I wonder who wants to be the first one to fry, uh, try, one on of these fuckers out.
I like the simulated picture. A boat. Yeah. Sure.
But I bet that when the coroner unplugs this sum'bitch, the picture won't be of a boat. "Debby Does Des Moines" on the DVD's more likely, playing over the recumbent, lifeless forms of some late party people with more money than sense.
If it had a heart shaped tub, you could sell 'em in the Poconos or Niagara. They'll fuck anywhere, anytime.
All elected officials know how to do is make more and more and more laws and run for re-election.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!
They pass laws declaring that the value for Pi is 4. They pass laws declaring that you have to have a man walking in from of you automobile with a red flag warning people.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!
And they never have expiration dates on these laws so these gems of tryumphs of political maneuvering over common sense or even the laws of physics.
You're stuck with them forever.
Any law that hasn't seen anyone charged in four years should be eliminated.
Any ex-lawyer politician who propoosed a bill that was made into law that has never seen anyone charged should be eliminated along with the law.
Kiss your political ass/baby-kissing career goodbye you tax-fattened hyena.)
The fools who are going to watch MTV are probably snuggled down on the couch, scarfing pop Korn and geting (going?) down in front of the tube (of KY-Jelly?) waiting for the next spring break T&A fest.
Music is a very individualistic art form. It isolates in a crowd.
You very rarely find li'l ol' grannies rockin' with "The Cramps" and "They Might Be Giants".
You rarely find bikers gassing on the latest "Conway Twitty" or "Boxcar Willy" CD.
I'd ruin an evening trying to find Mexicans really geting into Susanne Vega. Nor will you find much salsa music in Norwegian taverns.
Music is idiocyncratic and idiomatic.
Just to help things along, most music is sold to and bought by people who don't like it and don't listen to it.
Its everywhere at every fuckin' mall the planet over, in every bazzar, every souk, every gallery, "gallerie" and galleria. The people who shell out the bucks are merely shelling out for the "least unpleasant noise" to fill in the void between commercials.
Your buying a couple of CDs every year is squat compared to what the commercial outfits shell out for canned muzak every single hour of every single day.
That's what the media companies are protecting. They don't give a shir about you or your ears.
Bruce Springstein's "Born In The USA" was not saying that you should be PROUD of being "Born In The USA."
Nobody listen's to Marylin Manson's lyrics. Nor Trent Reznor's either. If they did. There's be nobody at the fuckin' shows.
Don't kid yourself. The same media pimps are pandering to the same dilutable tastes with the same pap.
How the fuck else do you explain Harry Potter suddenly being every where?
How about books spawning comic books spawning movies and TV shows until, in one last ditch efort to wring a buck from the whole mess, it winds up on Saturday morning comics. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, Star-wars, Ghost Busters.
They're making a "Scoobie Do" moo-vee.
How fuckin' LAME can you get? We're talking the crap you watched on TV slackin' off from home-work, (the same two plots stretched out to 13 shows, year after year, that you eventually abandoned when you started playing with yourself, when slackin' off led to jackin'off,) made into a multi-million dollar production. Before it gets recycled into TV AD vehicles, back into comic-book form and back on Sa-turd-ay morning comics.
The print-media stars are just as rich and lead lives that are just as depraved, drink sodden and drug induced as rock stars but its not as public because you can't hum the latest Gothic horror nover in the elevator.
Stephen king's biography reads like a street-corner dealer's wet dream. Was that poor coke-addled man EVER straight?
Fact is that print has a very different band-width requirement from music and video/cinema. That's why there are three orders of magniture of hype, cost and pay.
Actually, the position if the xxAAs is legally indefensible.
They are basically calling YOU and ME thieves and saying that WE, by the very act of buying their products, can't be trusted to own them. (Okay, I don't own a TV and I don't go to movies, but its the principle of the thing.)
Basically, somebody woke the fuck up and said "I am NOT a thief and you can't get away with calling me one."
And Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen CAN'T. They DESERVE to get SUED by everybody who'se intelligence they insulted.
