In your unnecessary pickle scenario and in the original on which it is based, no one is forced to purchase anything.
Someone who produces music decides the conditions under which their product is offered for sale, or they contract that out to someone else. It is offered under those conditions and either purchased or not. For some specific song for your specific needs it does indeed suck that you don't feel the price is 'fair' or that it isn't offered for sale in your area or in the form you want or whatever else, but over the long term if the terms of sale don't match what many people want they will either change or the seller will go out of business.
Piracy might be a way to affect that kind of change. I don't know. But spinning it as poor old you being 'forced' into it by a big bad record company is just a cop out.
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That is a bit of a chicken and egg thing, in that the content is mainstream because it is coming from mainsteam content providers.
Steam and Hulu and iTunes and similar services, can help to decentralize the system a bit so that the 'mainstream' is not tied to a given developer or studio or label. Of course that could just shift 'mainsteam' to a different entity, so ultimately it might not make much difference. It does shake things up a bit by getting away from the limited space that gives leverage to big content providers.
Just because the term 'has been, or still" is used to refer to what you linked to doesn't mean it is correct. "Automatic" is modified by "semi" for a reason.
People call magazines clips all day, doesn't mean they are right.
I consider the blurring of automatic and semi-automatic small arms to be an Overton window thing, done on purpose, by people with an agenda.
The room probably sat on rubber air springs, which is common for modern buildings in earthquake prone area.
An earlier reply to you mentions rolling data centers used by militaries. The ones I've seen mount containers on smaller air springs...you'll see Airride on a lot of semi trucks on the highway.
Most of the US companies building test equipment like that offer software for Windows only, Instron and MTS both did last I checked.
If you have it custom built whomever you get to do the controls is probably going to use off the shelf PLCs, HMI software almost certainly, and most of both will be Windows only.
I don't see, in this article or any other, where a backbone provider has agreed to cancel the lease of another ISP if that ISP's customers are accused of copyright violations. If you know where I can find that information please provide a link.
And it bears repeating ad nauseum that if you have a specific set of needs that only a few companies carter to, either for your internet service or nearly any other thing, your choices for satisfying those needs will be limited. Self limited. Your needs don't and shouldn't obligate ATT to do anything, or refrain from doing anything, they legally can.
It also bears repeating that the government granted monopoly that limits competition is part of the reason why you have any broadband at all anyway. If as a condition of accepting that grant your government didn't provide some open ended means of preventing things you don't like you should be upset with your government, not your ISP. And in this case you might avoid looking to your Federal government for relief.
Where do you live that you can't purchase internet service from any of at least 3 satellite providers?
No, I didn't oversimplify the subject. I dislike the idea that the actions of private companies should be restricted based on the possibility that they might infuriate a couple of hardcore gamers who the RIAA thinks violate copyrights.
I haven't condemned anyone or called anyone a crybaby. Although now that you mention it a person who has no alternative to ATT yet cannot either stop themselves from violating copyright or convince ATT that they aren't doing it, over the course of whatever their 'graduated response' turns out to be, may be worthy of condemnation. This goes double if they actually have alternative ISPs but refuse to consider them due to ping times.
A private company cutting off a person's internet access is not a human rights violation regardless of how upset it makes you to think about it. Even when the groupthink has your back.
I'm sure there are places where the only possible ISP is ATT but I don't think it is common. Where I am there is no DSL or cable broadband at all, but I can choose from any of several satellite providers. And if I were the type who tried to ratify my will via purchasing decisions, and I didn't like any of the satellite guys, there are probably a dozen dial up options.
Regardless, I don't think that because there are a few exceptions to what I suggested above that the freedom of a company to make the kind of business deal we are discussing should be restricted.
It is common sense because the company providing you with internet access is free to terminate that access for any reason at all, or no reason. If they believe it benefits them to arrange some kind of 'graduated response' against copyright violation then they are free to do so.
Just like you are free to buy internet access from someone who hasn't made a similar arrangement.
There was a time when you were rightly called an idiot if your web page automatically started playing sounds when loaded. That campaign was so effective that it drove the web page sound idiots underground.
