What's the lifespan of tape, if you keep it online and randomly seeking and searching 24x7x365 ?
I have VCR tapes over a quarter century old, and boxes and boxes of audio cassettes that are pushing the half century mark. OTOH I've head at least three hard drives die since 1987.
I wrote my Senetor, Dick Durbin, concerned about a newspaper article that said that the "conservatives" wanted to lower tax rates on the rich yet again. He replied, and one of his concerns was, in fact, the debt and deficit.
Durbin is a Democrat. You might want to stop listening to Beck and Limbaugh, both of those yokels are damned liars, and one of them is a drug addict.
They covered this on the TV news last night. It seems that FoxCon employees live in on-site barracks, like American workers were forced to back in the 19th century before we had unions. Takes time to build the barracks; they have to hire a lot more people make up for not being able to force them to work crazy overtime hours.
Obviously the moderator is as unenlightened as the commenter. We have a lot of rabid so-called "conservatives" at slashdot, and they get mod points, too.
Have you been to Reality lately? It's dog eat dog. Literally.
No, it's not. Most people I've met in my life (and I turn 60 next week) are kind and compassionate. Yes, I've been robbed, stolen from, cheated, lied to -- but the ones who acted like that were in a definite minority. Humans are social creatures. Were we not social creatures we would have gone extinct long ago.
Everyone is an asshole sometimes, yes, and there are disagreements of all sorts, but only sociopaths lie, steal, and cheat without a second thought.
The media are owned by sociopaths, so of course their depiction of reality is going to be "it's a dog eat dog world." More accurate is "life ain't fair and people don't act right." But most people do, in fact, attempt to do the right thing.
when people form a monopoly on their product - labour
But there is no monopoly on labor. A union is the employees of a company bargaining collectively with management, which is also a collective. Unions take power from the 1% and give it to the 99%. I'm in a union and I hold no monopoly; there are thousands of me. And should I break the contract, management is free to fire me and hire someone else. Management can hire anyone.
As to the rest of your post, where do you get those ignorant ideas? Not in any college level history class! The 1929 stock market crash was caused by exactly the same thing that caused the 2008 crash -- Republicans and the "the less government we have, the better". Read Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's Frederick Lewis Allen, the entire book is online here. It was a required text in an undergrad course I took at SIU in the late '70s.
Everything needs balkance. Too little water and you'll die. Too much water and you'll die. Too much regulation causes problems, too little regulation causes problems. Misregulating causes problems in any case.
I had a friend in the lats 1990s who, when he saw I had a computer, acrually asked "aren't you afraid it will explode?" See what happens when you can't tell fiction from reality?
The reason that the old movie and TV shows (especially in the fifties) depicted computers blowing up was because the early computers used vaccuum tubes, which need a lot of power to heat all the filiments in all the tubes; these things had an insane number of tubes compared to any other piece of electronics.
If there's a short circuit anywhere inside one of these antique tube monstrosities, it did in fact often go off with a loud pop and a bright flash. Short a 110v power plug and you'll see what I mean. Today's computers, being solid state, don't use more than 12v outside the power supply itself.
That's not to say that some of those old shows weren't laughably ignorant. One episode of The Prisoner had number six making a computer blow up by asking it "why?"
You're confusing aspergers with autism. The difference is in the degree. From wikipedia:
Asperger syndrome, also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger disorder, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development.
Whether a particular government (local, state, or country) runs things wel or into the ground depends on who's running it. The difference between a Governor running his state into the ground (Ryan, Blago) and the CEO of a corporation running her (I'm thinking Carly Fiona as a good example) company into the ground is that the Governor will get booted out of office (and in Illinois, usually imprisoned) while the CEO leaves with a golden parachute.
Here in Springfield, our electric company is run by city government. Todd Renfrow (AKA "Mr. Burns") did an excellent job. We had the best uptime and the lowest rates in Illinois. Renfrow retired, we got a new mayor, the mayor appointed someone else to run it, now we're looking at rate increases.
I see Mayor Houston losing his job next election. And he won't get a golden parachute.
In either case, whethere it's a CEO or a politician that runs things into the ground, the workers get blamed and they're the ones who suffer, along with the citizens/stockholders/customers.
You hit the nail on the head. The guy that DLs the pirate version gets no support. Why would they expect to? You may well have sold a few more copies than you would have otherwise because someone pirated it.
Pirating software is pretty damned stupid. You're begging to be pwned installing dodgy software.
The most vocal opponents to marijuana being legalized? The idiots who grow the stuff.
Exactly... and the ones who import it and sell it. I've suspected for a long tome that the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded by the drug cartels. They would be out of business if it were legalized. The high rice would not be sustainable without the legal risk.
LASIK is pretty safe from what I hear, and you don't have to have needles poked in your eye. But with LASIK you're still going to need reading glasses when you're in your forties.
That is a problem. The Libbies don't want your loved ones in jail, but they want to dismantle the EPA. The Greenies don't want to incarcerate your loved ones either, but they have their own craziness I can't support. The Constitution party would likely reform copyright in a good way, but they're way too right wing in other areas.