You don't need it for carrying commercials and reruns of "My Mother the Car."
That's the direction the industry's headed in since day one. There's no compelling reason for the advertisers to invest in new infrastructure until the old one has collapsed.
I hopy you LIKE the current resolution and aspect ratio because it ain't changing. Nobody wants to pay for it. Not the advertisers and certainly not YOU.
they'll go digital. Eventually, the cost of film will drop to damn near zero and the digital transmission costs will have been raised because of all the alleged one-eyed gentlement who don't really exist. (The piracy argument is as much of a crock as it was back when the neo-Luddites objected to the player piano.)
Then the theatres all go tits up.
The issue, believe it or not, is real-estate. Theatres eat up a lot of urban real-estate and that can be put to better use by developers (I wonder how much Jack Valenti is being paid off by the real-estate developers?)
The film industry will eventually collapse and then we're all supposed to sit at home watching reruns on friggin' huge home theatre (but not HD-TV since that doesn't simply use existing infrastructure and the crap they want to re-run doesn't warrant the expense.)
Jack Valenti will have won and you'll pay for every packet coming to your house, whether you watch it or not.
The death of creativity and the maximization of reuse.
Have fun turning everybody into a pirate. Just keep reporting people, at random.
I mean, if they're customers, they're automatically suspect. Nobody who isn't one has any incentive for being one. The ONLY way to have any incentive to crack their system is to be a customer. That way you can create a nice adversarial and non-sustainable climate for the company and its revenue base. It'll be expensive to investigate all the claims of cracking and create a lot of bad press and resentment.
With luck, it'll destroy the company and make it into an example of how NOT to set up a product/service curtomer relationshim management process.
Governements departments and large businesses BUY software and own the source code, except for PC OSs.
They should be forced by law to BUY and not lease all the software they run on their machines. Stop all acquisitions of any licences. They can only renew licences on software that's already installed.
I've written a lot of code for large businesses and for municipal, state/provincial and federal govermnents in two countries. The only time they DON'T get the source code is on code from Microsoft or on some packaged code running on Windows.
All mainframe, mini/departmental, proprietary code has to be compiled onto the target host as part of the migration process from purchasing/development, testing, integration and production/deployment.
If you're a purchaser shelling out a couple of million for a custom software package, you damn well better get the source or you'd better not have a board or an electorate to answer to.
Requiring the purchase of the code, not just licences, will cause a major change in the way Microsoft works but not in the way the rest of the world works.
That nice plasticized corner with "Slashdot" on it. The Helvetica-like sans-serif font for "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" and the 'ruled' background it and the topic icons rest on.
And once you get a foot caught in that treadmill, you're forever waving your data gioidbye unless you churn it ALL with every revision.
I know I've permanently lost lots of IP this way. Stuff I'lll have to reinvent because the article I wrote is in a file format that is no longuer supported.
That's why I stopped upgrading my OS & word processor on at least one machine. I can't afford to eat the cost of recreating the old stuff.
I want something that I can watch in complete privacy of turn around and aim at a wall covered with "active paint" to amplify the emitted signal and watch with some friends.
HD TV's a crock anyway. It'll never happen. Too much money is already being made off the existing infrastructure and the content doesn't merit any increase in quality. Its all just filler between the ads anyway.
The reruns won't get any better just because you increase the resolution on your set. They were taped with one technology and that where its going to stay.
And reruns are all we're going to get when Valenti finally wins one for the xxAAs.
The use of the remote has taught me that we channel hop because these squat all worth watching.
When I found myself up in the middle of the night, hopping over one rerun after one infomarcial after one home shopping club after one movie that should have been confined to the same grave as the actors after some insipid jiggle TV ad vehicle I threw the set out. (Actually, we moved and it didn't get on the truck.)
I read, write, do interesting shit, talk with my wife and my ex-wife, have a drink, play with my computer. I have a life again.
