To really use science, you need more than one article, you need an unbiased survey of the current literature with analysis of the author's pre-dispositions, etc. At the end of it all, you have a steaming pile of statistics that generally can be made to support whatever position you choose if you're willing to throw out the ones that don't agree with you.
We've got an infinite number of monkeys churning out scientific data now...
Wasn't trying to say that all of Montana is nowhere, just that it's a long way from Bozeman to nowhere, and farther still to somewhere.
Also, was putting the typical applicant on par with a Denny's dishwasher, not a high-tech capable enginerd, they can get jobs almost anywhere in the US, including in Bozeman consulting for city hall showing them how to use that Facebook password they just collected on the job application.
Where's the proof that each song was downloaded by 160k people who were standing by with cash in hand ready to buy it from iTunes and downloaded it instead?
I can imagine a jury of my "peers" going for a "they give it to two friends, and each of them gives it to two friends, etc. etc." argument that single copy distribution effectively leads to wiping out all future sales. Not that the defendant was the only one involved, but that she is effectively being punished for the actions of the entire group.
Not unlike the hanging of high seas pirates who were merely deck-hands.
Did the damages include RIAA's legal costs? Did the jury sympathize with RIAA that the guilty witch has been wasting their time and effort arguing a lame defense? It's not too hard to run up $2M in legal bills, should be, but isn't.
This is completely without merit and rather insane. I would walkout right then and there. As long as I show up and perform my duties as required my employer has right or even need to look into my personal life.
You're in the biggest city in nowhere Montana and you're applying for a civil service job, odds are that the Denny's just hired up last week and the only other job available right now is scooping Buffalo pies on some ranch outside of town. Winter's coming... what have you got to hide, anyway, son?
If the RIAA were forced to give all the money they collected BACK, the RIAA would simply close up shop permanently, probably filing some sort of bankruptcy or some such action to prevent their actually having to pay anything back.
I don't think they've collected enough from piracy judgements to sneeze at, let alone pay for their legal expenses, investigations, PR campaigns, and all the other anti-piracy measures they have taken.
In 2006 I was given a MacBook Pro to work with... it had been over 10 years since I computed on the fruity side and I decided to trust that Apple had "done the right things" with the features they included. One feature of interest was their "FileVault" which gave a "here, try this:" howto on encrypting your home directory. I thought with all the "just works" hype that surely Apple would have made such a thing secure and reliable... it wasn't 2 weeks before my MacBook Pro was useless, had to re-install OS-X from DVD, as confirmed by an Apple Tech support guy who actually sounded like he knew what he was talking about... see, in 2006 the MacBook Pro wouldn't always shut down cleanly, so a hard power-off was required every couple of days... this hard power off glitched the FileVault, rendering everything in it (my one and only home directory on the system), inaccessible, and therefore the system unbootable past the login prompt.
Lessons learned:
Even today, encrypting files necessary to boot the system is a bad idea - the promises of ZFS would cure this, but only if they are true.
Always create a back-up account, or three, so you don't have to brain-wipe the system when your primary account goes dead (which mine never has since then, of course it is also not encrypted anymore).
"Just Works" is fanboi speak for "I really like my shiny computer and I'll say anything to make you think it's better than yours.", OS-X is on-par with other modern OSs in terms of reliability and usability, at least in my experience of the last 3 years, they (OS-X, Vista, ubuntu) each have strengths and weaknesses, but overall, OS-X isn't a shining star in any area that matters to me.
If ZFS were "ready for prime time" I expect that it would be in ubuntu already. If I were in corporate cost cutting strategy at Apple development, I'd say "let the Linux world sort that one out" and pick it back up if/when it is ready for prime time. Because, if Apple sorts it out on their own nickel, they'll only have the geek-head advantage for a little less than a year before useful ZFS is picked up by the Linux world, and I doubt that one year of geek-head advantage translates into enough extra shiny boxes sold to cover the (apparently high and growing) cost of ZFS development.
It's an easy to anticipate effect - try the new thing.