I wash you guys would stoop using in correct homophones*, it make reading comprehension a pain in the ass. It took me a minute to figure out wtf a Mickie-D fair was... like a state fair? No, you meant FARE.
It also makes you look like an idiot. Please pay attention! Use that preview button. Dew knot truss yore spill chucker.
* on porpoise for illustration purposes. Yes, that too.
Social Security (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is merely a promise to pay older people by taking cash from younger people...who are declining as a % of the older population.
Yes, for now. The reason youngsters are being outnumbered by my generation is WWII. We're called "boomers" because of the huge number of babies concieved when the men came home from WWII. When my generation dies off, youngsters will again outnumber oldsters.
Save, invest and grow your own little community as best you can.
That was tried for 150 years of American history, and it didn't work. SS was started because folks too old to work any more simply starved. There's no way in hell to save or invest if you're earning minimum wage digging coal out of a mine or laying railroad tracks, even doing so at two jobs.
patents and copyrights serve a very useful purpose, but the laws are badly written. A copyright lasting only twenty years encourages new art, the excessive lengths today discourage it.
Without patent protection, no drug company would do any research at all because they couldn't recoup the cost of developing new drugs. However, the insane dollar costs of a patent are a detriment to innovation.
If patents were as cheap as copyrights ($30 to register) and copyrights were as short a time as patents, we would have a good system.
Kids, I know twenty years seems like a damned long time when you're 25, but believe me -- it isn't.
I doubt any head of any big multinational corporation give a rat's ass about anyone's life except their own. Otherwise there would have been doors on Purina's elevator in 1959 and my grandfather wouldn't have been a vegetable for the next fifteen years until he died, and the Sago Mine wouldn't have exploded in 2006, killing two dozen men.
Do you really think a 1%er cares about anyone but himself and close friends and relatives? If your death will make him richer, you'll die. Damed hard to become a multimillionaire unless you're a sociopath. Possible, yes, but damned hard.
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What's the lifespan of tape, if you keep it online and randomly seeking and searching 24x7x365 ?
I have VCR tapes over a quarter century old, and boxes and boxes of audio cassettes that are pushing the half century mark. OTOH I've head at least three hard drives die since 1987.
Good quality tapes are indeed very durable.
It didn't even take me that long to inatall kubuntu on my Acer. Well, after I figured out how to install from a thumb drive, that is.
I wrote my Senetor, Dick Durbin, concerned about a newspaper article that said that the "conservatives" wanted to lower tax rates on the rich yet again. He replied, and one of his concerns was, in fact, the debt and deficit.
Durbin is a Democrat. You might want to stop listening to Beck and Limbaugh, both of those yokels are damned liars, and one of them is a drug addict.
See Why I vote Republican
They covered this on the TV news last night. It seems that FoxCon employees live in on-site barracks, like American workers were forced to back in the 19th century before we had unions. Takes time to build the barracks; they have to hire a lot more people make up for not being able to force them to work crazy overtime hours.
How can this drivel be modded insightful?
Obviously the moderator is as unenlightened as the commenter. We have a lot of rabid so-called "conservatives" at slashdot, and they get mod points, too.
Have you been to Reality lately? It's dog eat dog. Literally.
No, it's not. Most people I've met in my life (and I turn 60 next week) are kind and compassionate. Yes, I've been robbed, stolen from, cheated, lied to -- but the ones who acted like that were in a definite minority. Humans are social creatures. Were we not social creatures we would have gone extinct long ago.
Everyone is an asshole sometimes, yes, and there are disagreements of all sorts, but only sociopaths lie, steal, and cheat without a second thought.
The media are owned by sociopaths, so of course their depiction of reality is going to be "it's a dog eat dog world." More accurate is "life ain't fair and people don't act right." But most people do, in fact, attempt to do the right thing.
when people form a monopoly on their product - labour
But there is no monopoly on labor. A union is the employees of a company bargaining collectively with management, which is also a collective. Unions take power from the 1% and give it to the 99%. I'm in a union and I hold no monopoly; there are thousands of me. And should I break the contract, management is free to fire me and hire someone else. Management can hire anyone.
As to the rest of your post, where do you get those ignorant ideas? Not in any college level history class! The 1929 stock market crash was caused by exactly the same thing that caused the 2008 crash -- Republicans and the "the less government we have, the better". Read Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's Frederick Lewis Allen, the entire book is online here. It was a required text in an undergrad course I took at SIU in the late '70s.
Everything needs balkance. Too little water and you'll die. Too much water and you'll die. Too much regulation causes problems, too little regulation causes problems. Misregulating causes problems in any case.
I had a friend in the lats 1990s who, when he saw I had a computer, acrually asked "aren't you afraid it will explode?" See what happens when you can't tell fiction from reality?
The reason that the old movie and TV shows (especially in the fifties) depicted computers blowing up was because the early computers used vaccuum tubes, which need a lot of power to heat all the filiments in all the tubes; these things had an insane number of tubes compared to any other piece of electronics.
