"Laptops...Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips....Broadband"
/singing
One of these things is not like the others...
//end singing.
Anyone else have the difference glaring at them?
4 are physical, manufactured products...one is a service.
(Warning, basic economic "law" approaching!)
Prices of goods go down. Prices of services go *up*.
(Products get cheaper, people get more expensive.)
I suppose the author of this article would like to see the cost of *his* services go down as well? Perhaps his employer should use this article to lower his wages every year, just to make sure the cost of their services from him are following his ideal.
The subject was that SSDs won't replace hard drives. The parent I replied to stated the only folks using them have anything *but* average requirements.
I pointed out that this was not the case in our particular scenario.
As for the benefits of SSD vs. platter disks, the obvious ones are performance and reliability. None of our users use more than 50GB. Since before the Office 2010 deployment, there have been complaints about program launching and boot times....further exacerbated by Outlook 2010.
My laptop, with Win7, Outlook 2010, and an SSD drive boots faster and launches our apps (including outlook) faster than any of our systems with spinning disks. That's the performance benefit.
The reliability comes into play since most of our users are on laptops and mobile. We've replaced countless platter drives due to normal use...which can get bumpy at times. SSDs don't tend to suffer from that particular method of causing failure.:)
Non-infringing use = Fair Use. All 6 sections are based, 100%, on the 4 guidelines set forth by the Fair Use Doctrine.
Hell, in the register's recommendation, they list 5 factors they must examine in their determination:
(i) The availability for use of Copyrighted works; (ii)The availability of these works for nonprofit archival, preservation, and educational purposes; (iii) The impact that the prohibition on the circumvention of technological measures applied to copyrighted works has on criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research; (iv) The effect of circumvention of technological measures on the market for or value of copyrighted works; and (v) Such other factors as the Librarian considers appropriate.
Look familiar?? It should. It is the Fair Use doctrine's guidelines, almost word for word.
So, no. It doesn't make anything "legal" or "illegal". It means these specific uses were found by the Register and Librarian to fall under Fair Use and as such, be judged non-infringing.
fyi: DRM exists to protect against copyright infringement. The statement in question is *littered* with references to copyright, infringement, and non-infringing uses. So yeah, it *is* about copyright. In fact, that is *all* it is about.
...add to this the fact that while the "exceptions" apply only to CSS...that does not in any way mean the same logic *cannot* be used to argue fair use for AACS...or whatever floats your boat.
*Way* too many people are taking this rulemaking to mean, "This is Legal...everything else is not". Problem is, that is possibly the most incorrect way to interpret this. Fair Use is not about making blanket statements like that. Fact is, any of his talk could be over-ruled in court...today. Fair Use is decided on a case-by-case basis. It does not give *any* use carte-blanche legality or illegality.
The only benefit here is that when making an argument for Fair Use that fits the statements made by the Register of Copyrights, you have some semblance of "official" backing. That's it.
It doesn't make bypassing CSS any more legal, nor does it make doing the same to AACS any less legal. It just gives you a bit more backing when arguing a certain instance falls under Fair Use.
Got one a few years back for $800. Teller *majorly* miscounted. She was not paying any attention at all. I swear she was reading a text or some shit....
Wasn't my bank. Didn't have an account there, (my employer did) and the next time I went to cash my check nothing was said. (Though strangely enough, she still seemed to be employed...).
Laptops don't need the extra storage for the most part, servers can stick with 3 1/2" drives as they usually put several in there anyway (SCSI drives never made it into the high storage area at feasible prices...yet they somehow managed to get by with them)..
The spindle thing, well....spindles suck. I think that's one of the major benefits of SSD.:p
"Speed actually means NOTHING here. The marginal speed gain from SSD simply isn't worthwhile to most people."
Haven't used 'em yet, have you? At least...not a decent one? The decent ones are easily much faster than spinning media. The great ones blow them out of the water.
We are transitioning all of our desktop and laptop systems here to SSD. Over 120 systems. $100 a pop, and we're spending another $100 on Win7. (already site-licenced Office 2k10).
100GB drives.
I wrote a script to give me current usage stats on our current setups: max was 50GB. Most averaged about 25GB of used space.
