I find this reasonable. The constitution was not written for organizations of any kind. It was to more effectively dilineate individual rights and their relation to governmental power. All citizens are people and it is the rights of citizens which are always at odds with the relentlessness of power structures whether governmental, corporate, religious, union or otherwise.
Individual rights have always been a fragile thing. The constitution is really about shielding the individual from the power structures that would overwhelm our rights. Giving rights to the power structure organizations strikes me as contradictory to the constitution.
And the reaching back in history to rule on a broader set of rulings strikes me as over-reaching. Exactly the judicial activism that conservatives seem to advocate against. Reaching back to undo a series of rulings dating back to the beginning of the last century seems a bit absurd.
Exactly what rights of the individual citizen are being protected here?
There are lots of companies that have been doing this I believe.
It is more efficient. Costs less and could provide enough solar panels to coat houses, cars, buildings... Heck why not coat the sidewalks out of this stuff and power our street lights.
It is all very cool technology.
When I first read the article title I misread it to be Hoarding of Games and it started me thinking of way back in my computer days in the early 80's.
The same psychology of hoarding gave me pause, and reminded me of the kids I used to know that would try to collect every game for a system that they could. Pirated of course. Some people used to try and collect every piece of software written for old Apple II or Atari's. They spent so much time collecting and trying to collect that most of what they had they never even played or used once. It made me reconsider what I thought about piracy....stealing, sharing, collecting. I'm still not sure what I think of this inbred way of going about things in the human species, but I find the urge to hoard interesting.
When someone has 10,000 pieces of software or 20,000, what does it mean? After the 200,000th song or the 10,000 movie.... what then..... more collecting, different collecting.
The USSR has nothing to do with western capitalist countries. With communism there was no belief or reliance on the Markets. You can't ignore that their system has no comparable ideology similar to our own. Central Planning and Regulation is not a problem. Central Control and decision making is.
Just remember that the far left in this country still believes in capitalism and relies on it. They just want more oversight. That is different from the government controlling all means of production.
I have one flagrant communist friend and even she is waffles when I press her on what she actually believes.
The only thing that people fear is women's naked bodies and maybe some excess swearing. Those movies end up with an R rating. Of course V for Vendetta did get an R so there are still some levels of violence that will garner an R.
Things like Dark Knight would have ended up with an R rating in the past. No longer. The boundaries of these things are constantly being pushed.
A while back I had the ducts in my house cleaned and we found some old stashed gentlemens magazines. The average Redbook or Vanity Fair magazines have more nudity in them than these old porn magazines did.
10 years from now V for vendetta might also fall into the PG-13 category.
I have downloaded countless mp3's so that I can listen to the music and buy more CD's. I do the same thing with movies. If a disc is worth me actually keeping I buy it. I have over 1200 CD's and 300 movies which isn't a lot comparatively, but it is what I can afford to own.
I suppose I have lost my qualms about downloading because it seems to be quite rare that I actually listen to or use mp3's once I have skimmed something I downloaded. The media is either deleted cause it isn't worth having on the hard drive or it disappears into the abyss when another hard drive goes down.
Of course, these days with Pandora, I don't feel as much necessity to actually download songs anymore. From time to time a friend will email me a song from a new band they have discovered and I do likewise. Pandora is awesome!
This recent Slashdot post would seem back up my impression that pirates tend to be greater spenders on media than non-pirates:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/29/0810250
I remember years ago, back in the 1990's that a similar argument emerged about how piracy was destroying the software industry. Certainly I don't discount these legitimate concerns but I remember many friends who were "collectors". They actively collected every program available for certain computers such as Atari's, Amiga's, or Apples mostly. They had thousands and thousands of applications inhabiting various floppies and multiple hard drives, but how much were they really harming the industry. Most of what they "collected" was never seen or used. How hard is it do run one of those CAD design programs without a manual. Their collecting turned out to be more about having and than it was about using. These sorts of people are not really bilking anyone of any wealth.
