Everybody has heard about the SOPA issue. The president of the US said he would not support it. So some headlines not read ‘SOPA is Dead.’ The is not altogether true.  The bill can be revised and approved again and next time may become law..

The point being overlooked is very simple. Money. Who0 will gain or lose the most.? Granted, many file sharing web sites are in violation of the Copyright laws. But the blatant file-sharing web sites make a lot of money for the owners. A lot of money.

Surely I am not the only one that things Hollywood needs ton direct their attention to other sways of protecting their works. Let’s take for an sample 3-D movies.

At the present time the is no way the impact of a 3D movie is a big screen theater filled with a live audience can be reproduced in a poor copy of the movie on a home computer. It is not the same experience. The medium is the message. The studios need to produce top quality files that people are willing  to patronize..

The laws that already exist do help control copyright violation.  They need to be enforced. Telling people something is free went nit is not is fraud. That is a crime. The file-sharing websites are telling people they may download copyrighted movies and TV shows. Not true. Those sites deserve to be shut down.

Although SOPA is not now law, piracy of others people’s property still is a crime.

The sales of hard disk drives may appear to be slowing down. New consumer devices now use Solid State storage instead of mechanical Hard drives. But for storage of huge amounts of data, the hard drive industry will still be here even years from now.

New developments make it posible to store much more data into a spall space using a combination of mechanical and rootlet-magnetic technology. But you can not yet  buy the newest thing. It is still in the early stage. Here is a Link:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/01/13/3407599.htm

Sometime in the future, you could have enough mass-storage in your home to hold all the books of a  local library and maybe more. But would you ever read them?

Yes, it is true. Somebody is building a micro computer to be sold for $25 per unit. The hand size device does not have a keyboard or monitor. It generates high quality graphis for modern TV sets, You need to have a USB keyboard, sold separately, to command the tiny thing.. And you have a add  simple power supply

Here is a web site that has a great demo video that shows the $25 PC playing a movie and then net running   a gaphic intense game.. Here is the link:
Raspberry Pi, a Tiny But Powerful $25 PC, Coming Soon [VIDEO]

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Why  buy a calendar again u nless you like the pictures. Get the plain simple calendar free and  print it yourself.

Here is one that is good and simple. No ads, no  obligation. They just want you to look at their  site. Ignore the advertisement and get the  calendar. It’s free

2012 Printable Calendars
http://www.calendarlabs.com/
Look for the PDF calendar.

This post is overdue. Sorry.

Just now n Western Digital has announced that they will cut their warranty in half..

So hare hard drives now failing faster that before? It wound seem that way. Once I worked in Hard Drive Research a long time ago. Back then the objective was to make the media as perfect as possible. Apparently that goal has been abandoned.

The third reason why hard drives fail is this. The makers of hard drives are converting the business into a commodity.  They continue to make money only if the usesr want or need more new merchandise.

Seagate has also cut the warrenty. Se for yourself. Check out the link below.

Seagate Cuts Warranties of More HDDs than WD

While searching this idea,  I found  the following post:
“Peace on earth, goodwill to men”? The Latin has it, `et in terra pax hominibus, bonae voluntatis”. Note the Latin genetive case in the words `bonae voltuntatis’.
The phrase properly rendered is,
“Peace on earth to men of good will”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538481/posts

That makes sense. The news was not given to a crowd in the village, but to a group of humble men watching over sheep. It was not an unconditional promise of peace for everybody.
The point here is that peace is not available to those that do not want it. Here we are over 2000 years later and there remain so many who hate peace. Hopefully, that will change soon.

For more information, just search the phrase “peace on earth good will toward men” and find many interesting articles.