Microsoft's innovation is that it allows you to give reasons for rating, right? Perhaps it runs of slashcode.
but did they think to add a (-1 I disagree) option... because, such an innovation would be incredibly new and very patent worthy....definitely not derivative of whats been going on here for 10 years...
...I think video footage BEFORE the gun or bomb noise would typically be of greater interest than the footage after.
It'll take about 0.5 seconds for sound to travel the 500 feet up to the airships.
Thus all that fancy expensive tech might end up giving you just lower res pics before the camera zoomed and focused in and got videos of everybody except the culprits.
but the after-footage will be useful for broadcasting over and over again, putting the general public into a state of panic, so politicians and corporations can exploit their fears and get away with even more wasteful spending.
on my camera, ISO 1600 and 30 seconds exposure is enough to get hundreds of stars, but grain and noise pollution, along with star streaking become a problem.
my next little project for the weekend is to take about 10 images at 10 seconds a piece, and stack/rotate them in photoshop, see if i can get lucky, and get highly visible stairs without the noise/streaking.
are you attempting this in the city, or in a rural area? in the city, ambient light drowns out the starlight very quickly.
You are telling me that an OS that has barely reached 1% of the smartphone OS market is going to dethrone Symbian and Windows in only a few years? I almost spit up my drink laughing so hard. Yep, I'm sure that day will happen at the same point when Microsoft open sources Windows.
yea...just like how gmail took eons to catch on and make a dent in hotmail/yahoo's numbers, and did absolutely nothing to change the service provided by those companies...
...many others only know the cleaned up version: a small group of extremists tried to bring about civil unrest and the armed forces stopped these illegal activities with the least amount of violence possible.
few people would realize how exactly, 100% true that statement is. While I was living in Korea, i befriended a large number of Chinese ex-pats (who all spoke surprisingly good English), and one night after a few drinks, the topic of Tienanmen came up. they were curious why Westerners were so interested in 'a bunch of bad students that protested'.
At first it was an argument, "oh, they would never do that, thats just your media twisting the story" then I pulled up youtube and showed them the footage. they all sat there in silence for hours, watching as many of these clips as we could find, shocked, and infuriated. One of them went on some Chinese message boards, and posted the links to these videos, and wrote about what happened, so her friends and family would see the true story. when they checked those forums the next day, their posts had been deleted, and their accounts suspended. scary stuff.
but its 20 years ago. most of those in power at the time would be retired by now. why not come clean and throw some positive spin on the story: 'they did this, they lied to you, we came out and told the truth, because we are a good government"?
...Much like Fluorescent is still trying to get over the poor initial products reputation (with odd colors, poor life, and several minutes of power up, with constantly buzzing transformers, and odd harmonics with monitors, video cameras, and TV's.)
I am glad I am not the only person who has noticed that the reputation of fluorescent bulbs is due to poor initial products, and these problems are not found the products that are currently being sold.
Every time CFLs come up on slashdot, I read comments like, "the colours are awful", "they take minutes to warm up", "they flicker". Thats sort of like saying "I used a computer 20 years ago, and it was terrible, much too slow to be used for multimedia applications."
P.S. Not including DVD playback is highly unsurprising because it isn't free. MPEG-2 and CSS both require licenses to include in software. It is not surprising MS isn't going to pay for those licenses on low cost software.
the MS haters also seem to forget that DVD playback isn't available by default on a lot of linux distros, either. in fact, from my own experience, the latest version of ubuntu has made enabling DVD playback even more difficult than it was on the older versions.
it sounds like you are referring to 'moral rights' right here.
if I am thinking of the same thing you are, it's slightly different than what you have described.
Painting your corporate logo on a sculpture outside your corporate office is a violation of the artist's moral rights. hanging chrismas decorations from an art installation in a mall is a violation. Parodying that artwork without directly harming the original is fine. I'm not sure how this applies to video/audio work, but moral rights can not be sold or transfered to another entity, they are either permanently attached to the artist, or waived outright.
in every contest or publication/licensing agreement I have signed/won/applied for, I have had to waive these moral rights. it seems to be standard practice, so they very rarely would apply. it's something that exists in legal theory, but not in practice.