Lenin said "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Well God is dead, (the portrait painted by the media is that priests are pedophiles, nuns are lesbians, and Moslems are wild-eyed fanatics,) and television with its high-bandwidth eyeball-capturing moving image is the new opiate of the masses.
The really fucked up masses take opiates and then watch TV.
That will insure that the accountants running the broadcast media eventually fuck themselves.
After all... Reruns of "My Mother the Car" are all gravy aren't they?
And who needs anything else as filler between the commercials?
Some soulless, humourless scum sucking, unimaginative accountants proceed to do the math, eliminate unnecessary expense like content production, reproduction and then...
And then the artists are forced to find other distribution channels and income models.
And then the content producers die of cash starvation.
And then the broadcast media die of cash starvation and then...
Then the xxAAs and their leadership can be taken to a small field in central Jersey and introduced to the end of high-powered weapons without the stocks.
Slashdot Mirror
Nuke the whales, eat the hungry and buy more RAM.
I wonder who wants to be the first one to fry, uh, try, one on of these fuckers out.
I like the simulated picture. A boat. Yeah. Sure.
But I bet that when the coroner unplugs this sum'bitch, the picture won't be of a boat. "Debby Does Des Moines" on the DVD's more likely, playing over the recumbent, lifeless forms of some late party people with more money than sense.
If it had a heart shaped tub, you could sell 'em in the Poconos or Niagara. They'll fuck anywhere, anytime.
All elected officials know how to do is make more and more and more laws and run for re-election.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!
They pass laws declaring that the value for Pi is 4. They pass laws declaring that you have to have a man walking in from of you automobile with a red flag warning people.
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!
And they never have expiration dates on these laws so these gems of tryumphs of political maneuvering over common sense or even the laws of physics.
You're stuck with them forever.
Any law that hasn't seen anyone charged in four years should be eliminated.
Any ex-lawyer politician who propoosed a bill that was made into law that has never seen anyone charged should be eliminated along with the law.
Kiss your political ass/baby-kissing career goodbye you tax-fattened hyena.)
KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!
You WANNA watch ads and their vehicles?
All this shit and more has been available for years in Smalltalk.
If you're really serious about this, try this hole in the wall
You might want to configure a wiki to give people a persistent platform on which to post their views and organize their information.
phpwiki can even organize wiki pages into community calendars.
Go for it!
I run my own community wiki as my part for defeating the bandwidth whores and content killing IP pimps at their own game.
Like, really.
The fools who are going to watch MTV are probably snuggled down on the couch, scarfing pop Korn and geting (going?) down in front of the tube (of KY-Jelly?) waiting for the next spring break T&A fest.
Big , uh, deal.
Get Real!
Music is a very individualistic art form. It isolates in a crowd.
You very rarely find li'l ol' grannies rockin' with "The Cramps" and "They Might Be Giants".
You rarely find bikers gassing on the latest "Conway Twitty" or "Boxcar Willy" CD.
I'd ruin an evening trying to find Mexicans really geting into Susanne Vega. Nor will you find much salsa music in Norwegian taverns.
Music is idiocyncratic and idiomatic.
Just to help things along, most music is sold to and bought by people who don't like it and don't listen to it.
Its everywhere at every fuckin' mall the planet over, in every bazzar, every souk, every gallery, "gallerie" and galleria. The people who shell out the bucks are merely shelling out for the "least unpleasant noise" to fill in the void between commercials.
Your buying a couple of CDs every year is squat compared to what the commercial outfits shell out for canned muzak every single hour of every single day.
That's what the media companies are protecting. They don't give a shir about you or your ears.
Bruce Springstein's "Born In The USA" was not saying that you should be PROUD of being "Born In The USA."
Nobody listen's to Marylin Manson's lyrics. Nor Trent Reznor's either. If they did. There's be nobody at the fuckin' shows.
Don't kid yourself. The same media pimps are pandering to the same dilutable tastes with the same pap.
How the fuck else do you explain Harry Potter suddenly being every where?
