If a customer assumed that 100 gigabytes actually meant 100 gibibytes, then isn't that the customer's fault? I say yes. giga == base 10. gibi == base 2. Not the same thing.
Grand Theft Auto should not be sold to non-adults (under 18).
The end.
The game is simply too violent; if it was a movie it would be registered NC-17. The game should have the same restriction, since it's a very dark, very violent game.
Why do non-adults need to buy sexually-explicit material??? I don't see why it's justified. After all, I couldn't buy Playboy when I was 17... so I just waited until I was a legal adult. Same way I waited to vote, or drink. No big deal really.
I remember writing a Star Trek program using Commodore=128 BASIC.
Man did it run slow. It took 1 second just to move the Klingon or Enterprise icon one square. Of course those were the days of blazing 0.001 gigahertz processors... about the same speed as an Atari game console.
>>>"actually taking an idea and developing it. Kudos to Gates and Allen for taking the opportunity"
What opportunity?
The opportunity to steal code from the Friend you met at Computer Club, and become rich off another person's work? I think there's a phrase for that: "Theft of labor". (Of course theft of labor never seemed to bother the old Cotton Plantation Masters... I guess to some people that's a-okay.)
- What if JK Rowling was *already* working-on an encylopedia, with plans to publish it in 2009? In effect, somebody else stole her idea and her labor and her profit. She has every right to get sue the other person for devaluing Rowling's own official 2009 encyclopedia.
Same way I'll sue my boss if he decides to steal the engineering documents I created, and not pay me.
- If you're stupid enough to go climb a mountain and get stranded there, and need rescuing by expensive helicopters/trained personnel, why should *I* have to pay the bill (via taxes) to rescue your dumb butt???
The answer is: I shouldn't have to pay for your stupidity. YOU pay the bill; maybe that way you'll remember not to do dumb stuff.
If the Aptera is anything like Corbin Motors' Sparrow (dangerous) or Merlin (pre-sold but never delivered), then I'm not going to jump for joy. Lots of cars are prototyped but never successfully sold. The Sparrow is now subject of a class-action lawsuit; the Aptera is still just a testcar.
re: 100 MPG
Volkswagen came very close. Their Lupo 3L got 70mpg in City/urban ratings, and 90 mpg on Highway/extra-urban ratings. On a round-the-world trip, their drivers averaged 99mpg. ----- VW also built a prototype 3-seater, 4-wheel Lupo that got 120mpg, so it's at least possible to build a "normal" car that gets 100mpg or higher..... it's just a matter of convincing customers to buy it.
Yeah but, imagine if a new "fad" takes hold, and everybody starts building their own homes or porches. I'm sure it would lead to a lawsuit over 2x4 boards only measuring 1.5 x 3.5 inches, due to lack of experience among the general population.
i.e. Same thing that happened when the computer "fad" fell out of hobbyists and into the hand of Joe "duh" Smith.
>>>" 1k in the context of computers, it means 1024."
No it doesn't. "1k" denotes 1000 bits. And "1K" denotes 1000 bytes. If you mean 1024, then you write "1KiB" for 1024 kibibytes per the IEEE standards. (If you don't use the proper terms, you have no right to call yourself an engineer.)
If a customer assumed that 100 gigabytes actually meant 100 gibibytes, then isn't that the customer's fault? I say yes. giga == base 10. gibi == base 2. Not the same thing.
The New York Legislature. Which I'm sure the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually tell to "screw off" because the National Constitution (which NY signed) says only the U.S. may regulate commerce across borders. i.e. New York can't go taxing the Californian business known as amazon.
"Services" are taxable under state laws. That would include e-files served to your Ipod or PC.
As a seller (on ebay and amazon), here is my argument against paying NY Sales Tax: - I am not a resident of New York. - Therefore I am not under the jurisdiction of that government (same as I am not under jurisdiction to France or Canada) - Thus I am not an NY citizen; governments can not tax non-citizens.
