Sigh. Well, if the RIAA and MPAA can make up their own definitions to words, so can I.
The actions of the RIAA and MPAA, namely selling and reselling and selling yet once more while depriving you of fair use for the sole purpose of making profit off material which should have passed into the public domain if not for their actions in bribing public officials, are hereby to be know forthwith as SODOMY.
Example usage:
The RIAA sodomized a record number of customers this year, while continuing to whine about 'piracy' and 'theft' to anyone who would listen to their petulant tantrums.
Or,
"Is that ANOTHER remix of the Beatles? Man, you got sodomized."
You heard here first, folks! Start making the NewSpeak work FOR you instead of AGAINST you. Let's tell those sodomizing bastards just what we think of their propaganda.
"Let me say what I think your problem is. You can use these harsh terms, but you are dealing with something new, and the question is, does the statutory monopoly that Congress has given you reach out to that something new. And that's a very debatable question. You don't solve it by calling it 'theft.' You have to show why this court should extend a statutory monopoly to cover the new thing. That's your problem. Address that if you would. And curtail the use of abusive language."
The judges here clearly viewed the use of 'theft' or 'piracy' to be an abuse of the terms, and I do as well. To equate making an unauthorized copy of a 3 minute song with actual theft or piracy is a slap in the face of everyone who's ever been robbed or an actual victim of piracy.
Better to be a smart ass than a dumb ass.:)
Actually, your first thought is the better one. Driving should be outlawed in urban areas. No cars other than emergency vehicles and taxis. All other cars must park outside the city and the occupants take mass transit. It's the only sensible thing.
The problem with that is that when asked to draw the moonset, people will draw the moon bigger than it appears when photographed. The brain is actively increasing the apparent size of the moon on the horizon, not shrinking it up in the sky.
The red light isn't pollution. You're looking at a moonset. It's a sunset, but dimmer.
Both are due to impurities in the air. That may be dust or high clouds, but it's usually POLLUTION.
Take a photo of the moon on the horizon, then take another when it's high in the sky. Measure the moons with a ruler. The horizon one will be bigger. It's not an optical illusion.
You're completely wrong here. I suggest you try it yourself. The moon at the horizon will be SMALLER by an unmeasureable amount. It IS an optical illusion. While you're at it, go back to school and actually pay attention in science class.
Really? You're not a consumer? I suppose you grow your own food, weave your own cloth from wool from your own sheep and your own cotton. You make your own paper, generate your own electricity from devices you made from your own materials you dug out of the ground and purified by yourself. You don't read books written by other people and taught yourself.
The fact that you're posting here on/. shows you're full of it. You're a consumer just like every single being on the planet. You're just deluding yourself about it to feel superior.
No one has "proved" there weren't any WMDs. In fact, some Swedes found a cache of WMDs hidden during the FIRST Gulf War. If it tooks 10 years to stumble on WMDs hidden in the first war, how long will it be until someone stumbles across WMDs hidden in the second? Could be another 10 years, maybe more.
It's thinking like yours which is why businesses are all messed up today. Businesses are NOT supposed to be trying to crush the competition. They are supposed to be trying to make a better product at a better price. If that has the SIDE EFFECT of putting another company out of business, that's okay. It is NOT okay to actively try to sabotage the competition so that your inferior products are all the public STUCK WITH.
This is the SECOND AV maker that supported Unix/linux that MS has bought and then stopped Unix/linux support. How many will it take to convince you? Four? Ten? All of them?
All this is is bittorrent with all files encoded via parity archive (PAR). Nothing more. If people PAR'd their files and posted just the PAR files with the current bittorrent, you'd have EXACTLY what MSR is talking about. What retards. Nothing like reinventing the wheel, then bragging about it.
Jedi aren't superhuman (or superwookie or supertwi'lek or whatever). All they can do is influence the force around them. Even Darth Vader needed the armored gauntlet on his artificial arm to deflect blaster bolts.
Sorry, but shooting a Jedi a couple dozen times at point-blank range is plenty sufficient to kill them.
