And just because you add copyright infringement at the end of a list of other types of thievery does not by fiat make it a form of thievery. That's just rhetorical parallelism. And calling an argument "shit" to short circuit its use also does not, in fact, actually render it shit.
Copyright infringement is exactly what it says: Infringing on somebody's exclusive right to distribute something, namely by distributing it for them. Even under the most conservative reading the only thing you're "robbing" them of is control, and, theoretically, the value of their product. And the latter is a dicey claim at best.
More intelligent debate is to be had on whether producers of information ought to have this exclusive distribution "right" or not--and NOT whether infringing on it is stealing. Because, quite simply, it's not.
Shopping for the tools for your next crime? Pay cash, don't buy locally, and FOR GOD SAKE DON'T USE A #$@# SHOPPER'S CLUB CARD!
Trust me, getting caught won't justify the $0.30 savings you got on the matches and lighter fluid.
I don't know who's stupider: An arsonist who actually used a shopper's club card, or the police for assuming the arsonist was so stupid as to use a shopper's club card (and not to frame someone else). You would THINK the latter would be one of the first hypotheses entertained by the police before they go off and charge the guy whose name is attached to the card.
I'm far more flabbergasted that people aren't more concerned (especially here on Slashdot) that 13.6 million identities have potential of being compromised! According to the article, he offered SSNs, DOBs, account passwords, etc. for sale to identity theft rings. Surely there a number of T-Mobile customers right here on Slashdot that this makes a little nervous. I'm really surprised the popular press hasn't picked this up yet. Unless the Secret Service can guarantee no identities were sold, I think this is going to blow up big.
For almost any Indian parent, a steady professional job (medicine, business, law, engineering, etc.) is far more attractive than a riskier yet potentially more lucrative job (artist, musician, comedian, etc.)
I think you meant to say "rewarding." And by that, I don't mean remuneratively rewarding. It's a rare "artist, musician, comedian, etc." who makes more money than your average physician or lawyer. People become artists because that's their calling, that's what they do, that's what makes them happy. Happiness is highly undervalued.
Yeah, the flow of electrons in wire is extremely slow, but the work is really done by the electrical field generated, so that as one electron is pushed into the wire, it "pushes" the sea of electrons forward so that an electron at the other end of the wire is shifted forward. This "shift" occurs pretty close to c. I
Why does it have to scale? Couldn't those communities then be collected up in a higher capitalist system?
Where the communities compete with each other, instead of the individual competing with each other?
Yeah, that's exactly how, in fact, it does work. The communes each produce some kind of product or service to support themselves, and their products compete with all other such products in the capitalist market. What does not scale is the pure communistic social structure of the communes themselves. These do not scale well to nation-sized populations where there is much less homogeneity of philosophy and starting status.
The Inquisitions, also contrary to popular belief, did not kill people. It was the authority of Kings who didn't know theology who killed people. Inquisitions actually were set up to save people from death
The Inquisitions, especially the Spanish Inquisition, were the height of fair trials for the time period - in fact, much of our current court system is derived from the expertise of the Inquisitions.
Fair, huh? Fair in what sense? Fair in determining the truth of a matter, or fair in exposing the depraved depths a person will go to coerce a person into admitting their non-belief in Catholic dogma? I think Galileo might have an opinion here.
Way to be an asshole, asshole. Yes, in fact it IS the same power as the ThinkGeek pointer. According the the CNN article, Banach claims he bought the laser pointer in question at BigHa.com, which sells a green laser pointer of the same 5mW power as that sold by ThinkGeek. But thanks for the ad hominem anyway. Very classy.
Riiight, because what with all the hoopla this laser crap has generated, it's not going to look suspicious to my neighbors when I'm out on the lawn with a green laser beam pointed at the sky. That's all I need is the local law, or better yet, the FBI, coming by to ask "a few questions" and I am try to explain that I'm just pointing out Orion's belt to my nephew. No thank you. Welcome to the chilling effects of the nascent police state.
