Every sensible human being wants every chance to get context-free, "damning evidence" stored in perpetuity. How the hell can you even call this a "feature" for 99.99% of the people out there since it's more likely to result in them getting in trouble for something, than being able to say "oh, that's the search I made a year ago that was really good at getting what I wanted!"
Knowledge: acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition.
Wisdom: the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
Knowledge is potential, wisdom is actually possessing the discernment to be able to apply knowledge. Crowds are not wise, some people in them are. You can load up a student with plenty of knowledge, but that won't make them a free thinking, wise person.
Parents have been basically regulated into the ground by governments like this one. They can't punish their kids without social services show up, can't buy their kid a handgun and let them carry it in their own car to a range, even if the kid is a 100% balanced eagle scout, can't let them drink, can't let them do that. All the while the parents shoulder most of the blame if their kid does anything wrong.
That's why I say fuck the "community." The only person raised by a village was a feral, tribalist, not a civilized human being.
To attract women students to the CS field, 'Moving emphasis away from programming proficiency was a key to the success of programs
You mean that there might have been something to what Larry Summers said about women in science and engineering, that resulted in feminists getting the vapors? At my alma mater, we had some professors who were great on the "science" of Computer Science, and light on the actual application through programming, and guess what? They were the most useless professors we had at teaching. Our hardware expert couldn't code in any language or even write ASM to illustrate what he was explaining.
So, to make CS safe for women, we'll make it a degree factory. I'm sure my fiancee, who graduated as a programmer, not a "theorist" will be thrilled to know that CS programs are catering to the women who, unlike her, in our classes couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with the top lifted up.
A public school worker who doesn't believe in the rights that our forefathers shed blood for and died for? Anyone actually surprised by this?
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
Why would anyone buy advertisements that they knew could be easily bypassed? I don't think we'll end up with a scenario where you have a 2 minute clip that has 2 minutes of advertisement. More like you watch a music video, you see a 30 second ad beforehand.
Say what you will about the cost of the goods, but the fact is, if China never gets its act together on IP, it'll never be attractive for more than grunt work R&D. We're not talking about an economy like the US where there is an argument for liberalizing IP laws; we're talking about an economy where there seems to be no reliable enforcement of IP rights except when the Chinese government needs to make an example out of someone to appease foreign interests. This is not a fight over fair use rights, this is a fight over whether there should be any practical protection at all for people who make creative works and do intense research.
Maybe it's the geeks I know, but they're just as comfortable with a 360 controller as they are with a Keyboard and Mouse. They all grew up on PC shooters from Wolfenstein on up. This whole debate has always struck me as largely a form of elitism on the part of PC gamers who are starting to get really marginalized by the newer consoles.
And then they'll end up in a very unfortunate accident like that former KGB officer in Britain and his buddy in Maryland... Putin has such a way of dealing with his critics...
The speech occurred off campus and wasn't illegal. Punishing the student for it was a violation of the US Constitution, and the judge ruled accordingly. Too bad the original district judge was too stupid to realize that.
Look, I know that we don't have to use these services, but that doesn't make this sort of policy any less dangerous to the public in general. The Bush Administration will not be the last time we will hear about data retention policies, and if these services keep maintaining such detailed records, it's only a matter of time before the government gets full access to them. The privacy implications for that are that it'll be the first major step toward a total surveillance state for modern communications. A first, very, very important step once they get the search engines and ISPs working together to help them keep detailed record on what is done online.
I generally don't like Michelle Malkin, but she's gone through much more of this than Kathy Sierra. You have a lot of this in the political blogging world directed at women who take conservative or libertarian views. In fact, with Malkin, add in everything that was done to Sierra, AND a load of racism from even mainstream liberals like those at Wonkette who've been known to make racial sexual slurs against her.
But hey, that's ok! Bitch brought it on herself, right?
Seriously, this is like only noticing that racism is a problem, when a "nice, pretty black women" gets in trouble with the KKK.
They don't have the luxury of shipping 4.7GB of data, per disk, to their customers. They have to cut corners wherever they can. Yes, I know it's not MPEG2. MPEG2 would look like shit if you crammed that much content into such a small space. If they could afford to deliver as much h.264 content as could be stored on a DVD, I suspect things would be different, but for right now they can't because it'd probably skew all of their prices to ship that much data over the net.
