And, use the free time you just got with all those useless calls to get a nice warm cup of *whatever*, and relax...
Well, I've got to admit, you've got a point. If I didn't get all those 'useless' calls, I sure would have a lot of free time. Hooray for one-size-fits-all solutions.
But, as I do not wish to waste any more time on idiots, I will let you leave you in your ignorance.
So... you're taking the 'high road' by calling me an idiot and refusing to clarify whether you're making an amazingly ignorant generalization or a blindingly obvious statement. Heh. Yeah, I'm sooOOOooo going to bang my fist on the desk over that.
Nah, it was at the beginning of the first movie when he was showing off how the input panel worked.
This is a messy discussion. They don't address the problem and they don't not address the problem. I mean, if you wanted to argue against my point, you could mention that the ability to precisely place the vehicle in the same relative point on Earth would also mean he had the ability to any point in the universe instantaneously. Seems like he'd be even more excited about that than time travel.
The universe really DOES revolve around the earth in the movie universe, so no special measures are necessary beyond "simply" moving in time.
How do we know that wasn't what the whole 'time circuits' thing was about? Doc Brown talked about witnessing Jesus' birth, notably without mentioning the small geographical problem they'd have with that.
However, a person is behaving in an anti-social way, business is down in revenue, and the revenue the business would have received from said person is being spent on other things.
Downloading the song did not cause a loss in revenue.
Come on, folks, admit it. You only believe this study because it concludes what you want to conclude. If it concluded the opposite thing, you'd all be selectively trotting out that good old line, "correlation doesn't imply causation," and holding it up to standards that you won't hold this one up to.
None of the 'violence in video games causes violence' theories have yet to hold any water and that's our fault? I'm impressed with your spin, but not your stance.
The funny thing about "correlation is not causation" is that "causation requires correlation". If you claim that X causes Y and you have millions of X and not one single Y, you're going to have some explaining to do.
Crime in the United States has gone down as video game popularity has gone up.
If the downloader had the CD then why didn't the downloader simply rip from the CD?
Nearly all my CDs are packed in a box and buried in a closet from when I moved. If I were to get a collection of my CDs onto a music player, it'd be far more convenient for me to just do a few searches and queue up a bunch of mp3s than it would be to go CD by CD and go through the rip. Honestly, even if my CDs weren't buried in the closet, I'd still rather just download them. I hate babysitting optical media.
What does watching hulu video have to do with testing bandwidth throughput?
It's a heavy page, uses CPU, uses memory, and the Hulu servers are generally pretty fast. That and I've seen a memory upgrade improve Hulu and Youtube's performance. If the computer's swappin, it slows down the data xfer.
Yes, because the only major difference, the 256 megs of more RAM, really is what gave them double internet speeds on the test. Hahahahaha, yeah right. I guess I'm going to have to go stick another gig of RAM in my box so I can get 4x the internet bandwidth of what I have now!
Set up an XP box with 256 megs of RAM then go to Hulu.com and watch a full-res video. Tell me you're getting the data down just as fast as you were at 512 or 2 gigs.
Unless you're running on an old 4200rpm laptop drive, write speed shouldn't be a problem compared to internet speeds. 22mbps is only 2.75MBps, which pretty much any relatively modern drive can do, even near-full and fragmented to hell.
It is not an issue of write speed. The CPU AND the drive are busy at the same time. If swapping weren't such a nuisance demand for RAM would drop dramatically.
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And, use the free time you just got with all those useless calls to get a nice warm cup of *whatever*, and relax...
Well, I've got to admit, you've got a point. If I didn't get all those 'useless' calls, I sure would have a lot of free time. Hooray for one-size-fits-all solutions.
But, as I do not wish to waste any more time on idiots, I will let you leave you in your ignorance.
So... you're taking the 'high road' by calling me an idiot and refusing to clarify whether you're making an amazingly ignorant generalization or a blindingly obvious statement. Heh. Yeah, I'm sooOOOooo going to bang my fist on the desk over that.
Nah, it was at the beginning of the first movie when he was showing off how the input panel worked.
This is a messy discussion. They don't address the problem and they don't not address the problem. I mean, if you wanted to argue against my point, you could mention that the ability to precisely place the vehicle in the same relative point on Earth would also mean he had the ability to any point in the universe instantaneously. Seems like he'd be even more excited about that than time travel.
Makes the ol' head hurt. ;)
Yep, that really stung. Anyway, are you going clarify your point or are you going to attempt another distraction from your poor communications skills?