Today I find the same thing with movie collectors or music collectors. Most of whom have more music than there are hours to listen to the music over the next decade? If you have collected 20K Albums when might you listen to them all? Does particular sort of person do damage to any industry. Do teenagers sharing their favorite new music with their friends do harm to the artists? Perhaps, but how many have copied and album only to love the band and continually go to the bands concerts. The more teens share their music the more people tend to learn of the bands and learn to love them and buy their albums. This is especially true of smaller artists on independent labels.
I bring these points up because I think that the damage to the industry from piracy could likely be vastly overstated since metrics on outcomes are only now coming to the surface. How many others find themsleves doing this same sort of thing? I can quite honestly say that downloading has lead me to discover more bands and music than I would have discovered if I never had an opportunity to download the music. I rarely listen to radio and the net is my only way of discovering new music. I go seek out bands for concerts and to buy their albums specifically because I was able to download multiple songs that I like from the group or groups albums. And in so doing I can make sure I spend my money judiciously by not wasting money on useless albums.
Also, I usually try to purchase directly from the artist so that they receive the maximum amount of revenue.
I agree totally, the US and indeed the world are heading closer to the Orwellian world that many anti-utopians have predicted as the world becomes more complicated and more connected.
There isn't really a solution as far as I can see. It seems the powers of the dark side are indeed more formidible.
As for Obama, he may achieve some great historic things in his time as President, but there will be many dastardly things to credit him with as well.
He is a master of Machiavellian politics. Indeed I cannot recollect anyone better at it than he is currently.
I just wish there was a champion for the rights of the people and the preservation of the constitution. I'm not sure where such a leader might come from.
Infrant Ready NAS+ is very nice. I have had it on my gigaE network with OSX Ubuntu and Windows XP MCE as well as various other machines and laptops running win2k and XP professional.
It is very fast and snappy with gigaE. I had been running it on a slower network and it was still able to reliably stream video content and simultaneously do large file transfers without a hiccup. With the HP procurve gigabit ethernet switch it is all just much faster.
I am not a technical user, but it has been very reliable with no problems and seems very very speedy. Big thumbs up for this option.
You rock..... you're the first person who is mentioned that cancer is largely due to some DNA issue. I wish more people understood this fact.
I'll almost guarantee you that peanut butter with its little stowaway afflotoxin cause massively more DNA strand breaks than just about any toxin you can find in your house. And I don't believe that studies have suggested any strand breaking caused by cell phone use.
In basic laboratory testing on common household items and their potential for causing mutations we found that Peanut butter had a couple orders of magnitude larger numbers of strand breaks than items like draino, bleach, or even that weird stuff that George Hamilton uses to make himself orange. I'm not suggesting peanut butter causes cancer, but if you had issues with your DNA repair mechanisms it might be wiser to avoid.
Doctors are generally not the best folks to ask about science because although they use some science and may understand some science, generally they are better at treating patients than wading through the minute details of studies to see if they in fact have any relevance at all.
Both "Code of the Lifemaker" and "Ringworld" I found to be pretty fascinating and they each made me think a lot about humanity and our role in the universe.
Life is sometimes too full of things to waste time considering the peculiarities of companies, but when I become aware of company actions and principles that run counter to my own beliefs I am unable to do business with them.
Henceforth, I will never shop at Best Buy and I will encourage all of the people I know to do likewise.
Unfortunately, this seems to be how more businesses want to operate and I cannot support any company willing to do such things. But for every Best Buy doing the wrong thing there are increasingly companies that do things in a more human way. Roll on New Egg.
I thought stuff would not make any difference until I went to renew my license in Michigan and found out that people were using my ID in Pennsylvannia and Rhode Island and gotten "their" licenses' revoked. Michigan told me that until I got those issues cleared up they couldn't issue me a license. Sucks to be me.
Anyhow, after 2 weeks haggling with authorities that I wasn't a person living in either state and hadn't been a resident of either state things were finally cleared up.
Point is.... I didn't even know there was this much crosslinking of information between states. All the real ID stuff is for real. They can sync ID's and it is only a matter of how much they care about it. Nobody really cares about child support or the delinquents would really get what they deserve.
The nazis and some of the german people just complied and said they were following orders. It would have been nice if more people just opted out and declined to do wicked things they were told to do.
Not that this is the same, but the problem is the same. Apathy and blind compliance.
