Someone needs to pony up a billion dollars for clinical trials. No drug company wants to unless they have a monopoly on the drug. There's your fucking problem!
Slashdot is. I enjoy the global participation here, but slashdot is a US site with a primarily US audience. The internet doesn't speak English either, but you won't find many posts here in Dutch. Hell, you don't find many posts here in English with all the illiterate Americans dominating the site.
It is hard to discuss things in a global manner all the time. You'll notice TFA is on a US site discussing the situation in the US. You don't have to disparage people for discussing things in the US unless specified otherwise.
Because in real terms, the difference between 10 GB and 100 GB is vastly larger than the difference between 1 MB and 10 MB.
That's the same kind of logic that gets applied to the national debt. "Well, as a percentage of GDP, it isn't that big." Okay, but in real terms, it's fucking huge and that causes problems.
No, you're wrong. Was it harder to go from 1GHz to 2GHz CPUs than from 1Mhz to 2 Mhz? No. Memory? No. Disk drives? No. Networks use many technologies that are improving exponentially. There are breakthrough technologies that add several orders of magnitude. The steady improvement rate seems to be to double every year. Hell, I remember when Gigabit ethernet seemed crazy a few years back. Now it's already old and cheap. Terabit is now possible. If things continue at this rate we'll have petabit internet for $30/month in 20 years. It'll probably be sooner.
It's actually not uncommon. If you feel cheated, there are drugs you can take to enable this feature. Some models autoenable this feature for no reason.
It might be like P4 hyperthreading, where if it is disabled when the OS is installed it is disabled until you reinstall the OS. Enabling it in BIOS looks nice, but the OS support isn't there until you reinstall.
I came across some people that didn't know this and deduced that hyperthreading was ineffective. Reinstalling the OS can double certain CPU-intensive tasks.
I worked at a place that abused accounting principles. They'd book revenue on hardware that hadn't shipped or even been made, software that wasn't installed or even sold yet, and move all kinds of valid and imaginary revenue from the vague future to the current quarter like crazy.
I understand why we need laws about when you are supposed to book revenue because I've seen it abused. The whole house of cards collapses hard when growth slows. My job was lost when the dotcom bubble burst and they couldn't hide their baloney in triple digit growth any more. Same thing happened at many other companies.
This seems like an innocent case, but I thought I'd point out there are other possibilities.
I agree that downloads are fine for some uses. The quality is good enough, sometimes it is quite good. I've never regretted putting in wire from my PC to my TV though. I don't use blanks anymore and don't waste time encoding and burning.
Unworkable. I used to do this and it sucked so much I bought a video card with tv-out and use that instead of burning discs.
The biggest problem is encoding time. It took my (recent powerful) pc hours to convert 2 hours of video from xvid to mpeg2. You can't do it until you're finished downloading. Then you have the 8 minutes to burn the disc. And it looks crappy because it's been encoded lossily at least 3 times.
Netflix is going to have to pay for bandwidth. Nobody will sell netflix bandwidth at a loss for very long. If average costs for the consumer end go up because of higher average usage, they'll raise prices on the other end, or delay dropping prices for a while. It seems pretty simple to me.
The internet went through a similar adjustment when the text to graphic change occurred in the early 90s. People predicted these "huge" graphic files and animations were going to break the internet. Prices have only gone down. I used to pay $30/month for 9600 baud dialup. Now I pay $30/month for 1.5/384 dsl. I bet in 10 years we'll be measuring our internet bandwith in gigabits and it'll still be $30/month.
Just think about how much things have changed. The typical home internet user used to have a dumb terminal and would occasionally transfer files of a few kilobytes. Total monthly usage was maybe 1 megabyte for a fiend. We've already added several orders of magnitude to this. Why the problem with one or two more?
Here, it was blamed on drug use and not the true killer. Oh well. If it weren't for DEA misinformation perhaps this wii tragedy could have been averted.
Don't get too smug. The US has a history of strong-arming other countries into accepting it's take on copyright. If you want to trade with us and stay off our bomb candidate list you'll have to play ball eventually. Your politicians are every bit as corrupt and self-interested as ours. I don't care where you live.