The universe really DOES revolve around the earth in the movie universe, so no special measures are necessary beyond "simply" moving in time.
How do we know that wasn't what the whole 'time circuits' thing was about? Doc Brown talked about witnessing Jesus' birth, notably without mentioning the small geographical problem they'd have with that.
If the person would have otherwise bought the song, yes it did.
Are we talking about people downloading music or are we talking the smaller group of people downloading music to avoid paying for it?
If you can't see that, then you are just an idiot.
Grow up.
However, a person is behaving in an anti-social way, business is down in revenue, and the revenue the business would have received from said person is being spent on other things.
Downloading the song did not cause a loss in revenue.
Sounds like the broken window fallacy to me.
Maybe if we were talking about shoplifting. However, we're not, so the 'fallacy' isn't applicable. The town isn't down a CD.
We -know- that file sharing is bad for big record labels...
No, we don't.
Come on, folks, admit it. You only believe this study because it concludes what you want to conclude. If it concluded the opposite thing, you'd all be selectively trotting out that good old line, "correlation doesn't imply causation," and holding it up to standards that you won't hold this one up to.
None of the 'violence in video games causes violence' theories have yet to hold any water and that's our fault? I'm impressed with your spin, but not your stance.
The funny thing about "correlation is not causation" is that "causation requires correlation". If you claim that X causes Y and you have millions of X and not one single Y, you're going to have some explaining to do.
Crime in the United States has gone down as video game popularity has gone up.
Visible light doesn't, probably. But "light" is a term that can be used to refer to the whole of the EM spectrum.
Wow. I wish I was so smart that I found the use of that term confusing.
If the downloader had the CD then why didn't the downloader simply rip from the CD?
Nearly all my CDs are packed in a box and buried in a closet from when I moved. If I were to get a collection of my CDs onto a music player, it'd be far more convenient for me to just do a few searches and queue up a bunch of mp3s than it would be to go CD by CD and go through the rip. Honestly, even if my CDs weren't buried in the closet, I'd still rather just download them. I hate babysitting optical media.
I guess it's done because the movie will sell more tickets, as opposed to using a lesser-known actor who might actually be able to act.
Bet you guys regret buying those Matrix DVDs!
When something new is released and it isn't just right, for our expectations, then it just seems like an abomination.
Perhaps, but that'll never be definitively proven with a Keanu Reeves movie.
And you're maxing out 22mbits?
What does watching hulu video have to do with testing bandwidth throughput?
It's a heavy page, uses CPU, uses memory, and the Hulu servers are generally pretty fast. That and I've seen a memory upgrade improve Hulu and Youtube's performance. If the computer's swappin, it slows down the data xfer.
Yeah. Funny stuff, since it has nothing to do with memory....
... except when it's swapping. I can't be the only one that remembers what it was like when going from 2000 to XP on a 256 meg machine.
It's just hilarious to see all the stupid "BUT IT HAD MORE MEMORY!!" comebacks to try to invalidate this idiotic "test" from the article.
It's also funny that your 'test' is maxing out the line whereas the article's 512meg machine didn't.
Was it supposed to take me an hour to do such an extraordinarily simple set of tasks?
An hour? No. But you didn't do what I asked. Heh. 256 meg machine, full-quality Hulu video.
In six minutes?
Yes, because the only major difference, the 256 megs of more RAM, really is what gave them double internet speeds on the test. Hahahahaha, yeah right. I guess I'm going to have to go stick another gig of RAM in my box so I can get 4x the internet bandwidth of what I have now!
Set up an XP box with 256 megs of RAM then go to Hulu.com and watch a full-res video. Tell me you're getting the data down just as fast as you were at 512 or 2 gigs.
Unless you're running on an old 4200rpm laptop drive, write speed shouldn't be a problem compared to internet speeds. 22mbps is only 2.75MBps, which pretty much any relatively modern drive can do, even near-full and fragmented to hell.
It is not an issue of write speed. The CPU AND the drive are busy at the same time. If swapping weren't such a nuisance demand for RAM would drop dramatically.
Because we all know that more RAM == more internet bandwidth right? Oh wait...
If the machine's swapping it's not going to have a lot of room to cache that data until it's written to disk. XP is not spectacular at 512 megs.
The test was done on machines with differing configurations, so therefore is not valid. But interesting nonetheless.
Well, sure it's interesting. I mean, Star Trek vs. Star Wars is interesting, too.