You would have to be crazy to trust a tin foil hat purchased in a subway station. You have to make your own, from ore you mined yourself. Otherwise, the government can put transponders into the metal that will directly transmit your thoughts to the government.
1. Apple has the market share for MP3 players, namely the ipod. 2. That makes it impossible to sell music that won't play on the ipod. 3. Apple refuses to use any DRM scheme but its own, and refuses to let other people use that. 4. It's impossible for anyone else to sell DRMed music.
Number 4 doesn't matter if Apple is the king of music retail.
While I agree that the theory of suppression by the oil and auto industries is far fetched, I do think that self driving cars could be a threat to the auto industry.
If you have self driving cars, you only have to add a little bit of networking to achieve efficient and relatively convenient car sharing programs (think automated taxis), which would reduce the number of automobiles sold overall.
The point is that in the simple example, the third relevant factor is obvious, but it may not be so in a real world example. If the relevance of the third factor was not obvious, it would not serve as an example illuminating our possibly narrow views on other situations.
Actually, I'm surprised someone hasn't introduced force feedback into mice yet. It would be interesting to get some sort of feedback when the cursor hits the edge of the screen, and even more interesting to implement it in games. Perhaps nobody has done it because the mouse would just start vibrating all over the desk.
Logitech had a vibrating mouse in 2000 called the iFeel.
If I remember correctly, the N800 didn't have the correct connector for OTG and the kernel didn't support it. I assume OS2008 supports it? What did you do for the cabling?
Nearly all laptops come with a mini-firewire port. I believe this is an unpowered port, so it is only really good for things like disk drives that you don't mind plugging into a wall or camcorders with their own batteries.
The popularity of the unpowered plug makes firewire infeasible for things like webcams, mice, keyboards, thumbdrives, game controllers, and for most other things we currently use USB. So, one could venture to say that firewire is dead for certain classes of devices.
Your windows file copy slowness could be because Windows does not use write caching for removable drives. This allows clueless users to just yank out the disk without unmounting properly. If you are getting slow reads, that is a different story.
Yes, I can agree that some people blow shit out of proportion, this happens everyday and is part of the human nature (especially for those that love drama). But that doesn't mean we should stop this activity, law enforcement just needs to become better at detecting the actual threats and escalating incidents at the same time fine-tuning their "IDS" systems to what is real threats. This isn't something that will happen overnight, but doesn't mean we should stop it completely!
I don't think Bruce would disagree with you. In fact I think that you essentially paraphrased what he said. He was saying that, in your terms, the IDS in place now is set to be too sensitive through the massive scare campaign foisted upon the public and that law enforcement does a poor job at determining an adequate response (closing down blocks of a city just on some vague perceived threat).
Yeah, but the name alone might not be enough to satisfy some people. People might complain that without issue numbers, for example, the citations are incomplete.
The grandparent was posting about published comic books from a major publisher. If he didn't provide any references, they should have asked for some (as they currently are doing on the Dark Horse Comics page. Deleting the article wholesale makes it hard for others to improve the quality of the existing work. Isn't wikipedia supposed to be all about collaborative efforts?
I think both windows and Mac have technology to "optimize" the placement on disk of your static programs and data so that it is all sequentially read from disk when it is used. This negates a large portion of flash drives' benefit.
I agree 100%. A file-sharing infringer should not be liable for any subsequent infringments commited by the downloaders. The damages are about 3 to 4 orders of magnitude too high.
If she was aware that she was breaking the law, she probably didn't think the punishment would be so ridiculous.
If mp3 copyright infringement was prosecuted as this case was, 99% of the people aged 15-22 would be in bankruptcy.
This case was akin to being charged a $1,000,000 fine for a speeding citation. The statutory minimum damages are unreasonable, and the jury is even more unreasonable for assigning an even higher fine.
Nothing about AAC implies DRM. Apple chose to extend the AAC format to support their DRM. You could just as easily incorporate DRM into MP3 or even WAV.
AAC is an open standard, just like MP3.
Going with Vorbis could get around some patent liabilities for programs and devices that deal with the files, however.
Do you have a CVT or something? Otherwise your comment doesn't make sense. In a conventional transmission, you will generally have the same RPM-to-MPH ratio for any speed in a specific gear, no matter how many people are weighing down your car.
There are some legitimate reasons why someone would want the 7" screen. That model should weigh less and use about half of the power of the bigger one to light the screen.
If you're going to use that much RAM then chances are you're using applications that require a lot of processing power.
