For one thing, when a site gets slashdotted, every single hit got served up by slashdot first. There isn't any magical multiplier that makes a slashdot page equal ten story hits, although if you click refresh madly you can imitate this.
Also, you can't slashdot say google. Anything bigger than slashdot's servers will simply see an increase in traffic, and handle it.
The problem comes up when a small server on a small pipe which is used to hundreds of hits per hour starts getting thousands per second.
If it is fair use, no rationalization is needed. No rationalization is legitimate, but it isn't relevant.
It's sad to see the changes. When I was a teen, everybody taped their favorite music on cassette (legally), traded them, etc. The RIAA wants to take that right away from us. Doesn't that bother you? Is it really so different that the broadcast was realaudio and the cassette recorder was a computer?
It is also impossible to be caught doing this. Unless p2p dies and everybody starts ripping library CDs. Then the RIAA would probably subpoena library records and perform illegal searches of frequent renters homes.
Do I really need to indicate sarcasm in my post? It ruins the humor.
Of course it is impossible to predict everything forever. I was simply making a feeble attempt at humor. I apparently failed in at least the case of EgoManiacUK, for which I apologize.
And yes, these damn bridges are really going to fuck up flying car airspace. They should be dismantled immediately, since we won't need them and they'll be in the way.
If these math-challenged alleged planners were any good at planning, they'd have predicted the invention of the automobile and arranged their cities accordingly.
Any idiot can arrange a city so that it works right then. It takes a true City Planner to plan a city to work indefinitely.
If you like accidents you'll love what they did to my street.
It's a one-way, 2 lanes with parking on the right. They converted it to 1 lane, with parking on the left between 7pm and 7am, 2 lanes during the day. There's always one car left at 7am, someone plows into it at 30mph, they tow the results away. It's truly brilliant. More parking for everyone at night, more driving area during the day, and I get a free alarm clock.
My library allows me to check out 10 DVDs at a time. I can place holds online for as many DVDs as I want, but I only get 10 at a time. They have had this system since the 90s.
It is not a violation of copyright to record a radio broadcast for personal use. Nor is it a violation of copyright to record a video broadcast. Why are you so determined to give our rights away to media cartels?
I guess it depends. I end up with a lot of newer compression files, 500MB vs 4.8 GB for dvd, so there's your order of magnitude. I used to convert them to DVD before I could play to my TV, now if I need to I just store the file on DVD, negating that benefit.
Lately, I've been busy enough that I'd pay $200 to not have to burn 100 dvds, then have to store them, have to find them, end up with duplicates, etc.
I don't actually use a tivo, just tivolike hacked-together pc.
It's funny, my cheapest dvd player is my last resort for scratched/cooked/ubercheap-blank related problems. I hate it because it has a shitty interface, but when my nice dvd player can't play it and my nice plextor can't play it, Oberon saves the day.
With how cheap storage is, there is no reason not to have hundreds if not thousands of hours of shows hanging around indefinitely. Let's assume 500MB/hour and 500 GB storage ($200 lately 2x250GB IDE drives)
That's 1000 hours of programming for $200. Getting cheaper every minute.
I think many people's time would be better spent adding storage to avoid burning/shuffling dvds.
I used to keep my music on CDs for everyday use, now I just throw some in the car, everything at work and home is on hard drive. I expect the same will happen for video.
Well I would never defend echostar's sales tactics, which hover between criminal and downright evil.
The users got the echostar PVR because it was "free" and recorded shows digitally. They knew it wasn't a tivo, they hoped it would act just like one. I had several customers who assumed that all PVRs were made by tivo, the free ones just had different nameplates or something.
If echostar was marketing fake tivos it'd be an open and shut trademark infringement instead of a contested patent case.
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Smart. It's always a good policy to lurk for awhile to avoid those sticky issues.
I have started seeing hints of unhappiness about tivo from the fanbase. I'd say Tivo's ipod-like clamp on loyalty is loosening. Your theoretical knowledge might become fashionable should customers decide Tivo's gone bad. Then it becomes necessary to continue using the hardware.