The videos are compressed to the point that Apple can actually affordably send them to you over the Internet. They cram 45 minutes of BSG into a 450MB-500MB download. A BSG DVD has what... 3 to 4 episodes on it? You could fit the entirety of Season 1 of BSG from the iTMS onto two DVDs, when the full set of Season one comes with 5 DVDs.
Again, with shortcuts like that, what do you expect? When people are willing to pay the bandwidth costs to be able to just click a button, and have all of the trunk line infrastructure in place to allow them to receive 1.25-1.5GB of data per episode conveniently, things will change.
As I have said before, the people who are just so anti-violent video games are pathologically incapable of accepting the fact that we young men tend to be aggressive, bordering on violent in our natures between the ages of about 15-25. Wow, that also corresponds to the multi-thousand year range in which soldiers were recruited for war! Huh, fancy that.
The majority of people I've ever met who are so scared by violent video games/media and guns are women and effeminate men. Should it surprise anyone? The ugly truth is that these people, tend to value security at the price of liberty. Voting patterns tend to support this; women and effeminate men will traditionally vote for the more collectivist parties (the ones guaranteeing welfare and warfare protection).
It doesn't bother me in the least to think that my sons, should I have sons when I have kids, will be shooting "scary guns," playing violent video games and doing things like that. It'd scare me a lot more if they wanted to always make peace with aggressors, "hear the bully's side" and other bullshit like that. Funny thing is, I've never met anyone who could reliably defend themselves who took the attitude "violence never solves anything." That sort of attitude reminds me of a kid, hugging his or her teddy bear, trying to comfort themselves about the scary monsters in the closet.
Short of games that glorify things like sadistic torture of realistic human beings, I could care less. If my kids, especially sons, want to play war games, I'll let them. It's not much different from any other media that young men have consumed about killing red coats, nazis, communists, etc.
I think the very worst I have seen is FreeRepublic. Libertarians get banned there from posting all of the time for having the wrong views. Hell, even many conservatives get in trouble there for pissing off the wrong people. The "Admin Moderator" user/users will basically just yank your posting privileges if you buck the status quo. You don't have to be a troll or "mobying" (pretending to be a conservative for liberal causes, to manipulate right wing media). You just piss off the wrong people and instead of getting moderated down, you're silenced.
You have to blame it on the entitlement mentality of many Americans. "I WANT IT RIGHT NOW, I DON'T LIKE YOUR PRICE, SO I'LL JUST TAKE IT!!"
What is going to happen to our economy if we get to the point where you can build devices and even vehicles using some sort of nano replicator? Will we just tell the companies that make the designs to go fuck themselves, if they thing they should get any return on the design of a new ferrari, space ship, media player, etc.?
The simple fact of the matter is that music is not a necessity. You will not in any way, shape or form be harmed by it being priced outside of a range that you can afford or are willing to pay for. There is no argument for it being a "human right" except in the most perverse, materialistic, greedy sort of way.
Stop downloading it. If it is good enough for you to download off of a file sharing network, it is good enough for you to buy and actually, God forbid, support the musician that made it. I'm sick of the sophists who say "well, I'm just hurting the music label." Oh really, you bloody fucktard? What if it's an independent band? How good is their reach? How likely is your "free advertising" to get them a good gig anywhere near you and your "free advertisement?" Huh? Speak up. That's the golden question. All of this "free advertisement" that comes from basically stealing their music and giving away, how much is it actually getting bands good gigs?
It's been nearly 7 years since the media was predicting that post-Napster, and after broadband became accessible to most Americans, that an alternative marketplace would develop, exploiting the Internet. In another 7 years, we'll probably be no better off, either.
Great, near hotel room level accommodations for students? My alma mater got, IIRC, about $100M from the state to spend. It basically wasted it on things that were not even needed like renovating student housing to make it look great to middle and upper class parents, not be safe, clean and functional. They spent God only knows how much money on decorations like flower beds, and this was a "good school!" Waste, waste, WASTE! And they didn't even fix the parking.
So why am I not outraged? This **MIGHT** actually cut back on how students use the network. We had two T3s that were constantly choked by student file sharing. It got to the point for a while before they put the traffic shapers in place that you couldn't even reliably get to anything on Google half the time.