Please don't act as if this doesn't affect you. It will.
I think the idea is that any new music players will have DRM support, and old-school players will be sold on ebay to people smart enough to strip DRM. Require DRM on all media and everyone wins! (except for the average user, who gets shafted and hopefully likes it)
You're missing out. A podcast is simply an mp3 file, full or streaming, that is hosted via rss feed.
This makes it really easy to get the file or stream, and you can even have an application like Juice that will check on your podcast subscriptions and download any new mp3 files. Subscription in this case does not mean pay. I get hundreds of effort-free mp3 files a month from my podcast subscriptions.
Despite my huge appreciation for the technology, I hate the name. And I hate iPods. Oh well. At least I have my mp3s!
There are hundreds of millions of Americans who remember taping TV shows and recording radio broadcasts. They'll always think of these as rights. They'll always think of technology that doesn't allow this as broken. Maybe after we're all dead the fascists can have their dystopia.
Obviously you haven't used a DRM-laden e-book yet. Try it out, it sucks and blows at the same time! It's been around for many years. You get to use a proprietary Windows-only "reader" which doesn't allow for cut/copy/printscreen, useful indices, search, notes or bookmarking.
90% of the shoutcast streams I've listened to aren't US-based. I wouldn't expect this legislation to have any effect on Shoutcast, unless you like some weird US-only music like pro-secession country.
Scary amounts of americans think that saddam was behind 9/11. I remember the numbers being terrifying, around 90+% at times. Here is the first link (showing 70%) I found
It got so lame. I remember Bush giving a vague uncommittal denial of any link, and the next week polls showed a majority of americans still believed Saddam had a personal responsibility for 9/11. It really doesn't help that to this day Bush et al talk about Iraq and the war on terror as if they were inseperable.
I dunno...the last time the Democrats ran things there was no such thing as rootkit CDs, DRM'd music files, endless RIAA litigation, etc. Those all happened under Republican rule. I'm wary of any politician, but let's not paint anti-RIAA halos on the Repubs yet.
The real money comes after they've left office. Even a 1 term state congressman can make an easy lifetime 6-figure income as a lobbyist, plus all kinds of borderline illegal kickbacks, tips, and business deals. If you're a US Senator (especially multi-term) you're talking 7 or 8 figures minimum.
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Someone needs to pony up a billion dollars for clinical trials. No drug company wants to unless they have a monopoly on the drug. There's your fucking problem!
It is hard to discuss things in a global manner all the time. You'll notice TFA is on a US site discussing the situation in the US. You don't have to disparage people for discussing things in the US unless specified otherwise.
Women also are going into grooming, farm veterinary, even ranching because they tend to like animals. These jobs pay poorly.
Women dominate child care, which is extremely low paying, because many of them like children.
Try searching around for "male lactation"
It's actually not uncommon. If you feel cheated, there are drugs you can take to enable this feature. Some models autoenable this feature for no reason.
It might be like P4 hyperthreading, where if it is disabled when the OS is installed it is disabled until you reinstall the OS. Enabling it in BIOS looks nice, but the OS support isn't there until you reinstall.
I came across some people that didn't know this and deduced that hyperthreading was ineffective. Reinstalling the OS can double certain CPU-intensive tasks.
Virtualization Technology
I worked at a place that abused accounting principles. They'd book revenue on hardware that hadn't shipped or even been made, software that wasn't installed or even sold yet, and move all kinds of valid and imaginary revenue from the vague future to the current quarter like crazy.
I understand why we need laws about when you are supposed to book revenue because I've seen it abused. The whole house of cards collapses hard when growth slows. My job was lost when the dotcom bubble burst and they couldn't hide their baloney in triple digit growth any more. Same thing happened at many other companies.
This seems like an innocent case, but I thought I'd point out there are other possibilities.
Wow, they're taking a huge loss on this whole iTMS thing aren't they?
I agree that downloads are fine for some uses. The quality is good enough, sometimes it is quite good. I've never regretted putting in wire from my PC to my TV though. I don't use blanks anymore and don't waste time encoding and burning.
