is it encouraging to see network providers taking a stance other than p2p is bad?
It could be. My internal cynic, though, looks at this and sees parallels to things like the history of Las Vegas. For many years the Mob ran the town, and everyone knew it, but the ruling class railed against it (and I bet they used words like "immoral" and "unethical"). Nowadays, though, the town is owned by corporate America, who make billions of dollars under the cover of law...
That's not "rock & roll". That's pop drivel, that's not even primarily a music product. It's primarily a video product.
I think the key word here is "product", which is indeed what the Big Four consider the music they finance. But once you get into that territory, I stop really considering it "music". Sure, this manufactured swill might fit a technical definition of "music", but I think it's a pretty big stretch to consider it a significant form of creative expression.
I think I understand your thoughts better. Sorry if I sounded like an asshole before.
That said, I don't agree. I don't think writing software is similar to the example of architect vs. carpenter. I think it's more akin to a large engineering project. The "lower level" members of the team still need to understand some theory to know how to do a good job implementing what the team lead is telling them to do.
Yeah, FARC has a long history of attacking the United States. Oh wait.
Anyway, maybe you're not aware of this, but the US has a long history of fucking around with Latin American governments. In fact, many of the death squads in that region are trained on US soil, at the School of the Americas. The upshot: US-sponsored terrorism, paid for by taxpayers.
And no, I'm not a fan of FARC, or Chavez. But the reason they're made out to be so evil is not based on anything they've actually done: no, it's the fact that they interfere with the US's ruling class and their ability to bludgeon Latin America into puppet government-run economic colonies.
the President of the US gets medical treatment that is better than Medicare. Not everybody in the US does. Therefore, we'd expect him to live for more than 11 years.
The President of the US is also one of the most stressful jobs on the entire planet. I don't think good medical care could negate this, and would expect a 75-year-old man to live a less-than-average amount should he win the Presidency.
You know, I've never understood people like you. I always thought that the best type of education system is one that teaches people critical thinking skills. You, on the other hand, seem to think we should keep a small ruling class and train the other 90+% to know how to do a few specialized tasks.
Unfortunately it seems your school of thought is dominating in the US right now...
If all the components in a data center were orchestrated
Aw, now I want power redundancy systems that play the 1812 Overture as they fight epic brownout conditions. That would be sweet. Although, it would use a bit more power...
It's not that vertical monopolies "fell out of favor" - they were instead regulated out of existence.
You have it backwards. Vertical integration was popular for much of the 20th century because of regulation. Namely, antitrust laws.
And beginning in the 1980s (continuing til now), antitrust regulation has been extremely lax. Thus, companies don't need to grow into a vertically-integrated form, as they can basically do whatever the fuck they want. So long as they don't gouge consumers. If they do that, then a slap on the wrist.
The political storm sweeping the US right now is like nothing I have ever seen before. And I lived through most of the 1950s and 1960s.
This is kind of off-topic, but I just have to say that this statement right here gives me hope. I'm in my early 20s, and I really didn't enjoy gaining my political consciousness with GWB as president.
I'm leaning toward Obama a bit for President. This is mostly because when he drafted his tech policy, instead of talking to some exec at AT&T, he talked to Lessig[1]. I find this admirable.
In the potential future where Lessig runs and wins, and Obama wins, we'd have two more Slashdot Moral Values-friendly politicians in office. Of course, there's already people like Dick Boucher of Virginia.
[1] Of course, who knows how committed Obama is to his tech platform, and/or how much he'd have to compromise to appease the Congresscritters who've been bought by the telecom and copyright cartels.
Norris was a founder of the Carlyle Group. The jokers in this circle are the owners of the current military-industrial complex of the United States of America. And lest we forget, one member of this club currently lives in a little white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
So no, this isn't a suspicious maneuver made by Microsoft. Rather, it's a suspicious maneuver made by some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
I don't think that's what the OP is suggesting. Rather I think the idea is to buy a product or service from a company that has been sued or extorted into paying "licensing" fees to said patent trolls.
I think this idea is more insightful than funny, even if the mods appear to be 50/50 on either side at the moment. Anyway...
I like this idea. It's pretty much the equivalent of applying CVS to the legislative process. Then people can run 'diff' on all the idiotic parts of bills, and find out who's responsible.
I suppose revolutionary types could then claim "we're not rebelling, we're just a fork!"...
This was during a period where we were playing Ultra Golf[1] almost nonstop. After a few weeks, he decided that every time he sliced a shot (or whatever), it would be a really good idea to smash the Gameboy against his head. Repeatedly. I (and my parents) kept telling him "you're going to break it", and he did. Cracked the LCD right open. It still "worked", but the screen was useless, so it was pretty much unusable.
On the other hand, this did end up netting us a Gameboy Color...
[1] Ultra was a Konami shell company during Nintendo's days of "thou shalt not make more than two games per year".
I know I'm going to get modded to hell for this, but I don't care. I'm tired of the first half-dozen comments on every story being morons who don't bother to do one minute of checking before polluting the discussion.
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is it encouraging to see network providers taking a stance other than p2p is bad?
It could be. My internal cynic, though, looks at this and sees parallels to things like the history of Las Vegas. For many years the Mob ran the town, and everyone knew it, but the ruling class railed against it (and I bet they used words like "immoral" and "unethical"). Nowadays, though, the town is owned by corporate America, who make billions of dollars under the cover of law...
The RIAA seems to be operating without any regard to the actual laws of the country. Doesn't this bother anyone?
You must be new here.
That's not "rock & roll". That's pop drivel, that's not even primarily a music product. It's primarily a video product.
