This move makes perfect sense. Many people will argue that they should save and spread the money out, spending the interest. But this idea is going to spend the money on infastructure, research, food, whatever. The interest will be the results of the action.
It doesn't make sense to save for the future when there are problems to be solved today.
It's no secret why Amazon.com has succeded when many other online stores have fallen. They have fairly good prices, good service, and deals(like the current $25+ free shipping). It is just as easy as going to a real store, with no downsides.
They have a steady dependable business model of selling almost everything.
Wow.. another pointless defense.
Or, alternatively, this person needs to know that real life isn't actually like a videogame.
Where did the common sense go?
It might take a while.. but think of the possibilities. If you have enough raw materials around, you just program it to replicate and build a house, or anything.
The possibilities seem endless.
Say you have 6 people living at your house. There's two extra people. Plus, you could have others stuff ordered under your account, and you give it to them. At least, all you neighbors and close relatives.
1)Food. You'd be amazed what people would do for free food. 2)I think that if the Robot competition was easy enough to learn, it could work. Otherwise no. 3)Gaming. 4)Gaming programming would probably be a good place to start.
I would say your best bet for getting a lot of people to show up would be to get one kid you know, and have him bring his friends, spread the word type thing. Otherwise, if people only see a flier or something, I don't think they would come.
Technology
Thursday November 4, 3:01 AM
LIVEWIRE - File-sharing network thrives beneath the radar
By Adam Pasick
LONDON (Reuters) - A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.
For those who know where to look, there's a wealth of content, both legal -- such as hip-hop from the Beastie Boys and video game promos -- and illicit, including a wide range of TV shows, computer games and movies.
Average users are taking advantage of the software's ability to cheaply spread files around the Internet. For example, when comedian Jon Stewart made an incendiary appearance on CNN's political talk show "Crossfire," thousands used BitTorrent to share the much-discussed video segment.
Even as lawsuits from music companies have driven people away from peer-to-peer programs like KaZaa, BitTorrent has thus far avoided the ire of groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America. But as BitTorrent's popularity grows, the service could become a target for copyright lawsuits.
According to British Web analysis firm CacheLogic, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages.
"I don't think Hollywood is willing to let it slide, but whether they're able to (stop it) is another matter," Bram Cohen, the programmer who created BitTorrent, told Reuters.
John Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the MPAA, said that his group is well aware of the vast amounts of copyrighted material being traded via BitTorrent.
"It's a very efficient delivery system for large files, and it's being used and abused by a hell of a lot of people," he told Reuters. "We're studying our options, as we do with all new technologies which are abused by people to engage in theft."
FOR GOOD OR EVIL
BitTorrent, which is available for free on http://bittorrent.com, can be used to distribute legitimate content and to enable copyright infringement on a massive scale. The key is to understand how the software works.
Let's say you want to download a copy of this week's episode of "Desperate Housewives." Rather than downloading the actual digital file that contains the show, instead you would download a small file called a "torrent" onto your computer.
When you open that file on your computer, BitTorrent searches for other users that have downloaded the same "torrent."
BitTorrent's "file-swarming" software breaks the original digital file into fragments, then those fragments are shared between all of the users that have downloaded the "torrent." Then the software stitches together those fragments into a single file that a users can view on their PC.
Sites like Slovenia-based Suprnova (http://www.suprnova.org) offer up thousands of different torrents without storing the shows themselves.
Suprnova is a treasure trove of movies, television shows, and pirated games and software. Funded by advertising, it is run by a teen-age programmer who goes only by the name Sloncek, who did not respond to an e-mailed interview request.
Enabling users to share copyrighted material illicitly may put Suprnova and its users on shaky legal ground.
"They're doing something flagrantly illegal, but getting away with it because they're offshore," said Cohen. He is not eager to get into a battle about how his creation is used. "To me, it's all bits," he said.
But Cohen has warned that BitTorrent is ill-suited to illegal activities, a view echoed by John Malcolm of MPAA.
"People who use these systems and think they're anonymous are mistaken," Malcolm said. Asked if he thought sites like Suprnova were illegal, he said: "That's still an issue we're studying, that reasonable minds can disagree on," he said.
GOING LEGIT
Meanwhile, BitTorrent is rapidly emerging as the preferred means of distributing large amounts of legitimate content such as versions of the free computer operating system Linux, and these be
Probably a lot is spam, I don't remember exact number but I think that it is over 50%. So with 35% BT, 50% spam/email, that leaves at least 25% for HTTP and other file sharing.
The reason why this happens is because so many average users are on 56k, they use relatively little bandwith with HTTP traffic. Whereas many torrents are 1GB plus. You would have to visit a hell of a lot of large graphic sites to make up for one torrent.
Also, people who use torrents are more likely to download a ton of stuff. Games, can be several GB, each CD is over a 100MB.
It's not wasteful is you store your files in Apple Lossless, AIFF, Wav, etc. The iPod has so much capacity you could store a thousand plus of uncompressed music.
Therefore, spending that much wouldn't be uncommon.
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This move makes perfect sense. Many people will argue that they should save and spread the money out, spending the interest. But this idea is going to spend the money on infastructure, research, food, whatever. The interest will be the results of the action. It doesn't make sense to save for the future when there are problems to be solved today.
