Ok, so keep the queue on the browser side. Keep feeding the netflix queue one at a time to mimic multiple queues. It's not an ideal emulation of the real multiple queues, but it might be passable.
So I take it you are terrified crossbows? Granted a bow takes more skill to fire, but it is just as deadly and is a "device made for the sole purpose of killing or wounding a living creature".
You know, I don't think I would mind too much if the movie/music industry were to go the way of the buggy whip makers.
Yeah sure there are some mega-hit songs and some blockbuster movies I would have to go without, but there are other things in life. In fact it might be better for the art of music and movies as every work would have to be an indie work.
The movie/music industries need to stop thinking they are entitled to exist.
There are laws against running businesses cross fields. They are called Anti-Trust laws in the USA ("trust" being an old word that approximately means monopoly).
Unfortunately the scope and enforcement of these laws is very narrow as punishing a successful company for being successful is viewed as a bad thing. Basically the only time the law will be enforced is if a monopoly power (e.g. Microsoft) in one area (e.g. operating systems) uses that power to get an unfair advantage in another area (e.g. web browsers).
This is an attempt to force DRM down the public's throat.
They are trying to employ incrementalism. Today it's HD movies prior to DVD release. Then they expand the definition of "movie" until it includes everything. Then they never make a DVD release. Then they win.
It's a safety feature. Different electronics run at different voltages (3V and 5V are common). If the transformer provides too little voltage the device won't run. If the transformer provides too much voltage the device will run hot and possibly break. To try to reduce the likely hood that you put the wrong plug in the wrong device they choose all sorts of different sizes.
Now you could try to settle all electronics on one voltage, but that just won't fly. Engineers need to be able to choose the electronic technology (and thus the voltage) that best fits the task at hand. If the voltage doesn't match, they have to include a... transformer or power converter to get it to match. But the adapter is where they power conversion should be not the device.
I think you meant Open Source is to Nokia as the Native Americans are to the U.S. Government. Unless you mean Open Source falls under the governance of Native Americans. In that case when do I need to start painting my face before writing code? And do I get a tomahawk?
If that is their plan, they must not realize the low value of QT (we have plenty of alternatives) compared to the high value of the no-DRM ideals in the F/OSS community. They really aren't in a bargaining position.
If you are not flying internationally, this doesn't effect you. This is about customs agents, not the TSA.
If you are flying internationally, consult your companies legal department before you leave. At the very least it may raise awareness in the company that this might be a problem and if companies start to dislike the idea maybe they can get it changed.
This is about border agents, so it has nothing to do with bombs. It is about illegal or undeclared goods being smuggled into the country.
So the argument will go that as long as certain forms of information are illegal to bring into the country, in order to do their job (stopping smugglers) the customs agents need to be able to search for illegal information. I'm not saying I agree with that argument, but in order to convince anyone other than the choir you need to understand the real issues and not some straw man argument about bombs.
Any counter argument will have to indirectly argue that customs agents don't have to keep illegal data out of the country. For copyright, such an argument is easy to make (e.g. "customs agents have no way to tell if a work on a laptop is involved in criminal infringement they may have permission from the copyright holder or it may be fair use"). For child porn, the argument is harder. The court will likely end up weighing the cost of invading people's privacy against the benefit of stopping child porn at the border. Given that the technique has already proven effective (they caught the guy), guess which one the courts will side with.
Again I'm not saying I agree with the government's position, but you have to know your enemy and the battle ground in order to win.
The GP is right. The article states that it has "15% more volumetric energy than 100LL". Of course 100LL isn't car gas, but SwiftFuel is targeted at aviation not cars.
It may be half the cost per gallon, but is it as efficient? If my MPG gets cut in half by using this new fuel, then I'll still end up paying the same costs. The end consumer ultimately cares about Dollars per Mile, not Dollars per Gallon. (Yes, yes, I'm ignoring the environmental and foreign policy issues with oil.)
(P.S. In metric countries do they say KPL (Kilometers per Liter) instead of MPG (Miles per Gallon)?)
If you're being paid $12/hour to flip burgers, how much does the burger cost?
