I often contemplate how we as a society can structure things so the guy who is telling the truth is a more effective organizational representative than the guy who likes to spin lies and half-truths. No answers yet.
Well, considering that the vast majority of society is basically stupid and lacks the intelligence to think for themselves, the only solution is to kill all the people with IQs below 120, maybe even 130. If you don't know if you're included in the list of people to be killed or not, then yes, this means you.;)
Use more guns. I think we don't use enough guns anymore, maybe it's because I'm from Texas but there's a lot of bullshit going around that enough firepower would fix =).
While I agree with the another poster in this thread that intent seems more prevention and prosecution, in the case of an instant messaging, it is (or should be) well-known that IMs can be and are recorded by the IM service to search for terms-of-service violations. Besides, the law in question applies to phone calls, not Internet communications. I shouldn't have to tell you that I store all e-mails both sent and received on my hard drive. Same goes for IM.
They can't tell you that you can't have a satellite dish. That's what the state law states. But they can tell you that you can't bolt it to their building. So if you have a private balcony, as long as you have something else to bolt it to, you're ok. But if you don't have a private balcony, or if it's too small, or if there's no clear line of sight with the correct portion of the sky, you're out of luck.
from TFA: "CPI now finds itself in a District Court battle against the agency, which is being supported by AT&T, Verizon, and the three major industry trade groups: NCTA (cable), CTIA (wireless), and USTA (telephone)."
Of course. Personally, I think the broadband providers have all illegally divided up the market. In most areas, you can get DSL, cable, FTTN, or wireless, but rarely can you seem to be able pick from more than one in the list. And in many cases, you can't even pick between cable providers.
While both WOW! and Comcast are available in my area, my apartment complex has an exclusive contract with Comcast so no other cable providers are allowed. And you can't get DSL because they won't let you run any lines to the building. Satellite is out because they won't let you put up a dish (despite the fact that this is illegal), and broadband mobile wireless service is conveniently not available yet.
Many cities in my region have exclusive deals with either Comcast or Bright House as well, despite the fact that competition was supposed to have been opened. Many of the competitve phone carriers don't offer DSL because AT&T has locked them out. And DSL is very much dependant on distance from the CO. Forget if you're like me and live in an outlying area of town.
I'll bet if you get that report, you'll be able to figure out exactly how AT&T and Comcast and so forth have divided up the market, providing each of them limited monopolies in set areas.
You avoided the question instead of answering it. You said all sorts of things that indicate absolutely nothing about Apple's tendencies in regard to DRM-less music.
And whether Apple is in the music business to sell iPods or the iPod business to sell music isn't clear, and is actually irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The fact of the matter is that in the trailing 9 months ending on July 1, 2006, Apple received nearly $1.5 billion in net sales from its iTunes-related business. Yes, that's only a 1/4 of what it got from iPod sales, but I'm willing to bet the profit margins are much better on iTunes sales than they are on iPods.
They've got too much invested in their format to abandon it now. However, I think that if the music industry would let them they'd be more than happy to sell unprotected AAC files.
Interesting. What makes you say that? I haven't seen any behavior out of Apple that indicates that it would be willing to sell DRM-free music or movies of any kind.
Heh. Don't you know anything? Most of us stupid Yanks don't know the difference between socialism and communism and many believe that they are the same thing, all the while not realizing that we've had socialism in the U.S. (albeit watered down) for more than 60 years.
Anyway, FOSS isn't really a socialist or communist idea anyway. If anything, the ideals of Free Software are aligned more closely with American Libertarianism than anything else.
If they could, then every aircraft in the military arsenal of sufficient size to carry the system would have one already, for missile point defense in flight.
Many military aircraft already have highly effectivecountermeasures for both SAMs and AAMs. Upon detection of a missile, pilots are trained to fire countermeasures in order to avoid being shot down.
And you're right on the commercial passenger airliners: shooting down a passenger jet with even something as outdated as the F-15 would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Does anybody really think that any politicians are motivated by anything other than self-interest?
