Frankly, when you go about trying to blind the person infront of you by flashing full beams into their rear-view mirror (particularly at night) for doing nothing more than following Driving Standards Agency advice, you deserve everything you get. Up to and including a stinger missile.
Safe driving is not about people getting what they 'deserve' it is about avoiding accidents. If you really think the guy behind you is a dangerous driver, then you need to do what it takes to put distance between him and yourself. In your example, I would slow down and make it easier for the guy to pass - the sooner he gets past and goes on his way, the sooner he is unable to cause an accident that involves my person.
The speed limit is the *speed* *limit*, going less than it isn't illegal unless there's a minimum posted, AFAIK.
Many states have a law to the effect of "slower traffic keep right" - that's irrelevant of speed limit. If you are slowing down other cars then you are legally required to change lanes to the right, even if, for example, you are going 10 over the limit.
Commercial skip: Still works on the Tivo, except now you have to push a six-button sequence every couple months to get it to work.
That's not commercial skip. That's 30-second skip.
ReplayTV's commercial skip, like MythTV's commercial skip, figures out what portions of the recorded show are commercials and then automagically skips them on playback. Certain VCR's (I think JVC) had similar functionality, just not as nice since fast-forwarding tape is a lot clunkier than seeking on a file.
Hard to say what's up with The Circle, but I found this positive announcement. The SPP was also used to fund the "liberation" of the Blender source code as covered on Slashdot and elsewhere a few years back.
It is interesting to consider the idea of dominant assurance contract in this context, which guarantees a "win/win" situation for the customer regardless of if the object is created or not.
You have a small number of people who are willing to pay a high price for custom commissioned work, then that work is copied by others for nothing. The person who paid for the work feels jipped because what they commissioned is no longer unique, resulting in less and less work for the artist.
You presume that there is a small number of people willing to pay a high price. The system relies on there being a large number of people willing to each pay a low amount.
When the per-person risk is small, then you have lots of incentive for people to commit and no feelings of being gypped because they got exactly what they wanted while the others who get it for free afterwards have to take it or leave it.
Every employment contract I've ever seen stipulates that the employee cannot go work for a client without the express written permission of the employer.
Except in very rare cases, any clause like that is unenforceable. Regular employees are free to work for whomever they choose, just as their employers are allowed to terminate their employment at will.
Anecdotally, a past employer of mine got sued (and lost) for poaching an employee of one of our consulting firms... nasty stuff, breach of contract is.
That is a whole different story, the contract was between the two companies involved - notice who got sued, it wasn't the employee.
Er, I guess not. That's what I get for reading too quickly and assuming a modicum of sense.
It's *much* easier for the software running on the CPU to handle arbitrary bases than it is for the disk controller to do it.
Since the raw disk is ALREADY not base-2, as I clearly demonstrated in explaining how DVDs are layed out, and by inference regular disks too, clearly the disk controller is ALREADY working with data layouts that are not base-2.
If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes
I don't know what, if any, drives use power of ten sector sizes, but I guarantee you that no modern drive uses powers of 2 for its sector size. They often use it for sector payload size, but the actual sector consists of many more bits than just the payload.
For example, a DVD sector has a payload of 2048 but a total length of 2064 which includes 4 byte ID, a 2 byte IES, 6 bytes of CPR MAI and a 4 byte EDC. But, if you take it even further, the data gets reed-solomon ECC data included for each frame of 16 sectors (a frame being the smallest possible piece of data to write to a DVD) plus it all gets encoded in EFM with the end result that each sector is 38688 bits long, but interleaved with the other 16 sectors in that frame. See here: http://pioneer.jp/crdl/tech/dvd/2-3-e.html
Hard disks have similar funky layouts, although I don't think interleaving is usually part of it and the specs aren't so easy to hunt down because they are often unique to each model from each manufacturer.
You might argue that sector payload is what "counts" - to that I say you are making up an arbitrary distinction. If that were an acceptable argument, then one could say the same thing about networks - that it is the packet payload that counts and not the raw packet itself. After all, with the earlier MFM and RLL drives, the entire sector contents were exposed to the disk controller card on the system just like the entire packet contents are exposed to the network interface cards on current systems (presuming you don't have a tcp offload engine or the like, that is).
which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
Here you are correct. But the reason has nothing to do with the nature of disks, but rather with the binary nature of RAM and the data types used to keep track of the data on disk.
