The message is loud and clear but it lands on deaf ears. They're not going to stop until they manage to shove their shit down our throats. They're not going to stop anytime soon because they are still making boatloads of money despite the fact that they're hemorrhaging most of it trying to change the public's perception.
They're in the business of content distribution, they're in the business of charging big money for what the Internet allows people to do for themselves at a fraction of the price. They're going to fight this "Internet" thing tooth and nail because it makes their business model obsolete.
Why are you stating the data sizes in Gigabits? Also, I think World of Warcraft takes more than 1.6GB (13Gb)... I think it's more like 10GB at the least. Perhaps you meant to write Gigabyte (GB) instead of Gigabit (Gb) but you forgot to capitalize the right letter?
In either case, making a ram drive doesn't make much sense. If you're running on a server with 48GB of ram, the whole game will be cached first time it loads, after that any subsequent read will be a cache hit which is actually even faster than a ram drive. If your friend really did have a server motherboard with 48GB of ram, then he would know this. Also, there are currently no desktop motherboards that support 48GB of ram, the most is 32GB, only server motherboards go beyond, and even then: most server motherboards don't have enough slots for 48GB at current ram per module amount.
Then I got a better idea... just get a large cardboard cutout of a truck and stick it on the tank. There you go, instantly makes one object look like another, without fancy technology.
Seriously, I think I just came up with some awesome breakthrough technology. It's inexpensive and might just work wonders. I can imagine it already: an army of tanks disguised as trucks, when the enemy comes to attack the "trucks" with their light vehicles we pound them.
You're one of those idiots who think bigger means safer and pretend you know physics.
Shut your face up and spare the world your arrogant ignorant nonsense. The facts speak for themselves:
In a rollover accident, Midsize SUVs have almost 4x higher fatality rate than Full-size and midsize cars.
Total fatality rates in full size and midsize cars are lower than SUVs and pickup trucks, the only thing being safer overall are minivans and large vans.
That's right, in my computer science class we also wrote programs with pencil on paper. The compiling was the hard part as most people didn't know origami.
I wouldn't give my money to ghetto crack whores with 7 crack babies who are going to become thieves, burden of the state or end up in jail -- all at my expense.
I wouldn't give my money to a corporation that has makes billion dollar profits already by ripping its customers off in a government assisted monopoly.
Why is the government giving MY money instead of building things for me?
Why would people bother getting their dead relative's manuscript published? Why do people like drawing things? Why do people like singing music? Why do people like performing plays? Why do people express themselves artistically? Why do people enjoy art?
Answer: People naturally create art without any financial incentive. Look at remote tribes in Africa singing, telling stories, decorating things with drawings, that's all art for the sake of art, there's no financial reward involved.
When you get down to it, art is not a business. The moment art was made into a business was the death of art. Today there is no more art, there's people who think if there's no profit then why should I bother? Art for profit is not art, it might as well just be fart.
No, its ONLY legitimate purpose is to prevent other people from profiting from an original work long enough to allow the creator to be rewarded.
As for the old dude who created the original work right before he died: he's not going to be rewarded no matter the length of the copyright, so extending the copyright past his death is an insult to the purpose of copyright. Rewarding dead people at the expense of the living isn't the purpose of copyright.
Why did they bring the pirate to the United States? Instead of bringing him to the U.S. they should have detained him in Guantanamo or some other hell hole. It's stupid to bring from Somalia to a premium vacation spot where he stays in a 4 star hotel with air conditioned room and fully equipped gym and cable TV. Now it will encourage the pirates to carry more attacks on U.S. ships so they can also have a chance to win the lottery: a free all expenses paid trip to United States at the expense of the American taxpayer.
I don't know how RIAA has anything to do with piracy.
You catch more flies with honey. So: bring out a honey pot. Send a bunch of "easy targets" filled with trained marines, and catch the pirates in the act. Then collect ransom from the pirates for the safe release of their pirate friends.