Everyone with me now:
Both Democrats and Republicans only pay lip service to caring about your rights. They only even pretend to care about your rights when it suits their agenda.
There's not much difference between them. Really. There's an old Washington saying that goes something like 'Nothing much ever changes in Washington.'
As for TFA, I'm with you that this is entirely unconstitutional and it completely violates our rights under the First Amendment. What I want to know is this: Exactly how do they intend to enforce this? Who's going to keep track of how many readers a blogger gets?
My bad. What I really meant to say is a 'SATA version for laptop use', not 'a SATA version'. They may very well come out with a SATA version of this drive for other uses.:)
Even if you had a laptop that had a SAS adapter like the i965, you still have the problems of power consumption and heat, and yes, these do apply to 'professional' or 'desktop replacement' laptops. Even if you completely disregard battery life (and who's gonna do that even in a desktop replacement laptop?), laptops generally don't have the larger capacity power supplies found in desktop and server machines. One of the easiest and simplest ways in terms of bang for the buck to reduce power consumption in a laptop is to put in a smaller, slower HDD. Heat is also a problem, since the tighter cases of laptops (which have less room and ventilation even as compared to blade servers) cause significant buildup of heat.
I'm sorry, I just don't think we'll see 15K RPM HDDs like the Savvio anytime soon.
Generally speaking, Seagate's Savvio line of HDDs are intended for server and enterprise storage (read: SAN/NAS) use, not for laptop use. 2.5" hard drives are particularly useful in some compact storage arrays or in blade servers. They probably consume wayyyy to much power for your average laptop. Also, most laptops don't feature SCSI storage. Most use IDE or SATA. It's possible that Seagate could, in the future, come out with a SATA version of this drive, but I don't think it's likely given the power consumption and heat characteristics of 15K RPM drives. Seagates laptop drives don't even break 7.2K.
If they stayed in Ameeeeerica, they'd get instafucked by the **AA. I imagine they're moving to Canaaada to get around that. Or at least delay it. Or for poutines.
Try Q-Tips and rubbing alcohol. That'll fix up your stiiiiiicking keeeeeys. HTH
And how it's marketed. His house would be considered what's called in the real estate business a 'unique' property. Unique properties tend to sell very, very slowly, but with the right buyer, they can pull in sometimes more money than the property is worth without the 'unique' attributes. In this case, a Star Trek junkie might really want the house in a big way considering the bridge layout of the basement. Unique properties need the right type of selling agent. But the seller has to has to have patience. Finding Trek junkies isn't difficult, but finding Trek junkies interested in buying your house, now that can be challenge!
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing about a year ago. Well, I started riding my bike to work (about 8 miles each way). I know that not everyone can do that
I wish. Current temperature where I'm at is 23 deg. F. With the windchill, it feels like 11 deg. F. Needless to say, I did not ride my bike to work today, especially since I work 23 miles away from where I live.
My eventual plan is to move to a warmer climate and live closer to where I work and either ride a bike to work or maybe even live close enough to walk to work. If all goes to plan, this will happen before the end of the year. We'll see.:)
I'll bet you have a car or maybe even an SUV. I'll bet it runs on gasoline, too. And I'll bet you drive it every day. I'll bet you have a home and I'll bet you have a furnace, too.
You really do have a choice. You are at least, in part, responsible for global warming, like or not. It's not that d4 3v1l 01l c0mp4n13z are forcing you to use their products. You use their products because they are plentiful, available, and cheap. It's the fact that the oil companies have made it plentiful, available and cheap and that they have used their powerful PACs and lobby groups to make sure that oil remains the most used energy product that relieves you of at least some of the responsibility.
Well Woz does have business skills. He is able to keep a job, maintain organizations, work well with people.
These are basic interpersonal skills, not business skills. Yes, they are very much needed in business, but they are skills that have applicability far beyond the workplace. It's a bit like saying that wearing clothes or tying your shoe are business skills.