I've taken using the answering machine to screen calls.
Somebody ought to invent a way to listen in on voice-mail when it is being left on your cell-phone so you could do the same thing with the modern technology.
In some instances, music that I would pirate I would not buy, even if I was unable to obtain the music through P2P networks.
Which is why I have a firm no-RIAA policy when purchasing music. That way, I can truthfully say that when I pirate their music, the RIAA does not lose a single sale!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone who realizes the internet changed the market for entertainment distribution and thinks the business of entertainment distribution ought to catch up with the changes in the market is just looking for free handouts. Anyone with half a brain can see that the internet changed nothing, its just a passing fad. Thanks for your insightful contribution.
But without them, it is clear that corporations would try and succeed in getting away with murder.
It's generally in a company's best interests to keep it's customers alive. Something about repeat business, they tell me.
That's not how wallstreet works. Nobody cares about anything but next quarter's numbers. So if prematurely terminating your customers will help you meet this quarter's earning's forecast, that's exactly what corporate america will do.
For a few bucks a month I'd write in a few episodes of the Simpsons, some historical documentary, and a dozen hours of "oscilloscope channel." I'm sure they tossed that out when compiling their results, but it still amused me.
When Nielson still did manual log books (versus the electronic tracking boxes they use now) you were suppossed to only log when you were actually watching the tv, just simply leaving it running in another room did not qualify.
FWIW, while I can't say about her case, but there are significant schools of thought in the feminist movement that consider pr0n to have an over all positive effect on society.
So basically, the companies should simply tell the government that the two parties performed a like-for-like exchange of equivalent amounts of light, and that no additional money changed hands as a result of any inequality in the number of zero (high) bits. Therefore, since 15% of zero is zero, no tax is owed. Problem solved.
You obviously do not know how to think like a bureaucrat. You can't avoid paying taxes on transactions just because you don't use money as payment. If a like-for-like exchange was made, then clearly taxation needs to be levied in both directions, bringing the total taxation revenue level to 30%.
There is definitely something missing from those boxofficemojo numbers. I don't know what the missing numbers are, but I compared what boxofficemojo had to say about Equilibrium which cost $20M and earned the studio close to $10M of profit.
It has been a few years since I listened to the director's commentary on the DVD, but I am pretty sure that he said that studio had been able to secure a total production budget of $30M, in large part because of the sale of foreign distribution rights.
Since actual production cost was only $20M, the studio decided that they would rather spend close to nothing on promotion and be content with the 'free' $10M profit, rather than risk the promotion budget on a quirky film.
Perhaps most of that production money was 'stupid german money' which I mentioned in a sibling post, I don't know any more details than what I've written. But whatever the case, the boxofficemojo numbers for Equilibrium don't reflect that the movie was profitable for the studio, so they may be leaving something out for Serenity too.
The people who give code freely to the world are giving it to everyone. MVPs are just giving their efforts away to Microsoft. Sure, it looks like they are helping out regular people, but that's Microsoft's job, that's what those regular people paid for when they paid Microsoft. So, Microsoft gets to collect the money while all the MVPs get is a pat on the head.
Serenity made $39M on a budget of $39M worldwide, and while that does include the marketing (probably around $10M), DVD sales would certainly have resulted in a profit.
Don't forget the Stupid German Money that makes a kind of profit even if the movie doesn't. I haven't checked the credits roll for any GmbH listings, but it is virtually certain that stupid german money was used in the production since it has been used in just about every other hollywood production in recent years (for example, all the Uwe Boll flopaloozas, and all of LotR too).
Hey, my own stalker-fanboi is back and on a roll with 3 alternatively whiny and paranoid AC posts! How you doing? Pop a vein yet? I sure missed you. Muaaah!
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Frankly, when you go about trying to blind the person infront of you by flashing full beams into their rear-view mirror (particularly at night) for doing nothing more than following Driving Standards Agency advice, you deserve everything you get. Up to and including a stinger missile.