Doing what you love is all well and good, but if you have a family, you have a responsibility to support them. This swings both ways, it means that a man may have to do a job that he doesn't like, and a woman may have to give up a job she likes in order to be there for her kids. To do otherwise is not only irresponsible, but it leads to the sort of families that get denounced on every game thread here.
Here's a better suggestion: find a job that is run by people who appreciate the fact that work is not the be all, end all thing in your life. You'll be a lot happier with an employer who asks you to only do 40 hours, unless there is an exigent circumstance.
And here's another... if you spend 12 hours a day at work and in commute, chances are you won't have a great relationship with your significant other after several years. Your kids won't know you. You'll be happy, but chances are, that happiness will be at work, not at home.
I used to spend hours building up my computers, and then I spent $20 on a site listed on Froogle for a copy of Norton Ghost 2003. After several hours of building it up the way I wanted, I just popped in a DVD and now, when the system needs to be rebuilt, I can rebuild it in less than 1/3 of the time, all of which is automated once I get it started. Every sane person should buy imaging software for their PC so that if they have any failure, or want to play around, they can easily restore their system.
They put half of that outrage into their domestic problems with child prostitution and pornography creation/distribution. Why, Thailand might make real progress on an issue that actually has a moral component to it.
Is to stop criminalizing behavior that we don't like. Both liberals and conservatives are guilty of this in spades, and both are very self-righteous about this. The FBI cannot "do more important things" if its manpower is spread out of over every moralizing jackass's pet cause du jour.
You know why this will never end? Liberals and conservatives alike believe that their pet causes are so important, so common sense, so necessary that HOW FUCKING DARE YOU question them?! Read the US Constitution, it doesn't give the power to enforce half of the federal laws agencies enforce today. That doesn't matter because they're sophists. They'll bend the Constitution to mean whatever they want, even if it is all but a total ass raping of the language used in the Constitution.
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Every sensible human being wants every chance to get context-free, "damning evidence" stored in perpetuity. How the hell can you even call this a "feature" for 99.99% of the people out there since it's more likely to result in them getting in trouble for something, than being able to say "oh, that's the search I made a year ago that was really good at getting what I wanted!"
Knowledge: acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition.
Wisdom: the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
Knowledge is potential, wisdom is actually possessing the discernment to be able to apply knowledge. Crowds are not wise, some people in them are. You can load up a student with plenty of knowledge, but that won't make them a free thinking, wise person.
Which ranges from $200-$400 for a real, new license of Windows! That's between 10% and 5% depending on the version of Windows.
Parents have been basically regulated into the ground by governments like this one. They can't punish their kids without social services show up, can't buy their kid a handgun and let them carry it in their own car to a range, even if the kid is a 100% balanced eagle scout, can't let them drink, can't let them do that. All the while the parents shoulder most of the blame if their kid does anything wrong.
That's why I say fuck the "community." The only person raised by a village was a feral, tribalist, not a civilized human being.
You mean that there might have been something to what Larry Summers said about women in science and engineering, that resulted in feminists getting the vapors? At my alma mater, we had some professors who were great on the "science" of Computer Science, and light on the actual application through programming, and guess what? They were the most useless professors we had at teaching. Our hardware expert couldn't code in any language or even write ASM to illustrate what he was explaining.
So, to make CS safe for women, we'll make it a degree factory. I'm sure my fiancee, who graduated as a programmer, not a "theorist" will be thrilled to know that CS programs are catering to the women who, unlike her, in our classes couldn't program their way out of a paper bag with the top lifted up.
A public school worker who doesn't believe in the rights that our forefathers shed blood for and died for? Anyone actually surprised by this?
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
You bought the DVD; it's not an ad-supported medium. Your analogy falls apart...
Why would anyone buy advertisements that they knew could be easily bypassed? I don't think we'll end up with a scenario where you have a 2 minute clip that has 2 minutes of advertisement. More like you watch a music video, you see a 30 second ad beforehand.