If there's a short circuit anywhere inside one of these antique tube monstrosities, it did in fact often go off with a loud pop and a bright flash. Short a 110v power plug and you'll see what I mean. Today's computers, being solid state, don't use more than 12v outside the power supply itself.
That's not to say that some of those old shows weren't laughably ignorant. One episode of The Prisoner had number six making a computer blow up by asking it "why?"
You're confusing aspergers with autism. The difference is in the degree. From wikipedia:
Sorry, AC, but you're the fucking idiot. Putting pressure on Apple is what caused FoxCon to change its employment practices.
Everybody knows that half of electronics comes from that factory, but Apple is the only one with the clout to do anything about it.
Well, if you're in the board room your attitude is that the workers don't matter any more than the machinery. To the 1%, only the 1% matter.
Whether a particular government (local, state, or country) runs things wel or into the ground depends on who's running it. The difference between a Governor running his state into the ground (Ryan, Blago) and the CEO of a corporation running her (I'm thinking Carly Fiona as a good example) company into the ground is that the Governor will get booted out of office (and in Illinois, usually imprisoned) while the CEO leaves with a golden parachute.
Here in Springfield, our electric company is run by city government. Todd Renfrow (AKA "Mr. Burns") did an excellent job. We had the best uptime and the lowest rates in Illinois. Renfrow retired, we got a new mayor, the mayor appointed someone else to run it, now we're looking at rate increases.
I see Mayor Houston losing his job next election. And he won't get a golden parachute.
In either case, whethere it's a CEO or a politician that runs things into the ground, the workers get blamed and they're the ones who suffer, along with the citizens/stockholders/customers.
You hit the nail on the head. The guy that DLs the pirate version gets no support. Why would they expect to? You may well have sold a few more copies than you would have otherwise because someone pirated it.
Pirating software is pretty damned stupid. You're begging to be pwned installing dodgy software.
The most vocal opponents to marijuana being legalized? The idiots who grow the stuff.
Exactly... and the ones who import it and sell it. I've suspected for a long tome that the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded by the drug cartels. They would be out of business if it were legalized. The high rice would not be sustainable without the legal risk.
LASIK is pretty safe from what I hear, and you don't have to have needles poked in your eye. But with LASIK you're still going to need reading glasses when you're in your forties.
That is a problem. The Libbies don't want your loved ones in jail, but they want to dismantle the EPA. The Greenies don't want to incarcerate your loved ones either, but they have their own craziness I can't support. The Constitution party would likely reform copyright in a good way, but they're way too right wing in other areas.
There are no good choices.
Same here. Sometimes a joke just doesn't work, but that doesn't matter with excellent karma.
"this cost was borne [by the] U.S. government"
should read:
"this cost was borne [by the] U.S. taxpayers"
Same thing. It's not like anybody doesn't know that the government taxes them to pay for running things, research, etc.
You might not like Mickie-D's fair
I wash you guys would stoop using in correct homophones*, it make reading comprehension a pain in the ass. It took me a minute to figure out wtf a Mickie-D fair was... like a state fair? No, you meant FARE.
It also makes you look like an idiot. Please pay attention! Use that preview button. Dew knot truss yore spill chucker.
* on porpoise for illustration purposes. Yes, that too.
Social Security (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is merely a promise to pay older people by taking cash from younger people...who are declining as a % of the older population.
Yes, for now. The reason youngsters are being outnumbered by my generation is WWII. We're called "boomers" because of the huge number of babies concieved when the men came home from WWII. When my generation dies off, youngsters will again outnumber oldsters.
Save, invest and grow your own little community as best you can.
That was tried for 150 years of American history, and it didn't work. SS was started because folks too old to work any more simply starved. There's no way in hell to save or invest if you're earning minimum wage digging coal out of a mine or laying railroad tracks, even doing so at two jobs.
patents and copyrights serve a very useful purpose, but the laws are badly written. A copyright lasting only twenty years encourages new art, the excessive lengths today discourage it.
Without patent protection, no drug company would do any research at all because they couldn't recoup the cost of developing new drugs. However, the insane dollar costs of a patent are a detriment to innovation.
If patents were as cheap as copyrights ($30 to register) and copyrights were as short a time as patents, we would have a good system.
Kids, I know twenty years seems like a damned long time when you're 25, but believe me -- it isn't.
I doubt any head of any big multinational corporation give a rat's ass about anyone's life except their own. Otherwise there would have been doors on Purina's elevator in 1959 and my grandfather wouldn't have been a vegetable for the next fifteen years until he died, and the Sago Mine wouldn't have exploded in 2006, killing two dozen men.
Do you really think a 1%er cares about anyone but himself and close friends and relatives? If your death will make him richer, you'll die. Damed hard to become a multimillionaire unless you're a sociopath. Possible, yes, but damned hard.
There are two kinds of armed thieves. One uses a gun that fires bullets, one uses a gun that fires cops.
(meme stolen from The Who)
you can never convince a noon geek
Was that a typoo? If not I have some googling to do...
"We have him on opiates to keep him comfortable." Yes, he was comfortably numb, compared to the searing pain he would have otherwise been in.