Safe driving is not about people getting what they 'deserve' it is about avoiding accidents. If you really think the guy behind you is a dangerous driver, then you need to do what it takes to put distance between him and yourself. In your example, I would slow down and make it easier for the guy to pass - the sooner he gets past and goes on his way, the sooner he is unable to cause an accident that involves my person.
The speed limit is the *speed* *limit*, going less than it isn't illegal unless there's a minimum posted, AFAIK.
Many states have a law to the effect of "slower traffic keep right" - that's irrelevant of speed limit. If you are slowing down other cars then you are legally required to change lanes to the right, even if, for example, you are going 10 over the limit.
Commercial skip: Still works on the Tivo, except now you have to push a six-button sequence every couple months to get it to work.
That's not commercial skip. That's 30-second skip.
ReplayTV's commercial skip, like MythTV's commercial skip, figures out what portions of the recorded show are commercials and then automagically skips them on playback. Certain VCR's (I think JVC) had similar functionality, just not as nice since fast-forwarding tape is a lot clunkier than seeking on a file.
Make it better. The less piracy of windows there is in the world, the more people will get into free alternatives.
Hell, make it deny everyone. The less legitimate use of windows there is in the world, the more people will get into free alternatives.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Said by someone who has clearly never had gonorrhea.
Hard to say what's up with The Circle, but I found this positive announcement. The SPP was also used to fund the "liberation" of the Blender source code as covered on Slashdot and elsewhere a few years back.
It is interesting to consider the idea of dominant assurance contract in this context, which guarantees a "win/win" situation for the customer regardless of if the object is created or not.
You have a small number of people who are willing to pay a high price for custom commissioned work, then that work is copied by others for nothing. The person who paid for the work feels jipped because what they commissioned is no longer unique, resulting in less and less work for the artist.
You presume that there is a small number of people willing to pay a high price. The system relies on there being a large number of people willing to each pay a low amount.
When the per-person risk is small, then you have lots of incentive for people to commit and no feelings of being gypped because they got exactly what they wanted while the others who get it for free afterwards have to take it or leave it.
Ethernet header = 14 bytes
IP header = 20 bytes
TCP Header = 20 bytes
There is no TCP header on fragments.
Thus that 20 bytes of TCP header is only once per 64K (maximum TCP packet size).
Every employment contract I've ever seen stipulates that the employee cannot go work for a client without the express written permission of the employer.
Except in very rare cases, any clause like that is unenforceable. Regular employees are free to work for whomever they choose, just as their employers are allowed to terminate their employment at will.
Anecdotally, a past employer of mine got sued (and lost) for poaching an employee of one of our consulting firms... nasty stuff, breach of contract is.
That is a whole different story, the contract was between the two companies involved - notice who got sued, it wasn't the employee.
Er, I guess not. That's what I get for reading too quickly and assuming a modicum of sense.
It's *much* easier for the software running on the CPU to handle arbitrary bases than it is for the disk controller to do it.
Since the raw disk is ALREADY not base-2, as I clearly demonstrated in explaining how DVDs are layed out, and by inference regular disks too, clearly the disk controller is ALREADY working with data layouts that are not base-2.
It's *much* easier for the software running on the CPU to handle arbitrary bases than it is for the disk controller to do it.
Bingo. You have just said exactly what I said:
rather with the binary nature of RAM and the data types used to keep track of the data on disk.
If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes
I don't know what, if any, drives use power of ten sector sizes, but I guarantee you that no modern drive uses powers of 2 for its sector size. They often use it for sector payload size, but the actual sector consists of many more bits than just the payload.
For example, a DVD sector has a payload of 2048 but a total length of 2064 which includes 4 byte ID, a 2 byte IES, 6 bytes of CPR MAI and a 4 byte EDC. But, if you take it even further, the data gets reed-solomon ECC data included for each frame of 16 sectors (a frame being the smallest possible piece of data to write to a DVD) plus it all gets encoded in EFM with the end result that each sector is 38688 bits long, but interleaved with the other 16 sectors in that frame. See here: http://pioneer.jp/crdl/tech/dvd/2-3-e.html
Hard disks have similar funky layouts, although I don't think interleaving is usually part of it and the specs aren't so easy to hunt down because they are often unique to each model from each manufacturer.
