Amazon provide free samples of all their Kindle books (typically the first chapter or so). Pretty much every online music store I've ever used has preview samples of every track. The "preview" argument has already been addressed IMHO.
Why would I bother buying SSD's when they have a known failure point at after given number of writes?
Because they're orders of magnitude faster than spinning disks? Because they use less power? I just put a $120 SSD in my laptop to replace it's 5200rpm spinner which I was only using 40GB of anyway. It's like a new machine...amazing difference.
As for lifespan, I've had an Intel SSD as my boot drive in my desktop for about a year now and SMART is showing it at 98% lifespan remaining. Check back in 49 years to see if I'm ready to replace it!
I agree on some level - companies should be able to charge whatever they like for whatever (legal) services they perform. That said, there is a moral issue around exploiting people. I know that I was pretty livid when my mother in law bought a new TV from Best Buy and was suckered into paying almost $100 for an HDMI cable. She just didn't know any better, and whilst I could easily sort it out there are plenty of people out there getting ripped off - and BB know they're doing it. It happens in plenty of other industries, not just tech, but that doesn't make it right.
I don't really know how to solve it. Part of it seems to be almost collusion - you're going to notice a gas station which doubles it's prices because the one next door is much less, but when BB is basically the only place you can buy an HDMI cable at retail in many places (or the other alternatives are just as expensive) how does the average person know the real value is much lower?
Then you won't be able to play it (without cracking it). However, then you'll just be in the same state you'd be in anyway if you didn't buy it. If however you do buy it, you'll have many years of Civ 5 fun between now and then.
There is such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Here's an idea. Create a whole bunch of ~700mb video files - content is unimportant as long as you filmed it yourself. Name them things like "Aliens.mp4" and "Terminator.mp4" and add a license screen at the beginning indicating that these movies are free for anyone to distribute or copy provided they do not work for and are not associated with the major film studios or any of their agents - you're the copyright holder so you can make up whatever terms you want. Now torrent all these, wait for the enforcers to download them for verification, and hadopi their asses:)
Of course, but I'd say they're lesser risks than moving files from outside your organisation into it. Hence my Rule 1: Secure the perimeter. Rule 2 is of course to harden the interior for the inevitable time when the perimeter is breached anyway.
"Moving files between systems" is what networks are for. With the exception of highly secure environments (in which cases USB sticks are even more of a no-no) I can't see why you wouldn't just network everything - and of course move data off local drives onto servers where sharing and backup can be properly managed.
I pay ~$60 a month for a connection which gets around 50/25mpbs up/down. So let's say I have the same at each end (CA and NY) and transfer my 1TB, it'll take 3.85 days to transfer at an amortised cost of $15. UPS ground service will cost $10 (plus packing materials) and will take about the same time (4 days) - so I'd call that basically equivalent. To get faster (say, 3 days) it's $20 + materials.
Per the FCC, Cable companies have to provide and support CableCards. Certainly all the major ones do so, as do most of the smaller ones (it's required for products like Tivo, so they're pretty good at applying pressure to cablecos who don't want to play ball). My experiences with Cablevision, Comcast and Verizon have always been pretty good - I've been using CCs with Tivo for a number of years now.
This so-called content piracy thing is predicated on the idea that a person is entitled to compensation, as determined by the person, not the market, for doing work.
No, it's predicated on the idea that a person is entitled to ask for compensation, as determined by the person, for doing work. That in itself creates a market - because those who wish to benefit from the work decide whether the asked-for price is fair or not. It's the equivalent of a contract worker setting their hourly rate and allowing employers to choose whether or not to hire them - in other words perfectly normal.
Where it breaks down is where people decide they're entitled to benefit from that work without paying the asked-for compensation. In the case of the contract worker you could argue that assuming they got their asked-for rate from the actual employer, then what does it matter if some other unrelated people also got the benefit of the work - that reflects back to the old days of artists being essentially sponsored by the rich. However with things like music and film these days that's not how it works - we don't have benefactors paying the artists, they rely on many small payments to add up to the required total. To me that's a good thing - it democratizes the process of paying for art - it means what gets rewarded (and, therefore, created) is what the majority of people want rather that what some specific rich guy likes. I don't want to live in a world where the only music is what Donald Trump likes to listen to:)
You don't need to get around HDCP to record cable. Many cable boxes have firewire outputs you can use, or better yet, use CableCard (e.g. http://www.cetoncorp.com/products.php).