Say what you will about the cost of the goods, but the fact is, if China never gets its act together on IP, it'll never be attractive for more than grunt work R&D. We're not talking about an economy like the US where there is an argument for liberalizing IP laws; we're talking about an economy where there seems to be no reliable enforcement of IP rights except when the Chinese government needs to make an example out of someone to appease foreign interests. This is not a fight over fair use rights, this is a fight over whether there should be any practical protection at all for people who make creative works and do intense research.
Maybe it's the geeks I know, but they're just as comfortable with a 360 controller as they are with a Keyboard and Mouse. They all grew up on PC shooters from Wolfenstein on up. This whole debate has always struck me as largely a form of elitism on the part of PC gamers who are starting to get really marginalized by the newer consoles.
And then they'll end up in a very unfortunate accident like that former KGB officer in Britain and his buddy in Maryland... Putin has such a way of dealing with his critics...
The speech occurred off campus and wasn't illegal. Punishing the student for it was a violation of the US Constitution, and the judge ruled accordingly. Too bad the original district judge was too stupid to realize that.
Group that is backed by Microsoft to kill GPL says GPL 3.0 is bad.
Respected open source partisan says GPL 3.0 is good.
No bias on that one...
Look, I know that we don't have to use these services, but that doesn't make this sort of policy any less dangerous to the public in general. The Bush Administration will not be the last time we will hear about data retention policies, and if these services keep maintaining such detailed records, it's only a matter of time before the government gets full access to them. The privacy implications for that are that it'll be the first major step toward a total surveillance state for modern communications. A first, very, very important step once they get the search engines and ISPs working together to help them keep detailed record on what is done online.
I generally don't like Michelle Malkin, but she's gone through much more of this than Kathy Sierra. You have a lot of this in the political blogging world directed at women who take conservative or libertarian views. In fact, with Malkin, add in everything that was done to Sierra, AND a load of racism from even mainstream liberals like those at Wonkette who've been known to make racial sexual slurs against her.
But hey, that's ok! Bitch brought it on herself, right?
Seriously, this is like only noticing that racism is a problem, when a "nice, pretty black women" gets in trouble with the KKK.
They don't have the luxury of shipping 4.7GB of data, per disk, to their customers. They have to cut corners wherever they can. Yes, I know it's not MPEG2. MPEG2 would look like shit if you crammed that much content into such a small space. If they could afford to deliver as much h.264 content as could be stored on a DVD, I suspect things would be different, but for right now they can't because it'd probably skew all of their prices to ship that much data over the net.
The videos are compressed to the point that Apple can actually affordably send them to you over the Internet. They cram 45 minutes of BSG into a 450MB-500MB download. A BSG DVD has what... 3 to 4 episodes on it? You could fit the entirety of Season 1 of BSG from the iTMS onto two DVDs, when the full set of Season one comes with 5 DVDs.
Again, with shortcuts like that, what do you expect? When people are willing to pay the bandwidth costs to be able to just click a button, and have all of the trunk line infrastructure in place to allow them to receive 1.25-1.5GB of data per episode conveniently, things will change.
As I have said before, the people who are just so anti-violent video games are pathologically incapable of accepting the fact that we young men tend to be aggressive, bordering on violent in our natures between the ages of about 15-25. Wow, that also corresponds to the multi-thousand year range in which soldiers were recruited for war! Huh, fancy that.
The majority of people I've ever met who are so scared by violent video games/media and guns are women and effeminate men. Should it surprise anyone? The ugly truth is that these people, tend to value security at the price of liberty. Voting patterns tend to support this; women and effeminate men will traditionally vote for the more collectivist parties (the ones guaranteeing welfare and warfare protection).
It doesn't bother me in the least to think that my sons, should I have sons when I have kids, will be shooting "scary guns," playing violent video games and doing things like that. It'd scare me a lot more if they wanted to always make peace with aggressors, "hear the bully's side" and other bullshit like that. Funny thing is, I've never met anyone who could reliably defend themselves who took the attitude "violence never solves anything." That sort of attitude reminds me of a kid, hugging his or her teddy bear, trying to comfort themselves about the scary monsters in the closet.
Short of games that glorify things like sadistic torture of realistic human beings, I could care less. If my kids, especially sons, want to play war games, I'll let them. It's not much different from any other media that young men have consumed about killing red coats, nazis, communists, etc.