For a home application where you just want to backup data why not just use hard drives to backup? Most of what I have doesn't even need to be backed up on a regular basis. Currently, I have about 4 drives sitting in bags with most of my stuff backed up. (not an elegant solution)
But I have been thinking about a slightly better solution for a long time. Of course the needs may be different than mine.
What I intend to do is get a couple of 500 gig firewire drives to store stuff on. Then I will run software to backup one 500 gig drive to the other on a regular basis. Also the backup drive can remain turned off most of the time.
My concern with RAID:
1. It is not really an archiving solution as I understand it. 2. Huge use of power all the time. 3. Noise.
my PJ-Box rules... still working after more than 5 years. no problems. I would have expected the hard drive to go long before now and I use it almost every day.
the pjbox I have sounds really nice compared to the Ipod... but then again it was selling for 900 bucks back in the day. I didn't pay that and I haven't regretted owning it. My wife has an ipod I bought her, but the pjbox still is hooked to the stereo.
I haven't even downloaded the free songs. All I want it for is to listen to my music. If I get another CD... I pick the songs I want off of it and make another compilation.
People never buy the hardware so they can download music. They may find that after they have the hardware they can do things they hadn't really thought about... like buy a song or 2 to add to their personal compilations and such.
btw... I rarely buy a cd at the store. I get then after seeing the artist if I like them at a concert or I buy from the artist's website if I like what they sound like.
Sometimes I use amazon to listen to more tracks....
I completely agree. All of my future purchases at best buy will be with $2 bills. I think there should be some sort of best buy $2 movement. Each and every year on the date the guy was locked up, everyone should buy stuff at best buy with $2 bills.
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I find this reasonable. The constitution was not written for organizations of any kind. It was to more effectively dilineate individual rights and their relation to governmental power. All citizens are people and it is the rights of citizens which are always at odds with the relentlessness of power structures whether governmental, corporate, religious, union or otherwise. Individual rights have always been a fragile thing. The constitution is really about shielding the individual from the power structures that would overwhelm our rights. Giving rights to the power structure organizations strikes me as contradictory to the constitution. And the reaching back in history to rule on a broader set of rulings strikes me as over-reaching. Exactly the judicial activism that conservatives seem to advocate against. Reaching back to undo a series of rulings dating back to the beginning of the last century seems a bit absurd. Exactly what rights of the individual citizen are being protected here?
whoa.... whoa there partner... lets just hold off on the lynchins.... it ain't even breakfast time yet.
There are lots of companies that have been doing this I believe. It is more efficient. Costs less and could provide enough solar panels to coat houses, cars, buildings... Heck why not coat the sidewalks out of this stuff and power our street lights. It is all very cool technology.
When I first read the article title I misread it to be Hoarding of Games and it started me thinking of way back in my computer days in the early 80's. The same psychology of hoarding gave me pause, and reminded me of the kids I used to know that would try to collect every game for a system that they could. Pirated of course. Some people used to try and collect every piece of software written for old Apple II or Atari's. They spent so much time collecting and trying to collect that most of what they had they never even played or used once. It made me reconsider what I thought about piracy....stealing, sharing, collecting. I'm still not sure what I think of this inbred way of going about things in the human species, but I find the urge to hoard interesting. When someone has 10,000 pieces of software or 20,000, what does it mean? After the 200,000th song or the 10,000 movie.... what then..... more collecting, different collecting.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=223862&title=Baracknophobia---Obey
The USSR has nothing to do with western capitalist countries. With communism there was no belief or reliance on the Markets. You can't ignore that their system has no comparable ideology similar to our own. Central Planning and Regulation is not a problem. Central Control and decision making is. Just remember that the far left in this country still believes in capitalism and relies on it. They just want more oversight. That is different from the government controlling all means of production. I have one flagrant communist friend and even she is waffles when I press her on what she actually believes.
The only thing that people fear is women's naked bodies and maybe some excess swearing. Those movies end up with an R rating. Of course V for Vendetta did get an R so there are still some levels of violence that will garner an R. Things like Dark Knight would have ended up with an R rating in the past. No longer. The boundaries of these things are constantly being pushed. A while back I had the ducts in my house cleaned and we found some old stashed gentlemens magazines. The average Redbook or Vanity Fair magazines have more nudity in them than these old porn magazines did. 10 years from now V for vendetta might also fall into the PG-13 category.