That site about riding without a helmet being safer is the biggest load of crap ever. Their whole argument is that the only thing helmet does is reduce the impact by 14mph. Well, your head isn't likely to hit many things going faster than 14mph. Suppose a car hits your motorcycle, you will fall off, hitting the floor. Regardless of how fast you or the car were going, when your head hits the floor it will be the force of a 5 foot drop. If you happened to have horizontal motion -- suppose you were going 60mph when this happened -- the impact against the floor is still not more than 14mph, the only thing the horizontal movement does is it makes you tumble on the floor. If you have no helmet, you fall off the bike and hit the floor and your skull shatters, at the very least you get a severe case of rug burn. If a car going at 20mph hits you while you're going 25mph in opposite direction, the total force on your head isn't 45mph as the idiots on that site suggest. You're not hitting your head directly against the car. You are most likely going to fly out of the bike and slide over the car and hit the floor behind the car.
You want easy proof? stick a watermelon in a helmet and drop it out of the car while you're going 60 mph and then do the same again without the helmet this time. Hint: do the experiment with the helmet first because there wont be much of a watermelon left after you drop it out of the moving car without a helmet.
People who argue helmets are not needed are fools, but the only thing I do agree on is that helmet should not be required by law, and neither should seat belts.
especially the great applications they have...
like the beer mug,
the animated lighter,
the fish pond,
the cow bell application,
and countless games.
Either the people in charge were bribed good amount of cash to make this happen, or they are true idiots. Either way, they are wasting money for no good reason.
I'm glad they finally caught and punished those pirates! I was sick of hearing about how they keep hijacking ships and holding crew for ransom. It was about time the people responsible were stopped.
oh wait, you're telling me these guys aren't real pirates? and real pirates are still out there in the ocean stealing ships and collecting ransoms? WTF?
That's not just the government. I work for a hundred billion dollar company and we routinely do shit like that just to waste money so that we don't get screwed over the next year. What a total fucking waste... waste of resources, waste of time, waste of everything. Business as usual.
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The message is loud and clear but it lands on deaf ears. They're not going to stop until they manage to shove their shit down our throats. They're not going to stop anytime soon because they are still making boatloads of money despite the fact that they're hemorrhaging most of it trying to change the public's perception.
They're in the business of content distribution, they're in the business of charging big money for what the Internet allows people to do for themselves at a fraction of the price. They're going to fight this "Internet" thing tooth and nail because it makes their business model obsolete.
Why are you stating the data sizes in Gigabits? Also, I think World of Warcraft takes more than 1.6GB (13Gb) ... I think it's more like 10GB at the least. Perhaps you meant to write Gigabyte (GB) instead of Gigabit (Gb) but you forgot to capitalize the right letter?
In either case, making a ram drive doesn't make much sense. If you're running on a server with 48GB of ram, the whole game will be cached first time it loads, after that any subsequent read will be a cache hit which is actually even faster than a ram drive. If your friend really did have a server motherboard with 48GB of ram, then he would know this. Also, there are currently no desktop motherboards that support 48GB of ram, the most is 32GB, only server motherboards go beyond, and even then: most server motherboards don't have enough slots for 48GB at current ram per module amount.
Then I got a better idea... just get a large cardboard cutout of a truck and stick it on the tank. There you go, instantly makes one object look like another, without fancy technology.
Seriously, I think I just came up with some awesome breakthrough technology. It's inexpensive and might just work wonders. I can imagine it already: an army of tanks disguised as trucks, when the enemy comes to attack the "trucks" with their light vehicles we pound them.
Except that floppy discs capacities and speed didn't grow exponentially and floppy discs always required dedicated hardware.
So, how are they like floppies?
Ever seen how many baby spiders come out of a spider egg?
Yes, only one baby spider comes out of a spider egg. But there maybe hundreds of eggs in an egg sac.
A bottle at the airport to replace the one they stole from you at the security gate will cost you $3.
Just in case anyone wants more info:
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/udp.htm
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/tcp.htm
You're one of those idiots who think bigger means safer and pretend you know physics.
Shut your face up and spare the world your arrogant ignorant nonsense. The facts speak for themselves:
In a rollover accident, Midsize SUVs have almost 4x higher fatality rate than Full-size and midsize cars.
Total fatality rates in full size and midsize cars are lower than SUVs and pickup trucks, the only thing being safer overall are minivans and large vans.
Passenger Vehicle Occupent Fatality Rates by Type and Size of Vehicle: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809979.PDF
It's not a government test, it's a death count.
That's right, in my computer science class we also wrote programs with pencil on paper. The compiling was the hard part as most people didn't know origami.