Why make a tank look like a heavy truck or a rocket launcher look like a stack of pipes when you could make them look like just another rock?
a rock? i was thinking more along the lines of making the tank look like a tree, and loading it up with armor piercing shells. combine a few of those with some prism tanks, and the only thing to worry about are soviet blimps.
but its not always the artists who are complaining the loudest, it's the publishers.
publishers complain about piracy, artists complain about the crappy rates the publishers pay them. publishers spin the story so artists think the art lovers are the enemy...it's a terrible system.
real world example: when high quality prints of my paintings are sold though a publishing company, do you know how much I make? 6%. That $50 print you just bought gives me $3. that's it...$3...and they expect me to pay for the photographer and colour calabration guy.
when you pirate my stuff (download and print it yourself), I only lose $3, (that I probably never would have made in the 1st place) and the publisher loses $47. (well, a bit less than that, 'cause of the (wholesale price - printing cost) + shipping + retail thing.
The publisher hires a really good professional salesmen to tell me that you are the thief, stealing my $3, when they routinely steal $47. and me, being all artzy and not knowing how to do math, believe them; I go on record like Le Guin did, and say something foolish and counter productive, and alienate my audience.
i feel like a broken record saying this again and again, but most of the artists that I know do not complain about piracy, ever. Obscurity is the number one complaint. (complaining about a lack of alcohol/hangovers are a close second/third)
Is that you, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth, shilling for your products offer of free snail mail shipping?
the problem isn't that non-nerds don't know how to burn ISOs or order free Ubuntu CDs. the problem is most people have no idea what Ubuntu, linux or GNU is. they have never heard about it. when you say, 'its free' they assume you mean 'the illegal kind of free' not the beer kind of free, which they care about, or the freedom kind of free that we care about.
when the next virus hits the internet, the news reporters don't say "this only affects computers windows, if you use linux, a completely free operating system, you will be completely immune" At best we hear 'it doesn't affect macs' linux needs an advertising campaign, not free snail mail installation CDs
but its not 70 years after its creation. its 70 years after the artists death. if an artist creates something when he is 20 years old, then lives to be 80, his work is under copyright for 150 years.
if copyright expired 70 years after a work's creation, the RIAA would likely be killing off the artists after they made a few hit singles. no more royalties, and they could cash in on the cobain/tupac effect.
pretty much everyone on my mothers side is a teacher, so I've heard/seen a lot about it over the years.
when you factor in marking, its more like 10 hour days, but teaching is a sweet deal.
there is also a '4 for 5 program' where you work for four years, and only get 80% of your salary. on the 5th year, you dont work, you get a long 1 year holiday, and you still get paid for it!
if teaching was something i were great at and passionate about, I would be all over it.
do they honestly pay teachers that poorly in the states?
here in Soviet Canuckistan, my friend just got hired as a full time teacher, and he's set to earn $90,000 a year.
on one hand, higher pay for teachers can potentially attract a lot of bad teachers who only take the job for the 7 hour days and 2 months off each summer, but providing such a low salary will turn away a lot of good teachers. a good balance must be reached. Education is probably the most important thing in society, and good teachers must be rewarded for their essential role in it.
I've often thought about a system like this. using optional micropayments to reward producers of good content.
maybe a simple system where you have an account and buy credits (like skype) and if you rate a video, 5 stars costs 6 cents, 4 stars is 4 cents, 3 stars in 2 cents. half goes to the video maker, half goes to google. the user, of course, has an option of awarding no stars if they dont like the video that much.
of course, for this to be even remotely feasible, you'd have to eliminate all the unauthorized commercial content first, and users would have to have an option to opt out of receiving payments for videos containing Creative Commons-non commercial material.
this could work with media players, also, like the song, click a button and send the artist a few cents.
would a system like this work, and be agreeable to both sides, or is there a huge problem with it that i fail to see?
but pigs are actually very clean and intelligent animals when they are given adequate space. it is only when far to many are stuffed into small spaces that they turn into dirty and cruel animals.
note: I worked on farms while paying my way through university.
...you download and install the Win 7 RC OS, and you like it. So you keep it on your computer cuz hey its free, for now. 2010 comes around, windows 7 is officially launched, you boot up your computer and... nothing. Now you have to pay $200 (or 300 or 400). Oops, probably should have kept XP around eh?