My search queries typically consist of Google, and not-Google, just in-case Google isn't getting what I'm looking for. My not-Google used to be Yahoo, but when Cuil was new I tried it for a while, the results out of Bing are much more impressive than Cuil, it might permanently replace Yahoo as my not-Google search engine, but when not-Google isn't the new thing to try out, it only gets about 2-5% of my search traffic, as compared to 30-50% when trying something new.
I would never buy the thing because it has a completely fugly graphic on the case, but.... these guys are building more or less exactly the kind of PC that I try to build for myself - as much computing power as I can reasonably get without blowing out the $$$ or power budget, enough to play some games, but Crysis is totally optional...
As someone said above, the MacMini is a very nicely executed example of this theme, and in a much more tasteful case.
The paranoid in me says that the dog ins't smelling anything, just that the cops know where the counterfeiters are operating and the dog is a pretext or probable cause giving them the right to tear into the storage areas. Maybe the cops need help finding the DVDs, but if the cache is this big, probably not.
Fine, then, it won't play any videos sold from the iTunes store. Fair enough? Forgive me that I forgot that Apple finally dropped DRM on music files after they sold their first Billion or whatever with DRM. That long period of selling highly de-valued bits pushed the iTunes store down in my awareness spectrum.
Wikipedia says:
"At the 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo, it was announced that the iTunes Music Store would be DRM-free, with conversion complete by April 2009"
I think this is just one little bargaining chip in the pile, it will no doubt be listed by Apple at some point as one of Palm's "transgressions", but in the end this is pretty small beer - they've got "real IP" like dual touch to talk about.. (:rolleyes:)
In pneumatics you can use "pilot valves" to amplify your digital signals back up to full strength. I needed some fairly strong pneumatic (signals) to switch fairly quickly, the only valves on the market that would do it used pilots.
I know it's not "motion sensing" in the extreme of the Wiimote, but the SixAxis already has a great deal of "dynamic awareness" with its accelerometers... I wouldn't try to control a sword on screen with it, but it can be used to a very satisfying effect - the soul sucking gimmick in Folklore is probably the most gratifying aspect (of the demo, at least, didn't convince me to buy it.)
Of course, what do I know, the first night I fired up the PS3, I downloaded the ducks in a tub thing for the kids and couldn't figure out how it worked (because I didn't know the SixAxis had accelerometers in it!)
Tomatoes, peas, carrots, etc. are a major pain to grow, they are attacked by insects, fungus, birds, etc. and require significant daily care. MJ, on the other hand, is a weed, if it weren't illegal, I could have a backyard full of it without much effort at all. Now, I would have to read some gardening tips from our founding fathers regarding sexing and separation of the plants if I wanted any potency... but that's not so hard, and since I've quit my job to focus on my gardening hobby, I've got all the time in the world to get that part down to a science...
I think it shows that the pro-legalization crowd has a lot of free time on their hands, which was the real reason THC was banned in the first place - it was believed to make people lazy, non-industrious layabouts.
I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary... not sure how I feel overall about "the land of the free and the home of the brave" making something illegal just because it makes the population less competitive on the world stage, but I certainly can't argue that a bong hit a day would make the USA more likely to stop the Chinese army from overrunning the world by 2100.
Surefire win for the plaintiff does not mean that the plaintiff's complaint is just, true, or morally upstanding. It just means that prior plaintiffs with the same situation have done well in the same venues. I see a parallel to the American phenomenon of two drug stores on every corner - if the first one makes it, it can be studied and shown that another one will also survive in the same place - not that that's the best place to put a new store, just the lowest risk.
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To really use science, you need more than one article, you need an unbiased survey of the current literature with analysis of the author's pre-dispositions, etc. At the end of it all, you have a steaming pile of statistics that generally can be made to support whatever position you choose if you're willing to throw out the ones that don't agree with you.
We've got an infinite number of monkeys churning out scientific data now...
Or, travel - same principle, you're foreign so it masks the fact that you are also "different".