Woz needed Jobs (and Jobs needed Woz) because one lacked what the other provided -- Jobs had the marketing and business savvy and Woz had the m4d 3l337 h4rdw4w3 sk1llz.
An OOP program that follows good object-oriented design principles will actually be very easy to debug.
Naturally in many types of scientific programming, object-oriened design isn't strictly necessary and can get in your way. Most of these programs are simple programs designed to do one task -- calculate this or simulate that. But as you get more and more complex, with lots of little discrete parts that need to interact in specific ways, object-oriented design is, IMHO, the only way to go.
The problem with most OOP programmers is that they fail to understand object-oriented design. I think it can best be compared with the UNIX philosophy of (in this case) each object doing one thing and doing it well.
All this being said, you're right when you say that OOP is geared as business programming and business logic. OOP is a perfect match for relational databases, for example. It's also a very good match for GUI development, since you have all of these compartmentalized pieces (widgets) that need to work together in a specific way (like when I click on the checkbox, this button needs to become activated, for example). If you don't have all of these compartmentalized pieces, then, yes, I agree that OOP just gets in the way.
The problems mentioned mostly exist for existing 'power' users who already know Office 2K3 and are unfamiliar with the new 'ribbon' interface of Office 2007. I think that the vast majority of users out there in the real world, however, use Microsoft Office as a fancy word processor and don't really know the true functionality of Word or Excel or PowerPoint.
For those users, the ribbon may be a great help in unlocking the use of the tool.
Of course, the real question is will the PHBs in major corporations see it that way? If they don't adopt Office 2007 in droves, it will die. If they do, then due to file format differences, everyone will be forced to upgrade and this becomes an entirely moot point. *sigh* Which is too bad for those of are using OpenOffice.org and other competing open source products.
It may also be used in copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is often licensed on a subscription model. Once the subscription expires, many companies typically end up using it anyway. Perhaps Red Hat is interested in stopping this. Notice that the patent covers use by application program os by operating systems. Red Hat is, first and foremost, an operating system vendor.
While the individual packages of RHEL are GPLed, the integrated OS as a whole is not. One interesting thought is -- what happens when packages in RHEL move to GPL V3? Will Red Hat be forced to not include them if they implement this DRM for RHEL?
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Well, considering that the vast majority of society is basically stupid and lacks the intelligence to think for themselves, the only solution is to kill all the people with IQs below 120, maybe even 130. If you don't know if you're included in the list of people to be killed or not, then yes, this means you.
Or be the fixed wireless provider myself for my complex and bring in the $$$$$.
:-D
Don't you think I already thought of this?
And what about the time spent with your SO in a room both using computers while chatting with each othe....
Oh, gods, I am a geek, aren't it?
ESR? Is that you?
While I agree with the another poster in this thread that intent seems more prevention and prosecution, in the case of an instant messaging, it is (or should be) well-known that IMs can be and are recorded by the IM service to search for terms-of-service violations. Besides, the law in question applies to phone calls, not Internet communications. I shouldn't have to tell you that I store all e-mails both sent and received on my hard drive. Same goes for IM.
That's the loophole.
They can't tell you that you can't have a satellite dish. That's what the state law states. But they can tell you that you can't bolt it to their building. So if you have a private balcony, as long as you have something else to bolt it to, you're ok. But if you don't have a private balcony, or if it's too small, or if there's no clear line of sight with the correct portion of the sky, you're out of luck.
Of course. Personally, I think the broadband providers have all illegally divided up the market. In most areas, you can get DSL, cable, FTTN, or wireless, but rarely can you seem to be able pick from more than one in the list. And in many cases, you can't even pick between cable providers.
While both WOW! and Comcast are available in my area, my apartment complex has an exclusive contract with Comcast so no other cable providers are allowed. And you can't get DSL because they won't let you run any lines to the building. Satellite is out because they won't let you put up a dish (despite the fact that this is illegal), and broadband mobile wireless service is conveniently not available yet.
