Exactly how does me buying MORE music justify me also paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil fees and being placed in jail with murders?! Either I'm crazy or the law needs to be changed.
No offense, but you're crazy. Example: "I robbed a bank and invested the money. It is now worth 25% more than, I started with. I gave the original money back, and either I'm crazy or the law needs to be changed."
Unfortunately, the RIAA can do with whatever they want with their protection. Anyways, how should the law be changed? Should we allow infringement in cases where the holder profited later? Bogus.
Call me crazy, but I don't think I know anyone with less than that.
Uhh, they are talking about sharing an average of 1,000 songs. It is funny, but as much as/.'ers whine about this, if you had 1,000,000 songs on your hardrive and didn't ever share them, you would be free of this litigation.
Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).
That isn't necessarily a good recommendation. It is hard to tell what he is thinking now (he gives, what I believe to be an accurate description of the lifters), but he still suggests that it is an antigravity effect. I have not seen any indication that it is anything other than the ionocraft he suggests it is. (BTW - Why do quack theorists always use patents to suggest they are scientifically sound? Patents are written by lawyers, science is written by scientists.) That said, lifters are cool, assuming you don't shock yourself to death.
There are two things that could be at work here. First, scientists may hate everything to do with cold fusion and not want to see it go anywhere. And/Or, Two, the media may be fueling the perception that scientists don't want anything to do with it.
I spoke with a nobel laureate physicist about cold fusion. I found that while he didn't think there was much to cold fusion (it isn't his primary area of research, but if he can't comment on it, who can?), I didn't get the feeling he held the anomosity usually attributed to the scientific community at large. (I frankly don't either) I think that the media plays a significant role in blackening the field. Kind of like the kid on the playground who eggs on fights, but never participates in them.
Scientists believe in publication, in particular good ones. If cold fusion-ites publish interesting/good research on the subject, they will be recognized. As pointed out in the above link, there was a seemingly cold fusion-like experiment that was published in science quite recently (it isn't quite cold fusion, because the events themselves are hot and very small).
Most scientists deal with skeptical peers regularly, this isn't just a property of the cold fusion community. That said, just because there is a conference on it doesn't make it real or even interesting. I personally find it interesting, but I wouldn't bet on seeing commercial applications of this in our lifetimes.
Hmm. Heh, looks like/. messed up on numbering the old comments. If you look closely the comments are not numbered in order of submission, but by ascending user_id #. Only once does the user_id drop. Heh. Nothing is more satisfying than looking at someone elses bugs (as opposed to the despair of looking at your own:)
When will M$ wake up and realize that their anti-competitive practices are the *reason* that asian governments want to build their own os. M$ doesn't innovate (its obvious, yet they keep saying they do), they act arrogantly and write unfair agreements, etc. It serves them right.
This is a problem for me as well (as a user). I happen to have a couple of job duties that make me on a lot of email books. I get message undeliverable bounces all the time. I filter it at the client level(with Mozilla), and I am quite happy with that.
Heh. So what exactly are you looking for? I find it funny that you bitch about options but have no problem with the weight of these machines. I once bought a dell inspiron 7500 (w/ 15.4" screen!) and it weighed 9lbs. 9.6lbs is *soooo* heavy, you should just by a desktop. Anyway, as others have said, a dell will have what you need for less. Maybe you should change your tune. I have a c400 (2.9lbs) with 500 MB RAM and a 1.2GHz processor and a 19" lcd for less than these machines.
Almost every comment is pointing out that 512k typo. I bet that 512k wouldn't even hold all of them. Although my first reaction was, "Well that is his problem!"
What if you had to retab a large block of code because you added another while, an if statement, or a handler? Where do you stop tabbing? Also, have you ever tried editing python code in vi and emacs? It doesn't work with default settings. Your statement, however, is the perfect example of why this annoys me. You simply wipe your table clean by saying it isn't important. It *obviously* is important or it wouldn't have hung around this long...