I have downloaded countless mp3's so that I can listen to the music and buy more CD's. I do the same thing with movies. If a disc is worth me actually keeping I buy it. I have over 1200 CD's and 300 movies which isn't a lot comparatively, but it is what I can afford to own. I suppose I have lost my qualms about downloading because it seems to be quite rare that I actually listen to or use mp3's once I have skimmed something I downloaded. The media is either deleted cause it isn't worth having on the hard drive or it disappears into the abyss when another hard drive goes down. Of course, these days with Pandora, I don't feel as much necessity to actually download songs anymore. From time to time a friend will email me a song from a new band they have discovered and I do likewise. Pandora is awesome! This recent Slashdot post would seem back up my impression that pirates tend to be greater spenders on media than non-pirates: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/29/0810250 I remember years ago, back in the 1990's that a similar argument emerged about how piracy was destroying the software industry. Certainly I don't discount these legitimate concerns but I remember many friends who were "collectors". They actively collected every program available for certain computers such as Atari's, Amiga's, or Apples mostly. They had thousands and thousands of applications inhabiting various floppies and multiple hard drives, but how much were they really harming the industry. Most of what they "collected" was never seen or used. How hard is it do run one of those CAD design programs without a manual. Their collecting turned out to be more about having and than it was about using. These sorts of people are not really bilking anyone of any wealth. Today I find the same thing with movie collectors or music collectors. Most of whom have more music than there are hours to listen to the music over the next decade? If you have collected 20K Albums when might you listen to them all? Does particular sort of person do damage to any industry. Do teenagers sharing their favorite new music with their friends do harm to the artists? Perhaps, but how many have copied and album only to love the band and continually go to the bands concerts. The more teens share their music the more people tend to learn of the bands and learn to love them and buy their albums. This is especially true of smaller artists on independent labels. I bring these points up because I think that the damage to the industry from piracy could likely be vastly overstated since metrics on outcomes are only now coming to the surface. How many others find themsleves doing this same sort of thing? I can quite honestly say that downloading has lead me to discover more bands and music than I would have discovered if I never had an opportunity to download the music. I rarely listen to radio and the net is my only way of discovering new music. I go seek out bands for concerts and to buy their albums specifically because I was able to download multiple songs that I like from the group or groups albums. And in so doing I can make sure I spend my money judiciously by not wasting money on useless albums. Also, I usually try to purchase directly from the artist so that they receive the maximum amount of revenue.
I agree totally, the US and indeed the world are heading closer to the Orwellian world that many anti-utopians have predicted as the world becomes more complicated and more connected. There isn't really a solution as far as I can see. It seems the powers of the dark side are indeed more formidible. As for Obama, he may achieve some great historic things in his time as President, but there will be many dastardly things to credit him with as well. He is a master of Machiavellian politics. Indeed I cannot recollect anyone better at it than he is currently. I just wish there was a champion for the rights of the people and the preservation of the constitution. I'm not sure where such a leader might come from.
http://blog.olbrecht.net/2008/09/21/netgear-readynas-pro/
Infrant Ready NAS+ is very nice. I have had it on my gigaE network with OSX Ubuntu and Windows XP MCE as well as various other machines and laptops running win2k and XP professional. It is very fast and snappy with gigaE. I had been running it on a slower network and it was still able to reliably stream video content and simultaneously do large file transfers without a hiccup. With the HP procurve gigabit ethernet switch it is all just much faster. I am not a technical user, but it has been very reliable with no problems and seems very very speedy. Big thumbs up for this option.
You rock..... you're the first person who is mentioned that cancer is largely due to some DNA issue. I wish more people understood this fact.
I'll almost guarantee you that peanut butter with its little stowaway afflotoxin cause massively more DNA strand breaks than just about any toxin you can find in your house. And I don't believe that studies have suggested any strand breaking caused by cell phone use.