Many cities in my region have exclusive deals with either Comcast or Bright House as well, despite the fact that competition was supposed to have been opened. Many of the competitve phone carriers don't offer DSL because AT&T has locked them out. And DSL is very much dependant on distance from the CO. Forget if you're like me and live in an outlying area of town.
I'll bet if you get that report, you'll be able to figure out exactly how AT&T and Comcast and so forth have divided up the market, providing each of them limited monopolies in set areas.
Give the poor guy a break. He is, after all, a former BBS SysOp. Most SysOps are horrible at spelling and grammar...that's why they became SysOps. ;)
:D)
(I'm a former BBS SysOp as well, so I'm making fun of myself as well.
You avoided the question instead of answering it. You said all sorts of things that indicate absolutely nothing about Apple's tendencies in regard to DRM-less music.
And whether Apple is in the music business to sell iPods or the iPod business to sell music isn't clear, and is actually irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The fact of the matter is that in the trailing 9 months ending on July 1, 2006, Apple received nearly $1.5 billion in net sales from its iTunes-related business. Yes, that's only a 1/4 of what it got from iPod sales, but I'm willing to bet the profit margins are much better on iTunes sales than they are on iPods.
Interesting. What makes you say that? I haven't seen any behavior out of Apple that indicates that it would be willing to sell DRM-free music or movies of any kind.
Heh. Don't you know anything? Most of us stupid Yanks don't know the difference between socialism and communism and many believe that they are the same thing, all the while not realizing that we've had socialism in the U.S. (albeit watered down) for more than 60 years. Anyway, FOSS isn't really a socialist or communist idea anyway. If anything, the ideals of Free Software are aligned more closely with American Libertarianism than anything else.
Many military aircraft already have highly effectivecountermeasures for both SAMs and AAMs. Upon detection of a missile, pilots are trained to fire countermeasures in order to avoid being shot down.
And you're right on the commercial passenger airliners: shooting down a passenger jet with even something as outdated as the F-15 would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Does anybody really think that any politicians are motivated by anything other than self-interest?
Everyone with me now:
Both Democrats and Republicans only pay lip service to caring about your rights. They only even pretend to care about your rights when it suits their agenda.
There's not much difference between them. Really. There's an old Washington saying that goes something like 'Nothing much ever changes in Washington.'
As for TFA, I'm with you that this is entirely unconstitutional and it completely violates our rights under the First Amendment. What I want to know is this: Exactly how do they intend to enforce this? Who's going to keep track of how many readers a blogger gets?
My bad. What I really meant to say is a 'SATA version for laptop use', not 'a SATA version'. They may very well come out with a SATA version of this drive for other uses. :)
Even if you had a laptop that had a SAS adapter like the i965, you still have the problems of power consumption and heat, and yes, these do apply to 'professional' or 'desktop replacement' laptops. Even if you completely disregard battery life (and who's gonna do that even in a desktop replacement laptop?), laptops generally don't have the larger capacity power supplies found in desktop and server machines. One of the easiest and simplest ways in terms of bang for the buck to reduce power consumption in a laptop is to put in a smaller, slower HDD. Heat is also a problem, since the tighter cases of laptops (which have less room and ventilation even as compared to blade servers) cause significant buildup of heat. I'm sorry, I just don't think we'll see 15K RPM HDDs like the Savvio anytime soon.
Generally speaking, Seagate's Savvio line of HDDs are intended for server and enterprise storage (read: SAN/NAS) use, not for laptop use. 2.5" hard drives are particularly useful in some compact storage arrays or in blade servers. They probably consume wayyyy to much power for your average laptop. Also, most laptops don't feature SCSI storage. Most use IDE or SATA. It's possible that Seagate could, in the future, come out with a SATA version of this drive, but I don't think it's likely given the power consumption and heat characteristics of 15K RPM drives. Seagates laptop drives don't even break 7.2K.