I think the key word here is "product", which is indeed what the Big Four consider the music they finance. But once you get into that territory, I stop really considering it "music". Sure, this manufactured swill might fit a technical definition of "music", but I think it's a pretty big stretch to consider it a significant form of creative expression.
I think I understand your thoughts better. Sorry if I sounded like an asshole before.
That said, I don't agree. I don't think writing software is similar to the example of architect vs. carpenter. I think it's more akin to a large engineering project. The "lower level" members of the team still need to understand some theory to know how to do a good job implementing what the team lead is telling them to do.
I think you're forgetting about OpenBSD. Theo alone can match the output of your silly scheduler flames. :)
Oh. Then I must be mistaken that for nearly 200 years, the US copyright system required a fee to be paid to receive copyright protection on a work.
More likely: you're wrong.
our enemies
Yeah, FARC has a long history of attacking the United States. Oh wait.
Anyway, maybe you're not aware of this, but the US has a long history of fucking around with Latin American governments. In fact, many of the death squads in that region are trained on US soil, at the School of the Americas. The upshot: US-sponsored terrorism, paid for by taxpayers.
And no, I'm not a fan of FARC, or Chavez. But the reason they're made out to be so evil is not based on anything they've actually done: no, it's the fact that they interfere with the US's ruling class and their ability to bludgeon Latin America into puppet government-run economic colonies.
the President of the US gets medical treatment that is better than Medicare. Not everybody in the US does. Therefore, we'd expect him to live for more than 11 years.
The President of the US is also one of the most stressful jobs on the entire planet. I don't think good medical care could negate this, and would expect a 75-year-old man to live a less-than-average amount should he win the Presidency.
once Dubya is gone, there won't be any more military robots h.e.r.e...
So in January 2009, the entire military-industrial complex of the US is going to instantly vanish? Yeah right...
You know, I've never understood people like you. I always thought that the best type of education system is one that teaches people critical thinking skills. You, on the other hand, seem to think we should keep a small ruling class and train the other 90+% to know how to do a few specialized tasks.
Unfortunately it seems your school of thought is dominating in the US right now...
If all the components in a data center were orchestrated
Aw, now I want power redundancy systems that play the 1812 Overture as they fight epic brownout conditions. That would be sweet. Although, it would use a bit more power...
Well, it looks like ATSC TV channels take up somewhere around 20 megabits/sec, so would be one answer.
It's not that vertical monopolies "fell out of favor" - they were instead regulated out of existence.
You have it backwards. Vertical integration was popular for much of the 20th century because of regulation. Namely, antitrust laws.
And beginning in the 1980s (continuing til now), antitrust regulation has been extremely lax. Thus, companies don't need to grow into a vertically-integrated form, as they can basically do whatever the fuck they want. So long as they don't gouge consumers. If they do that, then a slap on the wrist.
The political storm sweeping the US right now is like nothing I have ever seen before. And I lived through most of the 1950s and 1960s.
This is kind of off-topic, but I just have to say that this statement right here gives me hope. I'm in my early 20s, and I really didn't enjoy gaining my political consciousness with GWB as president.
I'm leaning toward Obama a bit for President. This is mostly because when he drafted his tech policy, instead of talking to some exec at AT&T, he talked to Lessig[1]. I find this admirable.
In the potential future where Lessig runs and wins, and Obama wins, we'd have two more Slashdot Moral Values-friendly politicians in office. Of course, there's already people like Dick Boucher of Virginia.
[1] Of course, who knows how committed Obama is to his tech platform, and/or how much he'd have to compromise to appease the Congresscritters who've been bought by the telecom and copyright cartels.
[I]s Microsoft, in fact, at the root of it?
Norris was a founder of the Carlyle Group. The jokers in this circle are the owners of the current military-industrial complex of the United States of America. And lest we forget, one member of this club currently lives in a little white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
So no, this isn't a suspicious maneuver made by Microsoft. Rather, it's a suspicious maneuver made by some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
So like, this guy is creating black holes in some backwoods part of the Universe?
Actually, a group of Second Life griefers did crash a plane into a faux "Twin Towers" that somebody had built. It was pretty funny.
I don't think that's what the OP is suggesting. Rather I think the idea is to buy a product or service from a company that has been sued or extorted into paying "licensing" fees to said patent trolls.
I think this idea is more insightful than funny, even if the mods appear to be 50/50 on either side at the moment. Anyway...
I like this idea. It's pretty much the equivalent of applying CVS to the legislative process. Then people can run 'diff' on all the idiotic parts of bills, and find out who's responsible.
I suppose revolutionary types could then claim "we're not rebelling, we're just a fork!"...
Holy crap, my brother did this too!
This was during a period where we were playing Ultra Golf[1] almost nonstop. After a few weeks, he decided that every time he sliced a shot (or whatever), it would be a really good idea to smash the Gameboy against his head. Repeatedly. I (and my parents) kept telling him "you're going to break it", and he did. Cracked the LCD right open. It still "worked", but the screen was useless, so it was pretty much unusable.
On the other hand, this did end up netting us a Gameboy Color...
[1] Ultra was a Konami shell company during Nintendo's days of "thou shalt not make more than two games per year".
Looks like the list is right on Microsoft's website.
i don't think I ever even touched a PS2 beyond using it to play DVDs back when it was the cheapest DVD player on the market.
You must live in Japan.
say I wanted to upgrade the video card in my old laptop
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Yes, this is possible. Start here.
I know I'm going to get modded to hell for this, but I don't care. I'm tired of the first half-dozen comments on every story being morons who don't bother to do one minute of checking before polluting the discussion.
1+1=-9 when you're dealing with another continent
Or when you're dealing with Lutherans.