When I was a kid, I didn't understand that the air conditioner in a car requires more engery, and operating it requires more fuel. In fact, some adults don't understand this.
More energy than what?
Typically driving at more than 40mph with your windows rolled down will consume more energy than driving at the equivalent speed with the windows rolled up and the A/C on.
It is important to understand here that people don't just turn the A/C on to be able to say that the A/C is on, they do it to achieve the result of cooling down the passengers. In the case of driving at least 40mph the A/C will use less energy than the alternatives.
Though this is the first time I have heard the aero interface uses more engery, it would not shock me if it does. If so it would be yet another case that Microsoft technicaly had a good idea with very poor execution, and ignoring larger existing issues...
If you believe that Aero and the rest of Vista improve productivity - which is certainly something that MS claims then perhaps the extra energy that they consume is being more effectively used to acheive the end result of getting work done.
If I were an MS apologist I might even make the claim that the reduced battery life is not a problem because all the new improvements in Vista mean you save even more time than the battery life is reduced by.
I start to think American's are lemmings, not sheep.
Not to worry then. Lemmings don't really commit suicide in mass herds, it's all just a myth created by hollywood. So feel free to be a lemming, nothing bad will come of it. Just don't try to be a gerbil when Richard Gere is around.
Music is special, and it does not necessarily tell a story.
I didn't say music tells a story, if I had I would have said, "Music is no more 'special' than all the other variety of forms of story telling, including movies."
My point was that telling stories to ourselves and to others is as commonplace and important to our regular lives as is music, it is just manifested in different ways.
Nevertheless, the fact that they codified the Serial Copy Management System in 1992 so that you could only make first-generation copies is indicative of the acceptability and widespread practice of format-shifting. I maintain that most people consider it their fair right to move their music to other formats if they want.
Seems like a backwards argument to me - that they codified SCMS means that, in the eyes of the law, music must be especially restricted compared to all other forms of content - just as the rental restrictions on music are also above and beyond anything for other forms of content.
We hum, we whistle, we walk around with our Walkmen and our iPods.
We also have vivid imaginations and have been play-acting since we were little kids, many of us leave the TV on in the background or listen to story-telling on the radio. Music is no more "special" than all the variety of forms of story telling, including movies.
We even amended our copyright law to give music a special exemption for format-shifting and copying for personal use.
You are going to have provide a citation for that one - hint it's not true. The only thing resembling an "ammendment" regarding music is the Record Rental Ammendment of 1984 that specifically made it illegal to rent music in the same fashion that movies are rented by blockbuster.
How do you stock up to date hardware in brick and mortar stores? I never buy from physical stores because everything is lagging 3 months behind in price and technology.
Thus putting you somewhere near the 99th percentile of the general pool of home PC purchasers. For everyone else, they won't even notice the difference. That's one reason why HP has been kicking Dell's ass in the home pc market recently.
PCI is doubtless the cheapest option available. Many systems have multiple PCI buses
One of the key features of the IBM mainframes is high-availability - the machines never go down. That means they have to support the ability to replace failing cards while the system is up. For PCI cards, that almost always means a dedicated PCI bus per PCI slot - so you can power down and reboot individual cards without affecting any other cards (because there are no other cards on the same bus to be affected).
I would be very surprised if the IBM mainframes did not implement each PCI slot with a dedicated bus, and thus also making the full bandwidth of the bus available to each PCI device.
Part of the problem was that while the importation and exportation of slaves was interstate commerce, the existence of slaves already in certain states did not involve interstate commerce.
Under the current interpretation of the meaning of interstate commerce the fact that the cotton that the slaves picked was sold to a buyer in a different state would be sufficient.
Luckily when I looked at her funny and asked if she normally asked strange men to be alone with her children, she laughed and said she saw my point.
The sad thing is, given how rare such crimes are, it was entirely reasonable for her to trust you. This sensationalism only breeds paranoia which is not at all healthy for a functioning society.
A program must be able to recognize invalid input and take appropriate action. Allowing (or forcing) a crash is NOT acceptable.
Sounds like you've never heard of a kernel panic.
Sometimes immediately dying is the best option - when you reach a point in the code that "should never happen" then you can not count on the integrity of anything else within the program at the time. At that point the ONLY safe option is to "go boom" thus assuring that whatever the problem is, at least it won't corrupt anything else.
...but I *will* hold companies I choose to frequent to a basic ethical standard. If they don't meet those standards, then IMHO they're not trustworthy enough to get my business.
Your vote won't count.
Really, it won't make a difference. For every person that is disgusted with the actions of BigCorp A and thus takes all their business to BigCorp B, there are an equal number of people who feel the same about BigCorp B and take all their business to BigCorp A.
He was talking about 5 worms on 5 different machines
So what? He was assuming one worm per machine. My question is are the worms smart enough to cooperate when there are multiple worms on the same machine?
