for point-particle, one for string-particle), they've yet to observe it. Frankly, what would be really cool is if they were able to observe a disappearing graviton, with the proper distortion waves in space to at least postulate that the graviton has left our brane (see M Theory for an explaination of what a brane is).
Now that would be quite interesting, no?
Perhaps this is why there's such low interest in this year's Games. They've restricted the hell out of them such that we cannot enjoy them freely as we have in the past. As it is now, the Olympics are becoming less of a celebration of freedom and sport and more of an excercise in totalitarianism. What's next? Frisking people to make sure that the only credit card in their wallet is a Visa?
Some women seem to have standards.
That's why we have beer.
I read the article, and there was nothing in it that made any sense. It was double-talk about proposed new features in Office that will most likely never see the light of day. What wasn't such bull was merely MS doubletalk. They're banking on PHBs getting confused in this smokescreen and thinking, "Oh, we'd better stick to Windows and change our servers over immediately!"
Is this something reasonable? Not really. Doable, yes, but I seriously don't think it'd be something that the average user would even know what to do with such technology without massive training.
Don't register your key. That'll keep it cheap. That, and find a good Yum or APT-Get repository, and you'll stay up-to-date. Yes, they have both out there for RHEL. All that you're purchasing with RHEL is a service contract that says that they'll come out and do maintenence on your RHEL computers without any additional charge.
My vote's for one of the following:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade upsto.gov
or
$ sudo yum update upsto.gov
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here; this is the war room!
But, given your first postulation, we have a problem:
Given: Photons are quantized light
Given: Light travels at c
Given: No massive particle can travel at or faster than c
Given: c is defined as the speed of light in a vaccuum
Postulated: Photons have mass
Therefore: Light has mass, as it consists of massive particles
Therefore: Light cannot travel at or faster than c
Therefore: The speed of light is less than c.
Therefore: c is less than c
ERROR: STACK OVERFLOW
Yes, it's far cheaper to get things at Target and WalMart. In fact, if I can, I'll usually get it at Target (the lesser of the two evils). However, the fact is that as you noted, their selection isn't great. It's mainly the music and movies de jure, not the classic rock and movies that I'm looking for most of the time.
So basically, for me, Best Buy is a last resort for such items.
Number five even has a marketing term named for the practice due to it's common practice in many sales areas, especially consumer electronics. Such packages are said to be "nailed to the floor", meaning that they never sell that item, and in fact have very few of that item in stock. They don't sell that particular item for a reason: they don't have it, and the salespeople know it.
As for sales knowledge, it's not uncommon for salespeople in these kinds of stores not to know shit about the products they're selling. It's the idea of getting the most money out of your employees, and thus screwing the customers.
I know that in my neck of the woods, Best Buy has the best CD selection in town, for those of us too chicken/too strapped for bandwidth to download from P2P servers and that cannot get some of our favorite groups on any legal service out there.
Their DVD collection isn't that bad either...and downloading movies can be too tedious. It takes way too long.
To run on Linux: .jar archive)
$ java -jar (name of
Of course, if you don't want to run in the terminal, you can create a launcher that does just that from the menu.
But of course!
Go to Freshrpms, and you can get the APT-GET tool (that one's for FC2) and the Synaptic package (also for FC2, both are the downloads), and load the RPMs. It's actually quite nice. Even works when you have cruddy wiring at home, and therefore cannot get Yum to work.
Well, in all fairness, FC also has apt-get and Synaptic, but they're extensions that work off of independent repositories.
That'd be really painful. Especially on a dial-up connection or a slower high-speed connection. Or if your house's wiring isn't up to par, so your computer craps out on you because it just can't get enough juice.
I was really using Dubya as an extremely well-known example of the typical American. He really exemplifies the role. He does what he's told by those he regards as superiors, who also control parts of the media right now. Also, he exemplifies the general American attitude that there is no signifigant world beyond our borders. Bush didn't spring up overnight, but was made into the idiot he is by the same process most Americans went through. He's merely an example of what happens when such a person comes into power.
So I really wasn't trying to be too overly political here. Unfortunately, the best-known example of an "average" American mindset seems to lie in a controversial political leader, who just so happens to be up for re-election. The problem is that America didn't just create one person like Bush, but that it has produced hundreds of millions of them.
Darl probably doesn't know that.
There's a very simple reason for this: tech companies, including those offering bandwidth, love to seperate Americans from their money. It's a simple issue of the fact that a good chunk of the American populace is stupid enough to go for whatever they'll sell you at whatever prices you demand, as Americans have money. This mass of money and refusal to know anything outside of where to get food, drink, clothing, and shelter has caused the greedy executives (who know this information from experience) to restrict our bandwidth to super-slow speeds and raise our rates through the roof. Yeah, they make a good profit doing this. Most know that laying the cable isn't as expensive as they make it sound, and that the service isn't too hard to offer. They've seen Europe and Asia. They know what they can do. However, most Americans, who don't leave the country, and in fact barely know that the world isn't defined by our borders, don't know what the Internet providers can do at this time.
Of course, if you need an example of how Americans are more than willing to be ignorant of anything, take a look at our president. He's as willfully ignorant as most Americans. That's why so many people still support him...aside from those who know that their money allows them to control him. It's all a matter of collusion and pocketbook-raping the stupid, overmoneyed Americans.
Could we do that in the United States, too?
But what about repeat offenders? Those that open up a new website and advertize by spam on that site, too? Setting up a webpage isn't too hard these days, and one could always send one's servers offshore. This needs to be an international policy.