"Luke is supposed to be a boring farm-boy from a backwater planet."
Not quite. If you remember certain lines, you'd realize there's a lot more to Luke than just some farm-boy from a backwater planet.
Remember the first Death Star briefing? Luke was surprised that the other pilots thought hitting the target indicated would be hard. That he had hit smaller targets under worse conditions back home.
Luke was always getting parts for his flyer back on Tattoine. Remember that model Luke was playing with in one scene back on Tattoine? If you looked closely, there was one of those in the garage at the farm. That's what Luke flew around in during his "off-time". Luke was well known in that region of Tattoine for his piloting skills.
In any movie, there really isn't enough time to cover everything. Star Wars is no exception. Luke has A LOT of backstory that is really interesting, but you only get little glimpses of in the movies. Remember him telling Biggs, "It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home"? Maybe we'll actually get to see those runs through Beggar's Canyon in the TV series.
Action figures (cough - dolls - cough) are the way he PAYS for making movies the way he wants. People can say "if you don't like it, go make your own movie," but how do you pay for it? Fan films are expensive. Look at how much they spend on each episode of the New Star Trek Voyages.
Unless you find a sugar daddy, you need something to pay the bills. If the price of Lucas's vision is JarJar on millions of rolls of toilet paper, so be it.
"When your car is stolen in the city and you don't know the first thing about investigation so you don't have any chance of getting it back?"
Sure as hell ain't the police. They'll have you file a report that goes straight into the trash.
"Who will protect the weak from the strong, or the strong from the weak?"
Sure as hell ain't the police again. Bullies still bully weaker people knowing they either won't go to the cops, or the cops will do nothing. Cops generally won't get involved until someone winds up in the hospital.
Now a couple questions you didn't ask.
Who will get your house back when the local home association and real estate agents legally steal your home?
Who will take care of companies that fire long time employees to move their operations to some third-world hell hole using slave labor?
1003 likely voters... yeah - that's OBVIOUSLY "most Americans" for sure! Uh, didn't the last census show a population of more than 300 million? Since when has 1003 people been representation of the nation? Did they call during the "dead-beat" hour when they might get more unemployed people responding? Did they call people with "white sounding" names? Can we trust this poll in the slightest?
Venus would be much better. First, it's got a gravity closer to that of Earth. Second, being closer to the sun means more free solar energy. How to terraform it...
1 - Nanotech or genetically engineered bacteria to eat the atmosphere. We're only a decade or two away from this step at most.
2 - Nudge the orbit of a few icy comets to provide water. We can do this step today.
3 - More nanotech or genetically engineered bacteria to make a suitable atmosphere. Like step 1, only a decade or two away.
4 - Seed organisms to provide suitable soil for growing plants. We can do this today as well. There are many dealers of "pure" soil - dirt that's been sterilized, then made organic. Guaranteed free of weeds and pests and what-not.
5 - Large-scale replanting and stocking of animals.
I'm not saying the steps are easy or quick, but they ARE realistic and attainable with time and effort. The single biggest problem with Venus - no large satellite to hold its axis stable. A lot of people don't realize, the moon is a godsend to the Earth. It holds the axis stable so that seasons are stable.
That's a big concern in Japan. Their birth rate is about 1.35. This isn't enough to replace the people alive now, much less sustain an increasingly aging population. Most retirement systems like Social Security in the US are based on having a population growing fast enough to generate enough money to cover the much smaller population of elderly. As birth rates slow, the population becomes more increasingly older, and social security type programs start to fail.
No, 60*1000/1001 Hz is just a close approximation made by video player programs. The actual frequencies are derived in this manner:
The color sub-carrier is 3,579,545 Hz. This was chosen because it makes all the harmonics work to interleave the color and luminance spectrums.
There are exactly 227.5 phase changes per horizontal line. This is the source of the saying Never The Same Color. It is also why PAL inverts the phase on every other line. Their sub-carrier isn't the same frequency, but it's derived in a similar manner.