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You just supplied the perfect defense for echostar.
Tivo owners are very loyal/rabid about Tivo. I worked at echostar during a bad time in my life, and got dozens of calls about our PVR. Everyone was disappointed or angry that it wasn't a tivo, they wanted tivo, why wasn't it like tivo, etc.
Echostar just needs to play a few hundred of these calls to prove that their PVR is nothing. like. tivo.
If you think the whole Mac/PC beef is religious in nature, try the Tivo/anything else one.
It's cast, not gold plate or fill. That means the case is solid 18k
Don't fall for this crap. Yeah, it's cast. With Nickel/Tin. Then lovingly gold-plated. They lie to you. Anything from fingerhut with 1 carat of diamonds (split into 63 worthless pieces) isn't made from solid gold.
I know this isn't from fingerhut, and claims to be made from solid gold. But come on, it sure seems like it!
What? The 24 caret gold and studded diamonds aren't enough of a tipoff?
I'll tell you what 24 caret gold and studded diamonds remind me of: Fingerhut. In other words, Crap. Cheap crap. With tiny worthless diamonds and a thin but pure gold electroplate coating. I am so glad this shit of a company ruined my image of richness, but forever gold and diamonds will seem cheap, tacky, and Forever Fingerhut.
Not telling you the price? That's Infomercial 101. Don't answer yet, there's more!
The thing looks like crap, too - only reinforcing my gut reaction.
DifEQ at my school (UC Santa Barbara) was a notorious major-breaker. I nearly got flung out of the college of engineering over it.
Sadly, I wasn't required to take it, went down the wrong road of prereqs until I found myself staring at my first F ever. Once that happened, I had to retake it (summer school, similar F) then next year (different instructor, A-)
Math had been fun and easy for me until then. It truly hurt my brain to sit through class, homework was utterly impossible. I had a breakthrough (or breakdown) and wound up understanding it enough to use it, which I had seen fellow students doing ever since geometry. I didn't have the heart to take any math classes since.
I've met people who say DifEQ is easy, and when I show them my final they generally scream. I had a 10 page solution that the TA said "good work, concise" and he didn't have a sense of humor.
Slashdot Mirror
For one thing, when a site gets slashdotted, every single hit got served up by slashdot first. There isn't any magical multiplier that makes a slashdot page equal ten story hits, although if you click refresh madly you can imitate this.
Also, you can't slashdot say google. Anything bigger than slashdot's servers will simply see an increase in traffic, and handle it.
The problem comes up when a small server on a small pipe which is used to hundreds of hits per hour starts getting thousands per second.
I still haven't found a dvd I couldn't rip.
It's sad to see the changes. When I was a teen, everybody taped their favorite music on cassette (legally), traded them, etc. The RIAA wants to take that right away from us. Doesn't that bother you? Is it really so different that the broadcast was realaudio and the cassette recorder was a computer?
It is also impossible to be caught doing this. Unless p2p dies and everybody starts ripping library CDs. Then the RIAA would probably subpoena library records and perform illegal searches of frequent renters homes.
Of course it is impossible to predict everything forever. I was simply making a feeble attempt at humor. I apparently failed in at least the case of EgoManiacUK, for which I apologize.
And yes, these damn bridges are really going to fuck up flying car airspace. They should be dismantled immediately, since we won't need them and they'll be in the way.
If these math-challenged alleged planners were any good at planning, they'd have predicted the invention of the automobile and arranged their cities accordingly.
Any idiot can arrange a city so that it works right then. It takes a true City Planner to plan a city to work indefinitely.
It's a one-way, 2 lanes with parking on the right. They converted it to 1 lane, with parking on the left between 7pm and 7am, 2 lanes during the day. There's always one car left at 7am, someone plows into it at 30mph, they tow the results away. It's truly brilliant. More parking for everyone at night, more driving area during the day, and I get a free alarm clock.