In basic laboratory testing on common household items and their potential for causing mutations we found that Peanut butter had a couple orders of magnitude larger numbers of strand breaks than items like draino, bleach, or even that weird stuff that George Hamilton uses to make himself orange. I'm not suggesting peanut butter causes cancer, but if you had issues with your DNA repair mechanisms it might be wiser to avoid.
Doctors are generally not the best folks to ask about science because although they use some science and may understand some science, generally they are better at treating patients than wading through the minute details of studies to see if they in fact have any relevance at all.
Both "Code of the Lifemaker" and "Ringworld" I found to be pretty fascinating and they each made me think a lot about humanity and our role in the universe.
Life is sometimes too full of things to waste time considering the peculiarities of companies, but when I become aware of company actions and principles that run counter to my own beliefs I am unable to do business with them.
Henceforth, I will never shop at Best Buy and I will encourage all of the people I know to do likewise.
Unfortunately, this seems to be how more businesses want to operate and I cannot support any company willing to do such things. But for every Best Buy doing the wrong thing there are increasingly companies that do things in a more human way. Roll on New Egg.
I thought stuff would not make any difference until I went to renew my license in Michigan and found out that people were using my ID in Pennsylvannia and Rhode Island and gotten "their" licenses' revoked. Michigan told me that until I got those issues cleared up they couldn't issue me a license. Sucks to be me.
Anyhow, after 2 weeks haggling with authorities that I wasn't a person living in either state and hadn't been a resident of either state things were finally cleared up.
Point is.... I didn't even know there was this much crosslinking of information between states. All the real ID stuff is for real. They can sync ID's and it is only a matter of how much they care about it. Nobody really cares about child support or the delinquents would really get what they deserve.
The nazis and some of the german people just complied and said they were following orders. It would have been nice if more people just opted out and declined to do wicked things they were told to do.
Not that this is the same, but the problem is the same. Apathy and blind compliance.
For a home application where you just want to backup data why not just use hard drives to backup? Most of what I have doesn't even need to be backed up on a regular basis. Currently, I have about 4 drives sitting in bags with most of my stuff backed up. (not an elegant solution)
But I have been thinking about a slightly better solution for a long time. Of course the needs may be different than mine.
What I intend to do is get a couple of 500 gig firewire drives to store stuff on. Then I will run software to backup one 500 gig drive to the other on a regular basis. Also the backup drive can remain turned off most of the time.
My concern with RAID:
1. It is not really an archiving solution as I understand it.
2. Huge use of power all the time.
3. Noise.
my PJ-Box rules... still working after more than 5 years. no problems. I would have expected the hard drive to go long before now and I use it almost every day.
the pjbox I have sounds really nice compared to the Ipod... but then again it was selling for 900 bucks back in the day.
I didn't pay that and I haven't regretted owning it. My wife has an ipod I bought her, but the pjbox still is hooked to the stereo.
I haven't even downloaded the free songs. All I want it for is to listen to my music. If I get another CD ... I pick the songs I want off of it and make another compilation.
... like buy a song or 2 to add to their personal compilations and such.
People never buy the hardware so they can download music. They may find that after they have the hardware they can do things they hadn't really thought about
btw... I rarely buy a cd at the store. I get then after seeing the artist if I like them at a concert or I buy from the artist's website if I like what they sound like.
Sometimes I use amazon to listen to more tracks....
Well how about tacking on something that counters this to the same bill. That way it both passes and fails at the same time.
Stalemate!
I completely agree. All of my future purchases at best buy will be with $2 bills. I think there should be some sort of best buy $2 movement. Each and every year on the date the guy was locked up, everyone should buy stuff at best buy with $2 bills.
Everyone says apples hardware is overpriced. Prove it.
Maybe their hardware is actually worth more for longer.
Both chrysler and BMW make cars, but BMW's cost more generally...why?
It would be nice if people would be more rational about hardware and quit parroting lame statements that don't make sense.
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And what about just having a choice or preference.
Doesn't it make sense to just use what you like.
I have never used BSD, but I know lots of folks who do and love it. Great!
I know lots of people who love Windows XP....great!
I know lots of people who love various flavors of Linux. Awesome.
Why is it bad for people to choose what they like?
I would hate to think that I had to choose something cause someone else decided it was best....for everyone.
Thanks for pointing us to that site...it is very information packed.