Try Q-Tips and rubbing alcohol. That'll fix up your stiiiiiicking keeeeeys. HTH
Here ya go. HTH.
And how it's marketed. His house would be considered what's called in the real estate business a 'unique' property. Unique properties tend to sell very, very slowly, but with the right buyer, they can pull in sometimes more money than the property is worth without the 'unique' attributes. In this case, a Star Trek junkie might really want the house in a big way considering the bridge layout of the basement. Unique properties need the right type of selling agent. But the seller has to has to have patience. Finding Trek junkies isn't difficult, but finding Trek junkies interested in buying your house, now that can be challenge!
I wish. Current temperature where I'm at is 23 deg. F. With the windchill, it feels like 11 deg. F. Needless to say, I did not ride my bike to work today, especially since I work 23 miles away from where I live.
My eventual plan is to move to a warmer climate and live closer to where I work and either ride a bike to work or maybe even live close enough to walk to work. If all goes to plan, this will happen before the end of the year. We'll see.
Oh? Think so?
I'll bet you have a car or maybe even an SUV. I'll bet it runs on gasoline, too. And I'll bet you drive it every day. I'll bet you have a home and I'll bet you have a furnace, too.
You really do have a choice. You are at least, in part, responsible for global warming, like or not. It's not that d4 3v1l 01l c0mp4n13z are forcing you to use their products. You use their products because they are plentiful, available, and cheap. It's the fact that the oil companies have made it plentiful, available and cheap and that they have used their powerful PACs and lobby groups to make sure that oil remains the most used energy product that relieves you of at least some of the responsibility.
These are basic interpersonal skills, not business skills. Yes, they are very much needed in business, but they are skills that have applicability far beyond the workplace. It's a bit like saying that wearing clothes or tying your shoe are business skills.
Woz needed Jobs (and Jobs needed Woz) because one lacked what the other provided -- Jobs had the marketing and business savvy and Woz had the m4d 3l337 h4rdw4w3 sk1llz.
An OOP program that follows good object-oriented design principles will actually be very easy to debug.
Naturally in many types of scientific programming, object-oriened design isn't strictly necessary and can get in your way. Most of these programs are simple programs designed to do one task -- calculate this or simulate that. But as you get more and more complex, with lots of little discrete parts that need to interact in specific ways, object-oriented design is, IMHO, the only way to go.
The problem with most OOP programmers is that they fail to understand object-oriented design. I think it can best be compared with the UNIX philosophy of (in this case) each object doing one thing and doing it well.
All this being said, you're right when you say that OOP is geared as business programming and business logic. OOP is a perfect match for relational databases, for example. It's also a very good match for GUI development, since you have all of these compartmentalized pieces (widgets) that need to work together in a specific way (like when I click on the checkbox, this button needs to become activated, for example). If you don't have all of these compartmentalized pieces, then, yes, I agree that OOP just gets in the way.
The problems mentioned mostly exist for existing 'power' users who already know Office 2K3 and are unfamiliar with the new 'ribbon' interface of Office 2007. I think that the vast majority of users out there in the real world, however, use Microsoft Office as a fancy word processor and don't really know the true functionality of Word or Excel or PowerPoint.
For those users, the ribbon may be a great help in unlocking the use of the tool.
Of course, the real question is will the PHBs in major corporations see it that way? If they don't adopt Office 2007 in droves, it will die. If they do, then due to file format differences, everyone will be forced to upgrade and this becomes an entirely moot point. *sigh* Which is too bad for those of are using OpenOffice.org and other competing open source products.
It may also be used in copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is often licensed on a subscription model. Once the subscription expires, many companies typically end up using it anyway. Perhaps Red Hat is interested in stopping this. Notice that the patent covers use by application program os by operating systems. Red Hat is, first and foremost, an operating system vendor.
While the individual packages of RHEL are GPLed, the integrated OS as a whole is not. One interesting thought is -- what happens when packages in RHEL move to GPL V3? Will Red Hat be forced to not include them if they implement this DRM for RHEL?