That's why I download all my music from a famous bittorrent music tracker where I can get it lossless in an open and free format, random access, and over 200000 different albums to chose from, almost always maxing out my downstream bandwidth (which means, faster than it would take to order something for me from some music store).
I guess it will take another couple of years of crying crocodile tears from the record industry until they will be able to match this.
Should it be acceptible for me to download the plans to any car I want without paying for the engineering, advertising, and saftey testing?
Of course. The cost for advertising is completely pointless and a waste of money, so no one should have to pay for that. It's just necessary if a company have an inferior product that they want to sell for a higher price than what it's worth. The cost for safety testing is pretty much not necessary unless you plan to sell the car and take responsibility for eventual accidents, and the cost for engineering can be zero, as is evident with the huge amount of real quality free (libre) software out there made by software engineers.
In this theoretical world the car company have it much easier than the record companies though - I bet that a lot of people and companies would like to buy a car that is *not* likely to kill them. A car company in this world can manufacture cars for free with your device, but add a high sum for the safety testing and engineering, and the buyer can rest assure that the car is tested by professionals. Hobby users can still download schematics, check it for basic validity, modify it if they want to, and "print" the car at home.
What good is the PC being 'at the desktop' if the search service still hasn't started, the network still hasn't obtained an ip-address, half my tray icons aren't up? and the hard drive is still madly churning to get everything else running
I never use any "search service" since I know what a computer is so I know where "internet" will download the files. I don't need an IP address until I need to go online, and my thinkpad does not have a harddrive that churns.
Seriously, how much stuff could you really -defer- to after seeing the desktop and have a useful system?
I like to get a terminal and a text editor up, for example. Maybe I'd like to play a game, start listening to some music or watch a movie. All of them things you don't need to initialize.
Even a fairly modest Ubuntu desktop requires several times that much RAM. If the hard drive started loading data at maximum speed you've got maybe 50MB you can load in that time, and probably far less in actual practice. That means your kernel, drivers, HAL, desktop environment, localization, firewall, network, background, theme, etc has to ALL fit in under 50MB.
A huge percentage of that data is not loaded from disk, but rather either calculated data (tables that are initiated, allocated buffers, structures for GTK/QT windows etc). Another big amount of this may be actual data, which is not read but mmapped, and yes, the kernel, drivers, localization, firewall, background image, will all fit under 50MB.
And you'd need some sort of impossible situation where the cpu could run all the initialization code for all that in parallel, without waiting.
There's just no place online where you can meet random people and assume they'll be mostly good anymore.
Apparently you didn't even RTFS here. The story is exactly about that you can have that assumption in most forums, and claiming otherwise is to ignore the factual research and believe what the media says, just like the clueless prejudiced politician mentioned.
It takes as much power for heat and lights and security resources to keep it half-open, if everyone are gone on the same day you can cut the spendings for that day.
I rather have just the hardware leveling than both, since there's no way of knowing how that works, so you might as well end up moving the pieces back to the original place if you use an additional scheme on top, with an unknown underlying scheme.
If you can get the complete wear leveling algorithm for your specific card, then it's a different thing.
Stop mixing patents and copyrights together, It's making people confused. They are completely different, and while the media industry sure likes the copyright system, they have nothing to do with patents.
The first thing they do before even touching anything is to clone the harddrive. You can't rely on some disk wipe solution. I think they are also being taught not to even turn the computer off before calling on experts.
Well, I don't have that much experience with 2.4, and how much is 'backported' from 2.6, but IIRC you can use better IP filtering tools in 2.6. And are all drivers for various hardware written to work with 2.4 as well?
It doesn't sound like you use linux hardly for anything else than for using the drivers for the NIC, so if your system works now, then there's probably no explicit reason to change. What I would worry about though, are your future needs. Even if you don't need to upgrade now, it might just be the perfect time to do it.
The restaurant owner is trying to run a private business and the last thing he/she needs is someone scaring the other customers away.