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what MS is counting on.
you suggestion is very similar to the 'creative commons non-commercial' model. i wish more people would release work under that model, but most artists i talk to don't even know it exists.
Beyond that, I don't see how you could encourage the production of creative works.
but you don't have to! even without artificial means of encouragement for producing creative works, people will still create things. this may seem rather counter intuitive after listening to the lawyers, but people who love music actually enjoy making music. they find it to be 'fun' and 'rewarding' for its own sake.
digital reproduction has solved the reproduction problem. in that area, the industry is now useless. however, the music industry is still very much needed for marketing, advertising, PR, management, and everything else that goes along with creating. have the artist retain ownership, while the industry does the rest, and gets a commission on each sale.
What about the PS3, then? I find this step rather interesting. Microsoft often does not acknowledge their competitors even when those are market leaders. That they do so now, IMO, just points out how shaky they feel about the Vista situation and Windows 7.
no, i think microsoft is just running behind schedule (big surprize) and hasn't had a chance to write in the bugs...um..'features' to stop PS3 streaming from working.
Artificial scarcity does NOT promote science and the useful arts!
no, it doesn't. But there are artists out there who make art for the love of art, and they want the world to see it. making money is secondary. This artificial scarcity encourages them to release their work under the creative commons license.
note to any industry astroturfers who will refute this: I am one of these artists, and I regularly work with other artists with the same mindset. there are a lot of us out there. thanks to the internet, the distribution problem is now solved. Once the marketing problem is sorted out, there will be a flood of great, free culture out there, and the lack of restrictive copyrights will make our work far more appealing to users and remixers than your locked-up content ever was.
I predict this day will coincide with the year of linux on the desktop.
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Microsoft's innovation is that it allows you to give reasons for rating, right? Perhaps it runs of slashcode.
but did they think to add a (-1 I disagree) option...
because, such an innovation would be incredibly new and very patent worthy....definitely not derivative of whats been going on here for 10 years...
...I think video footage BEFORE the gun or bomb noise would typically be of greater interest than the footage after.
It'll take about 0.5 seconds for sound to travel the 500 feet up to the airships.
Thus all that fancy expensive tech might end up giving you just lower res pics before the camera zoomed and focused in and got videos of everybody except the culprits.
but the after-footage will be useful for broadcasting over and over again, putting the general public into a state of panic, so politicians and corporations can exploit their fears and get away with even more wasteful spending.
on my camera, ISO 1600 and 30 seconds exposure is enough to get hundreds of stars, but grain and noise pollution, along with star streaking become a problem.
my next little project for the weekend is to take about 10 images at 10 seconds a piece, and stack/rotate them in photoshop, see if i can get lucky, and get highly visible stairs without the noise/streaking.
are you attempting this in the city, or in a rural area? in the city, ambient light drowns out the starlight very quickly.
You are telling me that an OS that has barely reached 1% of the smartphone OS market is going to dethrone Symbian and Windows in only a few years? I almost spit up my drink laughing so hard. Yep, I'm sure that day will happen at the same point when Microsoft open sources Windows.
yea...just like how gmail took eons to catch on and make a dent in hotmail/yahoo's numbers, and did absolutely nothing to change the service provided by those companies...
...many others only know the cleaned up version: a small group of extremists tried to bring about civil unrest and the armed forces stopped these illegal activities with the least amount of violence possible.
few people would realize how exactly, 100% true that statement is.
While I was living in Korea, i befriended a large number of Chinese ex-pats (who all spoke surprisingly good English), and one night after a few drinks, the topic of Tienanmen came up. they were curious why Westerners were so interested in 'a bunch of bad students that protested'.
At first it was an argument, "oh, they would never do that, thats just your media twisting the story" then I pulled up youtube and showed them the footage.
they all sat there in silence for hours, watching as many of these clips as we could find, shocked, and infuriated. One of them went on some Chinese message boards, and posted the links to these videos, and wrote about what happened, so her friends and family would see the true story.
when they checked those forums the next day, their posts had been deleted, and their accounts suspended.
scary stuff.
but its 20 years ago. most of those in power at the time would be retired by now. why not come clean and throw some positive spin on the story: 'they did this, they lied to you, we came out and told the truth, because we are a good government"?
