A lot of people are already having driver/card problems and considering jumping ship to ATI
ATI is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMD. However, AMD is also not on the list.
I hate NVIDIA because of the Blobs and because, when put up against ATI cards of the same price-point, they are slower and fail a lot more. I've had about a dozen and a half NVIDIA cards fail, while only had one ATI card fail during the same period of time, under normal usage conditions. (The ATI card failed on a hot day while playing Portal 2...never would have tried to use an NVIDIA card in that case because I would have gone through three or four of them.)
While the end result is outrageous, I don't think ICE is totally at fault here.
Warrants must be confirmed and the individual being arrested on a warrant must be positively identified. Sounds like part of the process of doing so was done, they requested fingerprints. However, they needed to confirm the fingerprints matched before turning over the girl to the Colombian government.
Also, they should have run the fingerprints and the picture through the missing person system, which sounds like they failed there too. A whole bunch of fail.
The smart grid is the first step to control. I don't need controlled, I can take care of myself.
How does the power company charge you for electricity if they don't already monitor your usage?
Seems like you already let them in the door. Only way to fix that is to get off the grid entirely -- which will require several forms of power generation (solar for daytime, hydrogen fuel cell or other methods for cloudy days/at night,) and then monitor and control the use yourself.
I don't care as much -- I'll happily use the power grid as a battery until the power company starts complaining that I am not drawing enough power from them and getting too much from other sources (which of course, will require me to get power from other sources -- which I am working on.)
i would think at least in the fridge instance the compressor would be a much more inefficient use of electricity than something running off 5 volts dc that can sleep most of the time.
Nevermind the fact that many of the sensor buses draw 5v at microwatts to run whole clusters of sensors and the sensors themselves draw minuscule power from this bus. I have weather sensors that run 30-40 sensors off of a single station that pumps the data to a server which stores the data and makes it available for display, and that station/sensor cluster uses less wattage than my DVR. Even with 13v power for the barometer (which often isn't needed) I am still using far less power than the refrigerator. 1-wire for the win!
Imagine the beauty of a Star Wars movie written and directed by people who could honor the spirit of what George Lucas created prior to the prequels.
Imagine if Greg Bear's "The Phantom Menace" was used as the script for Phantom Menace. It would have been decent -- and Bear used Lucas's script and added to it (and changed some of it too.) Pretty much like how Empire sucked before Brackett and Kasdan were brought in to redo it. This is why I find crowd-sourcing and open source so amazing -- the best product is created as a result of opening the project up to the users.
The problem is that most artists don't want to let go of the control they have -- but I've found myself that like free speech, you really get the best product when you allow others to get a say.
Last time I checked, Chris was doing a pretty good job living off of editing his father's unreleased works and creating derivative works. Which, is probably the only antithesis I can think of as to why the children of authors shouldn't receive royalties and the works of the author should become public domain the moment they die because the whole point of copyright is to get the author to continue to create, and a dead author cannot create new works.
However, we all should be allowed to create derivative works -- why should Chris be the only one to do so just because he happened to be lucky enough to be born as the son of J.R.R. Tolkien and followed in his father's footsteps. Chris can still capitalize on the stuff his father didn't release. I don't get paid for all the work my dad did -- what makes an author/artist so special that their children get to rest on their parent's work?
I, personally, own over 1,000+ albums & 18,000+ songs (over 1,000 hours of music), 500+ movies and 100+ seasons of TV shows - all legally purchased. Add in the other member of this household and those numbers easily double if not triple.
I own quite a bit myself which I've purchased (though now-a-days, its hard to know whether the CDs I purchased were legal or not -- I don't know who Amazon/CD Universe/etc. buy them from -- how the industry can expect me to know the entire path of everything I purchased when they can't even keep track of whom they gave promotional information to is beyond me.) I even have repurchased movies/music (how many different copies of Star Wars do I have, and I am thinking of buying the BD version.) I am obviously a bloody pirate.
Just wish the industry would listen to their customers instead of always calling them pirates and doing everything in their power distance themselves from their customers.
If their plan was to "illegally extort money," then it doesn't seem likely that they would us the federal court system to do it.
I don't think anyone believes that they were in it to "illegally extort money," especially since the federal court system kinda allows them to "legally extort money." However, the fact that they didn't follow the right procedures and the fact that they didn't really own the copyrights they were using to extort money from folks with makes their efforts to "legally extort money" using the federal courts illegal. Right?