Won't be an issue. All of our systems will be just peachy with SSD-only. I would hardly call our usage above or below normal. Windows, Office, and a few BI/CRM apps. That's about it. Everything else is stored in user folders on the file-server or on common shared folders on the file-server. I wouldn't expect to see any office department other than graphics/design using much more than what we are...
"when cell companies tout "more bars" as a key feature of their network, shouldn't it mean better reception and fewer dropped calls throughout their network?"
It should. But it doesn't.
Apple themselves said the bars were higher in low-signal areas than they should have been. More bars in more places means you have more bars....it doesn't, apparently, have *anything* to do with reception.:)
Steering lock should not kick in unless the vehicle is in park or (in the case of manuals) in gear. In neutral, the steering should *never* lock. This is how they are designed. If your steering locks in neutral, regardless of engine engagement, you need to bring your car in for service. Immediately.
No. Not on a touchscreen keyboard on a mobile phone...
But one made for a desktop? Sure. I see no problem with that whatsoever.
Of course, the majority of users wouldn't be writing novels, now would they? They'd be doing what they normally do. (You know, writing messages and putting search terms in Google)
"In terms of a keyboard, yes, I could see where you come from, tactile feedback would be necessary."
Are you guys serious?
Where have you been??
We've had touchpad keyboards on our phones for ages now... It's most definitely *not* necessary. Preferred maybe by some, but necessary? Not so much...
Zeos was probably one of the best PC makers until they got bought by Micron. Worked there for years... wee even had a guy send in pictures of his system still running after he shot it.
We have a storm and my Zeos 486 sound crapped out. I was board and my new PC was on the way so I sprayed the mainboard with water and littered it with iron filings.....damned thing still ran without a hiccup. (A magnet to the HDD turned it into a nice multi-colored strobe-light, but the mbd lasted another 6 months before I finally got rid of it.)
It's a netbook. Globe, Browser, Etc, all big icons on the taskbar. Combined with a decent on-screen keyboard and what more do you need?
You aren't one of those people who claims the iPad is not for "real" work and then turns around complaining that a similar device running windows isn't usable for "real" work, are you?
Some things just don't quite fit your extremely narrow point of view.
I like spongebob. I greatly miss The Angry Beavers. I play Left 4 Dead 2 on my PC. I play WoW. I own a Wii and use it frequently. I have a wife and three children. I am also quite successful at running my own company.
Amazingly, none of this meshes at all with your frakked ideal of "how things should be".
I guess it just really sucks to be you. My advice to everyone else: Don't ever grow up....at least not by this guy's definition.
The First Amendment covers what the US Government *can* do to limit one's Freedom of Speech.
...anything not covered under the First Amendment cannot legally be infringed upon by the US government.
Meaning: The US government, except in cases where a a clear and present danger exists to the rights of others, has no legal authority over the internet. None. Zippo. Zilch.
...and yet we're trying harder than ever to give them all of that authority and more.
There was no limitation set forth in either of the founding documents regarding which sexes could and could not vote. As such, the feds had no right to restrict it...ever. It shouldn't have been an amendment. It should have an a SCotUS ruling that such restrictions were unconstitutional.
Netflix, MS Office (2007), and Pandora, really. Forefront Security in the tray...
I never claimed they were workhorses, but they handle this just fine. I mean really...how much do you *need* to send emails and edit a document or two?
1GB is *far* from unusable. More is obviously better, but people are trying to claim otherwise when I have two of them running @ home just fine...which irked me just enough to respond.:)
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"Laptops...Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips....Broadband"
One of these things is not like the others...
Anyone else have the difference glaring at them?
4 are physical, manufactured products...one is a service.
(Warning, basic economic "law" approaching!)
Prices of goods go down.
Prices of services go *up*.
(Products get cheaper, people get more expensive.)
I suppose the author of this article would like to see the cost of *his* services go down as well? Perhaps his employer should use this article to lower his wages every year, just to make sure the cost of their services from him are following his ideal.
Valve.
They've been updtaing TF2 for ages. And L4D2 is getting updates weekly...
name one other country commonly referred to as "America".