Well you could try this. It lists Wii Sports at over 66 million, which is over twice the total number of 2600's sold (according to this). It's kind of in a league of it's own, but then it was also bundled with the console which disqualifies it from the list in some people's eyes. The highest selling unbundled game is Wii Play AFAIK.
The linked article is about 4.0b6-pre which is the first version to include JaegerMonkey. The other two links are to articles about the public release of 4.0b5, which doesn't include JM (it's headline feature is really the DirectDraw support on Windows).
4.06-pre isn't currently being pushed to regular beta testers AFAIK.
Right - but a real programmer realizes that languages always come and go, that the real skill is PROGRAMMING not C# or Java or C++ or Python or whatever. If you have a real understanding of the fundamentals then learning a new language is usually easy (and often kinda fun).
Have you ever noticed that they are never teens who want to make a few bucks, like those who wait tables at the local pub?
You've obviously never flown EasyJet or Thomson Airways - that's exactly what they are and it's pretty scary. These kids are supposedly the experts in-charge but they spend most of their time messing around and flirting with the passengers. Not reassuring!
I would add Joystiq to that list, I'm sure someone will laugh or mod me down but as far as I'm concerned they have more cred than pretty much anyone in the industry (e.g. refusing any paid trips, giving away review copies once they're done with them, etc).
Because most people spend most of their time driving below the limit, it follows that most accidents will occur under the limit. It's like saying that more people fall over while walking normally vs hopping on one leg so we should all hop everywhere. If you were to show that more accidents occurred per-minute-driven at below-limit speeds vs above-limit speeds, then that might be interesting.
There's also the little fact that an accident at below 40mph is far, far less likely to kill someone than one at over 40mph, so again - a more interesting measure is probably not the number of accidents but the number of fatalities, or if you prefer, dollar value of damage caused (including medical costs).
Slashdot Mirror
Amazon provide free samples of all their Kindle books (typically the first chapter or so). Pretty much every online music store I've ever used has preview samples of every track. The "preview" argument has already been addressed IMHO.
Because they're orders of magnitude faster than spinning disks? Because they use less power? I just put a $120 SSD in my laptop to replace it's 5200rpm spinner which I was only using 40GB of anyway. It's like a new machine...amazing difference.
As for lifespan, I've had an Intel SSD as my boot drive in my desktop for about a year now and SMART is showing it at 98% lifespan remaining. Check back in 49 years to see if I'm ready to replace it!
It's essentially a non-profit setup to provide affordable housing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_association
Ummm what? "Save As PDF" is built into Office 2007 (since SP2 in 2008) and 2010 (since release) on Windows.
I agree on some level - companies should be able to charge whatever they like for whatever (legal) services they perform. That said, there is a moral issue around exploiting people. I know that I was pretty livid when my mother in law bought a new TV from Best Buy and was suckered into paying almost $100 for an HDMI cable. She just didn't know any better, and whilst I could easily sort it out there are plenty of people out there getting ripped off - and BB know they're doing it. It happens in plenty of other industries, not just tech, but that doesn't make it right.
I don't really know how to solve it. Part of it seems to be almost collusion - you're going to notice a gas station which doubles it's prices because the one next door is much less, but when BB is basically the only place you can buy an HDMI cable at retail in many places (or the other alternatives are just as expensive) how does the average person know the real value is much lower?
And the rest of the internet is giving it away to anyone who can access it with an ipv4 address. Fail!
You forgot
c) Not moved the router since google came by
If you're using digital cable as the source, why not just use a CableCard tuner?
Then you won't be able to play it (without cracking it). However, then you'll just be in the same state you'd be in anyway if you didn't buy it. If however you do buy it, you'll have many years of Civ 5 fun between now and then.
There is such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Here's an idea. Create a whole bunch of ~700mb video files - content is unimportant as long as you filmed it yourself. Name them things like "Aliens.mp4" and "Terminator.mp4" and add a license screen at the beginning indicating that these movies are free for anyone to distribute or copy provided they do not work for and are not associated with the major film studios or any of their agents - you're the copyright holder so you can make up whatever terms you want. Now torrent all these, wait for the enforcers to download them for verification, and hadopi their asses :)
Of course, but I'd say they're lesser risks than moving files from outside your organisation into it. Hence my Rule 1: Secure the perimeter. Rule 2 is of course to harden the interior for the inevitable time when the perimeter is breached anyway.
