Not all of it in any case, the main flaw in timothy's argument. The vast bulk of TPB appears to be search driven, download what you already know. It's no surprise the system favours established artists. Usenet, in contrast, had finely grained per niche discussion tied to downloads. I stopped buying music soon after my ISP killed the binary groups for lack of exposure to new artists.
I use the DB2 on a microphone stand, antenna four feet off the ground, pointed out a patio door, ground floor into a two story courtyard, 150' down the back side of a hill fifteen miles from the transmitters and still pick up reliable signal. That is, however, directly into a television. Maybe PCI tuner cards aren't design for optimum sensitivity. And yes, OTA digital look spectacular if source permits.
Not only do you force feed users a Microsoft extension, you piss them off about a third party & competitive application. Two business cases with one stone. I think it's brilliant.
'Public' schools, not private. The money returns to the common good. Same with gas taxes, they're not transferals to Exxon & Shell. That money too returns to the common public good. Music 'tax' is a transferal to private corporate entities. A more accurate analogy for your argument would be Bear Sterns.
Maybe. The FCC spent the last two administrations catering to every whim of broadcast media owners. Clear Channel wouldn't exist in its present form without their helping, deregulating hand. Broadcasters hate the extra fiscal burden of IP, so this may be a case in which consumers benefit as a side effect of catering to large corporation. Irrelevant but lucky. How a federal body with an original mandate to regulate broadcast spectrum has any authority over IP law is another question.
Reviled, not pitied. Pity provides the comfortable perspective these are the act of those not as smart or conscientious 'as us'. Nothing could be further from the truth, these are people the Constitution was crafted to protect citizens against. It's a war all right, a war against the democratic system standing in the way of unbridled power. Pity them? Banish them, they're anti-American to the core.
"What changes have you seen to Slashdot that have diminished your enjoyment of this site?" Members with 900K+ IDs moaning about how Slashdot has changed?
More on topic, at this year's National Association of Broadcasters conference in Vegas what stood out for me was the number of hardware manufacturers using embedded Linux for control. From transmitter manufacturers on down many were talking it up as a selling point, along with open APIs and interoperability. In this field it appears the tipping point for Linux acceptance has arrived.
If Verbinski's treatment of the quiet, dark story of a mother's dread that was the original is any indication, BioShock will be perfect summer fare for those who like their movies loud, obvious and 'packed with stuff'.
I'll let you in a secret: you're essentially unhireable. I wouldn't touch you and those who do go the extra mile will quickly pass you by. Companies want independent agents capable of getting shit done. I'm not hired to babysit, I have a full time gig myself. You'll get assigned challenging work to aid development and be expected to teach yourself to meet those challenges. You're responsible for your future, school's over snowflake. Sink or swim. You have a real shock coming your way in your chosen field.
"Honestly, given the companies past alleged illegal/unethical behavior, the first thing that came to my mind was.... "what is coming down the pipe that they are trying to avoid?" Specifically, by moving the corporate HQ out of the country, are they avoiding some potential legal action because of illegal or unethical corporate behavior?"
My thoughts were more along the line of, 'how does this benefit the current Administration?' No one here (I hope) believes George and the boys read about this in the paper. It has all the smell of bypassing regulatory safeguards or legislation of some sort.
"Second, it is fair. It is called economies of scale."
Correct in a sense, unfair laws do scale up with larger users. The 'fair' notion relates to the fundamentals principles behind the collection of royalties, the 'size' part was using an example to demonstrate it taken to obscene levels. You missed the point entirely. Since you're fond of examples, the tools and labour used to build the studios artists record in contribute greatly to their art, so you agree with Craftsmen, Mikita and the local unions getting a cut of this money? (Not to mention Bud and Jack Daniels.)
You have no idea. The Vancouver area has been in desperate need of infrastructure modernization for decades. The guiding principle here appears to have been a mixture of sloth and arrogance since the 1960's. It has without doubt the worst road and utilities system of any comparably sized city, a true embarrassment. Now with the Olympics billions are being thrown away upgrading a 4-lane dead-end highway. Literally, once you get to Whistler the only alternative way out is Duffy Lake road, a (gorgeous) twisting 2-laner through nowhere without a gas station for 60+ miles. Not only are the games a complete waste of effort for a 2 week party, they take funds desperately needed in Vancouver to move it into the late 20th Century. FFS, this city can't even provide clean drinking water after heavy rains. We went through a two or three week boil water advisory just recently, blamed on 'turbidity' rather than 'lack of settling tanks'. Like I said, you have no idea the level of narcissist insanity required to believe spending this money on games, mostly in Richmond and 2 hours away in Whistler, will somehow elevate Vancouver.