3579545/227.5 = 15,734.26374 Hz which is the number of lines per second. There are 525 lines in a frame yielding 29.97002616 frames per second. Since NTSC is interlaced, this yields 59.94005233 fields per second.
As an engineer, I could give a week long lecture on how x86 sucks big throbbing donkey wang compared to {insert any other CPU here}. All the other engineers on slashdot are nodding in agreement. The problem is that engineers don't buy most of the computers - Cletus the slack-jawed yokel and Homer do.
Magic picture box tell me P3 make net go faster. Magic picture box ask where me wish to go. Magic picture box and funny blue guys say P4 best!
Most people are brain-dead morons who couldn't figure out how to plug the computer in, much less tell you the virtues of the processor powering it. The winner is the company with the most appeal on ANY level to the idiots of the world. That just happened to be Wintel.
Us engineers may rant and rave, but we don't have enough market sway to make any difference at all except in our own homes.
POWER isn't "largely unrelated" to the PowerPC. As the name suggests, the PowerPC is a PC oriented version of the POWER processor. The architecture is IDENTICAL as are NEARLY ALL of the instructions. The PowerPC is just a cost-reduced version of the POWER processor meant for markets that can't afford the monster POWER is today.
Actually, most other industries CAN'T give you accurate estimates on time and price. Go to your mechanic and you'll see that... and he's just REPAIRING the car, not building it from scratch.
Your argument is ridiculous. A salesperson either has the article to sell, or they are reading off a prepared statement by marketing. Marketing either has a completed product, or they are making up guesses out of thin air.
If you don't think engineers are pressured into giving estimates that marketing and management want, you are obviously in marketing or management, not an engineer.
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Sigh. Well, if the RIAA and MPAA can make up their own definitions to words, so can I.
The actions of the RIAA and MPAA, namely selling and reselling and selling yet once more while depriving you of fair use for the sole purpose of making profit off material which should have passed into the public domain if not for their actions in bribing public officials, are hereby to be know forthwith as SODOMY.
Example usage:
The RIAA sodomized a record number of customers this year, while continuing to whine about 'piracy' and 'theft' to anyone who would listen to their petulant tantrums.
Or,
"Is that ANOTHER remix of the Beatles? Man, you got sodomized."
You heard here first, folks! Start making the NewSpeak work FOR you instead of AGAINST you. Let's tell those sodomizing bastards just what we think of their propaganda.
I'm replying here because it's a good spot on the first page. :)
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If you have any doubts about the definition of theft and piracy, just look to recent court actions.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040205
I like the judge's rebuke:
"Let me say what I think your problem is. You can use these harsh terms, but you are dealing with something new, and the question is, does the statutory monopoly that Congress has given you reach out to that something new. And that's a very debatable question. You don't solve it by calling it 'theft.' You have to show why this court should extend a statutory monopoly to cover the new thing. That's your problem. Address that if you would. And curtail the use of abusive language."
The judges here clearly viewed the use of 'theft' or 'piracy' to be an abuse of the terms, and I do as well. To equate making an unauthorized copy of a 3 minute song with actual theft or piracy is a slap in the face of everyone who's ever been robbed or an actual victim of piracy.
Less than the day before with the new rule change on porn here in the states.
Better to be a smart ass than a dumb ass. :)
Actually, your first thought is the better one. Driving should be outlawed in urban areas. No cars other than emergency vehicles and taxis. All other cars must park outside the city and the occupants take mass transit. It's the only sensible thing.
The problem with that is that when asked to draw the moonset, people will draw the moon bigger than it appears when photographed. The brain is actively increasing the apparent size of the moon on the horizon, not shrinking it up in the sky.
The red light isn't pollution. You're looking at a moonset. It's a sunset, but dimmer.
Both are due to impurities in the air. That may be dust or high clouds, but it's usually POLLUTION.
Take a photo of the moon on the horizon, then take another when it's high in the sky. Measure the moons with a ruler. The horizon one will be bigger. It's not an optical illusion.