"Moving files between systems" is what networks are for. With the exception of highly secure environments (in which cases USB sticks are even more of a no-no) I can't see why you wouldn't just network everything - and of course move data off local drives onto servers where sharing and backup can be properly managed.
That depends entirely on your ISP, I get 50mbps with no caps. Of course, that might not last, but it's what I have right now.
If people are plugging random usb sticks into your machines you have bigger problems. Rule 1: Secure your borders. That means no usb drives.
Yes, but you sent it USPS which is the equivalent of UDP :)
I pay ~$60 a month for a connection which gets around 50/25mpbs up/down. So let's say I have the same at each end (CA and NY) and transfer my 1TB, it'll take 3.85 days to transfer at an amortised cost of $15. UPS ground service will cost $10 (plus packing materials) and will take about the same time (4 days) - so I'd call that basically equivalent. To get faster (say, 3 days) it's $20 + materials.
Per the FCC, Cable companies have to provide and support CableCards. Certainly all the major ones do so, as do most of the smaller ones (it's required for products like Tivo, so they're pretty good at applying pressure to cablecos who don't want to play ball). My experiences with Cablevision, Comcast and Verizon have always been pretty good - I've been using CCs with Tivo for a number of years now.
No, it's predicated on the idea that a person is entitled to ask for compensation, as determined by the person, for doing work. That in itself creates a market - because those who wish to benefit from the work decide whether the asked-for price is fair or not. It's the equivalent of a contract worker setting their hourly rate and allowing employers to choose whether or not to hire them - in other words perfectly normal.
Where it breaks down is where people decide they're entitled to benefit from that work without paying the asked-for compensation. In the case of the contract worker you could argue that assuming they got their asked-for rate from the actual employer, then what does it matter if some other unrelated people also got the benefit of the work - that reflects back to the old days of artists being essentially sponsored by the rich. However with things like music and film these days that's not how it works - we don't have benefactors paying the artists, they rely on many small payments to add up to the required total. To me that's a good thing - it democratizes the process of paying for art - it means what gets rewarded (and, therefore, created) is what the majority of people want rather that what some specific rich guy likes. I don't want to live in a world where the only music is what Donald Trump likes to listen to :)
You don't need to get around HDCP to record cable. Many cable boxes have firewire outputs you can use, or better yet, use CableCard (e.g. http://www.cetoncorp.com/products.php).
Well you could try this. It lists Wii Sports at over 66 million, which is over twice the total number of 2600's sold (according to this). It's kind of in a league of it's own, but then it was also bundled with the console which disqualifies it from the list in some people's eyes. The highest selling unbundled game is Wii Play AFAIK.
The linked article is about 4.0b6-pre which is the first version to include JaegerMonkey. The other two links are to articles about the public release of 4.0b5, which doesn't include JM (it's headline feature is really the DirectDraw support on Windows).
4.06-pre isn't currently being pushed to regular beta testers AFAIK.
Right - but a real programmer realizes that languages always come and go, that the real skill is PROGRAMMING not C# or Java or C++ or Python or whatever. If you have a real understanding of the fundamentals then learning a new language is usually easy (and often kinda fun).
You've obviously never flown EasyJet or Thomson Airways - that's exactly what they are and it's pretty scary. These kids are supposedly the experts in-charge but they spend most of their time messing around and flirting with the passengers. Not reassuring!
I would add Joystiq to that list, I'm sure someone will laugh or mod me down but as far as I'm concerned they have more cred than pretty much anyone in the industry (e.g. refusing any paid trips, giving away review copies once they're done with them, etc).
Because most people spend most of their time driving below the limit, it follows that most accidents will occur under the limit. It's like saying that more people fall over while walking normally vs hopping on one leg so we should all hop everywhere. If you were to show that more accidents occurred per-minute-driven at below-limit speeds vs above-limit speeds, then that might be interesting.
There's also the little fact that an accident at below 40mph is far, far less likely to kill someone than one at over 40mph, so again - a more interesting measure is probably not the number of accidents but the number of fatalities, or if you prefer, dollar value of damage caused (including medical costs).