Wasn't trying to say that all of Montana is nowhere, just that it's a long way from Bozeman to nowhere, and farther still to somewhere.
Also, was putting the typical applicant on par with a Denny's dishwasher, not a high-tech capable enginerd, they can get jobs almost anywhere in the US, including in Bozeman consulting for city hall showing them how to use that Facebook password they just collected on the job application.
Where's the proof that each song was downloaded by 160k people who were standing by with cash in hand ready to buy it from iTunes and downloaded it instead?
I can imagine a jury of my "peers" going for a "they give it to two friends, and each of them gives it to two friends, etc. etc." argument that single copy distribution effectively leads to wiping out all future sales. Not that the defendant was the only one involved, but that she is effectively being punished for the actions of the entire group.
Not unlike the hanging of high seas pirates who were merely deck-hands.
Did the damages include RIAA's legal costs? Did the jury sympathize with RIAA that the guilty witch has been wasting their time and effort arguing a lame defense? It's not too hard to run up $2M in legal bills, should be, but isn't.
Bozeman needs a City Attorney who rides into town more than twice a year...
This is completely without merit and rather insane. I would walkout right then and there. As long as I show up and perform my duties as required my employer has right or even need to look into my personal life.
You're in the biggest city in nowhere Montana and you're applying for a civil service job, odds are that the Denny's just hired up last week and the only other job available right now is scooping Buffalo pies on some ranch outside of town. Winter's coming... what have you got to hide, anyway, son?
...and get a chunk of my millions.
Millions of what? Remember, this is Bozeman.
Nothing is really private, but, you can't have your personal information be used to attack you, and that is what the market reflects.
Unfortunately, the only way to enforce this type of scheme is through court cases after the fact... "don't ask, don't tell" is far more efficient.
If the RIAA were forced to give all the money they collected BACK, the RIAA would simply close up shop permanently, probably filing some sort of bankruptcy or some such action to prevent their actually having to pay anything back.
I don't think they've collected enough from piracy judgements to sneeze at, let alone pay for their legal expenses, investigations, PR campaigns, and all the other anti-piracy measures they have taken.
In 2006 I was given a MacBook Pro to work with... it had been over 10 years since I computed on the fruity side and I decided to trust that Apple had "done the right things" with the features they included. One feature of interest was their "FileVault" which gave a "here, try this:" howto on encrypting your home directory. I thought with all the "just works" hype that surely Apple would have made such a thing secure and reliable... it wasn't 2 weeks before my MacBook Pro was useless, had to re-install OS-X from DVD, as confirmed by an Apple Tech support guy who actually sounded like he knew what he was talking about... see, in 2006 the MacBook Pro wouldn't always shut down cleanly, so a hard power-off was required every couple of days... this hard power off glitched the FileVault, rendering everything in it (my one and only home directory on the system), inaccessible, and therefore the system unbootable past the login prompt.
Lessons learned:
Even today, encrypting files necessary to boot the system is a bad idea - the promises of ZFS would cure this, but only if they are true.
Always create a back-up account, or three, so you don't have to brain-wipe the system when your primary account goes dead (which mine never has since then, of course it is also not encrypted anymore).
"Just Works" is fanboi speak for "I really like my shiny computer and I'll say anything to make you think it's better than yours.", OS-X is on-par with other modern OSs in terms of reliability and usability, at least in my experience of the last 3 years, they (OS-X, Vista, ubuntu) each have strengths and weaknesses, but overall, OS-X isn't a shining star in any area that matters to me.
If ZFS were "ready for prime time" I expect that it would be in ubuntu already. If I were in corporate cost cutting strategy at Apple development, I'd say "let the Linux world sort that one out" and pick it back up if/when it is ready for prime time. Because, if Apple sorts it out on their own nickel, they'll only have the geek-head advantage for a little less than a year before useful ZFS is picked up by the Linux world, and I doubt that one year of geek-head advantage translates into enough extra shiny boxes sold to cover the (apparently high and growing) cost of ZFS development.
It's an easy to anticipate effect - try the new thing.
