The OP says that damages should be 99 cents per song. How many people did that person share the song with? Does an average user share the song 1000 times?
If the average user shares song X 1000 times, then the average user downloads song X 1000 times. Who the hell downloads a given song 1000 times? Most/all p2p is not streaming. They'd download it several times, tops. The average user thus only shares a given song maybe 2 or three times. Without proof to the contrary, that is what has to be assumed.
One of he tenants of modern science is considering consequences instead of embracing every seeming discovery as immediately applicable as a solution. You might want to get out of the mud.
One of the tenants of modern science is a real dick. Not only has he failed to pay his rent on time once this year, but he doesn't do jack shit to keep the place clean. It's a filthy mess. Modern science should just evict his ass.
You don't see suicide bombings coming from oppressors, suicide bombings are carried out by the oppressed (or those who see themselves as). You see laws and the twisting of science and culture coming from oppressors.
Wow. When I read your post, I thought that the alterations were something that could be imagined to have been there - nothing really verifiable. But damn! I could've done a better job making those photos look realistic when I was 10! What kind of idiotic, juvenile people do Fox employ? Those photos were noticeably altered on the very fastest of glances. Maybe they're betting that it's mostly old people watching the show, not able to tell that the photos are altered on their old TV's?
This isn't the federal government, this is a municipal government. The citizenry wants them to lay a network, they can lay a network. No constitutional arguments here. Cry me a freakin river.
The problem isn't really Linux, from what I've heard, but the distros chosen for these computers and the way they're been set up at the factory. If they spent a bit of time and money setting them up to be usable, complaints would probably be much reduced. That said, my Eee is coming on Tuesday, so I'll be seeing firsthand how well they set up Xandros. I'll probably wind up installing Ubuntu.
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. But then I RTFA...
"Augmentations have been bumped up and sound fantastic. 20 have been promised for the final game, ranging from 'bungee jump' tentacles that shoot from your back and anchor to a wall when you jump off a building, and the ability to punch through walls to grab enemies in neighbouring rooms."
What is this, City of Zeroes? This comic book madness has to stop. It sounds like this is going to be worse than the second one.
If you know anything about computers it's easy enough to just install a different distro. The returns are the clueless people who don't know about Linux and won't learn.
I think the Aspire looks like one of the best out there, but it was a competition between an A1 and a eee 900 for me as to which I could find a sub-$300 deal on first. The eee just won out at 288. I'm not too keen on the Atom in the A1 though - I'd rather get a Nano-based HP 2133 (Aluminum and Magnesium case FTW) if/when they become available.
Same. Just got my eee pc 900 (the 20gb model, not the slow 16gb) for 288. The xo was nice, and a great e-book reader, but the limited screen size, speed and capacity as well as the difficulty of installing various os's made it not worth it for me. I figure the eee 900 will do me just fine until a via nano or arm a8 or a9 netbook comes out. Something like the Pandora with higher specs (0.5 to 1gb RAM and a 1.1ghz ARM ) and a netbook form factor would be bliss.
I can see a lot of potential for this to cause problems with our current political situation. Maybe this will finally get people charged up about bringing back paper and pencil voting.
Quick, someone call the waaahhhhhmbulance! Another poor soul who has got a rod stuck so far up his ass that he finds the acronym "GIMP" embarrassing and unconscionable!
This seems like another post from someone who's grown up watching too much star trek. Manned space travel is a dead end until we come up with radical advances in technology and engineering. Chemical rockets just aren't enough.
This whole "everyone else is besting NASA, we need to send more people into space" meme that I see constantly on/. is a bunch of bunk. What matters is probes, rovers and satellites conducting basic research. Anything else is a waste, and China conducting a space walk merely shows that they can be wasteful too.
Interesting suggestion, but if you read the paper they say that they used the ratio of the sample to a long-lived isotope as their measure. That would take into account variations in the MCA itself and thus that shouldn't be an issue. They seem to have ruled out external non-solar factors pretty thoroughly.
It saddens me that my $200 is going to be going toward 67 Windows licenses instead of something useful. With this 2nd gen XO.... I don't know. The screen looks too small to do anything with, kids or no kids, and there's no way they're going to get cost and power consumption down while keeping decent performance. No idea what Negroponte is thinking. I love my XO-1 (typing on it right now, with Xubuntu), but I have no intention of supporting the project in the future if they bow down to the M$ tax.
Having land to stand on isn't the problem. The problem is resources. People need food, water, fuel, electricity, building materials, plastic and metal for their toys, etc. Water especially is a big issue. We're living on borrowed time and resources right now.
From wikipedia: "The Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted at a rate of 12 billion cubic meters (420 billion ft3) per year, amounting to a total depletion to date of a volume equal to the annual flow of 18 Colorado Rivers. Some estimates say it will dry up in as little as 25 years. Many farmers in the Texas High Plains, which rely particularly on the underground source, are now turning away from irrigated agriculture as they become aware of the hazards of overpumping."
Once the Ogallala is depleted, we're going to be facing another dust bowl. We're going to be increasingly relying on desalination in the future for our fresh water, and that's quite energy intensive. This drives our energy usage up even more. Once our fossil fuels run low, where do we get the energy? We're going to have to seriously expand nuclear and renewables to cope. Empty desert doesn't do much to solve these problems.
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The OP says that damages should be 99 cents per song. How many people did that person share the song with? Does an average user share the song 1000 times?
If the average user shares song X 1000 times, then the average user downloads song X 1000 times. Who the hell downloads a given song 1000 times? Most/all p2p is not streaming. They'd download it several times, tops. The average user thus only shares a given song maybe 2 or three times. Without proof to the contrary, that is what has to be assumed.
