i think AM radio broadcast requires a loop of antenna where the area of the loop determines the reception quality. even if you put the antenna wire on the outer edge of mp3 players, it offers minimal area coverage.
FM, on the other hand, length of the antenna determines the reception quality - the headphone wire is a perfect place for that, i think.
i completely disagree with your sentiment. just because it's free doesn't mean it shouldn't be subjected to gripes or that it shouldn't be held to certain standards.
if i volunteer for something, can i just ditch it since i'm "doing it for free?" absolutely not.
indicating the capacity with the number of songs may have started as a marketing tool, but it is increasingly becoming popular. the main memory consuming use of these HD is for music anyway.
car's gas milage depends heavily on the driving condition/pattern. so what? it's still a fairly useful metric. same thing here.
if H&R or TurboTax make mistakes, you can hold them responsible. at least, they will give you the guarantee. i dont think anyone would stand behind any OSS programs when it comes to IRS liability.
not to sound judgemental, but if you are talking about saving $70 to $175 as being a "big deal," i tend to suspect that it's more of your laziness rather than complications that's preventing you from trying/using the IRS electronically fillable forms, available for free online.
what are you talking about? holding the actual employees (however high up) to be more personally vested in their own corporate product/service does not guarantee problems with the product/service will get solved.
my point had nothing specific to do with secure operating system or personal info.
offering copies of copyrighted material for others when you don't have the distribution right is copyright infringement. downloading what's offered isn't. (yet?)
...look for patterns, to at least internally provide an explanation. (whether it's true or accurate is irrelevant.) go to craps table - unless you are neurotic, everyone develops a pattern to how they roll the dice. no reasons, no explanations. we are just made to take emotional comfort in attributing some pattern, real or otherwise.
>The inconvenience of this method may be enough of a deterrant to prevent that kind of gross abuse.
considering the difficulty in finding good/complete copies, i think kazaa or napster is just as incovenient. you'd be amazed how far people would go when things don't cost anything.
>but they should support Office downloads for Office, regardless of how it is run.
i'm pretty sure there's a clause in the EULA that prohibits you from running Office on anything other than Windows or "supported" emulators, like Virtual PC. in such a case, you can challenge the validity of EULA, but you are using it "illegally" and thus are not owed support, even if you had paid for it.
Mac OS X has a similar clause, limiting its installation to apple branded hardware.
>Divide the number of songs sold on iTunes by the number of iPods sold, and it works out to only something like 5 or 10 albums per iPod.
your point still stands but you are a little off. iTMS has sold 250 million songs. apple's Q1 financial report says they've sold 10 million iPods so far. that's 25 songs per iPod.
>Apparantly rumour has it that Steve Jobs contacted music executives, pointing them to the site and the Napster CEO countered by pointing out several sites which showed you how to do the same with iTunes files. I'm not sure how true this is.
if true, then that's a really dumb thing for the napster CEO to do. jobs has 99 cents to show for each of the songs cracked. napster can't say the same.
btw, pretty much all the things you listed above applies equally for manned or unmanned missions. malfunctioning parachutes will screw the mission in either case. it's not like those parachutes can be repaired even with human intevention. since human will need observation instruments, the entire mission is just as sensitive as if it were unmanned.
and you weren't serious about making it a permanent mission, were you? can you show me an oxygen and food generators then? or are we gonna make it a one way mission and sacrifice a scientist or two?
>Sending humans requires more resources but that is offset by the flexibility you get from having humans on the scene to adddress issues that arise.
and that's exactly the point i was countering at the beginning. for the added resources required to send humans, we can send so many more non-manned missions as to offset the benefits of one manned mission.
>All that is happening is that people are grabbing the actual output of the song, and dropping it into a wav file. This will ALWAYS happen with any kind of copy protection. If you let users actually hear (music) or see (movies/tv) the content, there will always be a way to get it. At the absolute worst, people can just set up a tape recorder and grab it from that.
you are absolutely right, however, the difference here is, napster is a subscription model. (with a free trial to boot.) so the circumvention of the DRM means you get as many songs as you want for little or no money. music download sites, like iTMS or MSN, you have to pay first, then crack it all you want... so media/content companies aren't quite "losing" there to the same degree...