I have one of those cool ThinkGeek green laser pointers and it was kind of fun (and amusing for the kids) to take it out on a cloudy or foggy day and look at the neat laser beam. Even the ThinkGeek description advertises its use for skypointing while stargazing, which works even in the clear in very dark conditions. Now I'm scared to do either. God I love these times we live in.
Seriously? Seriously? You're gonna go out on a limb here and say they could've done more with a meg of memory than 128K?
Since you're so clueless about the 80s, let me introduce you to to another tidbit from that era: "LIKE, DUH!"
And $100 for a meg?! IN 1983?! Even the other estimates in this thread are pure fantasy. Try over $2000 for a meg of memory. Yeah theat's right. Read it: http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
The only home machine around that time with a meg of memory was the Apple Lisa, which was $10,000, and as those of us who remember, a dismal, dismal flop.
Sorry for the unnecessary flaming, you're probably just joking around, but seriously. A meg. For the first Mac. Insanity.
Keyboard ain't going anywhere. Expect it to exist for as long as there are words to type.
That's a tautology. Maybe he was just making an oblique joke?
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Completely false. I happen to be exactly the kind of person this book will be perfect for. I am a scientist, a veteran computer user and programmer, but a complete novice system administrator. That makes a HUGE difference in the set of skills and knowledge I have. I can write C code for data analysis 'til the cows come home, but that doesn't mean I can ever remember the basics about lilo, grub, disk partitioning, dd, fdisk, kernel compiling, package management, driver tweaking, and all that other crap that only comes up with a new linux installation. I am not a linux hobbyist so it's not practical to keep that kind of trivia fresh in my brain, as old hat as it is to many of you. This is why *nix has such a long way to go on the desktop, because even someone with my relative computing sophistication is always freshly intimidated when it comes to "trying out" linux at home.
Sorry, doesn't the DoD regularly recallibrate known GPS satellite positions against the "fixed" stars anyway to check for ephemeris errors? I don't think we have to worry about this from a GPS perspective very much at all.
You're missing the idea behind cost of production and supply/demand. Hollywood filmmakers will NEVER be able to sell as cheap as pirates for the simple reason the pirates do not pay anything for the material. Making movies is a costly venture, advertising or no advertising, lawyers or no lawyers.
Right, the costs are extraordinary and hard to recoup, which is why the pirates make so much more money than the studios..erm, uh..wait...
It doesn't look completely evil, but then it is their own marketing docs.
Of course it's not completely evil. Execute disable bit is only kinda evil. Completely evil only comes with evil bit support, which was introduced last year. Intel and its partners should be completely evil compliant by Q3 2005.
Just thought I'd point out that their proof of concept (according the press-release-in-article's-clothing) is a "pre-recorded VMD has four layers on one side for an initial capacity of 20 GB...." One quick reference to recordable says:
"In 2006, the company will start manufacturing cost-effective 50 GB VMD's on Red Laser, for HDTV and Digital Cinema. With minimal changes of its technology, the company can manufacture recordable VMD as well." (my emphasis)
The fact that the recordable version is referred to as a vague possibility, and (more disturbingly) brought up AFTER a reference to what will happen in 2006, all suggests that we won't see burnable versions of this technology for quite a while. Anyone know where the Blue Laser folks are on getting a home writable version out? That, I think, will really impact user adoption.
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That, and not a, you know, moron.
No, just a cynic.
And just because you add copyright infringement at the end of a list of other types of thievery does not by fiat make it a form of thievery. That's just rhetorical parallelism. And calling an argument "shit" to short circuit its use also does not, in fact, actually render it shit.
Copyright infringement is exactly what it says: Infringing on somebody's exclusive right to distribute something, namely by distributing it for them. Even under the most conservative reading the only thing you're "robbing" them of is control, and, theoretically, the value of their product. And the latter is a dicey claim at best.