So now we have a generation of people who aren't even aware that putting sound on their pages makes them idiots and some of them have weaseled their way into professional web developer jobs. I ran into one of them when I made a hotel reservation recently. Idiot.
Per application volume is exactly what is needed for people like this.
The 2 ipod shuffle stories were full of this, as was the megapixel story, and the comments on the iphone 3.0 story were mostly unreadable from it. Now eye-fi.
What is it about a company offering a product that you can choose to either buy or not based on your own needs that generates so much emotion in you people? Why do you care what other people buy when those choices don't affect you?
Bits per pixel in the file format is a poor way to measure a camera's dynamic range for a number of reasons. There is the range of the sensor itself, or course, and the processing its output goes through before being turned into an image. So many high end DSLRs go into action photography there is temptation to sacrifice some range to get the image out of the buffer and on to a disk faster.
I shoot a P60 sometimes and have measured its range at about 12 stops (call it EV if you want) with a 16bpp file format (shooting a graduated grey card). A friends D3x outpaces my Mark 3, about 9 stops to 8, with both cameras shooting at 14 bpp.
I would much prefer it if the iPod Touch and iPhone could wireless connect as a mass storage device to a compute.
There are several apps that allow this. I use AirSharing and got it when it was free, I think it is a pay app now.
And the camera sucks as do all cell phone cameras. The limitations of physics prevent us from getting proper light without far more glass than I want my cell phone to carry around.
With the military outsourcing more and more this is true of many non-geek MOSs as well.
I left the Marines after my last deployment as an 8541. I can walk into any DoD security contractor out there with my DD214 and make 10 times what I did when I was discharged, those guys seem to have unlimited funds.
Adding USB storage isn't going to make that suck any worse, it is already a mess for anyone with any kind of prosthetic or a lot of surgical metal in them.
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Considering I was born in Angola, and you listed Protugal, no, not at all.
In what countries does the state not kill people?
In your unnecessary pickle scenario and in the original on which it is based, no one is forced to purchase anything.
Someone who produces music decides the conditions under which their product is offered for sale, or they contract that out to someone else. It is offered under those conditions and either purchased or not. For some specific song for your specific needs it does indeed suck that you don't feel the price is 'fair' or that it isn't offered for sale in your area or in the form you want or whatever else, but over the long term if the terms of sale don't match what many people want they will either change or the seller will go out of business.
Piracy might be a way to affect that kind of change. I don't know. But spinning it as poor old you being 'forced' into it by a big bad record company is just a cop out.
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An absolute fuckton shitload of people?
Or just send everyone who touches the UI to a Tufte seminar.
That is a bit of a chicken and egg thing, in that the content is mainstream because it is coming from mainsteam content providers.
Steam and Hulu and iTunes and similar services, can help to decentralize the system a bit so that the 'mainstream' is not tied to a given developer or studio or label. Of course that could just shift 'mainsteam' to a different entity, so ultimately it might not make much difference. It does shake things up a bit by getting away from the limited space that gives leverage to big content providers.
Just because the term 'has been, or still" is used to refer to what you linked to doesn't mean it is correct. "Automatic" is modified by "semi" for a reason.
People call magazines clips all day, doesn't mean they are right.
I consider the blurring of automatic and semi-automatic small arms to be an Overton window thing, done on purpose, by people with an agenda.
Only if you don't know what you are talking about.
The room probably sat on rubber air springs, which is common for modern buildings in earthquake prone area.
An earlier reply to you mentions rolling data centers used by militaries. The ones I've seen mount containers on smaller air springs...you'll see Airride on a lot of semi trucks on the highway.
Most of the US companies building test equipment like that offer software for Windows only, Instron and MTS both did last I checked.
If you have it custom built whomever you get to do the controls is probably going to use off the shelf PLCs, HMI software almost certainly, and most of both will be Windows only.
I don't see, in this article or any other, where a backbone provider has agreed to cancel the lease of another ISP if that ISP's customers are accused of copyright violations. If you know where I can find that information please provide a link.
And it bears repeating ad nauseum that if you have a specific set of needs that only a few companies carter to, either for your internet service or nearly any other thing, your choices for satisfying those needs will be limited. Self limited. Your needs don't and shouldn't obligate ATT to do anything, or refrain from doing anything, they legally can.