Sounds like a typical Mac and Windows situation to me. When they finally release a media service for linux you'll probably have to check out songs with CVS!
You are correct, I didn't think my answer/solution through fully. That said, I'm still not a fan of the whitespace requirement. It frustrates the heck out of me when I switch between vi and emacs on new/different systems.
-Sean
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I love python, I use it alot. That said, I hate the whitespace problems with the language. I cannot figure out why they don't at least *give* you the option of not using that horrible, horrible design. Why is it flawed? In my opinion it is flawed because a miss tabbed document cannot be reliably retabbed without knowledge of the code. For example:
while 1: ---->while 1: --------->dosomething; xxxxx>i+=1;
Now where did the i+=1 go? I don't know. The way I deal with it is by doing this:
while 1: ---->while 1: ---------->dosomething; ---------->pass; --- ->somethingelse; ---->i=i+1; ---->pass;
But that's a poor solution, because it isn't a standard. Add f*ing c-like bracket block notation already! It isn't that hard and if you don't want to use it then don't. I don't get it they add all of these wierd obfuscated lets-see-how-long-we-can-make-a-single-line-of-cod e additions but not this. Dumb, IMO./rant
I disagree completely, I think the SCO articles are some of the most interesting on/. That said, I think it is funny that it isn't associated with SCO/Caldera. It seems to be associated with everything else.
And besides, how many bicycles are actually made from aluminum or fancy alloys/composites?
I'm not sure if I understand your statement, but as written, the answer is lots! Aluminum frames are common in the US and Europe and chrome/steel alloys are even more common. I would bet that most bikes are made of fancy steel alloys and aluminum places second, with still a large number of bikes produced.
Hmmm. I'm looking forward to getting impaled by a broken bamboo shard after falling in a minor collision (or sitting on a slightly weakened stem/seat post). But seriously, I would think this would be difficult to produce in any quantity because bamboo varies in size, unlike metal components. Other than that, I think this would be a cool LA Venice Beach thing....
I'm really suspicious of SBC. Here in California they air feel good commercials that basically tell us all how good they are, and how bad everyone else is. I have a hard time trusting companies that do that, it usually means that people have a reason not to like them. Also they have ads trying to tell us that they are the oldest company, and therefore the best ("looking back, moving forward. S-B-C"). My understanding is that they have just been sucking up baby bells since the decision that allowed them to do so (mid-nineties).
Uhh, no. I think here they are referring to the total value of the software on the computer. Usually, people on the/. complain about N copies * Value of N = total value of loss. This is different, they are summing up the total value of the software/media on the computer *not* the loss incurred by copying it some number of times. In my opinion, this is the totally appropriate way to deal with this. Anyways, it always strikes me as kind of funny that people complain that they traded a bunch of stuff, then get hit with the loss = N * value argument in court and whine. Trading software/media is not fair use under any definition for most purposes.
You are totally correct. Companies, home users, even academics are moving to NAT quickly. I bet we could even see a *reduction* in needed IP's if trends continue as they are....
Combine that with virtual servers and dynamic IPs and suddenly static IPs aren't as valuable as they once were.
#3. The clock speed is a good estimate for processor performance
They implied it here, but even in this world today, there are competent people that think clock speed actually matters when comparing one processor over another. I had an IT person who controls a pretty big budget actually compare a processor in a 8way Sun server to a 21264 alpha chip using only the magnitude of the clock speed as the only performance benchmark. As most (should) know, clock speed works for ranking processors within a family, but mean very, very little in the real world. It's obvious, but as long as purchasers think this is true bad decisions are being made...
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Exactly how does me buying MORE music justify me also paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil fees and being placed in jail with murders?! Either I'm crazy or the law needs to be changed.
No offense, but you're crazy. Example: "I robbed a bank and invested the money. It is now worth 25% more than, I started with. I gave the original money back, and either I'm crazy or the law needs to be changed."
Unfortunately, the RIAA can do with whatever they want with their protection. Anyways, how should the law be changed? Should we allow infringement in cases where the holder profited later? Bogus.