If you think that's me being hypocritical, then I don't know what to tell you. I make mistakes, I learn from them, and I admit when I'm wrong. I only care about getting the law right, and my opinion actually changes as new information becomes known. I can't say that much for Mike et al.
You know, AJ, I think this is exactly what makes you hypocritical. You complain about Mike making mistakes, and get all up in his grill about it, and then when someone points out your mistakes you say "I make mistakes." Yet, for the most part (with noted exceptions) you don't actually show where Mike made a mistake, or you state something that Mike didn't actually say or do as proof that he made a mistake. Everyone here makes mistakes, and we all know it, and most of us take the comments by others to heart and change -- but some of us continue to beat up on Mike for past transgressions that may or may not have really happened while we ask for forgiveness from others for our own.
The very definition of hypocritical (hate to bring the Bible into it,) is when you point out the sliver in your brother's eye while ignoring the plank in your own.
Clearly, we are swiftly approaching a situation in which internet research and network research of any kind will have to be initiated and controlled by the the copyright industry or its proxy, the government.
Frankly, I am still waiting for the ATMOS-like device attached to our computers filtering out the copyright material or the EarPods that filter out copyright material from our brains. What could possibly go wrong with either of these devices?
I'll just create fake versions and wait for the Doctor to pop by.
Anyway, the subtle inference Masnick has made during this whole thing is that it is pirates that allowed this experiment to succeed, because CK was nice about things, didn't use DRM, etc., when the reality is that he is hugely successful and made a it easy for his fans to watch his show cheap.
Huh?
It was successful because Louis CK gave his customers what they wanted...a connection to his fans and a reason to buy. Is this really that difficult to understand? He offered something for a cost that his customers could afford and a value that was worth the cost. People will still take his offering for free -- who cares? This is all Mike ever said, that he made a lot of fans and thus a lot of customers by connecting with his fans (and treating them nicely.)
I am still waiting for the copyright maximalists to say "yeah, this works well for someone who is good at what they do, but how do you expect us to make millions off of our mediocre artists?"
I doubt the military would want most of them. The military has a strict code of Ethics and the UCMJ. This sort of activity would be something that the military would look down upon (as is true for most federal employees, who would find themselves in jail for this sort of activity.)
Still abusing after 1 & 2 - get the benefit of a wrecking ball with forced divestiture of all holdings to competitors who have been proven not to have abused the DMCA for at least 5 years.
Why give them to competitors? Give them to whom they really belong to, the people. All divestitures should go to the public domain, where they belong.
The problem is that the copyright maximalists despise the public domain far more than they despise pirates -- but this is why the founding fathers allowed copyright to exist in the first place, because they knew what most of us (except the copyright maximalists,) knew, that all ideas come from the society/culture in which they were created, and thus belong to that society/culture, and copyright only is there to give the author who fixed that idea to medium the opportunity to, for a limited period of time, obtain wealth in exchange for fixing that idea to medium. If you don't want your ideas in the public domain, keep them to yourself (but realize that others may eventually think up the same thing.)
Sounds like a lot of failure on the part of the employers
In addition to submitting fraudulent time cards, Hunter falsely claimed to hold a doctorate from Oxford University in England when he had only a high school education, Daniels said.
Apparently a very poor job at background checks.
"This person was hired before we had sophisticated methods to verify international degrees."
Oh, come on. This was 2003, not 1960. How difficult is it to pick up a phone and call 411 for the phone number for admissions and records at Oxford. Or go to their website (which existed in 2003) and grab the number there. Someone got lazy and now they are paying 2.5 million for it.
When I changed jobs in 1999, my employer, during a background check, managed to contact a manager for a company I worked for 7 years before had that went out of business between the time I left and the time I got hired by the company that did the background check. The manager had been laid off, yet somehow they miraculously found him. I find it hard to believe that in 2003 it was too difficult to verify whether a person received a Doctor's Degree from a prestigious college in England -- its not like Oxford gives out millions of Doctor's Degrees.
I'd certainly like to see him on stage in the comedy club in my area. I had seen him before on Comedy Central, but after reading about him the last couple weeks he jumped up on my list of people I would spend good money to see in person. I believe Mike is right -- the long chain is what is really interesting here -- I wonder how many more people will crowd the comedy clubs after this brilliant marketing effort.
My point is that while the Entitled generation feels like they don't need to respect the laws of the land, breaking the law has consequences. They should legislate mandatory jail time for pirating creative content and then see how long it takes for the river of piracy to dwindle to a tiny trickle.