You see, there is the exchange rate (how much of one currency can buy another currency) and then there is the value rate (how much one currency can buy real goods). In my experience the two are often not the same. For example the USD to GBP exchange rate is around 2:1 right now but a 5 USD hamburger still costs 5 GBP over there for a value rate around 1:1. Go figure.
(The exchange vs value rate thing got to be really annoying one day when I was visiting England and I bought a 15 GBP stake. It was a terrible stake; dry and no flavor. Then I realize I had just paid the equivalent of 30 USD for the worst stake in my life. (For our non-USA friends, average stakes cost 10-15 USD and a 30 USD stake should be gourmet class.))
Everyone thinks they are in the politically repressed minority.
Talk to conservatives and they'll say the media is liberally biased and controls everything through big corporate media. Talk to liberals and they'll say the corporate sector is conservatively biased and controls everything though the (complicit) media.
My theory is that this comes down to thinking that the other position is so obviously wrong that no rational person could agree with it. But if there is only one reasonable "right" position, we have to rationalize why it isn't universally agreed upon. Solution: Everyone else is biased.
Of course most people don't realize that the presence of the disagreement may indicate that both sides have convincing arguments and that coming to the truly right position (if there is one) may require looking at the issues more deeply.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the posts about how the rips are different have been driving me crazy since it shouldn't be possible on digital media. You're the first poster to give a clear answer to what is happening.
Now the only question is how Data CD's get away with it. I suppose there could be a start marker in the data to timing issues don't throw it off, but that would only be a guess on my part.
But are those differences due to different compression algorithms/settings or differences in the raw data before it is ripped?
If it is the former, then these duplicates could easily be two people with the same software left on default settings. In today's software mono-culture, that's not very far fetched.
If it is the later, then how do data CD's get away with it since they can't tolerate a single bit out of place?
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I don't know, that tells me he is in touch to have caught himself.
And you've already lost all credibility by mentioning those.
Well if you're going to follow official standards, don't forget the mebibyte.
Ok, so keep the queue on the browser side. Keep feeding the netflix queue one at a time to mimic multiple queues. It's not an ideal emulation of the real multiple queues, but it might be passable.
So I take it you are terrified crossbows? Granted a bow takes more skill to fire, but it is just as deadly and is a "device made for the sole purpose of killing or wounding a living creature".
You know, I don't think I would mind too much if the movie/music industry were to go the way of the buggy whip makers.
Yeah sure there are some mega-hit songs and some blockbuster movies I would have to go without, but there are other things in life. In fact it might be better for the art of music and movies as every work would have to be an indie work.
The movie/music industries need to stop thinking they are entitled to exist.
There are laws against running businesses cross fields. They are called Anti-Trust laws in the USA ("trust" being an old word that approximately means monopoly).
Unfortunately the scope and enforcement of these laws is very narrow as punishing a successful company for being successful is viewed as a bad thing. Basically the only time the law will be enforced is if a monopoly power (e.g. Microsoft) in one area (e.g. operating systems) uses that power to get an unfair advantage in another area (e.g. web browsers).
(IANAL, YMMV, etc.)
Fail in step one: ISP's are not common carriers anytime anywhere.
This is an attempt to force DRM down the public's throat.
They are trying to employ incrementalism. Today it's HD movies prior to DVD release. Then they expand the definition of "movie" until it includes everything. Then they never make a DVD release. Then they win.
Thomas Edison is that you? Mr. Westinghouse won the DC vs AC debate a long time ago. Give it up.
It's a safety feature. Different electronics run at different voltages (3V and 5V are common). If the transformer provides too little voltage the device won't run. If the transformer provides too much voltage the device will run hot and possibly break. To try to reduce the likely hood that you put the wrong plug in the wrong device they choose all sorts of different sizes.
Now you could try to settle all electronics on one voltage, but that just won't fly. Engineers need to be able to choose the electronic technology (and thus the voltage) that best fits the task at hand. If the voltage doesn't match, they have to include a ... transformer or power converter to get it to match. But the adapter is where they power conversion should be not the device.
In summary, this idea is doomed.
I have an empirical religion you insensitive clod.