-Sean
Call me crazy, but I don't think I know anyone with less than that.
/.'ers whine about this, if you had 1,000,000 songs on your hardrive and didn't ever share them, you would be free of this litigation.
Uhh, they are talking about sharing an average of 1,000 songs. It is funny, but as much as
-Sean
Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).
That isn't necessarily a good recommendation. It is hard to tell what he is thinking now (he gives, what I believe to be an accurate description of the lifters), but he still suggests that it is an antigravity effect. I have not seen any indication that it is anything other than the ionocraft he suggests it is. (BTW - Why do quack theorists always use patents to suggest they are scientifically sound? Patents are written by lawyers, science is written by scientists.) That said, lifters are cool, assuming you don't shock yourself to death.
See the original slashdot article for more info.
-Sean
There are two things that could be at work here. First, scientists may hate everything to do with cold fusion and not want to see it go anywhere. And/Or, Two, the media may be fueling the perception that scientists don't want anything to do with it.
I spoke with a nobel laureate physicist about cold fusion. I found that while he didn't think there was much to cold fusion (it isn't his primary area of research, but if he can't comment on it, who can?), I didn't get the feeling he held the anomosity usually attributed to the scientific community at large. (I frankly don't either) I think that the media plays a significant role in blackening the field. Kind of like the kid on the playground who eggs on fights, but never participates in them.
Scientists believe in publication, in particular good ones. If cold fusion-ites publish interesting/good research on the subject, they will be recognized. As pointed out in the above link, there was a seemingly cold fusion-like experiment that was published in science quite recently (it isn't quite cold fusion, because the events themselves are hot and very small).
Most scientists deal with skeptical peers regularly, this isn't just a property of the cold fusion community. That said, just because there is a conference on it doesn't make it real or even interesting. I personally find it interesting, but I wouldn't bet on seeing commercial applications of this in our lifetimes.
-Sean
Hmm. Heh, looks like /. messed up on numbering the old comments. If you look closely the comments are not numbered in order of submission, but by ascending user_id #. Only once does the user_id drop. Heh. Nothing is more satisfying than looking at someone elses bugs (as opposed to the despair of looking at your own :)
-Sean
Tell napster about RIAA's power.
-Sean
When will M$ wake up and realize that their anti-competitive practices are the *reason* that asian governments want to build their own os. M$ doesn't innovate (its obvious, yet they keep saying they do), they act arrogantly and write unfair agreements, etc. It serves them right.
-Sean
This is a problem for me as well (as a user). I happen to have a couple of job duties that make me on a lot of email books. I get message undeliverable bounces all the time. I filter it at the client level(with Mozilla), and I am quite happy with that.
-Sean
Your Credit Card Statement may work as a suitable alternative. Especially if you have an extended warrantee though your card.
-Sean
Heh. I guess my point was that I'm happier with a light laptop with 90% the features than a heavy one with 100%.
-Sean
We pay them for maintaining a huge organisation which is dedictated to copy and distribute music.
I am not particularly fond of the RIAA, but in their defense, the RIAA is as much an investor in music as it is a distribution channel.
-Sean
From Alienware:
Weight: 9.6lbs. w/ Battery
Heh. So what exactly are you looking for? I find it funny that you bitch about options but have no problem with the weight of these machines. I once bought a dell inspiron 7500 (w/ 15.4" screen!) and it weighed 9lbs. 9.6lbs is *soooo* heavy, you should just by a desktop. Anyway, as others have said, a dell will have what you need for less. Maybe you should change your tune. I have a c400 (2.9lbs) with 500 MB RAM and a 1.2GHz processor and a 19" lcd for less than these machines.
-Sean
Almost every comment is pointing out that 512k typo. I bet that 512k wouldn't even hold all of them. Although my first reaction was, "Well that is his problem!"