Come on...
just one...
Didn't think so.
Self-important git. Go stroke your e-peen somewhere else.
Was I required to?
The subject was that SSDs won't replace hard drives. The parent I replied to stated the only folks using them have anything *but* average requirements.
I pointed out that this was not the case in our particular scenario.
As for the benefits of SSD vs. platter disks, the obvious ones are performance and reliability. None of our users use more than 50GB. Since before the Office 2010 deployment, there have been complaints about program launching and boot times....further exacerbated by Outlook 2010.
My laptop, with Win7, Outlook 2010, and an SSD drive boots faster and launches our apps (including outlook) faster than any of our systems with spinning disks. That's the performance benefit.
The reliability comes into play since most of our users are on laptops and mobile. We've replaced countless platter drives due to normal use...which can get bumpy at times. SSDs don't tend to suffer from that particular method of causing failure. :)
Read the statements.
Non-infringing use = Fair Use. All 6 sections are based, 100%, on the 4 guidelines set forth by the Fair Use Doctrine.
Hell, in the register's recommendation, they list 5 factors they must examine in their determination:
(i) The availability for use of Copyrighted works;
(ii)The availability of these works for nonprofit archival, preservation, and educational purposes;
(iii) The impact that the prohibition on the circumvention of technological measures applied to copyrighted works has on criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research;
(iv) The effect of circumvention of technological measures on the market for or value of copyrighted works; and
(v) Such other factors as the Librarian considers appropriate.
Look familiar?? It should. It is the Fair Use doctrine's guidelines, almost word for word.
So, no. It doesn't make anything "legal" or "illegal". It means these specific uses were found by the Register and Librarian to fall under Fair Use and as such, be judged non-infringing.
fyi: DRM exists to protect against copyright infringement. The statement in question is *littered* with references to copyright, infringement, and non-infringing uses. So yeah, it *is* about copyright. In fact, that is *all* it is about.
...add to this the fact that while the "exceptions" apply only to CSS...that does not in any way mean the same logic *cannot* be used to argue fair use for AACS...or whatever floats your boat.
*Way* too many people are taking this rulemaking to mean, "This is Legal...everything else is not". Problem is, that is possibly the most incorrect way to interpret this. Fair Use is not about making blanket statements like that. Fact is, any of his talk could be over-ruled in court...today. Fair Use is decided on a case-by-case basis. It does not give *any* use carte-blanche legality or illegality.
The only benefit here is that when making an argument for Fair Use that fits the statements made by the Register of Copyrights, you have some semblance of "official" backing. That's it.
It doesn't make bypassing CSS any more legal, nor does it make doing the same to AACS any less legal. It just gives you a bit more backing when arguing a certain instance falls under Fair Use.
That'd be only about $24,000, actually. Well within our operating budget for upgrades this year.
Got one a few years back for $800. Teller *majorly* miscounted. She was not paying any attention at all. I swear she was reading a text or some shit....
Wasn't my bank. Didn't have an account there, (my employer did) and the next time I went to cash my check nothing was said. (Though strangely enough, she still seemed to be employed...).
It's an odd, odd world.
Laptops don't need the extra storage for the most part, servers can stick with 3 1/2" drives as they usually put several in there anyway (SCSI drives never made it into the high storage area at feasible prices...yet they somehow managed to get by with them)..
The spindle thing, well....spindles suck. I think that's one of the major benefits of SSD. :p
"Speed actually means NOTHING here. The marginal speed gain from SSD simply isn't worthwhile to most people."
Haven't used 'em yet, have you? At least...not a decent one? The decent ones are easily much faster than spinning media. The great ones blow them out of the water.
We are transitioning all of our desktop and laptop systems here to SSD. Over 120 systems. $100 a pop, and we're spending another $100 on Win7. (already site-licenced Office 2k10).
100GB drives.
I wrote a script to give me current usage stats on our current setups: max was 50GB. Most averaged about 25GB of used space.