It also bears repeating that the government granted monopoly that limits competition is part of the reason why you have any broadband at all anyway. If as a condition of accepting that grant your government didn't provide some open ended means of preventing things you don't like you should be upset with your government, not your ISP. And in this case you might avoid looking to your Federal government for relief.
Where do you live that you can't purchase internet service from any of at least 3 satellite providers?
No, I didn't oversimplify the subject. I dislike the idea that the actions of private companies should be restricted based on the possibility that they might infuriate a couple of hardcore gamers who the RIAA thinks violate copyrights.
I haven't condemned anyone or called anyone a crybaby. Although now that you mention it a person who has no alternative to ATT yet cannot either stop themselves from violating copyright or convince ATT that they aren't doing it, over the course of whatever their 'graduated response' turns out to be, may be worthy of condemnation. This goes double if they actually have alternative ISPs but refuse to consider them due to ping times.
A private company cutting off a person's internet access is not a human rights violation regardless of how upset it makes you to think about it. Even when the groupthink has your back.
Usually.
I'm sure there are places where the only possible ISP is ATT but I don't think it is common. Where I am there is no DSL or cable broadband at all, but I can choose from any of several satellite providers. And if I were the type who tried to ratify my will via purchasing decisions, and I didn't like any of the satellite guys, there are probably a dozen dial up options.
Regardless, I don't think that because there are a few exceptions to what I suggested above that the freedom of a company to make the kind of business deal we are discussing should be restricted.
It is common sense because the company providing you with internet access is free to terminate that access for any reason at all, or no reason. If they believe it benefits them to arrange some kind of 'graduated response' against copyright violation then they are free to do so.
Just like you are free to buy internet access from someone who hasn't made a similar arrangement.
Andrew Jackson is on the US $20 bill.
There was a time when you were rightly called an idiot if your web page automatically started playing sounds when loaded. That campaign was so effective that it drove the web page sound idiots underground.
So now we have a generation of people who aren't even aware that putting sound on their pages makes them idiots and some of them have weaseled their way into professional web developer jobs. I ran into one of them when I made a hotel reservation recently. Idiot.
Per application volume is exactly what is needed for people like this.
What is it that compels people like you to post?
The 2 ipod shuffle stories were full of this, as was the megapixel story, and the comments on the iphone 3.0 story were mostly unreadable from it. Now eye-fi.
What is it about a company offering a product that you can choose to either buy or not based on your own needs that generates so much emotion in you people? Why do you care what other people buy when those choices don't affect you?
Bits per pixel in the file format is a poor way to measure a camera's dynamic range for a number of reasons. There is the range of the sensor itself, or course, and the processing its output goes through before being turned into an image. So many high end DSLRs go into action photography there is temptation to sacrifice some range to get the image out of the buffer and on to a disk faster.
I shoot a P60 sometimes and have measured its range at about 12 stops (call it EV if you want) with a 16bpp file format (shooting a graduated grey card). A friends D3x outpaces my Mark 3, about 9 stops to 8, with both cameras shooting at 14 bpp.
A good article on this is at http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/ISO_Dynamic_range.pdf
I would much prefer it if the iPod Touch and iPhone could wireless connect as a mass storage device to a compute.
There are several apps that allow this. I use AirSharing and got it when it was free, I think it is a pay app now.
And the camera sucks as do all cell phone cameras. The limitations of physics prevent us from getting proper light without far more glass than I want my cell phone to carry around.
With the military outsourcing more and more this is true of many non-geek MOSs as well. I left the Marines after my last deployment as an 8541. I can walk into any DoD security contractor out there with my DD214 and make 10 times what I did when I was discharged, those guys seem to have unlimited funds.
Adding USB storage isn't going to make that suck any worse, it is already a mess for anyone with any kind of prosthetic or a lot of surgical metal in them.
TAD Gear Messenger bag, or a Domke F-808.
I would too, but that is why I'm a member at EDC Forums.
So you believe that gang members and those involved in the illegal gun trade are sitting around waiting for this law to pass before arming themselves?
How are they murdering one another now?