So I owe the New York government absolutely nothing for my ebay/amazon sales, and I'd like to see them try to cross the border and come get me. I don't think Pennsylvania would accept NY soldiers/officers marching across its territory in order to reach me in Maryland. Neither the PA nor the MD government is going to stand for an invasion from the NY government.
So basically, the NY Tax Form is going in my Maryland trash can. (Along with any French or Canadian tax forms.) A foreign government can not tax non-residents. The NY government is foreign to this Maryland citizen, so the NY Legislators can go fuck themselves.
(Note that the same reasoning applies to Amazon - Amazon is a citizen of California(?) and therefore can not be taxed by foreign governments.)
Correct. I remember visiting "clickable" BBSes as early as 1990. They used a special protocol to first draw graphics on the screen (very slowly), and then you could move your mouse to a graphic, or highlighted text, and click on it to move to the next section.
Hypertext is an old tech.
As for the music files, they were in SID or MOD format. Some were WAVs.
I don't know when "life starts", but I know we celebrate BIRTH days, not conception days. It makes sense to do the same with other products like Windows Vista (released to the public) or the Web (first browser released to the public).
Alright, I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.....
Wait.
Wrong show. I was there at the dawn of the Web, and my understanding is that CERN was the "birthplace" of the web. They advertised that fact on their webpage as early as 1994, which makes sense because they were the first WWW server.
MOSAIC was not the first browser... it was merely the first browser available for home PCs (amigas, macs, and ibm/windows compatibles). And of course that took the Web away from academics and put it into the hands of average people. Then Mosaic lost its dominance to Netscape. And then Netscape was killed-off by the Microsoft monopoly giving away Explorer for free.
I object. Most of the documents already existed before the web existed. I have old email dated 1988 floating around the internet. I was downloading and viewing GIF porn in the 80s.:-o Ditto music files (shhh; don't tell RIAA.)
WWW did not invent the documents; they are as old as the hills. What the web did was make it easier to access those documents (point-and-click, instead of combing through text menus).
- Was Windows Vista "born" on the day that Microsoft first announced its existence? - Or was it born on the day people got their hands on the program?
Obviously we celebrate* Vista's release date, and list its age according to that. Likewise the WWW was not truly born until the release date for the first browser that people could buy (or download) and start surfing. 1993 is the date that matters.
*
* (I use this term very loosely.) (Aside: I first used WWW in 1994, but had been connected to the internet off-and-on since 1988... back in the days when colorized text was considered an "oh wow" moment.)
He's pointing-out that the SUMMARY is wrong: "The man credited with inventing the internet at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee" ---- That's not correct. He invented the web, not the internet.
A dead person has no rights. None. All that exists, legally, is the will which the state executes to its best ability. Unless this teenager had a will that said, "All my computers must be destroyed/accounts erased," then what remains of those accounts becomes the property of the parents/guardians. The family can do whatever they want with those items, including asking a stranger to hack the passwords.
You sound like a communist (or the gentler version of same: Socialist). Why should I have to pay a 500% tax just because I prefer to collect records or CDs, instead of lossy-compressed files?
Butt off. I'll decide how to live my life; I don't need you applying a "sin tax" to my record/CD purchases.
As someone who uses a narrowband phoneline modem, I have to say the worst thing is the flash videos/ads. The website text can be compressed to ~5% original size, the images can be squashed down to about 10 kilobytes, but the Flash still stays huge.
It's quite frustrating to sit there staring at a blank screen and wondering why nothing is showing... and then suddenly a Flash animation opens-up. Most of the time, it's completely un-necessary. An animated GIF could do the same job, and much more efficiently.
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What exactly did they misrepresent?
Giga == base 10
Gibi == base 2
If a customer assumed that 100 gigabytes actually meant 100 gibibytes, then isn't that the customer's fault? I say yes. giga == base 10. gibi == base 2. Not the same thing.
Grand Theft Auto should not be sold to non-adults (under 18).
The end.
The game is simply too violent; if it was a movie it would be registered NC-17. The game should have the same restriction, since it's a very dark, very violent game.