...Much like Fluorescent is still trying to get over the poor initial products reputation (with odd colors, poor life, and several minutes of power up, with constantly buzzing transformers, and odd harmonics with monitors, video cameras, and TV's.)
I am glad I am not the only person who has noticed that the reputation of fluorescent bulbs is due to poor initial products, and these problems are not found the products that are currently being sold.
Every time CFLs come up on slashdot, I read comments like, "the colours are awful", "they take minutes to warm up", "they flicker".
Thats sort of like saying "I used a computer 20 years ago, and it was terrible, much too slow to be used for multimedia applications."
products do improve...
P.S. Not including DVD playback is highly unsurprising because it isn't free. MPEG-2 and CSS both require licenses to include in software. It is not surprising MS isn't going to pay for those licenses on low cost software.
the MS haters also seem to forget that DVD playback isn't available by default on a lot of linux distros, either.
in fact, from my own experience, the latest version of ubuntu has made enabling DVD playback even more difficult than it was on the older versions.
i was under the impression in most countries with sane leadership and laws, government work was owned by the people.
sane leadership? this is Canada you're talking about. Stephen Harper is the least media-friendly leader outside of North Korea.
i can't see how removing access to parliament debates will lead to anything but protests in the streets.
i think you misspelled 'write politely worded letters'
it sounds like you are referring to 'moral rights' right here.
if I am thinking of the same thing you are, it's slightly different than what you have described.
Painting your corporate logo on a sculpture outside your corporate office is a violation of the artist's moral rights. hanging chrismas decorations from an art installation in a mall is a violation. Parodying that artwork without directly harming the original is fine. I'm not sure how this applies to video/audio work, but moral rights can not be sold or transfered to another entity, they are either permanently attached to the artist, or waived outright.
in every contest or publication/licensing agreement I have signed/won/applied for, I have had to waive these moral rights. it seems to be standard practice, so they very rarely would apply. it's something that exists in legal theory, but not in practice.
Where do people always get these kinds of numbers.
this is a situation where a link to goatse would actually answer your question.
Why make a tank look like a heavy truck or a rocket launcher look like a stack of pipes when you could make them look like just another rock?
a rock? i was thinking more along the lines of making the tank look like a tree, and loading it up with armor piercing shells. combine a few of those with some prism tanks, and the only thing to worry about are soviet blimps.
Why do artists always keep complaining
but its not always the artists who are complaining the loudest, it's the publishers.
publishers complain about piracy, artists complain about the crappy rates the publishers pay them. publishers spin the story so artists think the art lovers are the enemy...it's a terrible system.
real world example:
when high quality prints of my paintings are sold though a publishing company, do you know how much I make? 6%.
That $50 print you just bought gives me $3. that's it...$3...and they expect me to pay for the photographer and colour calabration guy.
when you pirate my stuff (download and print it yourself), I only lose $3, (that I probably never would have made in the 1st place) and the publisher loses $47. (well, a bit less than that, 'cause of the (wholesale price - printing cost) + shipping + retail thing.
The publisher hires a really good professional salesmen to tell me that you are the thief, stealing my $3, when they routinely steal $47.
and me, being all artzy and not knowing how to do math, believe them; I go on record like Le Guin did, and say something foolish and counter productive, and alienate my audience.
i feel like a broken record saying this again and again, but most of the artists that I know do not complain about piracy, ever. Obscurity is the number one complaint. (complaining about a lack of alcohol/hangovers are a close second/third)
another option: schedule the meeting at the very end of the day. can't get things done quiclky, get home late.
or does their patent include this, also?
Is that you, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth, shilling for your products offer of free snail mail shipping?
the problem isn't that non-nerds don't know how to burn ISOs or order free Ubuntu CDs.
the problem is most people have no idea what Ubuntu, linux or GNU is. they have never heard about it.
when you say, 'its free' they assume you mean 'the illegal kind of free' not the beer kind of free, which they care about, or the freedom kind of free that we care about.
when the next virus hits the internet, the news reporters don't say "this only affects computers windows, if you use linux, a completely free operating system, you will be completely immune"
At best we hear 'it doesn't affect macs'
linux needs an advertising campaign, not free snail mail installation CDs
but its not 70 years after its creation. its 70 years after the artists death.