Pure Profit!
My library allows me to check out 10 DVDs at a time. I can place holds online for as many DVDs as I want, but I only get 10 at a time. They have had this system since the 90s.
It is not a violation of copyright to record a radio broadcast for personal use. Nor is it a violation of copyright to record a video broadcast. Why are you so determined to give our rights away to media cartels?
Decode again using rot-13 and then decode with PGP.
Simple!
Lately, I've been busy enough that I'd pay $200 to not have to burn 100 dvds, then have to store them, have to find them, end up with duplicates, etc.
I don't actually use a tivo, just tivolike hacked-together pc.
It's funny, my cheapest dvd player is my last resort for scratched/cooked/ubercheap-blank related problems. I hate it because it has a shitty interface, but when my nice dvd player can't play it and my nice plextor can't play it, Oberon saves the day.
That's 1000 hours of programming for $200. Getting cheaper every minute.
I think many people's time would be better spent adding storage to avoid burning/shuffling dvds.
I used to keep my music on CDs for everyday use, now I just throw some in the car, everything at work and home is on hard drive. I expect the same will happen for video.
[spews coffee]
I wonder if they get any calls about the service being a little too Comcastic?
The users got the echostar PVR because it was "free" and recorded shows digitally. They knew it wasn't a tivo, they hoped it would act just like one. I had several customers who assumed that all PVRs were made by tivo, the free ones just had different nameplates or something.
If echostar was marketing fake tivos it'd be an open and shut trademark infringement instead of a contested patent case.
I have started seeing hints of unhappiness about tivo from the fanbase. I'd say Tivo's ipod-like clamp on loyalty is loosening. Your theoretical knowledge might become fashionable should customers decide Tivo's gone bad. Then it becomes necessary to continue using the hardware.
You need 2) ???
funny mods do not add karma.
Tivo owners are very loyal/rabid about Tivo. I worked at echostar during a bad time in my life, and got dozens of calls about our PVR. Everyone was disappointed or angry that it wasn't a tivo, they wanted tivo, why wasn't it like tivo, etc.
Echostar just needs to play a few hundred of these calls to prove that their PVR is nothing. like. tivo.
If you think the whole Mac/PC beef is religious in nature, try the Tivo/anything else one.
Don't fall for this crap. Yeah, it's cast. With Nickel/Tin. Then lovingly gold-plated. They lie to you. Anything from fingerhut with 1 carat of diamonds (split into 63 worthless pieces) isn't made from solid gold.
I know this isn't from fingerhut, and claims to be made from solid gold. But come on, it sure seems like it!
Negativland did a really good song about freedom with hilariously sad quotes.
The strongest word is still the word "Free."
At 7-11 freedom's waiting for you.
I'm guessing it isn't gonna be free as in Free.
I'll tell you what 24 caret gold and studded diamonds remind me of: Fingerhut. In other words, Crap. Cheap crap. With tiny worthless diamonds and a thin but pure gold electroplate coating. I am so glad this shit of a company ruined my image of richness, but forever gold and diamonds will seem cheap, tacky, and Forever Fingerhut.
Not telling you the price? That's Infomercial 101. Don't answer yet, there's more!
The thing looks like crap, too - only reinforcing my gut reaction.
Sadly, I wasn't required to take it, went down the wrong road of prereqs until I found myself staring at my first F ever. Once that happened, I had to retake it (summer school, similar F) then next year (different instructor, A-)
Math had been fun and easy for me until then. It truly hurt my brain to sit through class, homework was utterly impossible. I had a breakthrough (or breakdown) and wound up understanding it enough to use it, which I had seen fellow students doing ever since geometry. I didn't have the heart to take any math classes since.
I've met people who say DifEQ is easy, and when I show them my final they generally scream. I had a 10 page solution that the TA said "good work, concise" and he didn't have a sense of humor.
I'm wondering how it became the "world's most expensive mp3 player."