>In short, Humans on Mars could be brought for about the same price (or only 2-3x)
if you take humans to Mars, you need to bring them back. that alone can double the cost. what about the cost of developing space suits that can tolerate extreme environment? oxygen and food supply? removal of human waste? safety precautions that needs to be made? etc. etc.
i really doubt it will be 2-3x, i can't see anything less than an order of magnitude difference.
>the only way we will find out for sure is to actually go there in person.
why? for the cost of sending any number of human to mars, we can probably send even more non-manned missions, each having equipment with much greater observation and data acquisition/analysis capabilities than any number of human beings.
there is no sure way to find life on mars. but the easiest and most direct way to survey the largest area and greatest depth of mars for signs of life certainly do not require manned missions to mars.
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programming the VCR and watching it later is 100% legit. no questions, no strings, no iffys. so why not use it?
i think the real question is, what is the difference between programming the VCR and p2p/downloading for you?
FM, on the other hand, length of the antenna determines the reception quality - the headphone wire is a perfect place for that, i think.
if i volunteer for something, can i just ditch it since i'm "doing it for free?" absolutely not.
car's gas milage depends heavily on the driving condition/pattern. so what? it's still a fairly useful metric. same thing here.
if H&R or TurboTax make mistakes, you can hold them responsible. at least, they will give you the guarantee. i dont think anyone would stand behind any OSS programs when it comes to IRS liability.
not to sound judgemental, but if you are talking about saving $70 to $175 as being a "big deal," i tend to suspect that it's more of your laziness rather than complications that's preventing you from trying/using the IRS electronically fillable forms, available for free online.
my point had nothing specific to do with secure operating system or personal info.
it sounds more like what he wished would happen instead of what he really believes will happen.
i guess it's "hip" to try to be a visionary by predicting an early death of something.
microsoft employees use windows. need i say more?
you do realize "lower security risk" would merit higher security clearance? i think you meant to say "lower security clearance," like in the summary.
offering copies of copyrighted material for others when you don't have the distribution right is copyright infringement. downloading what's offered isn't. (yet?)
MS offers often have non-competition agreement... he left in November. can he go work for Google without breaking that?
...look for patterns, to at least internally provide an explanation. (whether it's true or accurate is irrelevant.) go to craps table - unless you are neurotic, everyone develops a pattern to how they roll the dice. no reasons, no explanations. we are just made to take emotional comfort in attributing some pattern, real or otherwise.
also, the bread comes in blanco, grano and segale.
considering the difficulty in finding good/complete copies, i think kazaa or napster is just as incovenient. you'd be amazed how far people would go when things don't cost anything.
i'm pretty sure there's a clause in the EULA that prohibits you from running Office on anything other than Windows or "supported" emulators, like Virtual PC. in such a case, you can challenge the validity of EULA, but you are using it "illegally" and thus are not owed support, even if you had paid for it.
Mac OS X has a similar clause, limiting its installation to apple branded hardware.
your point still stands but you are a little off. iTMS has sold 250 million songs. apple's Q1 financial report says they've sold 10 million iPods so far. that's 25 songs per iPod.
if true, then that's a really dumb thing for the napster CEO to do. jobs has 99 cents to show for each of the songs cracked. napster can't say the same.
and you weren't serious about making it a permanent mission, were you? can you show me an oxygen and food generators then? or are we gonna make it a one way mission and sacrifice a scientist or two?
and that's exactly the point i was countering at the beginning. for the added resources required to send humans, we can send so many more non-manned missions as to offset the benefits of one manned mission.
you are absolutely right, however, the difference here is, napster is a subscription model. (with a free trial to boot.) so the circumvention of the DRM means you get as many songs as you want for little or no money. music download sites, like iTMS or MSN, you have to pay first, then crack it all you want... so media/content companies aren't quite "losing" there to the same degree...
if you take humans to Mars, you need to bring them back. that alone can double the cost. what about the cost of developing space suits that can tolerate extreme environment? oxygen and food supply? removal of human waste? safety precautions that needs to be made? etc. etc.
i really doubt it will be 2-3x, i can't see anything less than an order of magnitude difference.
why? for the cost of sending any number of human to mars, we can probably send even more non-manned missions, each having equipment with much greater observation and data acquisition/analysis capabilities than any number of human beings.
there is no sure way to find life on mars. but the easiest and most direct way to survey the largest area and greatest depth of mars for signs of life certainly do not require manned missions to mars.
...in Soviet Russia, there were communists!
...to raise the tax on the gas?