Comment The difference (Score 1) 306
Writing source code is craft, making source code executable is engineering.
Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary 718
Steve Melito writes "This week, CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion and News, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, "a giant nationwide engineering project" that transformed a nation. In 1994, the American Society of Civil Engineers described the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System as "one of the Seven Wonders of the United States". In 2006, this network of roads includes 46,000 miles of highway; 55,000 bridges; 82 tunnels, and 14,000 interchanges. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA), excavation for the interstate system has moved enough material to bury the State of Connecticut knee-deep in dirt. The amount of Portland cement could build more than 80 Hoover dams, or lay six sidewalks to the moon. The lumber used would consume all of the trees in 500 square miles of forest. The structural steel could build 170 skyscrapers the size of the Empire State Building, and meet nearly half of the annual requirements of the American auto industry.
Check back with CR4 all week as we cover the 'Roots of the Road,' 'the Politics of Passage,' 'Adventures in Civil Engineering,' and 'The Road Ahead.'" One of the things that's interesting about why Eisenhower pushed for the highway system was that he saw the Autobahn system in Germany during the occupation post-WWII and knew that that was one of the things that the United States needed to develop.
130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany 431
Flo writes "Today, 130 homes have been raided in Germany under the allegation of filesharing. Law enforcement agencies had been monitoring an eDonkey-Server for two months. 3500 identified users are being investigated. Searches took place when users shared more than 500 files. Partners of the music industry helped identifying copyrighted material, but monitoring of the servers was solely done by law enforcement."
Comment I see no problem (Score 1) 698
One of my rationales for participating in P2P is that bits aren't worth anything, so why should I pay for them?
I argue that if a musician wants to make money off their music they should come to my town and sing and dance in person.
I personally don't want to pay 250 dollars (or 2.5 dollars even) to see Madonna sing and dance, but at least she's charging for something that she is uniquely qualified to produce. In this sense she is justified in charging whatever she'd like.
I argue that if a musician wants to make money off their music they should come to my town and sing and dance in person.
I personally don't want to pay 250 dollars (or 2.5 dollars even) to see Madonna sing and dance, but at least she's charging for something that she is uniquely qualified to produce. In this sense she is justified in charging whatever she'd like.
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