Can't speak html either.
The last time I priced internet service I couldn't afford enough bandwidth to upload a stream. What kind of service do you have? What do you pay?
Unworkable. I used to do this and it sucked so much I bought a video card with tv-out and use that instead of burning discs.
The biggest problem is encoding time. It took my (recent powerful) pc hours to convert 2 hours of video from xvid to mpeg2. You can't do it until you're finished downloading. Then you have the 8 minutes to burn the disc. And it looks crappy because it's been encoded lossily at least 3 times.
Netflix is going to have to pay for bandwidth. Nobody will sell netflix bandwidth at a loss for very long. If average costs for the consumer end go up because of higher average usage, they'll raise prices on the other end, or delay dropping prices for a while. It seems pretty simple to me.
The internet went through a similar adjustment when the text to graphic change occurred in the early 90s. People predicted these "huge" graphic files and animations were going to break the internet. Prices have only gone down. I used to pay $30/month for 9600 baud dialup. Now I pay $30/month for 1.5/384 dsl. I bet in 10 years we'll be measuring our internet bandwith in gigabits and it'll still be $30/month.
Just think about how much things have changed. The typical home internet user used to have a dumb terminal and would occasionally transfer files of a few kilobytes. Total monthly usage was maybe 1 megabyte for a fiend. We've already added several orders of magnitude to this. Why the problem with one or two more?
There was a similar case in Denver, Colorado
Here, it was blamed on drug use and not the true killer. Oh well. If it weren't for DEA misinformation perhaps this wii tragedy could have been averted.
Really? I'd never have guessed! [California native, so sue me]
Don't get too smug. The US has a history of strong-arming other countries into accepting it's take on copyright. If you want to trade with us and stay off our bomb candidate list you'll have to play ball eventually. Your politicians are every bit as corrupt and self-interested as ours. I don't care where you live.
Please don't act as if this doesn't affect you. It will.
I think the idea is that any new music players will have DRM support, and old-school players will be sold on ebay to people smart enough to strip DRM. Require DRM on all media and everyone wins! (except for the average user, who gets shafted and hopefully likes it)
You're missing out. A podcast is simply an mp3 file, full or streaming, that is hosted via rss feed.
This makes it really easy to get the file or stream, and you can even have an application like Juice that will check on your podcast subscriptions and download any new mp3 files. Subscription in this case does not mean pay. I get hundreds of effort-free mp3 files a month from my podcast subscriptions.
Despite my huge appreciation for the technology, I hate the name. And I hate iPods. Oh well. At least I have my mp3s!
There are hundreds of millions of Americans who remember taping TV shows and recording radio broadcasts. They'll always think of these as rights. They'll always think of technology that doesn't allow this as broken. Maybe after we're all dead the fascists can have their dystopia.
Obviously you haven't used a DRM-laden e-book yet. Try it out, it sucks and blows at the same time! It's been around for many years. You get to use a proprietary Windows-only "reader" which doesn't allow for cut/copy/printscreen, useful indices, search, notes or bookmarking.
90% of the shoutcast streams I've listened to aren't US-based. I wouldn't expect this legislation to have any effect on Shoutcast, unless you like some weird US-only music like pro-secession country.
Scary amounts of americans think that saddam was behind 9/11. I remember the numbers being terrifying, around 90+% at times. Here is the first link (showing 70%) I found
It got so lame. I remember Bush giving a vague uncommittal denial of any link, and the next week polls showed a majority of americans still believed Saddam had a personal responsibility for 9/11. It really doesn't help that to this day Bush et al talk about Iraq and the war on terror as if they were inseperable.
I dunno...the last time the Democrats ran things there was no such thing as rootkit CDs, DRM'd music files, endless RIAA litigation, etc. Those all happened under Republican rule. I'm wary of any politician, but let's not paint anti-RIAA halos on the Repubs yet.
The real money comes after they've left office. Even a 1 term state congressman can make an easy lifetime 6-figure income as a lobbyist, plus all kinds of borderline illegal kickbacks, tips, and business deals. If you're a US Senator (especially multi-term) you're talking 7 or 8 figures minimum.