The point is to keep bandwidth utilization below a threshold that will get you noticed. But how are two or more different worms, each with the goal of maximizing their own bandwidth usage to the point just below that threshold, going to cooperate? Seems like a "tragedy of the commons" kind of problem to me, and thus unlikely to be 'solved' cooperatively by worm authors.
Probably a better chance of worms incorporate anti-worm technology to kill off the other worms on the same machine so that they can use all of the bandwidth under that threshold. Which would sort of change a worm from a purely parasitical program to a symbiotic one - if you let one worm on your system, it will make sure you don't get any other secondary infections in exchange for using some of your bandwidth.
Worm devlopers are smart enough not to flood thier connections. It's much better to have 5 bots at 20% cap who never get detected than one at 100% that gets shut down.
But are they smart enough to allow for multiple infections? Five different worms all running at 20% and you are back at 100% utilization again.
Well, at least now that I own the physical media and therefore have legal license to play the movie, I can legally download a working, albeit lower-quality copy off the Internet. Oh wait, that's still illegal.
Legality aside, the full-quality version (no resampling, no missing features) of this specific title is already out on the darknet.
At the same time, any research that could possibly change the childs disposition towards the negative is also not going to get approved.
The fact of the matter is, it is a proven statistic that the vast majority of children playing violent video games or watching violent movies act out scenes from within them and become desensitized to the 'message'.
How can it be a "proven statistic" if any research about it can't get approved? How was it proven then?
What's that mean? They should be paid by the hour at predetermined rate? Sounds suspiciously Marxist to me.
Don't be fooled, copyright as a state-granted monopoly is not even close to a free market system.
People should be paid what other people are willing to pay them without government interference, that's the definition of a free market. Perhaps you think that is the "politics of envy" - any economist would laugh you out of the room.
Presumably someone from the CentOS project pays for a Red Hat support plan (or two, or three), and in return is able to download the product (and get the sources as required by the GPL).
Copyright encourages artists to speculate: to work hard for little or no pay, with no guaranteed sales, in the hope of winning big after the fact.
Is that a bad thing? Isn't that what inventors do? Or people who found businesses? Or people who go through long programs of education or training?
Yes, it is a bad thing because it has enabled those who hold a monopoly on distribution channels to also monopolize the 'venture capital funding' business of new artists, essentially forcing them to give away all rights to their work if they want even a chance at distribution. Your other examples are all for markets which are not dominated by an oligopoly of five behemoths.
If that one hit really is so big - like it's the best book in the whole world ever and everyone is willing to sell a kidney to buy one - then politics of envy aside, what's your motivation for begrudging the author a handsome payout?
There is no begrudging them payout for the work they put in to the creation, but distribution is not creation. Charging for distribution was just a proxy for charging for creation that is only workable when distribution is itself costly. Now that distribution is essentially free, it is no longer feasible to use distribution as a proxy for creation. Either some other proxy must be found, or we figure out a way for an artist to get paid directly for the work of creation.
If all other possible alternative incentive systems are more egalitarian and don't create any one-hit billionaires, then that's the price society has to pay. Do not fall into the trap of believing that copyright is "free" today - society is paying a huge cost as it is now, in ways that do not support the primary goal of copyright (the progress of science and useful arts). Unless you disagree with the fundamental justification for copyright, it should be easy to understand that a new system which more effectively promotes the progress of science and the useful arts given the new environment of the internet should be adopted.
Everybody knows that Google is loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the DMCA is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich Thats how it goes Everybody knows
Everybody knows that copyright is leaking Everybody knows that hollywood lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love youtube baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows youve been discreet But there were so many videos you just had to see only with downloads And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows Thats how it goes Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows Thats how it goes Everybody knows
And everybody knows that its now or never Everybody knows that its me or you And everybody knows that movies live forever Ah when you've done a line or two Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old black joes still pickin cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the MPAA is coming Everybody knows that its moving fast Everybody knows that the happy man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past Everybody knows the scene is dead But theres gonna be a meter on your tv set That will disclose What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you're in trouble Everybody knows what you've been through From the bloody sign on top of Hollywood To the beach of Malibu Everybody knows its coming apart Take one last look at this movie backlot Before it blows And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows Thats how it goes Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows Thats how it goes Everybody knows
Everybody knows XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LYRICS LINE FILLER LYRICS LINE FILLER SUPER LINE FILLER FILTER FUCKER
It is hard to imagine how you could have a service like Rhapsody without DRM. Having "all the music" accessible whenever you want, for a flat monthly rate, really changes your listening habits and how you think about music "ownership".
If that monthly subscription fee was paid to musicians working on commission to create new music, then you could have an even better service without DRM. The artists get paid and the public gets their entire catalog without restriction. Of course the middlemen who currently 'distribute' music would lose out. But they don't add value, so they don't deserve to be paid anyway.