I wouldn't give my money to ghetto crack whores with 7 crack babies who are going to become thieves, burden of the state or end up in jail -- all at my expense.
I wouldn't give my money to a corporation that has makes billion dollar profits already by ripping its customers off in a government assisted monopoly.
Why is the government giving MY money instead of building things for me?
sounds like a fitting name that Muslims are sure to enjoy.
Fist treatment? That sounds painful.
I heard MS Bob makes your teeth rot fall out, and makes disfiguring lesions on your face.
Why would people bother getting their dead relative's manuscript published? Why do people like drawing things? Why do people like singing music? Why do people like performing plays? Why do people express themselves artistically? Why do people enjoy art?
Answer: People naturally create art without any financial incentive. Look at remote tribes in Africa singing, telling stories, decorating things with drawings, that's all art for the sake of art, there's no financial reward involved.
When you get down to it, art is not a business. The moment art was made into a business was the death of art. Today there is no more art, there's people who think if there's no profit then why should I bother? Art for profit is not art, it might as well just be fart.
No, its ONLY legitimate purpose is to prevent other people from profiting from an original work long enough to allow the creator to be rewarded.
As for the old dude who created the original work right before he died: he's not going to be rewarded no matter the length of the copyright, so extending the copyright past his death is an insult to the purpose of copyright. Rewarding dead people at the expense of the living isn't the purpose of copyright.
Why did they bring the pirate to the United States? Instead of bringing him to the U.S. they should have detained him in Guantanamo or some other hell hole. It's stupid to bring from Somalia to a premium vacation spot where he stays in a 4 star hotel with air conditioned room and fully equipped gym and cable TV. Now it will encourage the pirates to carry more attacks on U.S. ships so they can also have a chance to win the lottery: a free all expenses paid trip to United States at the expense of the American taxpayer.
I don't know how RIAA has anything to do with piracy.
That's worse than goatse.
You catch more flies with honey. So: bring out a honey pot. Send a bunch of "easy targets" filled with trained marines, and catch the pirates in the act. Then collect ransom from the pirates for the safe release of their pirate friends.
I was about to say, this is not news unless you just woke up from a decade long coma.
That site about riding without a helmet being safer is the biggest load of crap ever. Their whole argument is that the only thing helmet does is reduce the impact by 14mph. Well, your head isn't likely to hit many things going faster than 14mph. Suppose a car hits your motorcycle, you will fall off, hitting the floor. Regardless of how fast you or the car were going, when your head hits the floor it will be the force of a 5 foot drop. If you happened to have horizontal motion -- suppose you were going 60mph when this happened -- the impact against the floor is still not more than 14mph, the only thing the horizontal movement does is it makes you tumble on the floor. If you have no helmet, you fall off the bike and hit the floor and your skull shatters, at the very least you get a severe case of rug burn. If a car going at 20mph hits you while you're going 25mph in opposite direction, the total force on your head isn't 45mph as the idiots on that site suggest. You're not hitting your head directly against the car. You are most likely going to fly out of the bike and slide over the car and hit the floor behind the car.
You want easy proof? stick a watermelon in a helmet and drop it out of the car while you're going 60 mph and then do the same again without the helmet this time. Hint: do the experiment with the helmet first because there wont be much of a watermelon left after you drop it out of the moving car without a helmet.
People who argue helmets are not needed are fools, but the only thing I do agree on is that helmet should not be required by law, and neither should seat belts.
especially the great applications they have...
like the beer mug,
the animated lighter,
the fish pond,
the cow bell application,
and countless games.
Either the people in charge were bribed good amount of cash to make this happen, or they are true idiots. Either way, they are wasting money for no good reason.
I'll go with ceramic tiles instead. When you're covered in molten aluminum I will be laughing.
That must be some good harvest if it makes you see pumpkins and melons that are floating.
I'm glad they finally caught and punished those pirates! I was sick of hearing about how they keep hijacking ships and holding crew for ransom. It was about time the people responsible were stopped.
oh wait, you're telling me these guys aren't real pirates? and real pirates are still out there in the ocean stealing ships and collecting ransoms? WTF?
That's not just the government. I work for a hundred billion dollar company and we routinely do shit like that just to waste money so that we don't get screwed over the next year. What a total fucking waste... waste of resources, waste of time, waste of everything. Business as usual.