My search queries typically consist of Google, and not-Google, just in-case Google isn't getting what I'm looking for. My not-Google used to be Yahoo, but when Cuil was new I tried it for a while, the results out of Bing are much more impressive than Cuil, it might permanently replace Yahoo as my not-Google search engine, but when not-Google isn't the new thing to try out, it only gets about 2-5% of my search traffic, as compared to 30-50% when trying something new.
I would never buy the thing because it has a completely fugly graphic on the case, but.... these guys are building more or less exactly the kind of PC that I try to build for myself - as much computing power as I can reasonably get without blowing out the $$$ or power budget, enough to play some games, but Crysis is totally optional...
As someone said above, the MacMini is a very nicely executed example of this theme, and in a much more tasteful case.
No Lassie?
The paranoid in me says that the dog ins't smelling anything, just that the cops know where the counterfeiters are operating and the dog is a pretext or probable cause giving them the right to tear into the storage areas. Maybe the cops need help finding the DVDs, but if the cache is this big, probably not.
Fine, then, it won't play any videos sold from the iTunes store. Fair enough? Forgive me that I forgot that Apple finally dropped DRM on music files after they sold their first Billion or whatever with DRM. That long period of selling highly de-valued bits pushed the iTunes store down in my awareness spectrum.
Wikipedia says:
"At the 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo, it was announced that the iTunes Music Store would be DRM-free, with conversion complete by April 2009"
It leads to more people buying things from iTunes after all
Any content purchased from the Apple store will not play on the Pre.
I think this is just one little bargaining chip in the pile, it will no doubt be listed by Apple at some point as one of Palm's "transgressions", but in the end this is pretty small beer - they've got "real IP" like dual touch to talk about.. (:rolleyes:)
In pneumatics you can use "pilot valves" to amplify your digital signals back up to full strength. I needed some fairly strong pneumatic (signals) to switch fairly quickly, the only valves on the market that would do it used pilots.
Of course, I'm sure posting on Slashdot is a prime use of your time.
Clearly.
/. resembles a dialogue - most of the pro-legalization rants are extensive monologues followed by a chorus of "right on dude!"s.
At least
I know it's not "motion sensing" in the extreme of the Wiimote, but the SixAxis already has a great deal of "dynamic awareness" with its accelerometers... I wouldn't try to control a sword on screen with it, but it can be used to a very satisfying effect - the soul sucking gimmick in Folklore is probably the most gratifying aspect (of the demo, at least, didn't convince me to buy it.)
Of course, what do I know, the first night I fired up the PS3, I downloaded the ducks in a tub thing for the kids and couldn't figure out how it worked (because I didn't know the SixAxis had accelerometers in it!)
Tomatoes, peas, carrots, etc. are a major pain to grow, they are attacked by insects, fungus, birds, etc. and require significant daily care. MJ, on the other hand, is a weed, if it weren't illegal, I could have a backyard full of it without much effort at all. Now, I would have to read some gardening tips from our founding fathers regarding sexing and separation of the plants if I wanted any potency... but that's not so hard, and since I've quit my job to focus on my gardening hobby, I've got all the time in the world to get that part down to a science...
it has destabilized governments of many other nations
Are you sure this is evidence that a government policy is not working?
I think it shows that the pro-legalization crowd has a lot of free time on their hands, which was the real reason THC was banned in the first place - it was believed to make people lazy, non-industrious layabouts.
I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary... not sure how I feel overall about "the land of the free and the home of the brave" making something illegal just because it makes the population less competitive on the world stage, but I certainly can't argue that a bong hit a day would make the USA more likely to stop the Chinese army from overrunning the world by 2100.
Surefire win for the plaintiff does not mean that the plaintiff's complaint is just, true, or morally upstanding. It just means that prior plaintiffs with the same situation have done well in the same venues. I see a parallel to the American phenomenon of two drug stores on every corner - if the first one makes it, it can be studied and shown that another one will also survive in the same place - not that that's the best place to put a new store, just the lowest risk.