What to do when the author and editor inject a huge personal opinion into the article. Goddamn Zonk, what about others having there own opinion?
It's no secret why Amazon.com has succeded when many other online stores have fallen. They have fairly good prices, good service, and deals(like the current $25+ free shipping). It is just as easy as going to a real store, with no downsides.
They have a steady dependable business model of selling almost everything.
Amazon.com just works.
Note: I'm just a happy customer.
How can any of this be scary when they have a "do no evil" slogan? That slogan alone has entirely assuaged my fears.
Wow.. another pointless defense. Or, alternatively, this person needs to know that real life isn't actually like a videogame. Where did the common sense go?
RTFA...... "You can't feel the shuffle while wearing the headphones. Weird huh!"
It might take a while.. but think of the possibilities. If you have enough raw materials around, you just program it to replicate and build a house, or anything. The possibilities seem endless.
Say you have 6 people living at your house. There's two extra people. Plus, you could have others stuff ordered under your account, and you give it to them. At least, all you neighbors and close relatives.
I'm a high school student, so I'll try to help.
1)Food. You'd be amazed what people would do for free food.
2)I think that if the Robot competition was easy enough to learn, it could work. Otherwise no.
3)Gaming.
4)Gaming programming would probably be a good place to start.
I would say your best bet for getting a lot of people to show up would be to get one kid you know, and have him bring his friends, spread the word type thing. Otherwise, if people only see a flier or something, I don't think they would come.
Good luck!
Technology Thursday November 4, 3:01 AM LIVEWIRE - File-sharing network thrives beneath the radar By Adam Pasick LONDON (Reuters) - A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice. For those who know where to look, there's a wealth of content, both legal -- such as hip-hop from the Beastie Boys and video game promos -- and illicit, including a wide range of TV shows, computer games and movies. Average users are taking advantage of the software's ability to cheaply spread files around the Internet. For example, when comedian Jon Stewart made an incendiary appearance on CNN's political talk show "Crossfire," thousands used BitTorrent to share the much-discussed video segment. Even as lawsuits from music companies have driven people away from peer-to-peer programs like KaZaa, BitTorrent has thus far avoided the ire of groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America. But as BitTorrent's popularity grows, the service could become a target for copyright lawsuits. According to British Web analysis firm CacheLogic, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages. "I don't think Hollywood is willing to let it slide, but whether they're able to (stop it) is another matter," Bram Cohen, the programmer who created BitTorrent, told Reuters. John Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the MPAA, said that his group is well aware of the vast amounts of copyrighted material being traded via BitTorrent. "It's a very efficient delivery system for large files, and it's being used and abused by a hell of a lot of people," he told Reuters. "We're studying our options, as we do with all new technologies which are abused by people to engage in theft." FOR GOOD OR EVIL BitTorrent, which is available for free on http://bittorrent.com, can be used to distribute legitimate content and to enable copyright infringement on a massive scale. The key is to understand how the software works. Let's say you want to download a copy of this week's episode of "Desperate Housewives." Rather than downloading the actual digital file that contains the show, instead you would download a small file called a "torrent" onto your computer. When you open that file on your computer, BitTorrent searches for other users that have downloaded the same "torrent." BitTorrent's "file-swarming" software breaks the original digital file into fragments, then those fragments are shared between all of the users that have downloaded the "torrent." Then the software stitches together those fragments into a single file that a users can view on their PC. Sites like Slovenia-based Suprnova (http://www.suprnova.org) offer up thousands of different torrents without storing the shows themselves. Suprnova is a treasure trove of movies, television shows, and pirated games and software. Funded by advertising, it is run by a teen-age programmer who goes only by the name Sloncek, who did not respond to an e-mailed interview request. Enabling users to share copyrighted material illicitly may put Suprnova and its users on shaky legal ground. "They're doing something flagrantly illegal, but getting away with it because they're offshore," said Cohen. He is not eager to get into a battle about how his creation is used. "To me, it's all bits," he said. But Cohen has warned that BitTorrent is ill-suited to illegal activities, a view echoed by John Malcolm of MPAA. "People who use these systems and think they're anonymous are mistaken," Malcolm said. Asked if he thought sites like Suprnova were illegal, he said: "That's still an issue we're studying, that reasonable minds can disagree on," he said. GOING LEGIT Meanwhile, BitTorrent is rapidly emerging as the preferred means of distributing large amounts of legitimate content such as versions of the free computer operating system Linux, and these be
Probably a lot is spam, I don't remember exact number but I think that it is over 50%. So with 35% BT, 50% spam/email, that leaves at least 25% for HTTP and other file sharing.
The reason why this happens is because so many average users are on 56k, they use relatively little bandwith with HTTP traffic. Whereas many torrents are 1GB plus. You would have to visit a hell of a lot of large graphic sites to make up for one torrent. Also, people who use torrents are more likely to download a ton of stuff. Games, can be several GB, each CD is over a 100MB.
It's not wasteful is you store your files in Apple Lossless, AIFF, Wav, etc. The iPod has so much capacity you could store a thousand plus of uncompressed music. Therefore, spending that much wouldn't be uncommon.
With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..
I heard that the Convenant had weapons of mass destruction.
You would also have to buy OS X itself. It doesn't come bundled...(There is a torrent though...)