Just curious:
Why do non-adults need to buy sexually-explicit material??? I don't see why it's justified. After all, I couldn't buy Playboy when I was 17... so I just waited until I was a legal adult. Same way I waited to vote, or drink. No big deal really.
I remember writing a Star Trek program using Commodore=128 BASIC.
Man did it run slow. It took 1 second just to move the Klingon or Enterprise icon one square. Of course those were the days of blazing 0.001 gigahertz processors... about the same speed as an Atari game console.
>>>"actually taking an idea and developing it. Kudos to Gates and Allen for taking the opportunity"
What opportunity?
The opportunity to steal code from the Friend you met at Computer Club, and become rich off another person's work? I think there's a phrase for that: "Theft of labor". (Of course theft of labor never seemed to bother the old Cotton Plantation Masters... I guess to some people that's a-okay.)
Well consider this:
- What if JK Rowling was *already* working-on an encylopedia, with plans to publish it in 2009? In effect, somebody else stole her idea and her labor and her profit. She has every right to get sue the other person for devaluing Rowling's own official 2009 encyclopedia.
Same way I'll sue my boss if he decides to steal the engineering documents I created, and not pay me.
I look at if differently:
- If you're stupid enough to go climb a mountain and get stranded there, and need rescuing by expensive helicopters/trained personnel, why should *I* have to pay the bill (via taxes) to rescue your dumb butt???
The answer is: I shouldn't have to pay for your stupidity.
YOU pay the bill; maybe that way you'll remember not to do dumb stuff.
If the Aptera is anything like Corbin Motors' Sparrow (dangerous) or Merlin (pre-sold but never delivered), then I'm not going to jump for joy. Lots of cars are prototyped but never successfully sold. The Sparrow is now subject of a class-action lawsuit; the Aptera is still just a testcar.
re: 100 MPG
Volkswagen came very close. Their Lupo 3L got 70mpg in City/urban ratings, and 90 mpg on Highway/extra-urban ratings. On a round-the-world trip, their drivers averaged 99mpg. ----- VW also built a prototype 3-seater, 4-wheel Lupo that got 120mpg, so it's at least possible to build a "normal" car that gets 100mpg or higher..... it's just a matter of convincing customers to buy it.
(The Lupo 3L flopped due to lack of sales.)
Yeah but, imagine if a new "fad" takes hold, and everybody starts building their own homes or porches. I'm sure it would lead to a lawsuit over 2x4 boards only measuring 1.5 x 3.5 inches, due to lack of experience among the general population.
i.e. Same thing that happened when the computer "fad" fell out of hobbyists and into the hand of Joe "duh" Smith.
>>>" 1k in the context of computers, it means 1024."
No it doesn't. "1k" denotes 1000 bits. And "1K" denotes 1000 bytes. If you mean 1024, then you write "1KiB" for 1024 kibibytes per the IEEE standards. (If you don't use the proper terms, you have no right to call yourself an engineer.)
What exactly did they misrepresent?
Giga == base 10
Gibi == base 2
If a customer assumed that 100 gigabytes actually meant 100 gibibytes, then isn't that the customer's fault? I say yes. giga == base 10. gibi == base 2. Not the same thing.
Not Congress.
The New York Legislature. Which I'm sure the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually tell to "screw off" because the National Constitution (which NY signed) says only the U.S. may regulate commerce across borders. i.e. New York can't go taxing the Californian business known as amazon.
"Services" are taxable under state laws. That would include e-files served to your Ipod or PC.
As a seller (on ebay and amazon), here is my argument against paying NY Sales Tax:
- I am not a resident of New York.
- Therefore I am not under the jurisdiction of that government (same as I am not under jurisdiction to France or Canada)
- Thus I am not an NY citizen; governments can not tax non-citizens.
So I owe the New York government absolutely nothing for my ebay/amazon sales, and I'd like to see them try to cross the border and come get me. I don't think Pennsylvania would accept NY soldiers/officers marching across its territory in order to reach me in Maryland. Neither the PA nor the MD government is going to stand for an invasion from the NY government.