You're completely wrong here. I suggest you try it yourself. The moon at the horizon will be SMALLER by an unmeasureable amount. It IS an optical illusion. While you're at it, go back to school and actually pay attention in science class.
Really? You're not a consumer? I suppose you grow your own food, weave your own cloth from wool from your own sheep and your own cotton. You make your own paper, generate your own electricity from devices you made from your own materials you dug out of the ground and purified by yourself. You don't read books written by other people and taught yourself.
/. shows you're full of it. You're a consumer just like every single being on the planet. You're just deluding yourself about it to feel superior.
The fact that you're posting here on
No one has "proved" there weren't any WMDs. In fact, some Swedes found a cache of WMDs hidden during the FIRST Gulf War. If it tooks 10 years to stumble on WMDs hidden in the first war, how long will it be until someone stumbles across WMDs hidden in the second? Could be another 10 years, maybe more.
It's thinking like yours which is why businesses are all messed up today. Businesses are NOT supposed to be trying to crush the competition. They are supposed to be trying to make a better product at a better price. If that has the SIDE EFFECT of putting another company out of business, that's okay. It is NOT okay to actively try to sabotage the competition so that your inferior products are all the public STUCK WITH.
This is the SECOND AV maker that supported Unix/linux that MS has bought and then stopped Unix/linux support. How many will it take to convince you? Four? Ten? All of them?
All this is is bittorrent with all files encoded via parity archive (PAR). Nothing more. If people PAR'd their files and posted just the PAR files with the current bittorrent, you'd have EXACTLY what MSR is talking about. What retards. Nothing like reinventing the wheel, then bragging about it.
Jedi aren't superhuman (or superwookie or supertwi'lek or whatever). All they can do is influence the force around them. Even Darth Vader needed the armored gauntlet on his artificial arm to deflect blaster bolts. Sorry, but shooting a Jedi a couple dozen times at point-blank range is plenty sufficient to kill them.
God yes! Give it to JMS with a truckload of money so he doesn't have to worry about whether he'll get another season in the budget.
"Luke is supposed to be a boring farm-boy from a backwater planet."
Not quite. If you remember certain lines, you'd realize there's a lot more to Luke than just some farm-boy from a backwater planet.
Remember the first Death Star briefing? Luke was surprised that the other pilots thought hitting the target indicated would be hard. That he had hit smaller targets under worse conditions back home.
Luke was always getting parts for his flyer back on Tattoine. Remember that model Luke was playing with in one scene back on Tattoine? If you looked closely, there was one of those in the garage at the farm. That's what Luke flew around in during his "off-time". Luke was well known in that region of Tattoine for his piloting skills.
In any movie, there really isn't enough time to cover everything. Star Wars is no exception. Luke has A LOT of backstory that is really interesting, but you only get little glimpses of in the movies. Remember him telling Biggs, "It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home"? Maybe we'll actually get to see those runs through Beggar's Canyon in the TV series.
Action figures (cough - dolls - cough) are the way he PAYS for making movies the way he wants. People can say "if you don't like it, go make your own movie," but how do you pay for it? Fan films are expensive. Look at how much they spend on each episode of the New Star Trek Voyages.
Unless you find a sugar daddy, you need something to pay the bills. If the price of Lucas's vision is JarJar on millions of rolls of toilet paper, so be it.
You live in a make-believe world.
"When your car is stolen in the city and you don't know the first thing about investigation so you don't have any chance of getting it back?"
Sure as hell ain't the police. They'll have you file a report that goes straight into the trash.
"Who will protect the weak from the strong, or the strong from the weak?"
Sure as hell ain't the police again. Bullies still bully weaker people knowing they either won't go to the cops, or the cops will do nothing. Cops generally won't get involved until someone winds up in the hospital.
Now a couple questions you didn't ask.
Who will get your house back when the local home association and real estate agents legally steal your home?
Who will take care of companies that fire long time employees to move their operations to some third-world hell hole using slave labor?