More intelligent debate is to be had on whether producers of information ought to have this exclusive distribution "right" or not--and NOT whether infringing on it is stealing. Because, quite simply, it's not.
Shopping for the tools for your next crime? Pay cash, don't buy locally, and FOR GOD SAKE DON'T USE A #$@# SHOPPER'S CLUB CARD!
Trust me, getting caught won't justify the $0.30 savings you got on the matches and lighter fluid.
I don't know who's stupider: An arsonist who actually used a shopper's club card, or the police for assuming the arsonist was so stupid as to use a shopper's club card (and not to frame someone else). You would THINK the latter would be one of the first hypotheses entertained by the police before they go off and charge the guy whose name is attached to the card.
Hah! Speak for yourself, buddy. The probe was launched in 97? I started grad school in 97. Guess where I still am.
Now excuse me while I have my morning cry over the pages of my unfinished dissertation....
I'm far more flabbergasted that people aren't more concerned (especially here on Slashdot) that 13.6 million identities have potential of being compromised! According to the article, he offered SSNs, DOBs, account passwords, etc. for sale to identity theft rings. Surely there a number of T-Mobile customers right here on Slashdot that this makes a little nervous. I'm really surprised the popular press hasn't picked this up yet. Unless the Secret Service can guarantee no identities were sold, I think this is going to blow up big.
For almost any Indian parent, a steady professional job (medicine, business, law, engineering, etc.) is far more attractive than a riskier yet potentially more lucrative job (artist, musician, comedian, etc.)
I think you meant to say "rewarding." And by that, I don't mean remuneratively rewarding. It's a rare "artist, musician, comedian, etc." who makes more money than your average physician or lawyer. People become artists because that's their calling, that's what they do, that's what makes them happy. Happiness is highly undervalued.
I'd follow the example of the master.
"Maybe later you could help me straighten out my Longfellow."
- Thornton Melon
Electrical chips run far below 1% of c.
Yeah, the flow of electrons in wire is extremely slow, but the work is really done by the electrical field generated, so that as one electron is pushed into the wire, it "pushes" the sea of electrons forward so that an electron at the other end of the wire is shifted forward. This "shift" occurs pretty close to c. I
Why does it have to scale? Couldn't those communities then be collected up in a higher capitalist system?
Where the communities compete with each other, instead of the individual competing with each other?
Yeah, that's exactly how, in fact, it does work. The communes each produce some kind of product or service to support themselves, and their products compete with all other such products in the capitalist market. What does not scale is the pure communistic social structure of the communes themselves. These do not scale well to nation-sized populations where there is much less homogeneity of philosophy and starting status.
The communism you're thinking of is a Utopian concept that can never exist when people have freedom and choice.
It works just fine on Israeli kibbutzim and other communes of like-minded people. It just doesn't scale.
The Inquisitions, also contrary to popular belief, did not kill people. It was the authority of Kings who didn't know theology who killed people. Inquisitions actually were set up to save people from death
These are just revisionist lies..
The Inquisitions, especially the Spanish Inquisition, were the height of fair trials for the time period - in fact, much of our current court system is derived from the expertise of the Inquisitions.
Fair, huh? Fair in what sense? Fair in determining the truth of a matter, or fair in exposing the depraved depths a person will go to coerce a person into admitting their non-belief in Catholic dogma? I think Galileo might have an opinion here.
Way to be an asshole, asshole. Yes, in fact it IS the same power as the ThinkGeek pointer. According the the CNN article, Banach claims he bought the laser pointer in question at BigHa.com, which sells a green laser pointer of the same 5mW power as that sold by ThinkGeek. But thanks for the ad hominem anyway. Very classy.
Riiight, because what with all the hoopla this laser crap has generated, it's not going to look suspicious to my neighbors when I'm out on the lawn with a green laser beam pointed at the sky. That's all I need is the local law, or better yet, the FBI, coming by to ask "a few questions" and I am try to explain that I'm just pointing out Orion's belt to my nephew. No thank you. Welcome to the chilling effects of the nascent police state.