I think you meant Open Source is to Nokia as the Native Americans are to the U.S. Government. Unless you mean Open Source falls under the governance of Native Americans. In that case when do I need to start painting my face before writing code? And do I get a tomahawk?
If that is their plan, they must not realize the low value of QT (we have plenty of alternatives) compared to the high value of the no-DRM ideals in the F/OSS community. They really aren't in a bargaining position.
If you are not flying internationally, this doesn't effect you. This is about customs agents, not the TSA.
If you are flying internationally, consult your companies legal department before you leave. At the very least it may raise awareness in the company that this might be a problem and if companies start to dislike the idea maybe they can get it changed.
This is about border agents, so it has nothing to do with bombs. It is about illegal or undeclared goods being smuggled into the country.
So the argument will go that as long as certain forms of information are illegal to bring into the country, in order to do their job (stopping smugglers) the customs agents need to be able to search for illegal information. I'm not saying I agree with that argument, but in order to convince anyone other than the choir you need to understand the real issues and not some straw man argument about bombs.
Any counter argument will have to indirectly argue that customs agents don't have to keep illegal data out of the country. For copyright, such an argument is easy to make (e.g. "customs agents have no way to tell if a work on a laptop is involved in criminal infringement they may have permission from the copyright holder or it may be fair use"). For child porn, the argument is harder. The court will likely end up weighing the cost of invading people's privacy against the benefit of stopping child porn at the border. Given that the technique has already proven effective (they caught the guy), guess which one the courts will side with.
Again I'm not saying I agree with the government's position, but you have to know your enemy and the battle ground in order to win.
The GP is right. The article states that it has "15% more volumetric energy than 100LL". Of course 100LL isn't car gas, but SwiftFuel is targeted at aviation not cars.
Cool, a new thing for me to learn.
It may be half the cost per gallon, but is it as efficient? If my MPG gets cut in half by using this new fuel, then I'll still end up paying the same costs. The end consumer ultimately cares about Dollars per Mile, not Dollars per Gallon. (Yes, yes, I'm ignoring the environmental and foreign policy issues with oil.)
(P.S. In metric countries do they say KPL (Kilometers per Liter) instead of MPG (Miles per Gallon)?)
I was under the impression that geothermal was gravity based not fission.
You just proved my theory by serving as an example of it.
(Though you are right that the phrase "politically repressed minority" should just be "repressed minority".)
If you're being paid $12/hour to flip burgers, how much does the burger cost?
You see, there is the exchange rate (how much of one currency can buy another currency) and then there is the value rate (how much one currency can buy real goods). In my experience the two are often not the same. For example the USD to GBP exchange rate is around 2:1 right now but a 5 USD hamburger still costs 5 GBP over there for a value rate around 1:1. Go figure.
(The exchange vs value rate thing got to be really annoying one day when I was visiting England and I bought a 15 GBP stake. It was a terrible stake; dry and no flavor. Then I realize I had just paid the equivalent of 30 USD for the worst stake in my life. (For our non-USA friends, average stakes cost 10-15 USD and a 30 USD stake should be gourmet class.))
Everyone thinks they are in the politically repressed minority.
Talk to conservatives and they'll say the media is liberally biased and controls everything through big corporate media. Talk to liberals and they'll say the corporate sector is conservatively biased and controls everything though the (complicit) media.
My theory is that this comes down to thinking that the other position is so obviously wrong that no rational person could agree with it. But if there is only one reasonable "right" position, we have to rationalize why it isn't universally agreed upon. Solution: Everyone else is biased.
Of course most people don't realize that the presence of the disagreement may indicate that both sides have convincing arguments and that coming to the truly right position (if there is one) may require looking at the issues more deeply.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the posts about how the rips are different have been driving me crazy since it shouldn't be possible on digital media. You're the first poster to give a clear answer to what is happening.
Now the only question is how Data CD's get away with it. I suppose there could be a start marker in the data to timing issues don't throw it off, but that would only be a guess on my part.
But are those differences due to different compression algorithms/settings or differences in the raw data before it is ripped?
If it is the former, then these duplicates could easily be two people with the same software left on default settings. In today's software mono-culture, that's not very far fetched.
If it is the later, then how do data CD's get away with it since they can't tolerate a single bit out of place?