if an artist creates something when he is 20 years old, then lives to be 80, his work is under copyright for 150 years.
if copyright expired 70 years after a work's creation, the RIAA would likely be killing off the artists after they made a few hit singles. no more royalties, and they could cash in on the cobain/tupac effect.
pretty much everyone on my mothers side is a teacher, so I've heard/seen a lot about it over the years.
when you factor in marking, its more like 10 hour days, but teaching is a sweet deal.
there is also a '4 for 5 program' where you work for four years, and only get 80% of your salary. on the 5th year, you dont work, you get a long 1 year holiday, and you still get paid for it!
if teaching was something i were great at and passionate about, I would be all over it.
my friend teaches in ontario, he graduated from Western recently. 90k is the wage for elementary.
yukon pays even better. 100k+
do they honestly pay teachers that poorly in the states?
here in Soviet Canuckistan, my friend just got hired as a full time teacher, and he's set to earn $90,000 a year.
on one hand, higher pay for teachers can potentially attract a lot of bad teachers who only take the job for the 7 hour days and 2 months off each summer, but providing such a low salary will turn away a lot of good teachers. a good balance must be reached.
Education is probably the most important thing in society, and good teachers must be rewarded for their essential role in it.
I've often thought about a system like this. using optional micropayments to reward producers of good content.
maybe a simple system where you have an account and buy credits (like skype) and if you rate a video, 5 stars costs 6 cents, 4 stars is 4 cents, 3 stars in 2 cents. half goes to the video maker, half goes to google.
the user, of course, has an option of awarding no stars if they dont like the video that much.
of course, for this to be even remotely feasible, you'd have to eliminate all the unauthorized commercial content first, and users would have to have an option to opt out of receiving payments for videos containing Creative Commons-non commercial material.
this could work with media players, also, like the song, click a button and send the artist a few cents.
would a system like this work, and be agreeable to both sides, or is there a huge problem with it that i fail to see?
but pigs are actually very clean and intelligent animals when they are given adequate space. it is only when far to many are stuffed into small spaces that they turn into dirty and cruel animals.
note: I worked on farms while paying my way through university.
...you download and install the Win 7 RC OS, and you like it. So you keep it on your computer cuz hey its free, for now. 2010 comes around, windows 7 is officially launched, you boot up your computer and ... nothing. Now you have to pay $200 (or 300 or 400). Oops, probably should have kept XP around eh?
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what MS is counting on.
you suggestion is very similar to the 'creative commons non-commercial' model. i wish more people would release work under that model, but most artists i talk to don't even know it exists.
Beyond that, I don't see how you could encourage the production of creative works.
but you don't have to! even without artificial means of encouragement for producing creative works, people will still create things. this may seem rather counter intuitive after listening to the lawyers, but people who love music actually enjoy making music. they find it to be 'fun' and 'rewarding' for its own sake.
digital reproduction has solved the reproduction problem. in that area, the industry is now useless. however, the music industry is still very much needed for marketing, advertising, PR, management, and everything else that goes along with creating. have the artist retain ownership, while the industry does the rest, and gets a commission on each sale.
What about the PS3, then? I find this step rather interesting. Microsoft often does not acknowledge their competitors even when those are market leaders. That they do so now, IMO, just points out how shaky they feel about the Vista situation and Windows 7.
no, i think microsoft is just running behind schedule (big surprize) and hasn't had a chance to write in the bugs...um..'features' to stop PS3 streaming from working.
Artificial scarcity does NOT promote science and the useful arts!
no, it doesn't. But there are artists out there who make art for the love of art, and they want the world to see it. making money is secondary. This artificial scarcity encourages them to release their work under the creative commons license.
note to any industry astroturfers who will refute this: I am one of these artists, and I regularly work with other artists with the same mindset. there are a lot of us out there. thanks to the internet, the distribution problem is now solved. Once the marketing problem is sorted out, there will be a flood of great, free culture out there, and the lack of restrictive copyrights will make our work far more appealing to users and remixers than your locked-up content ever was.
I predict this day will coincide with the year of linux on the desktop.
or, they could just wrap their unit in a rubber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom#Other_uses
moisture problem solved!
and for everything else, there is apple care.