1003 likely voters... yeah - that's OBVIOUSLY "most Americans" for sure! Uh, didn't the last census show a population of more than 300 million? Since when has 1003 people been representation of the nation? Did they call during the "dead-beat" hour when they might get more unemployed people responding? Did they call people with "white sounding" names? Can we trust this poll in the slightest?
Venus would be much better. First, it's got a gravity closer to that of Earth. Second, being closer to the sun means more free solar energy. How to terraform it...
1 - Nanotech or genetically engineered bacteria to eat the atmosphere. We're only a decade or two away from this step at most.
2 - Nudge the orbit of a few icy comets to provide water. We can do this step today.
3 - More nanotech or genetically engineered bacteria to make a suitable atmosphere. Like step 1, only a decade or two away.
4 - Seed organisms to provide suitable soil for growing plants. We can do this today as well. There are many dealers of "pure" soil - dirt that's been sterilized, then made organic. Guaranteed free of weeds and pests and what-not.
5 - Large-scale replanting and stocking of animals.
I'm not saying the steps are easy or quick, but they ARE realistic and attainable with time and effort. The single biggest problem with Venus - no large satellite to hold its axis stable. A lot of people don't realize, the moon is a godsend to the Earth. It holds the axis stable so that seasons are stable.
That's a big concern in Japan. Their birth rate is about 1.35. This isn't enough to replace the people alive now, much less sustain an increasingly aging population. Most retirement systems like Social Security in the US are based on having a population growing fast enough to generate enough money to cover the much smaller population of elderly. As birth rates slow, the population becomes more increasingly older, and social security type programs start to fail.
Nice description. I was going to cover that, but thought it a little beyond most folks.
No, 60*1000/1001 Hz is just a close approximation made by video player programs. The actual frequencies are derived in this manner:
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The color sub-carrier is 3,579,545 Hz. This was chosen because it makes all the harmonics work to interleave the color and luminance spectrums.
There are exactly 227.5 phase changes per horizontal line. This is the source of the saying Never The Same Color. It is also why PAL inverts the phase on every other line. Their sub-carrier isn't the same frequency, but it's derived in a similar manner.
3579545/227.5 = 15,734.26374 Hz which is the number of lines per second. There are 525 lines in a frame yielding 29.97002616 frames per second. Since NTSC is interlaced, this yields 59.94005233 fields per second.
Now you know where all the numbers come from.
As an engineer, I could give a week long lecture on how x86 sucks big throbbing donkey wang compared to {insert any other CPU here}. All the other engineers on slashdot are nodding in agreement. The problem is that engineers don't buy most of the computers - Cletus the slack-jawed yokel and Homer do.
Magic picture box tell me P3 make net go faster.
Magic picture box ask where me wish to go.
Magic picture box and funny blue guys say P4 best!
Most people are brain-dead morons who couldn't figure out how to plug the computer in, much less tell you the virtues of the processor powering it. The winner is the company with the most appeal on ANY level to the idiots of the world. That just happened to be Wintel.
Us engineers may rant and rave, but we don't have enough market sway to make any difference at all except in our own homes.
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"It's MY sex box, and her name is Sony!"
POWER isn't "largely unrelated" to the PowerPC. As the name suggests, the PowerPC is a PC oriented version of the POWER processor. The architecture is IDENTICAL as are NEARLY ALL of the instructions. The PowerPC is just a cost-reduced version of the POWER processor meant for markets that can't afford the monster POWER is today.
Actually, most other industries CAN'T give you accurate estimates on time and price. Go to your mechanic and you'll see that... and he's just REPAIRING the car, not building it from scratch. Your argument is ridiculous. A salesperson either has the article to sell, or they are reading off a prepared statement by marketing. Marketing either has a completed product, or they are making up guesses out of thin air. If you don't think engineers are pressured into giving estimates that marketing and management want, you are obviously in marketing or management, not an engineer.
No - it'd have just ONE, and your EULA would forbid you from covering it with drapes, opening it, or even looking through it.