So basically, the NY Tax Form is going in my Maryland trash can. (Along with any French or Canadian tax forms.) A foreign government can not tax non-residents. The NY government is foreign to this Maryland citizen, so the NY Legislators can go fuck themselves.
(Note that the same reasoning applies to Amazon - Amazon is a citizen of California(?) and therefore can not be taxed by foreign governments.)
Correct. I remember visiting "clickable" BBSes as early as 1990. They used a special protocol to first draw graphics on the screen (very slowly), and then you could move your mouse to a graphic, or highlighted text, and click on it to move to the next section.
Hypertext is an old tech.
As for the music files, they were in SID or MOD format. Some were WAVs.
I don't know when "life starts", but I know we celebrate BIRTH days, not conception days. It makes sense to do the same with other products like Windows Vista (released to the public) or the Web (first browser released to the public).
Alright, I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.....
Wait.
Wrong show. I was there at the dawn of the Web, and my understanding is that CERN was the "birthplace" of the web. They advertised that fact on their webpage as early as 1994, which makes sense because they were the first WWW server.
MOSAIC was not the first browser... it was merely the first browser available for home PCs (amigas, macs, and ibm/windows compatibles). And of course that took the Web away from academics and put it into the hands of average people. Then Mosaic lost its dominance to Netscape. And then Netscape was killed-off by the Microsoft monopoly giving away Explorer for free.
That's my understanding of Web history.
Heh. :-)
This is really nothing new. Mattel tried to provide an enhancement to their game consoles back in the 80s. They called it:
Insmellivision.
(ahem)
:-o Ditto music files (shhh; don't tell RIAA.)
I object. Most of the documents already existed before the web existed. I have old email dated 1988 floating around the internet. I was downloading and viewing GIF porn in the 80s.
WWW did not invent the documents; they are as old as the hills. What the web did was make it easier to access those documents (point-and-click, instead of combing through text menus).
I look at it this way:
- Was Windows Vista "born" on the day that Microsoft first announced its existence?
- Or was it born on the day people got their hands on the program?
Obviously we celebrate* Vista's release date, and list its age according to that. Likewise the WWW was not truly born until the release date for the first browser that people could buy (or download) and start surfing. 1993 is the date that matters.
*
* (I use this term very loosely.) (Aside: I first used WWW in 1994, but had been connected to the internet off-and-on since 1988... back in the days when colorized text was considered an "oh wow" moment.)
He's pointing-out that the SUMMARY is wrong: "The man credited with inventing the internet at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee" ---- That's not correct. He invented the web, not the internet.
A dead person has no rights. None. All that exists, legally, is the will which the state executes to its best ability. Unless this teenager had a will that said, "All my computers must be destroyed/accounts erased," then what remains of those accounts becomes the property of the parents/guardians. The family can do whatever they want with those items, including asking a stranger to hack the passwords.
You sound like a communist (or the gentler version of same: Socialist). Why should I have to pay a 500% tax just because I prefer to collect records or CDs, instead of lossy-compressed files?
Butt off. I'll decide how to live my life; I don't need you applying a "sin tax" to my record/CD purchases.
Thomas Jefferson said laws should be written in plain English, because laws exist to serve the People, and need to be understood by the same.
Makes sense to me. Why insert a bunch of flowery language just to say, "It is wrong to enter another man's household."
As someone who uses a narrowband phoneline modem, I have to say the worst thing is the flash videos/ads. The website text can be compressed to ~5% original size, the images can be squashed down to about 10 kilobytes, but the Flash still stays huge.
It's quite frustrating to sit there staring at a blank screen and wondering why nothing is showing... and then suddenly a Flash animation opens-up. Most of the time, it's completely un-necessary. An animated GIF could do the same job, and much more efficiently.
Worst culprit: imdb.com
The British politicians are acting like American politicians!
(morality police)