Since the headline, uncharacteristically, closely mirrors the content of the article I can only surmise your bitterness stems from the line "I always knew that a geek would make a great husband." Cheer up bunky, it could happen to a 'Dotter. Some day. The odds are certainly no worse than finding, say, extraterrestrial life.
"Vista remembers what you run, and when. it loads all this into ram before your going to need it."
You have an entirely different definition of 'good use' than mine. Second guessing what I want to do next and expending resources from what I'm doing now is exactly what drives me nuts about XP. It'll be interesting to see how Vista handles it when those resources are network stored, whether it pulls the typical XP stunt of completely ignoring user commands while the OS performs 'more important' caching.
Odd how no one ever makes these arguments about the fire department. Yep, and all that time on the range argues for the safe public discharge of service firearms while not in the line of duty. Your reasoning is backwards. Rather than excuse such behaviour, public servants entrusted with extended powers should be doubly punished for abusing them. They break both the law and public trust by their actions.
Of the four, the only valid suggestion is getting a law degree. I would add 'don't let up on your political representatives' to the list. Content providers have critically altered the legal framework around which everyone was once free to exchange information and culture, to the point doing so without their express permission has been elevated from a civil to a criminal offense and member organizations take part in armed SWAT raids over music. Walking away won't change that injustice.
Really? Then why was the speed limit decoupled from the 85th percentile rule that for generations set the metric for safe speed? Or on an analogous example, why do yellow lights get shorter when municipalities sub-contract the operation of red-light cameras for a percentage of the take? You may want to research a topic before throwing around ad hominems.
You're playing with qualifers, demanding 'absolutely' coupled with realistic. On that metric no show, play, movie or book can succeed. Experience doesn't meet that criteria, how will being beaten or shot in the leg tell me absolutely everything about the suffering of losing an organ to a chest wound or dying? No third, second or first party account of any event in any form can ever capture the total impact. It's an impossible goal in principle. If we step back from the ridiculous however I think it's obvious the intent was to realistically impart on the audience the emotional impact on our lives from violence. That's absolutely achievable without rotely and literally presenting every last detail across a lifetime. It's one of a great many things that differentiates 'The Deer Hunter' from repugnant tripe like 'Hostel' or 'Saw'.
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Not all of it in any case, the main flaw in timothy's argument. The vast bulk of TPB appears to be search driven, download what you already know. It's no surprise the system favours established artists. Usenet, in contrast, had finely grained per niche discussion tied to downloads. I stopped buying music soon after my ISP killed the binary groups for lack of exposure to new artists.
I use the DB2 on a microphone stand, antenna four feet off the ground, pointed out a patio door, ground floor into a two story courtyard, 150' down the back side of a hill fifteen miles from the transmitters and still pick up reliable signal. That is, however, directly into a television. Maybe PCI tuner cards aren't design for optimum sensitivity.
And yes, OTA digital look spectacular if source permits.
Not only do you force feed users a Microsoft extension, you piss them off about a third party & competitive application. Two business cases with one stone. I think it's brilliant.
They do on my keyboard.
'Public' schools, not private. The money returns to the common good. Same with gas taxes, they're not transferals to Exxon & Shell. That money too returns to the common public good. Music 'tax' is a transferal to private corporate entities. A more accurate analogy for your argument would be Bear Sterns.
"So you should be scared when you see this. "
Maybe. The FCC spent the last two administrations catering to every whim of broadcast media owners. Clear Channel wouldn't exist in its present form without their helping, deregulating hand. Broadcasters hate the extra fiscal burden of IP, so this may be a case in which consumers benefit as a side effect of catering to large corporation. Irrelevant but lucky.
How a federal body with an original mandate to regulate broadcast spectrum has any authority over IP law is another question.
Reviled, not pitied. Pity provides the comfortable perspective these are the act of those not as smart or conscientious 'as us'. Nothing could be further from the truth, these are people the Constitution was crafted to protect citizens against. It's a war all right, a war against the democratic system standing in the way of unbridled power. Pity them? Banish them, they're anti-American to the core.
Lately?
On topic post modded troll by hyperactive, semi-literate fanboi newbs. Op-question answered.
More on topic, at this year's National Association of Broadcasters conference in Vegas what stood out for me was the number of hardware manufacturers using embedded Linux for control. From transmitter manufacturers on down many were talking it up as a selling point, along with open APIs and interoperability. In this field it appears the tipping point for Linux acceptance has arrived.
I find the overly sensitive offensive.