Its funny that you say that. I think it is the Entitled generation that currently has the reigns of power who feel that they deserve money for works produced in antiquity which they had no hand in producing just because they were at the right place at the right time to monopolize on it. We don't continue to pay hammer manufacturers every time a hammer is used. As others have already stated, humans lived for a very long time without copyright, and were very productive without it. Who has a bigger sense of entitlement, the kids who share what they have with others or the ones who want money for stuff others made?
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ATI is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMD. However, AMD is also not on the list.
I hate NVIDIA because of the Blobs and because, when put up against ATI cards of the same price-point, they are slower and fail a lot more. I've had about a dozen and a half NVIDIA cards fail, while only had one ATI card fail during the same period of time, under normal usage conditions. (The ATI card failed on a hot day while playing Portal 2...never would have tried to use an NVIDIA card in that case because I would have gone through three or four of them.)
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Oops, Terry Brooks novelized "The Phantom Menace", not Greg Bear. But Greg wrote some really good Clone Wars books.
Still, Terry Brooks novelization was better than Lucas's movie.
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OMG, you mean to say that the other Anonymous Coward is part of the 1%?!?!
Man, I wish I could occupy his front yard. :-)
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Re: Girl didn't help the situation thoough
Warrants must be confirmed and the individual being arrested on a warrant must be positively identified. Sounds like part of the process of doing so was done, they requested fingerprints. However, they needed to confirm the fingerprints matched before turning over the girl to the Colombian government.
Also, they should have run the fingerprints and the picture through the missing person system, which sounds like they failed there too. A whole bunch of fail.
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Re: Re: Re: For certain applications I like it
How does the power company charge you for electricity if they don't already monitor your usage?
Seems like you already let them in the door. Only way to fix that is to get off the grid entirely -- which will require several forms of power generation (solar for daytime, hydrogen fuel cell or other methods for cloudy days/at night,) and then monitor and control the use yourself.
I don't care as much -- I'll happily use the power grid as a battery until the power company starts complaining that I am not drawing enough power from them and getting too much from other sources (which of course, will require me to get power from other sources -- which I am working on.)
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Nevermind the fact that many of the sensor buses draw 5v at microwatts to run whole clusters of sensors and the sensors themselves draw minuscule power from this bus. I have weather sensors that run 30-40 sensors off of a single station that pumps the data to a server which stores the data and makes it available for display, and that station/sensor cluster uses less wattage than my DVR. Even with 13v power for the barometer (which often isn't needed) I am still using far less power than the refrigerator. 1-wire for the win!
On the post: Why Johnny Can't Read Any New Public Domain Books In The US: Because Nothing New Entered The Public Domain
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Imagine if Greg Bear's "The Phantom Menace" was used as the script for Phantom Menace. It would have been decent -- and Bear used Lucas's script and added to it (and changed some of it too.) Pretty much like how Empire sucked before Brackett and Kasdan were brought in to redo it. This is why I find crowd-sourcing and open source so amazing -- the best product is created as a result of opening the project up to the users.
The problem is that most artists don't want to let go of the control they have -- but I've found myself that like free speech, you really get the best product when you allow others to get a say.
On the post: Why Johnny Can't Read Any New Public Domain Books In The US: Because Nothing New Entered The Public Domain
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Last time I checked, Chris was doing a pretty good job living off of editing his father's unreleased works and creating derivative works. Which, is probably the only antithesis I can think of as to why the children of authors shouldn't receive royalties and the works of the author should become public domain the moment they die because the whole point of copyright is to get the author to continue to create, and a dead author cannot create new works.
However, we all should be allowed to create derivative works -- why should Chris be the only one to do so just because he happened to be lucky enough to be born as the son of J.R.R. Tolkien and followed in his father's footsteps. Chris can still capitalize on the stuff his father didn't release. I don't get paid for all the work my dad did -- what makes an author/artist so special that their children get to rest on their parent's work?
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I own quite a bit myself which I've purchased (though now-a-days, its hard to know whether the CDs I purchased were legal or not -- I don't know who Amazon/CD Universe/etc. buy them from -- how the industry can expect me to know the entire path of everything I purchased when they can't even keep track of whom they gave promotional information to is beyond me.) I even have repurchased movies/music (how many different copies of Star Wars do I have, and I am thinking of buying the BD version.) I am obviously a bloody pirate.
Just wish the industry would listen to their customers instead of always calling them pirates and doing everything in their power distance themselves from their customers.