Not necessarily. You can often trade ram for other resources, such as CPU or network bandwidth. For example, caching network or disk traffic could make the system seem much faster than it really is.
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You would have to be crazy to trust a tin foil hat purchased in a subway station. You have to make your own, from ore you mined yourself. Otherwise, the government can put transponders into the metal that will directly transmit your thoughts to the government.
Number 4 doesn't matter if Apple is the king of music retail.
While I agree that the theory of suppression by the oil and auto industries is far fetched, I do think that self driving cars could be a threat to the auto industry.
If you have self driving cars, you only have to add a little bit of networking to achieve efficient and relatively convenient car sharing programs (think automated taxis), which would reduce the number of automobiles sold overall.
The point is that in the simple example, the third relevant factor is obvious, but it may not be so in a real world example. If the relevance of the third factor was not obvious, it would not serve as an example illuminating our possibly narrow views on other situations.
Logitech had a vibrating mouse in 2000 called the iFeel.
If I remember correctly, the N800 didn't have the correct connector for OTG and the kernel didn't support it. I assume OS2008 supports it? What did you do for the cabling?
Nearly all laptops come with a mini-firewire port. I believe this is an unpowered port, so it is only really good for things like disk drives that you don't mind plugging into a wall or camcorders with their own batteries.
The popularity of the unpowered plug makes firewire infeasible for things like webcams, mice, keyboards, thumbdrives, game controllers, and for most other things we currently use USB. So, one could venture to say that firewire is dead for certain classes of devices.
Your windows file copy slowness could be because Windows does not use write caching for removable drives. This allows clueless users to just yank out the disk without unmounting properly. If you are getting slow reads, that is a different story.
They also say they will not issue the coupons until the converters are expected to be available, so you lose nothing by signing up now.
Your statement is only true if legislators or industry manage to close the analog hole.
I agree with those that think that the law is terrible, though.
I don't think Bruce would disagree with you. In fact I think that you essentially paraphrased what he said. He was saying that, in your terms, the IDS in place now is set to be too sensitive through the massive scare campaign foisted upon the public and that law enforcement does a poor job at determining an adequate response (closing down blocks of a city just on some vague perceived threat).
Perhaps they meant 150,000 dots per square inch, which works out to 387 dots per linear inch.
Yeah, but the name alone might not be enough to satisfy some people. People might complain that without issue numbers, for example, the citations are incomplete.
The grandparent was posting about published comic books from a major publisher. If he didn't provide any references, they should have asked for some (as they currently are doing on the Dark Horse Comics page. Deleting the article wholesale makes it hard for others to improve the quality of the existing work. Isn't wikipedia supposed to be all about collaborative efforts?
I think both windows and Mac have technology to "optimize" the placement on disk of your static programs and data so that it is all sequentially read from disk when it is used. This negates a large portion of flash drives' benefit.
I agree 100%. A file-sharing infringer should not be liable for any subsequent infringments commited by the downloaders. The damages are about 3 to 4 orders of magnitude too high.
If she was aware that she was breaking the law, she probably didn't think the punishment would be so ridiculous.
If mp3 copyright infringement was prosecuted as this case was, 99% of the people aged 15-22 would be in bankruptcy.
This case was akin to being charged a $1,000,000 fine for a speeding citation. The statutory minimum damages are unreasonable, and the jury is even more unreasonable for assigning an even higher fine.
The N95 already has GPS & navigation built in. It requires a subscription for turn by turn voice prompts, though, which is extremely annoying.
So I think that the N800 successor probably would have had integrated mapping with or without the acquisition.
Nothing about AAC implies DRM. Apple chose to extend the AAC format to support their DRM. You could just as easily incorporate DRM into MP3 or even WAV.
AAC is an open standard, just like MP3.
Going with Vorbis could get around some patent liabilities for programs and devices that deal with the files, however.
Stores many gigabytes.
Do you have a CVT or something? Otherwise your comment doesn't make sense. In a conventional transmission, you will generally have the same RPM-to-MPH ratio for any speed in a specific gear, no matter how many people are weighing down your car.
Put your change and your keys in one pocket and your cell phone in the other.
For the benefit of the math impared, I will mention that these screens work out to about 150dpi.
There are some legitimate reasons why someone would want the 7" screen. That model should weigh less and use about half of the power of the bigger one to light the screen.
Not necessarily. You can often trade ram for other resources, such as CPU or network bandwidth. For example, caching network or disk traffic could make the system seem much faster than it really is.