Incorrect. She was paraphrasing Voltaire's ideas into what she believed that his attitudes were at the time, as can be seen from the quote's context. She most likely put it in quotes to make the distinction between use and mention. I would have used italics in that case.
Heh, I get your point there, but most of the music I've gotten through torrents is at least 192 kbps CBR, usually 256-320 (CBR/VBR). Some FLAC too. I do have experience with audio, and for me, 192 kbps sounds perfectly acceptable for normal listening. So you're either using a shitty tracker or looking for some obscure album, or you're a very strict audiophile.:P
The problem isn't different levels, it's the company picking and choosing what's fast or slow on the same level. For example, an ISP could choose to speed up MSN traffic (with Microsoft paying them) while slowing down Yahoo! traffic, but I am paying the same price whichever website I visit. That is where your UPS analogy breaks apart, as edwdig mentions. It would be equivalent to me buying two equally priced items of the same weight and shape but produced by two different companies, and having UPS decide to ship one faster since its company payed more. Yes it makes sense that since the company payed more, UPS would ship it faster, but why then should I pay the same price on an item that gets to me more slowly?
Net neutrality in that sense is not the consumer paying to receive data faster, but the company paying to send data faster. Again, it's on the same level to the consumer. He pays the same price whether or not the bandwidth is throttled, and that's what the argument is about.
I'll have to agree with you, but really not everything is known about matter and energy. Perhaps they were so much more advanced than we are that there was some sort of "explosion", but not in the conventional way that we understand it.
Since you seem to know a bit about it and personally I haven't worked with complex network applications nor had to deal much with interoperating different architectures, where does endianness differ among them?
I'm only asking you because I prefer hearing things in people's words when dealing with technical details like this, rather than looking it up on Wikipedia.:P
AFAIK endianness has nothing to do with the order of bits, but rather concerns the order of bytes in memory. I was under the impression that it's either a standard (ISO?) or very widely agreed on.
Nevertheless I'd be willing to start a war over it.:P
Really 0 and 1 in any numeral system would be equal to 0 and 1 in decimal, but it's true that you wouldn't be able to tell which system it's in.
Also binary digits are written with higher values to the left, not to the right as in your post; it's the same as with decimal. Thus 4 in decimal would be 100 in binary, not 001.
I took the summary as meaning an installer of illegal software (with legality depending on local laws), rather than an illegal installer of software. IE, it groups the first two words: (illegal software) installer. So technically the summary isn't inaccurate as you said.
One Laptop Per Child and Intel Join Forces : An ambiguous if not misleading headline. Read the comments for more, but one thing that's not in question is that he used a pseudonym.
I don't know what the hell the size of that coin is, nor do I have much experience with SD cards. Fuck if they just put a line and small text indicating the size.
That's a somewhat bad analogy. The Mona Lisa painting is in the public domain, so you can copy it and basically do whatever you want with your copy.
Imagine going to an artist's gallery, and you see a well-done drawing and decide to sit there and draw it yourself. The artist would probably yell at you, and the legality of copying it like that is probably in a sort of grey-area, depending on how you intend to use it. However, you can't go and make copies then go selling them to people or places... He solely has copyright on the work and chooses how and where to distribute it. You have no right to sell copies of his drawing.
But say you wrote notes on where he drew certain lines and how he used shading for an interesting effect, and interpreted what sort of style he was going for. Basically you're writing a review of the work. To me that's what guitar tabs are. Sort of like reverse engineering, but it's mostly like a guideline of what the music sounds like.
I'm guessing that to have a situation like the one in the gallery, you would have to break into an artist's house and copy his personal tabs or sheet music that he wrote for the music, then distribute copies of that. It's very different that listening to a song and guessing how it's played.
I can't see at all how guitar tabs infringe on copyrights, lessen the value of the music, or prevent the sales of albums. And those would seem to be the only reasons for taking them down, to me at least.
I don't think that LEDs are energy efficient enough (as in lumens per watt) to use in place of CFLs, at least not today. But then those more interested in having lighting with a wider spectrum of colors without the peaks that CFLs produce, LEDs are the way to go.
Terms such as "soft," "warm," or "daylight" really aren't adequate to describe the color of light that a light bulb emits. Each company has different labeling systems for the bulbs they produce, and one's "warm" may be another's "daylight." It's much more descriptive when color temperatures are stated on the package, yet even today a lot of packaging omits this, or it has to be derived from the product code or model number.
Usually I lean toward fluorescent light bulbs with a color temperature of 3400 to 4400 K, as it's a bit more neutral than incandescents, but not as harsh as some poorly produced 5000 K bulbs that I have seen. It's really up to personal taste.
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Incorrect. She was paraphrasing Voltaire's ideas into what she believed that his attitudes were at the time, as can be seen from the quote's context. She most likely put it in quotes to make the distinction between use and mention. I would have used italics in that case.
See the quote on Wikiquote for an explanation.
Yes, let's start citing Urban Dictionary as our etymological source.
Heh, I get your point there, but most of the music I've gotten through torrents is at least 192 kbps CBR, usually 256-320 (CBR/VBR). Some FLAC too. :P
I do have experience with audio, and for me, 192 kbps sounds perfectly acceptable for normal listening. So you're either using a shitty tracker or looking for some obscure album, or you're a very strict audiophile.