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I don't think anyone believes that they were in it to "illegally extort money," especially since the federal court system kinda allows them to "legally extort money." However, the fact that they didn't follow the right procedures and the fact that they didn't really own the copyrights they were using to extort money from folks with makes their efforts to "legally extort money" using the federal courts illegal. Right?
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You know, AJ, I think this is exactly what makes you hypocritical. You complain about Mike making mistakes, and get all up in his grill about it, and then when someone points out your mistakes you say "I make mistakes." Yet, for the most part (with noted exceptions) you don't actually show where Mike made a mistake, or you state something that Mike didn't actually say or do as proof that he made a mistake. Everyone here makes mistakes, and we all know it, and most of us take the comments by others to heart and change -- but some of us continue to beat up on Mike for past transgressions that may or may not have really happened while we ask for forgiveness from others for our own.
The very definition of hypocritical (hate to bring the Bible into it,) is when you point out the sliver in your brother's eye while ignoring the plank in your own.
On the post: Hackers Figuring Out How To Set Up Satellites To Route Around Internet Censorship
Re: outlaw this too
Frankly, I am still waiting for the ATMOS-like device attached to our computers filtering out the copyright material or the EarPods that filter out copyright material from our brains. What could possibly go wrong with either of these devices?
I'll just create fake versions and wait for the Doctor to pop by.
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Re: Re: .. and cue the apologists...
Huh?
It was successful because Louis CK gave his customers what they wanted...a connection to his fans and a reason to buy. Is this really that difficult to understand? He offered something for a cost that his customers could afford and a value that was worth the cost. People will still take his offering for free -- who cares? This is all Mike ever said, that he made a lot of fans and thus a lot of customers by connecting with his fans (and treating them nicely.)
I am still waiting for the copyright maximalists to say "yeah, this works well for someone who is good at what they do, but how do you expect us to make millions off of our mediocre artists?"
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So is Obama, Emperor Palpatine and Biden, Darth Vader?
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I doubt the military would want most of them. The military has a strict code of Ethics and the UCMJ. This sort of activity would be something that the military would look down upon (as is true for most federal employees, who would find themselves in jail for this sort of activity.)
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Why give them to competitors? Give them to whom they really belong to, the people. All divestitures should go to the public domain, where they belong.
The problem is that the copyright maximalists despise the public domain far more than they despise pirates -- but this is why the founding fathers allowed copyright to exist in the first place, because they knew what most of us (except the copyright maximalists,) knew, that all ideas come from the society/culture in which they were created, and thus belong to that society/culture, and copyright only is there to give the author who fixed that idea to medium the opportunity to, for a limited period of time, obtain wealth in exchange for fixing that idea to medium. If you don't want your ideas in the public domain, keep them to yourself (but realize that others may eventually think up the same thing.)
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Sounds like a lot of failure on the part of the employers
Apparently a very poor job at background checks.
"This person was hired before we had sophisticated methods to verify international degrees."
Oh, come on. This was 2003, not 1960. How difficult is it to pick up a phone and call 411 for the phone number for admissions and records at Oxford. Or go to their website (which existed in 2003) and grab the number there. Someone got lazy and now they are paying 2.5 million for it.
When I changed jobs in 1999, my employer, during a background check, managed to contact a manager for a company I worked for 7 years before had that went out of business between the time I left and the time I got hired by the company that did the background check. The manager had been laid off, yet somehow they miraculously found him. I find it hard to believe that in 2003 it was too difficult to verify whether a person received a Doctor's Degree from a prestigious college in England -- its not like Oxford gives out millions of Doctor's Degrees.
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I'd certainly like to see him on stage in the comedy club in my area. I had seen him before on Comedy Central, but after reading about him the last couple weeks he jumped up on my list of people I would spend good money to see in person. I believe Mike is right -- the long chain is what is really interesting here -- I wonder how many more people will crowd the comedy clubs after this brilliant marketing effort.
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I thought this was going to become one of those annoying "HeadOn" commercials. Heh...
TrollOn! Apply directly to your posts... TrollOn! Apply directly to your posts.
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Its funny that you say that. I think it is the Entitled generation that currently has the reigns of power who feel that they deserve money for works produced in antiquity which they had no hand in producing just because they were at the right place at the right time to monopolize on it. We don't continue to pay hammer manufacturers every time a hammer is used. As others have already stated, humans lived for a very long time without copyright, and were very productive without it. Who has a bigger sense of entitlement, the kids who share what they have with others or the ones who want money for stuff others made?
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