-Sean
What if you had to retab a large block of code because you added another while, an if statement, or a handler? Where do you stop tabbing? Also, have you ever tried editing python code in vi and emacs? It doesn't work with default settings. Your statement, however, is the perfect example of why this annoys me. You simply wipe your table clean by saying it isn't important. It *obviously* is important or it wouldn't have hung around this long...
-Sean
Sounds like a typical Mac and Windows situation to me. When they finally release a media service for linux you'll probably have to check out songs with CVS!
-Sean
You are correct, I didn't think my answer/solution through fully. That said, I'm still not a fan of the whitespace requirement. It frustrates the heck out of me when I switch between vi and emacs on new/different systems.
-Sean
I love python, I use it alot. That said, I hate the whitespace problems with the language. I cannot figure out why they don't at least *give* you the option of not using that horrible, horrible design. Why is it flawed? In my opinion it is flawed because a miss tabbed document cannot be reliably retabbed without knowledge of the code. For example:
- ->somethingelse;
d e additions but not this. Dumb, IMO. /rant
while 1:
---->while 1:
--------->dosomething;
xxxxx>i+=1;
Now where did the i+=1 go? I don't know. The way I deal with it is by doing this:
while 1:
---->while 1:
---------->dosomething;
---------->pass;
--
---->i=i+1;
---->pass;
But that's a poor solution, because it isn't a standard. Add f*ing c-like bracket block notation already! It isn't that hard and if you don't want to use it then don't. I don't get it they add all of these wierd obfuscated lets-see-how-long-we-can-make-a-single-line-of-co
-Sean
I disagree completely, I think the SCO articles are some of the most interesting on /. That said, I think it is funny that it isn't associated with SCO/Caldera. It seems to be associated with everything else.
-Sean
And besides, how many bicycles are actually made from aluminum or fancy alloys/composites?
I'm not sure if I understand your statement, but as written, the answer is lots! Aluminum frames are common in the US and Europe and chrome/steel alloys are even more common. I would bet that most bikes are made of fancy steel alloys and aluminum places second, with still a large number of bikes produced.
-Sean
Hmmm. I'm looking forward to getting impaled by a broken bamboo shard after falling in a minor collision (or sitting on a slightly weakened stem/seat post). But seriously, I would think this would be difficult to produce in any quantity because bamboo varies in size, unlike metal components. Other than that, I think this would be a cool LA Venice Beach thing....
-Sean
I'm really suspicious of SBC. Here in California they air feel good commercials that basically tell us all how good they are, and how bad everyone else is. I have a hard time trusting companies that do that, it usually means that people have a reason not to like them. Also they have ads trying to tell us that they are the oldest company, and therefore the best ("looking back, moving forward. S-B-C"). My understanding is that they have just been sucking up baby bells since the decision that allowed them to do so (mid-nineties).
-Sean
Uhh, no. I think here they are referring to the total value of the software on the computer. Usually, people on the /. complain about N copies * Value of N = total value of loss. This is different, they are summing up the total value of the software/media on the computer *not* the loss incurred by copying it some number of times. In my opinion, this is the totally appropriate way to deal with this. Anyways, it always strikes me as kind of funny that people complain that they traded a bunch of stuff, then get hit with the loss = N * value argument in court and whine. Trading software/media is not fair use under any definition for most purposes.
-Sean
Best interview ever....
-Sean
You are totally correct. Companies, home users, even academics are moving to NAT quickly. I bet we could even see a *reduction* in needed IP's if trends continue as they are....
Combine that with virtual servers and dynamic IPs and suddenly static IPs aren't as valuable as they once were.
-Sean
#3: Instruction sets don't matter
I would say:
#3. The clock speed is a good estimate for processor performance
They implied it here, but even in this world today, there are competent people that think clock speed actually matters when comparing one processor over another. I had an IT person who controls a pretty big budget actually compare a processor in a 8way Sun server to a 21264 alpha chip using only the magnitude of the clock speed as the only performance benchmark. As most (should) know, clock speed works for ranking processors within a family, but mean very, very little in the real world. It's obvious, but as long as purchasers think this is true bad decisions are being made...
-Sean