I predict .corn going for big bucks to squatters.
Antibiotics shouldn't be prescribed all willy-nilly. It just helps in the creation of super bugs.
One of he tenants of modern science is considering consequences instead of embracing every seeming discovery as immediately applicable as a solution. You might want to get out of the mud.
One of the tenants of modern science is a real dick. Not only has he failed to pay his rent on time once this year, but he doesn't do jack shit to keep the place clean. It's a filthy mess. Modern science should just evict his ass.
You don't see suicide bombings coming from oppressors, suicide bombings are carried out by the oppressed (or those who see themselves as). You see laws and the twisting of science and culture coming from oppressors.
It's Fambro, not Ambro, and the typ-1e is electric. The typ-1h is the hybrid.
Oh thank god I have the 20GB version. Also Linux.
Pics or it didn't happen, troll.
Wow. When I read your post, I thought that the alterations were something that could be imagined to have been there - nothing really verifiable. But damn! I could've done a better job making those photos look realistic when I was 10! What kind of idiotic, juvenile people do Fox employ? Those photos were noticeably altered on the very fastest of glances. Maybe they're betting that it's mostly old people watching the show, not able to tell that the photos are altered on their old TV's?
This isn't the federal government, this is a municipal government. The citizenry wants them to lay a network, they can lay a network. No constitutional arguments here. Cry me a freakin river.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead
Obligatory Niven.
The problem isn't really Linux, from what I've heard, but the distros chosen for these computers and the way they're been set up at the factory. If they spent a bit of time and money setting them up to be usable, complaints would probably be much reduced. That said, my Eee is coming on Tuesday, so I'll be seeing firsthand how well they set up Xandros. I'll probably wind up installing Ubuntu.
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. But then I RTFA...
"Augmentations have been bumped up and sound fantastic. 20 have been promised for the final game, ranging from 'bungee jump' tentacles that shoot from your back and anchor to a wall when you jump off a building, and the ability to punch through walls to grab enemies in neighbouring rooms."
What is this, City of Zeroes? This comic book madness has to stop. It sounds like this is going to be worse than the second one.
If you know anything about computers it's easy enough to just install a different distro. The returns are the clueless people who don't know about Linux and won't learn.
I think the Aspire looks like one of the best out there, but it was a competition between an A1 and a eee 900 for me as to which I could find a sub-$300 deal on first. The eee just won out at 288. I'm not too keen on the Atom in the A1 though - I'd rather get a Nano-based HP 2133 (Aluminum and Magnesium case FTW) if/when they become available.
Same. Just got my eee pc 900 (the 20gb model, not the slow 16gb) for 288. The xo was nice, and a great e-book reader, but the limited screen size, speed and capacity as well as the difficulty of installing various os's made it not worth it for me. I figure the eee 900 will do me just fine until a via nano or arm a8 or a9 netbook comes out. Something like the Pandora with higher specs (0.5 to 1gb RAM and a 1.1ghz ARM ) and a netbook form factor would be bliss.
I can see a lot of potential for this to cause problems with our current political situation. Maybe this will finally get people charged up about bringing back paper and pencil voting.
Wow. That's absolutely ridiculous. And these guys get less time than a part-time pot dealer would. Fucking white collar (read: organized) criminals...
Quick, someone call the waaahhhhhmbulance! Another poor soul who has got a rod stuck so far up his ass that he finds the acronym "GIMP" embarrassing and unconscionable!
$60/month, 3mb adsl. This is actually a good bit better than the "16mb" we had from Comcast. This is a medium-size city in Virginia, US.
This seems like another post from someone who's grown up watching too much star trek. Manned space travel is a dead end until we come up with radical advances in technology and engineering. Chemical rockets just aren't enough.
This whole "everyone else is besting NASA, we need to send more people into space" meme that I see constantly on /. is a bunch of bunk. What matters is probes, rovers and satellites conducting basic research. Anything else is a waste, and China conducting a space walk merely shows that they can be wasteful too.
Interesting suggestion, but if you read the paper they say that they used the ratio of the sample to a long-lived isotope as their measure. That would take into account variations in the MCA itself and thus that shouldn't be an issue. They seem to have ruled out external non-solar factors pretty thoroughly.
It saddens me that my $200 is going to be going toward 67 Windows licenses instead of something useful. With this 2nd gen XO.... I don't know. The screen looks too small to do anything with, kids or no kids, and there's no way they're going to get cost and power consumption down while keeping decent performance. No idea what Negroponte is thinking. I love my XO-1 (typing on it right now, with Xubuntu), but I have no intention of supporting the project in the future if they bow down to the M$ tax.
Having land to stand on isn't the problem. The problem is resources. People need food, water, fuel, electricity, building materials, plastic and metal for their toys, etc. Water especially is a big issue. We're living on borrowed time and resources right now.
From wikipedia: "The Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted at a rate of 12 billion cubic meters (420 billion ft3) per year, amounting to a total depletion to date of a volume equal to the annual flow of 18 Colorado Rivers. Some estimates say it will dry up in as little as 25 years. Many farmers in the Texas High Plains, which rely particularly on the underground source, are now turning away from irrigated agriculture as they become aware of the hazards of overpumping."
Once the Ogallala is depleted, we're going to be facing another dust bowl. We're going to be increasingly relying on desalination in the future for our fresh water, and that's quite energy intensive. This drives our energy usage up even more. Once our fossil fuels run low, where do we get the energy? We're going to have to seriously expand nuclear and renewables to cope. Empty desert doesn't do much to solve these problems.
Nope. What do they say about people who dislike cats?