I have one of those cool ThinkGeek green laser pointers and it was kind of fun (and amusing for the kids) to take it out on a cloudy or foggy day and look at the neat laser beam. Even the ThinkGeek description advertises its use for skypointing while stargazing, which works even in the clear in very dark conditions. Now I'm scared to do either. God I love these times we live in.
Seriously? Seriously? You're gonna go out on a limb here and say they could've done more with a meg of memory than 128K?
Since you're so clueless about the 80s, let me introduce you to to another tidbit from that era: "LIKE, DUH!"
And $100 for a meg?! IN 1983?! Even the other estimates in this thread are pure fantasy. Try over $2000 for a meg of memory. Yeah theat's right. Read it:
http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
The only home machine around that time with a meg of memory was the Apple Lisa, which was $10,000, and as those of us who remember, a dismal, dismal flop.
Sorry for the unnecessary flaming, you're probably just joking around, but seriously. A meg. For the first Mac. Insanity.
I think you seriously underestimate the cost of memory in 1983/84. SERIOUSLY.
the grandposter sez:
Keyboard ain't going anywhere. Expect it to exist for as long as there are words to type.
That's a tautology. Maybe he was just making an oblique joke?
Completely false. I happen to be exactly the kind of person this book will be perfect for. I am a scientist, a veteran computer user and programmer, but a complete novice system administrator. That makes a HUGE difference in the set of skills and knowledge I have. I can write C code for data analysis 'til the cows come home, but that doesn't mean I can ever remember the basics about lilo, grub, disk partitioning, dd, fdisk, kernel compiling, package management, driver tweaking, and all that other crap that only comes up with a new linux installation. I am not a linux hobbyist so it's not practical to keep that kind of trivia fresh in my brain, as old hat as it is to many of you. This is why *nix has such a long way to go on the desktop, because even someone with my relative computing sophistication is always freshly intimidated when it comes to "trying out" linux at home.
he perform 3 books that were about 9 hours on film in 60 minutes?
Quickly.
Sorry, doesn't the DoD regularly recallibrate known GPS satellite positions against the "fixed" stars anyway to check for ephemeris errors? I don't think we have to worry about this from a GPS perspective very much at all.
I found this incredbily useful:
Trimble's tutorial on GPS.
My sentiments exactly.
You're missing the idea behind cost of production and supply/demand. Hollywood filmmakers will NEVER be able to sell as cheap as pirates for the simple reason the pirates do not pay anything for the material. Making movies is a costly venture, advertising or no advertising, lawyers or no lawyers.
Right, the costs are extraordinary and hard to recoup, which is why the pirates make so much more money than the studios..erm, uh..wait...
It doesn't look completely evil, but then it is their own marketing docs.
Of course it's not completely evil. Execute disable bit is only kinda evil. Completely evil only comes with evil bit support, which was introduced last year. Intel and its partners should be completely evil compliant by Q3 2005.
I always that the ultimate defeat of Blue Laser would lie at the hands of the Cheat Commandos.. "Justice rocket backpack rocket, rocket fire!"
Just thought I'd point out that their proof of concept (according the press-release-in-article's-clothing) is a "pre-recorded VMD has four layers on one side for an initial capacity of 20 GB...." One quick reference to recordable says:
"In 2006, the company will start manufacturing cost-effective 50 GB VMD's on Red Laser, for HDTV and Digital Cinema. With minimal changes of its technology, the company can manufacture recordable VMD as well." (my emphasis)
The fact that the recordable version is referred to as a vague possibility, and (more disturbingly) brought up AFTER a reference to what will happen in 2006, all suggests that we won't see burnable versions of this technology for quite a while. Anyone know where the Blue Laser folks are on getting a home writable version out? That, I think, will really impact user adoption.
To believe otherwise is hubris-- and we all know what happened to Icarus.
Yeah! He became the subject of a Nintendo game and a kick ass Iron Maiden song. Go hubris!