I think the very worst I have seen is FreeRepublic. Libertarians get banned there from posting all of the time for having the wrong views. Hell, even many conservatives get in trouble there for pissing off the wrong people. The "Admin Moderator" user/users will basically just yank your posting privileges if you buck the status quo. You don't have to be a troll or "mobying" (pretending to be a conservative for liberal causes, to manipulate right wing media). You just piss off the wrong people and instead of getting moderated down, you're silenced.
You have to blame it on the entitlement mentality of many Americans. "I WANT IT RIGHT NOW, I DON'T LIKE YOUR PRICE, SO I'LL JUST TAKE IT!!"
What is going to happen to our economy if we get to the point where you can build devices and even vehicles using some sort of nano replicator? Will we just tell the companies that make the designs to go fuck themselves, if they thing they should get any return on the design of a new ferrari, space ship, media player, etc.?
The simple fact of the matter is that music is not a necessity. You will not in any way, shape or form be harmed by it being priced outside of a range that you can afford or are willing to pay for. There is no argument for it being a "human right" except in the most perverse, materialistic, greedy sort of way.
Stop downloading it. If it is good enough for you to download off of a file sharing network, it is good enough for you to buy and actually, God forbid, support the musician that made it. I'm sick of the sophists who say "well, I'm just hurting the music label." Oh really, you bloody fucktard? What if it's an independent band? How good is their reach? How likely is your "free advertising" to get them a good gig anywhere near you and your "free advertisement?" Huh? Speak up. That's the golden question. All of this "free advertisement" that comes from basically stealing their music and giving away, how much is it actually getting bands good gigs?
It's been nearly 7 years since the media was predicting that post-Napster, and after broadband became accessible to most Americans, that an alternative marketplace would develop, exploiting the Internet. In another 7 years, we'll probably be no better off, either.
Great, near hotel room level accommodations for students? My alma mater got, IIRC, about $100M from the state to spend. It basically wasted it on things that were not even needed like renovating student housing to make it look great to middle and upper class parents, not be safe, clean and functional. They spent God only knows how much money on decorations like flower beds, and this was a "good school!" Waste, waste, WASTE! And they didn't even fix the parking.
So why am I not outraged? This **MIGHT** actually cut back on how students use the network. We had two T3s that were constantly choked by student file sharing. It got to the point for a while before they put the traffic shapers in place that you couldn't even reliably get to anything on Google half the time.
Doing what you love is all well and good, but if you have a family, you have a responsibility to support them. This swings both ways, it means that a man may have to do a job that he doesn't like, and a woman may have to give up a job she likes in order to be there for her kids. To do otherwise is not only irresponsible, but it leads to the sort of families that get denounced on every game thread here.
Here's a better suggestion: find a job that is run by people who appreciate the fact that work is not the be all, end all thing in your life. You'll be a lot happier with an employer who asks you to only do 40 hours, unless there is an exigent circumstance.
And here's another... if you spend 12 hours a day at work and in commute, chances are you won't have a great relationship with your significant other after several years. Your kids won't know you. You'll be happy, but chances are, that happiness will be at work, not at home.
I used to spend hours building up my computers, and then I spent $20 on a site listed on Froogle for a copy of Norton Ghost 2003. After several hours of building it up the way I wanted, I just popped in a DVD and now, when the system needs to be rebuilt, I can rebuild it in less than 1/3 of the time, all of which is automated once I get it started. Every sane person should buy imaging software for their PC so that if they have any failure, or want to play around, they can easily restore their system.
They put half of that outrage into their domestic problems with child prostitution and pornography creation/distribution. Why, Thailand might make real progress on an issue that actually has a moral component to it.
Is to stop criminalizing behavior that we don't like. Both liberals and conservatives are guilty of this in spades, and both are very self-righteous about this. The FBI cannot "do more important things" if its manpower is spread out of over every moralizing jackass's pet cause du jour.
You know why this will never end? Liberals and conservatives alike believe that their pet causes are so important, so common sense, so necessary that HOW FUCKING DARE YOU question them?! Read the US Constitution, it doesn't give the power to enforce half of the federal laws agencies enforce today. That doesn't matter because they're sophists. They'll bend the Constitution to mean whatever they want, even if it is all but a total ass raping of the language used in the Constitution.