You really got me worrying about what happened to the "you insensitive clod!" meme... Anybody?
The problem isn't different levels, it's the company picking and choosing what's fast or slow on the same level. For example, an ISP could choose to speed up MSN traffic (with Microsoft paying them) while slowing down Yahoo! traffic, but I am paying the same price whichever website I visit. That is where your UPS analogy breaks apart, as edwdig mentions. It would be equivalent to me buying two equally priced items of the same weight and shape but produced by two different companies, and having UPS decide to ship one faster since its company payed more. Yes it makes sense that since the company payed more, UPS would ship it faster, but why then should I pay the same price on an item that gets to me more slowly?
Net neutrality in that sense is not the consumer paying to receive data faster, but the company paying to send data faster. Again, it's on the same level to the consumer. He pays the same price whether or not the bandwidth is throttled, and that's what the argument is about.
OH. MY. GOD.
Amazing.
I'll have to agree with you, but really not everything is known about matter and energy. Perhaps they were so much more advanced than we are that there was some sort of "explosion", but not in the conventional way that we understand it.
Since you seem to know a bit about it and personally I haven't worked with complex network applications nor had to deal much with interoperating different architectures, where does endianness differ among them?
:P
I'm only asking you because I prefer hearing things in people's words when dealing with technical details like this, rather than looking it up on Wikipedia.
AFAIK endianness has nothing to do with the order of bits, but rather concerns the order of bytes in memory. I was under the impression that it's either a standard (ISO?) or very widely agreed on.
:P
Nevertheless I'd be willing to start a war over it.
I always keep that around in case my keyboard stops functioning. :P
It's a great program for any purpose.
I know you're joking, but the difference has to do with significant figures and arithmetic precision.
Really 0 and 1 in any numeral system would be equal to 0 and 1 in decimal, but it's true that you wouldn't be able to tell which system it's in.
Also binary digits are written with higher values to the left, not to the right as in your post; it's the same as with decimal. Thus 4 in decimal would be 100 in binary, not 001.
I took the summary as meaning an installer of illegal software (with legality depending on local laws), rather than an illegal installer of software. IE, it groups the first two words: (illegal software) installer. So technically the summary isn't inaccurate as you said.
Hmm... that's too many menus to go through just to access messages. IMO a good GUI would have it available in two clicks/selections at most.
Well I WAS using joeblow@aol.com, but fuck if I won't get spam now... Thanks a lot Slashdot!
Whoever took that picture should read this.
I don't know what the hell the size of that coin is, nor do I have much experience with SD cards. Fuck if they just put a line and small text indicating the size.
I cringe with the thought of touching my back to the bottom of a toilet lid.
Although apparently the toilet is one of the cleaner places in a home.
That's a somewhat bad analogy. The Mona Lisa painting is in the public domain, so you can copy it and basically do whatever you want with your copy.
Imagine going to an artist's gallery, and you see a well-done drawing and decide to sit there and draw it yourself. The artist would probably yell at you, and the legality of copying it like that is probably in a sort of grey-area, depending on how you intend to use it. However, you can't go and make copies then go selling them to people or places... He solely has copyright on the work and chooses how and where to distribute it. You have no right to sell copies of his drawing.
But say you wrote notes on where he drew certain lines and how he used shading for an interesting effect, and interpreted what sort of style he was going for. Basically you're writing a review of the work. To me that's what guitar tabs are. Sort of like reverse engineering, but it's mostly like a guideline of what the music sounds like.
I'm guessing that to have a situation like the one in the gallery, you would have to break into an artist's house and copy his personal tabs or sheet music that he wrote for the music, then distribute copies of that. It's very different that listening to a song and guessing how it's played.
I can't see at all how guitar tabs infringe on copyrights, lessen the value of the music, or prevent the sales of albums. And those would seem to be the only reasons for taking them down, to me at least.
Assuming they're women, yeah... Unless the said hydrant were in San Francisco. But then again, the piracy there is more of the butt kind.
Butt pirates thailing the theven theas, as it were.
Oh my god.
Animated gifs, a dynamic JavaScript title bar, icons that follow the mouse, a confusing layout, AND embedded background music?
BEST. WEBSITE. EVAR.
I bet it would get 6 stars from Bob's Top 50 List of Super-Cool Intartube Webpages.
Must you invoke Godwin's Law so quickly in the discussion?
Off-topic:
Woo, Omaha!
I don't think that LEDs are energy efficient enough (as in lumens per watt) to use in place of CFLs, at least not today. But then those more interested in having lighting with a wider spectrum of colors without the peaks that CFLs produce, LEDs are the way to go.
Terms such as "soft," "warm," or "daylight" really aren't adequate to describe the color of light that a light bulb emits. Each company has different labeling systems for the bulbs they produce, and one's "warm" may be another's "daylight." It's much more descriptive when color temperatures are stated on the package, yet even today a lot of packaging omits this, or it has to be derived from the product code or model number.
Usually I lean toward fluorescent light bulbs with a color temperature of 3400 to 4400 K, as it's a bit more neutral than incandescents, but not as harsh as some poorly produced 5000 K bulbs that I have seen. It's really up to personal taste.