I'd like to see you use this argument if it was about a restaurant owner refusing to serve a black guy. "I'm trying to run a private business and the last thing I need is this black guy scaring the other customers away.". After all, it's private property, right?
paedophilia is a sexual orientation, and as such I think it cannot be neither legal nor illegal
Of course it can be made illegal. There are devices out there that are supposed to measure if someone is sexually aroused by something, and prosecutors are arguing their usage in courts, for example to see if someone is a paedophile.
Who gives a shit about the cartoons, The Son Of A Bitch was/is a child predator and got what he had/has coming, he'll pay for it in the pen!!!
"Whorley also received digital photographs of actual children engaging in sexual conduct and sent and received e-mails graphically describing parents sexually molesting their children."
He is not a child predator. The adults acting in the photographs he received are. He just has a sexual fetish that is not shared by most of the rest of us, one that provokes fear in a lot of parents.
It seems like a very "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of a situation for them.
Correct. It's an industry that no one wants anymore, and they are not needed. It's an industry that acts as a filter and gatekeeper to the music we want, and an industry that has locked most artists up with lies and bad contracts, something they can easily do because there are so many bands that want to become rock stars, only a few can become one.
It started a long way before any computer was invented. I guess the first one was the copying of musical scores. Then there was automatically playing pianos that would kill the pianist industry... then there was (in random order) radio, FM radio (this was a separate threat because the quality was better and stuff), record players was a threat to the performing artists, tapes, cassettes, recordable CDs, etc etc.
Just face it, they will use every excuse imaginable to maintain the status quo. The arguments will be the same, they will pay a big amount of money to the politicians, and no matter what laws are in place, people will still keep making music.
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That's why I download all my music from a famous bittorrent music tracker where I can get it lossless in an open and free format, random access, and over 200000 different albums to chose from, almost always maxing out my downstream bandwidth (which means, faster than it would take to order something for me from some music store).
I guess it will take another couple of years of crying crocodile tears from the record industry until they will be able to match this.
Should it be acceptible for me to download the plans to any car I want without paying for the engineering, advertising, and saftey testing?
Of course. The cost for advertising is completely pointless and a waste of money, so no one should have to pay for that. It's just necessary if a company have an inferior product that they want to sell for a higher price than what it's worth. The cost for safety testing is pretty much not necessary unless you plan to sell the car and take responsibility for eventual accidents, and the cost for engineering can be zero, as is evident with the huge amount of real quality free (libre) software out there made by software engineers.
In this theoretical world the car company have it much easier than the record companies though - I bet that a lot of people and companies would like to buy a car that is *not* likely to kill them. A car company in this world can manufacture cars for free with your device, but add a high sum for the safety testing and engineering, and the buyer can rest assure that the car is tested by professionals. Hobby users can still download schematics, check it for basic validity, modify it if they want to, and "print" the car at home.
You know how it is, vinyl sounds better than CD, stone carvings have a warmer feeling than oil paintings etc.
What good is the PC being 'at the desktop' if the search service still hasn't started, the network still hasn't obtained an ip-address, half my tray icons aren't up? and the hard drive is still madly churning to get everything else running
I never use any "search service" since I know what a computer is so I know where "internet" will download the files. I don't need an IP address until I need to go online, and my thinkpad does not have a harddrive that churns.
Seriously, how much stuff could you really -defer- to after seeing the desktop and have a useful system?
I like to get a terminal and a text editor up, for example. Maybe I'd like to play a game, start listening to some music or watch a movie. All of them things you don't need to initialize.
Even a fairly modest Ubuntu desktop requires several times that much RAM. If the hard drive started loading data at maximum speed you've got maybe 50MB you can load in that time, and probably far less in actual practice. That means your kernel, drivers, HAL, desktop environment, localization, firewall, network, background, theme, etc has to ALL fit in under 50MB.
A huge percentage of that data is not loaded from disk, but rather either calculated data (tables that are initiated, allocated buffers, structures for GTK/QT windows etc). Another big amount of this may be actual data, which is not read but mmapped, and yes, the kernel, drivers, localization, firewall, background image, will all fit under 50MB.