So now what? Does she write book 2 knowing that if she publishes it she'll only sell a few hundred thousand copies before stores are swamped with the (now legal) copies from the major publisher? Or does she just quit writing.
No, she sets up the industrial-strength equivalent of a paypal tip jar and when the balance reaches whatever she thinks she deserves for her 2nd book, she publishes it on the internet for anyone to read and freely share with anyone else.
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Typically driving at more than 40mph with your windows rolled down will consume more energy than driving at the equivalent speed with the windows rolled up and the A/C on.
It is important to understand here that people don't just turn the A/C on to be able to say that the A/C is on, they do it to achieve the result of cooling down the passengers. In the case of driving at least 40mph the A/C will use less energy than the alternatives.If you believe that Aero and the rest of Vista improve productivity - which is certainly something that MS claims then perhaps the extra energy that they consume is being more effectively used to acheive the end result of getting work done.
If I were an MS apologist I might even make the claim that the reduced battery life is not a problem because all the new improvements in Vista mean you save even more time than the battery life is reduced by.
So feel free to be a lemming, nothing bad will come of it. Just don't try to be a gerbil when Richard Gere is around.
My point was that telling stories to ourselves and to others is as commonplace and important to our regular lives as is music, it is just manifested in different ways.Seems like a backwards argument to me - that they codified SCMS means that, in the eyes of the law, music must be especially restricted compared to all other forms of content - just as the rental restrictions on music are also above and beyond anything for other forms of content.
I would be very surprised if the IBM mainframes did not implement each PCI slot with a dedicated bus, and thus also making the full bandwidth of the bus available to each PCI device.
Sometimes immediately dying is the best option - when you reach a point in the code that "should never happen" then you can not count on the integrity of anything else within the program at the time. At that point the ONLY safe option is to "go boom" thus assuring that whatever the problem is, at least it won't corrupt anything else.
Really, it won't make a difference. For every person that is disgusted with the actions of BigCorp A and thus takes all their business to BigCorp B, there are an equal number of people who feel the same about BigCorp B and take all their business to BigCorp A.
So what? He was assuming one worm per machine. My question is are the worms smart enough to cooperate when there are multiple worms on the same machine?
The point is to keep bandwidth utilization below a threshold that will get you noticed. But how are two or more different worms, each with the goal of maximizing their own bandwidth usage to the point just below that threshold, going to cooperate? Seems like a "tragedy of the commons" kind of problem to me, and thus unlikely to be 'solved' cooperatively by worm authors.
Probably a better chance of worms incorporate anti-worm technology to kill off the other worms on the same machine so that they can use all of the bandwidth under that threshold. Which would sort of change a worm from a purely parasitical program to a symbiotic one - if you let one worm on your system, it will make sure you don't get any other secondary infections in exchange for using some of your bandwidth.
How counter-intuitive is that?
It ain't a server if it doesn't service any incoming requests.
Seriously. I know you are smarter and better than this.
Hey, whatever makes you feel superior. You go girl!
You were careful enough with your words until the point where you said, "...and then become desensitized to the message." That is a casuality.
People should be paid what other people are willing to pay them without government interference, that's the definition of a free market. Perhaps you think that is the "politics of envy" - any economist would laugh you out of the room.
Or they just go HERE.
If all other possible alternative incentive systems are more egalitarian and don't create any one-hit billionaires, then that's the price society has to pay. Do not fall into the trap of believing that copyright is "free" today - society is paying a huge cost as it is now, in ways that do not support the primary goal of copyright (the progress of science and useful arts). Unless you disagree with the fundamental justification for copyright, it should be easy to understand that a new system which more effectively promotes the progress of science and the useful arts given the new environment of the internet should be adopted.
Everybody knows that Google is loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the DMCA is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that copyright is leaking
Everybody knows that hollywood lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love youtube baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows youve been discreet
But there were so many videos you just had to see
only with downloads
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
And everybody knows that its now or never
Everybody knows that its me or you
And everybody knows that movies live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black joes still pickin cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the MPAA is coming
Everybody knows that its moving fast
Everybody knows that the happy man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But theres gonna be a meter on your tv set
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody sign on top of Hollywood
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows its coming apart
Take one last look at this movie backlot
Before it blows
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX LYRICS LINE FILLER LYRICS LINE FILLER SUPER LINE FILLER FILTER FUCKER
Best bug ever? Errors in the CSS encryption algorithm which enable me to play my DVDs anywhere DeCSS has been ported.
Second best? The various holes in AACS, which let me play BLU-RAY and HD-DVD on one cheap player (my PC).
No, she sets up the industrial-strength equivalent of a paypal tip jar and when the balance reaches whatever she thinks she deserves for her 2nd book, she publishes it on the internet for anyone to read and freely share with anyone else.