Won't be an issue. All of our systems will be just peachy with SSD-only. I would hardly call our usage above or below normal. Windows, Office, and a few BI/CRM apps. That's about it. Everything else is stored in user folders on the file-server or on common shared folders on the file-server. I wouldn't expect to see any office department other than graphics/design using much more than what we are...
My bad. You are correct.
Steering lock only engages if the key has been removed according to a quick google search.
Gee...I probably should have done that before posting? :p
"when cell companies tout "more bars" as a key feature of their network, shouldn't it mean better reception and fewer dropped calls throughout their network?"
It should. But it doesn't.
Apple themselves said the bars were higher in low-signal areas than they should have been. More bars in more places means you have more bars....it doesn't, apparently, have *anything* to do with reception. :)
Steering lock should not kick in unless the vehicle is in park or (in the case of manuals) in gear. In neutral, the steering should *never* lock. This is how they are designed. If your steering locks in neutral, regardless of engine engagement, you need to bring your car in for service. Immediately.
No. Not on a touchscreen keyboard on a mobile phone...
But one made for a desktop? Sure. I see no problem with that whatsoever.
Of course, the majority of users wouldn't be writing novels, now would they? They'd be doing what they normally do. (You know, writing messages and putting search terms in Google)
"In terms of a keyboard, yes, I could see where you come from, tactile feedback would be necessary."
Are you guys serious?
Where have you been??
We've had touchpad keyboards on our phones for ages now... It's most definitely *not* necessary. Preferred maybe by some, but necessary? Not so much...
Heh...
Zeos was probably one of the best PC makers until they got bought by Micron. Worked there for years... wee even had a guy send in pictures of his system still running after he shot it.
We have a storm and my Zeos 486 sound crapped out. I was board and my new PC was on the way so I sprayed the mainboard with water and littered it with iron filings.....damned thing still ran without a hiccup. (A magnet to the HDD turned it into a nice multi-colored strobe-light, but the mbd lasted another 6 months before I finally got rid of it.)
Read carefully. That was my point. :)
Well, you're not far off...
It's a netbook. Globe, Browser, Etc, all big icons on the taskbar. Combined with a decent on-screen keyboard and what more do you need?
You aren't one of those people who claims the iPad is not for "real" work and then turns around complaining that a similar device running windows isn't usable for "real" work, are you?
Some things just don't quite fit your extremely narrow point of view.
I like spongebob. I greatly miss The Angry Beavers. I play Left 4 Dead 2 on my PC. I play WoW. I own a Wii and use it frequently. I have a wife and three children. I am also quite successful at running my own company.
Amazingly, none of this meshes at all with your frakked ideal of "how things should be".
I guess it just really sucks to be you. My advice to everyone else: Don't ever grow up. ...at least not by this guy's definition.
The First Amendment covers what the US Government *can* do to limit one's Freedom of Speech.
...anything not covered under the First Amendment cannot legally be infringed upon by the US government.
Meaning: The US government, except in cases where a a clear and present danger exists to the rights of others, has no legal authority over the internet. None. Zippo. Zilch.
...and yet we're trying harder than ever to give them all of that authority and more.
That was stupid from the get-go.
There was no limitation set forth in either of the founding documents regarding which sexes could and could not vote. As such, the feds had no right to restrict it...ever. It shouldn't have been an amendment. It should have an a SCotUS ruling that such restrictions were unconstitutional.
"my work machine with Vista and 1GB of ram, the system is practically unusable."
That'd be Vista for ya. Thankfully, we were talking about Windows 7. :)
Netflix, MS Office (2007), and Pandora, really. Forefront Security in the tray...
I never claimed they were workhorses, but they handle this just fine. I mean really...how much do you *need* to send emails and edit a document or two?
1GB is *far* from unusable. More is obviously better, but people are trying to claim otherwise when I have two of them running @ home just fine...which irked me just enough to respond. :)
"older P4 desktops..."
Ah...I see where our paths diverged... My laptops have CPUs manufactured in the last decade. :p
Yeah...more RAM is always better...but the dolt in the comment I was replying to was trying to pass off 2GB as the barest minimum...which was BS.
My desktop w 6GB, running 7x64 would obviously run circles around either of my laptops. Wouldn't think of arguing *that* for a second. ;)