And you'd need some sort of impossible situation where the cpu could run all the initialization code for all that in parallel, without waiting.
This magic is called DMA
There's just no place online where you can meet random people and assume they'll be mostly good anymore.
Apparently you didn't even RTFS here. The story is exactly about that you can have that assumption in most forums, and claiming otherwise is to ignore the factual research and believe what the media says, just like the clueless prejudiced politician mentioned.
Luck?
If there's 10 people in line for a job, and only one of them is making demands, I think I know who to hire.
It takes as much power for heat and lights and security resources to keep it half-open, if everyone are gone on the same day you can cut the spendings for that day.
I rather have just the hardware leveling than both, since there's no way of knowing how that works, so you might as well end up moving the pieces back to the original place if you use an additional scheme on top, with an unknown underlying scheme.
If you can get the complete wear leveling algorithm for your specific card, then it's a different thing.
The military has had it for a long time already.
Stop mixing patents and copyrights together, It's making people confused. They are completely different, and while the media industry sure likes the copyright system, they have nothing to do with patents.
Funny, they did exactly like that with Iraq, which isn't even the same country.
Not everyone has Perl installed.
Whoa there... what? where?
The first thing they do before even touching anything is to clone the harddrive. You can't rely on some disk wipe solution. I think they are also being taught not to even turn the computer off before calling on experts.
Well, I don't have that much experience with 2.4, and how much is 'backported' from 2.6, but IIRC you can use better IP filtering tools in 2.6. And are all drivers for various hardware written to work with 2.4 as well?
It doesn't sound like you use linux hardly for anything else than for using the drivers for the NIC, so if your system works now, then there's probably no explicit reason to change. What I would worry about though, are your future needs. Even if you don't need to upgrade now, it might just be the perfect time to do it.
Why wouldn't it be?
Hey, the former is a choice too - just look at Michael Jackson!
The restaurant owner is trying to run a private business and the last thing he/she needs is someone scaring the other customers away.
I'd like to see you use this argument if it was about a restaurant owner refusing to serve a black guy. "I'm trying to run a private business and the last thing I need is this black guy scaring the other customers away.". After all, it's private property, right?
It takes up space where the mouse should go.
You keep talking like you care about ergonomics, but then you mention a mouse. You really need to start using something with a trackpoint.
paedophilia is a sexual orientation, and as such I think it cannot be neither legal nor illegal
Of course it can be made illegal. There are devices out there that are supposed to measure if someone is sexually aroused by something, and prosecutors are arguing their usage in courts, for example to see if someone is a paedophile.
That is thoughtcrime.
Who gives a shit about the cartoons, The Son Of A Bitch was/is a child predator and got what he had/has coming, he'll pay for it in the pen!!! "Whorley also received digital photographs of actual children engaging in sexual conduct and sent and received e-mails graphically describing parents sexually molesting their children."
He is not a child predator. The adults acting in the photographs he received are. He just has a sexual fetish that is not shared by most of the rest of us, one that provokes fear in a lot of parents.
Yes.
It seems like a very "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of a situation for them.
Correct. It's an industry that no one wants anymore, and they are not needed. It's an industry that acts as a filter and gatekeeper to the music we want, and an industry that has locked most artists up with lies and bad contracts, something they can easily do because there are so many bands that want to become rock stars, only a few can become one.
It started a long way before any computer was invented. I guess the first one was the copying of musical scores. Then there was automatically playing pianos that would kill the pianist industry... then there was (in random order) radio, FM radio (this was a separate threat because the quality was better and stuff), record players was a threat to the performing artists, tapes, cassettes, recordable CDs, etc etc.
Just face it, they will use every excuse imaginable to maintain the status quo. The arguments will be the same, they will pay a big amount of money to the politicians, and no matter what laws are in place, people will still keep making music.
What have HTTP done to prevent the massive filesharing through HTTP GET downloads?
What have the FTP protocol done to prevent it for being used as the central hubs for all cracker groups?
There's nothing else going on here than some politicians trying to get some free goodwill from the RIAA (A=Australia?) and the panicking parent crowd.