If Verbinski's treatment of the quiet, dark story of a mother's dread that was the original is any indication, BioShock will be perfect summer fare for those who like their movies loud, obvious and 'packed with stuff'.
I'll let you in a secret: you're essentially unhireable. I wouldn't touch you and those who do go the extra mile will quickly pass you by. Companies want independent agents capable of getting shit done. I'm not hired to babysit, I have a full time gig myself. You'll get assigned challenging work to aid development and be expected to teach yourself to meet those challenges. You're responsible for your future, school's over snowflake. Sink or swim. You have a real shock coming your way in your chosen field.
My thoughts were more along the line of, 'how does this benefit the current Administration?' No one here (I hope) believes George and the boys read about this in the paper. It has all the smell of bypassing regulatory safeguards or legislation of some sort.
Someone who truly understands the business model. Mod up.
Correct in a sense, unfair laws do scale up with larger users. The 'fair' notion relates to the fundamentals principles behind the collection of royalties, the 'size' part was using an example to demonstrate it taken to obscene levels. You missed the point entirely. Since you're fond of examples, the tools and labour used to build the studios artists record in contribute greatly to their art, so you agree with Craftsmen, Mikita and the local unions getting a cut of this money? (Not to mention Bud and Jack Daniels.)
You have no idea. The Vancouver area has been in desperate need of infrastructure modernization for decades. The guiding principle here appears to have been a mixture of sloth and arrogance since the 1960's. It has without doubt the worst road and utilities system of any comparably sized city, a true embarrassment. Now with the Olympics billions are being thrown away upgrading a 4-lane dead-end highway. Literally, once you get to Whistler the only alternative way out is Duffy Lake road, a (gorgeous) twisting 2-laner through nowhere without a gas station for 60+ miles. Not only are the games a complete waste of effort for a 2 week party, they take funds desperately needed in Vancouver to move it into the late 20th Century. FFS, this city can't even provide clean drinking water after heavy rains. We went through a two or three week boil water advisory just recently, blamed on 'turbidity' rather than 'lack of settling tanks'. Like I said, you have no idea the level of narcissist insanity required to believe spending this money on games, mostly in Richmond and 2 hours away in Whistler, will somehow elevate Vancouver.
Since the headline, uncharacteristically, closely mirrors the content of the article I can only surmise your bitterness stems from the line "I always knew that a geek would make a great husband." Cheer up bunky, it could happen to a 'Dotter. Some day. The odds are certainly no worse than finding, say, extraterrestrial life.
You have an entirely different definition of 'good use' than mine. Second guessing what I want to do next and expending resources from what I'm doing now is exactly what drives me nuts about XP. It'll be interesting to see how Vista handles it when those resources are network stored, whether it pulls the typical XP stunt of completely ignoring user commands while the OS performs 'more important' caching.
Odd how no one ever makes these arguments about the fire department. Yep, and all that time on the range argues for the safe public discharge of service firearms while not in the line of duty. Your reasoning is backwards. Rather than excuse such behaviour, public servants entrusted with extended powers should be doubly punished for abusing them. They break both the law and public trust by their actions.
Of the four, the only valid suggestion is getting a law degree. I would add 'don't let up on your political representatives' to the list. Content providers have critically altered the legal framework around which everyone was once free to exchange information and culture, to the point doing so without their express permission has been elevated from a civil to a criminal offense and member organizations take part in armed SWAT raids over music. Walking away won't change that injustice.
Really? Then why was the speed limit decoupled from the 85th percentile rule that for generations set the metric for safe speed? Or on an analogous example, why do yellow lights get shorter when municipalities sub-contract the operation of red-light cameras for a percentage of the take? You may want to research a topic before throwing around ad hominems.
"What the Hell. You're a snob. Piss off."
Cogently reasoned, well done. Forgive me for not feeling hurt.
You're playing with qualifers, demanding 'absolutely' coupled with realistic. On that metric no show, play, movie or book can succeed. Experience doesn't meet that criteria, how will being beaten or shot in the leg tell me absolutely everything about the suffering of losing an organ to a chest wound or dying? No third, second or first party account of any event in any form can ever capture the total impact. It's an impossible goal in principle.
If we step back from the ridiculous however I think it's obvious the intent was to realistically impart on the audience the emotional impact on our lives from violence. That's absolutely achievable without rotely and literally presenting every last detail across a lifetime. It's one of a great many things that differentiates 'The Deer Hunter' from repugnant tripe like 'Hostel' or 'Saw'.
"How do you show that in a TV show?"
The same way Orson Welles took us through Citizen Kane's life and kept the film less than 60 years long.