I could never buy the "speed" claims of SSD not just because I use very fast SCSI stuff but I actually see the horrible performance of them in my smart phone, HD Camera.
Connect your very fast SCSI drive to your phone and see if it's still as fast.
You take a cheap memorystick or USB disk and make it boot your own copy of windows/linux/whatever. Requires some reading and learning, but could be well worth it.
Yes, maybe if you handcraft them in Norway from reindeer horns and freshly clubbed seal, but in the rest of the world you can buy a USB memory for less than this.
No, you don't "wonder". You assume that it's illegal to share, and apparently you want the rest of us to do so as well. If you would have been curious, you could easily have clicked on the books and found out that they are all free to share, like information should be.
One thing to remember is that safety control and monitoring products like fire alarms, but probably also car electronics, are excepted from the RoHS directive until at least 2012, possibly until 2018, but there's really no fixed date set yet. So yes, your DVD player might die, your car probably won't.
In Sweden you're allowed to camp for two days on random property, and pick mushroom and berries in the forests. The government can even forcibly remove fences if some land owner have put them up, if the fences prevents people from exercising their right to roam.
<anal>Technically that would be PROM or EPROM, since the first two Es in EEPROM stands for "Electrically Erasable" which is precisely what you don't want in this case.</anal>
No patent system means inventors are slaves to financiers. Literally.
Like so many of you in the pro-patent crowd you have some sort of delusion that these inventors sit at home and invent stuff, then . Who do you think invents the important things that you mentioned? It's researchers that works for either the military, the government, a university, or a car company. They are paid a real salary like the rest of us, and they invent products because they get paid a very high salary for their knowledge.
Now let's talk a bit about your example with AMD and Intel. You say that it would be unfair for AMD to just copy intel's design, but they can work around it with their own algorithms. So because of the glorious patent system we now have two products that are designed to do exactly the same thing, but the research had to be done twice, leading to a higher price for the consumer. The patent didn't stop AMD from creating the copy in the first place, just made the procedure more costly. This is of no gain for any consumer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysiologic_illness are what your friends are suffering from. You can take that seriously. Blaming it on imagined effects that can not be proven is not necessary. It has been shown that these people do show real physical effects when you expose them to "electrical environments", but they do this even if they are real or not. They also get better if they believe they are removed from the environment in question, even if they are not.
Are you sure it was edited by the FBI? I tried to copy the redacted parts and paste into my editor but nothing shows up. Are you using the same algorithm?
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I could never buy the "speed" claims of SSD not just because I use very fast SCSI stuff but I actually see the horrible performance of them in my smart phone, HD Camera.
Connect your very fast SCSI drive to your phone and see if it's still as fast.
Why would the signal drop in pitch?
No.
You take a cheap memorystick or USB disk and make it boot your own copy of windows/linux/whatever. Requires some reading and learning, but could be well worth it.
Ok, maybe I exaggerated a little. $7 for 1GB, shipping included: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12245
I'm not security unconscious either [...] no control over what other uses the computer you play on is put
One might argue that a security-conscious person would not let any random people share his computer, unless it had a very safe multi-user system.
These things cost way more than $6 to make
Yes, maybe if you handcraft them in Norway from reindeer horns and freshly clubbed seal, but in the rest of the world you can buy a USB memory for less than this.
What? And no PCIe? Please. No SATA???? What do they think it is? A frikkin accesspoint or something?
No, you don't "wonder". You assume that it's illegal to share, and apparently you want the rest of us to do so as well. If you would have been curious, you could easily have clicked on the books and found out that they are all free to share, like information should be.
Money.
How would you decrypt it?
Hammertime!
One thing to remember is that safety control and monitoring products like fire alarms, but probably also car electronics, are excepted from the RoHS directive until at least 2012, possibly until 2018, but there's really no fixed date set yet. So yes, your DVD player might die, your car probably won't.
Pff, n00bs.
In Sweden you're allowed to camp for two days on random property, and pick mushroom and berries in the forests. The government can even forcibly remove fences if some land owner have put them up, if the fences prevents people from exercising their right to roam.
<anal>Technically that would be PROM or EPROM, since the first two Es in EEPROM stands for "Electrically Erasable" which is precisely what you don't want in this case.</anal>
Thank you for explaining the joke!
I think I speak for everyone here at the slashdot community when I say:
Shut the fuck up.
Like so many of you in the pro-patent crowd you have some sort of delusion that these inventors sit at home and invent stuff, then . Who do you think invents the important things that you mentioned? It's researchers that works for either the military, the government, a university, or a car company. They are paid a real salary like the rest of us, and they invent products because they get paid a very high salary for their knowledge.
Now let's talk a bit about your example with AMD and Intel. You say that it would be unfair for AMD to just copy intel's design, but they can work around it with their own algorithms. So because of the glorious patent system we now have two products that are designed to do exactly the same thing, but the research had to be done twice, leading to a higher price for the consumer. The patent didn't stop AMD from creating the copy in the first place, just made the procedure more costly. This is of no gain for any consumer.
Oh. I always thought the word Free in the movie title Free Willy actually meant to free something from its bonds, not that someone gave away a whale.
if you can play it, you can copy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysiologic_illness are what your friends are suffering from. You can take that seriously. Blaming it on imagined effects that can not be proven is not necessary. It has been shown that these people do show real physical effects when you expose them to "electrical environments", but they do this even if they are real or not. They also get better if they believe they are removed from the environment in question, even if they are not.
Why would you sell them for $80 when someone else sells them for $15?
Are you sure it was edited by the FBI? I tried to copy the redacted parts and paste into my editor but nothing shows up. Are you using the same algorithm?
Also check out Anti-Lameness Engine, http://auricle.dyndns.org/ALE/ which does exactly the same thing, but you have to provide your own arm.
itsatrap? anyone?