You might argue that sector payload is what "counts" - to that I say you are making up an arbitrary distinction. If that were an acceptable argument, then one could say the same thing about networks - that it is the packet payload that counts and not the raw packet itself. After all, with the earlier MFM and RLL drives, the entire sector contents were exposed to the disk controller card on the system just like the entire packet contents are exposed to the network interface cards on current systems (presuming you don't have a tcp offload engine or the like, that is).
which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
Here you are correct. But the reason has nothing to do with the nature of disks, but rather with the binary nature of RAM and the data types used to keep track of the data on disk.
I've taken using the answering machine to screen calls.
Somebody ought to invent a way to listen in on voice-mail when it is being left on your cell-phone so you could do the same thing with the modern technology.
Which is why I have a firm no-RIAA policy when purchasing music. That way, I can truthfully say that when I pirate their music, the RIAA does not lose a single sale!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone who realizes the internet changed the market for entertainment distribution and thinks the business of entertainment distribution ought to catch up with the changes in the market is just looking for free handouts. Anyone with half a brain can see that the internet changed nothing, its just a passing fad. Thanks for your insightful contribution.
That's not how wallstreet works. Nobody cares about anything but next quarter's numbers. So if prematurely terminating your customers will help you meet this quarter's earning's forecast, that's exactly what corporate america will do.
Factoid: if all American households would not use the stand-by mode of their TV, an entire _nuclear_ power plant can be saved on a national level.
I think you have confused stand-by mode of TVs with incadescent light bulbs. If you have a source for your factoid, please post it.
Here is a a source for the factoid about incadescent light bulbs.
What exactly would you saction?
Two articles with mostly opposing viewpoints on the sanctions-by-any-other-name that have been in place for about a year now:
Price of a broken deal
The Squeeze on North Korea
When Nielson still did manual log books (versus the electronic tracking boxes they use now) you were suppossed to only log when you were actually watching the tv, just simply leaving it running in another room did not qualify.
FWIW, while I can't say about her case, but there are significant schools of thought in the feminist movement that consider pr0n to have an over all positive effect on society.
You obviously do not know how to think like a bureaucrat. You can't avoid paying taxes on transactions just because you don't use money as payment. If a like-for-like exchange was made, then clearly taxation needs to be levied in both directions, bringing the total taxation revenue level to 30%.
There is definitely something missing from those boxofficemojo numbers.
I don't know what the missing numbers are, but I compared what boxofficemojo had to say about Equilibrium which cost $20M and earned the studio close to $10M of profit.
It has been a few years since I listened to the director's commentary on the DVD, but I am pretty sure that he said that studio had been able to secure a total production budget of $30M, in large part because of the sale of foreign distribution rights.
Since actual production cost was only $20M, the studio decided that they would rather spend close to nothing on promotion and be content with the 'free' $10M profit, rather than risk the promotion budget on a quirky film.
Perhaps most of that production money was 'stupid german money' which I mentioned in a sibling post, I don't know any more details than what I've written. But whatever the case, the boxofficemojo numbers for Equilibrium don't reflect that the movie was profitable for the studio, so they may be leaving something out for Serenity too.
The people who give code freely to the world are giving it to everyone. MVPs are just giving their efforts away to Microsoft. Sure, it looks like they are helping out regular people, but that's Microsoft's job, that's what those regular people paid for when they paid Microsoft. So, Microsoft gets to collect the money while all the MVPs get is a pat on the head.
Don't forget the Stupid German Money that makes a kind of profit even if the movie doesn't. I haven't checked the credits roll for any GmbH listings, but it is virtually certain that stupid german money was used in the production since it has been used in just about every other hollywood production in recent years (for example, all the Uwe Boll flopaloozas, and all of LotR too).
Hey, my own stalker-fanboi is back and on a roll with 3 alternatively whiny and paranoid AC posts! How you doing? Pop a vein yet? I sure missed you. Muaaah!