How about books spawning comic books spawning movies and TV shows until, in one last ditch efort to wring a buck from the whole mess, it winds up on Saturday morning comics. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, Star-wars, Ghost Busters.
They're making a "Scoobie Do" moo-vee.
How fuckin' LAME can you get? We're talking the crap you watched on TV slackin' off from home-work, (the same two plots stretched out to 13 shows, year after year, that you eventually abandoned when you started playing with yourself, when slackin' off led to jackin'off,) made into a multi-million dollar production. Before it gets recycled into TV AD vehicles, back into comic-book form and back on Sa-turd-ay morning comics.
The print-media stars are just as rich and lead lives that are just as depraved, drink sodden and drug induced as rock stars but its not as public because you can't hum the latest Gothic horror nover in the elevator.
Stephen king's biography reads like a street-corner dealer's wet dream. Was that poor coke-addled man EVER straight?
Fact is that print has a very different band-width requirement from music and video/cinema. That's why there are three orders of magniture of hype, cost and pay.
The article is basically bogus.
C'mon. You have probably dup'ed a tape for a friend at some point if only because you had a spare VCR that you'd never got around to turfing...
Unless you want to read ass-kissing, don't go there.
They can even write pap about desktop Video and FireWire without even mentionning Apple existence.
They're strange that way.
Actually, the position if the xxAAs is legally indefensible.
They are basically calling YOU and ME thieves and saying that WE, by the very act of buying their products, can't be trusted to own them. (Okay, I don't own a TV and I don't go to movies, but its the principle of the thing.)
Basically, somebody woke the fuck up and said "I am NOT a thief and you can't get away with calling me one."
And Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen CAN'T. They DESERVE to get SUED by everybody who'se intelligence they insulted.
Its not going to happen.
You don't need it for carrying commercials and reruns of "My Mother the Car."
That's the direction the industry's headed in since day one. There's no compelling reason for the advertisers to invest in new infrastructure until the old one has collapsed.
I hopy you LIKE the current resolution and aspect ratio because it ain't changing. Nobody wants to pay for it. Not the advertisers and certainly not YOU.
Actions speak louder than words.
Create a worm or virus which tells people that they're helpless because of M$.
Have one of those popping up lound and clear on twenty million screens and the word on closed source wil become loud and heard.
Closed source is pointless.
they'll go digital. Eventually, the cost of film will drop to damn near zero and the digital transmission costs will have been raised because of all the alleged one-eyed gentlement who don't really exist. (The piracy argument is as much of a crock as it was back when the neo-Luddites objected to the player piano.)
Then the theatres all go tits up.
The issue, believe it or not, is real-estate. Theatres eat up a lot of urban real-estate and that can be put to better use by developers (I wonder how much Jack Valenti is being paid off by the real-estate developers?)
The film industry will eventually collapse and then we're all supposed to sit at home watching reruns on friggin' huge home theatre (but not HD-TV since that doesn't simply use existing infrastructure and the crap they want to re-run doesn't warrant the expense.)
Jack Valenti will have won and you'll pay for every packet coming to your house, whether you watch it or not.
The death of creativity and the maximization of reuse.
Have fun turning everybody into a pirate. Just keep reporting people, at random.
I mean, if they're customers, they're automatically suspect. Nobody who isn't one has any incentive for being one. The ONLY way to have any incentive to crack their system is to be a customer.
That way you can create a nice adversarial and non-sustainable climate for the company and its revenue base. It'll be expensive to investigate all the claims of cracking and create a lot of bad press and resentment.
With luck, it'll destroy the company and make it into an example of how NOT to set up a product/service curtomer relationshim management process.
Governements departments and large businesses BUY software and own the source code, except for PC OSs.
They should be forced by law to BUY and not lease all the software they run on their machines. Stop all acquisitions of any licences. They can only renew licences on software that's already installed.
I've written a lot of code for large businesses and for municipal, state/provincial and federal govermnents in two countries. The only time they DON'T get the source code is on code from Microsoft or on some packaged code running on Windows.
All mainframe, mini/departmental, proprietary code has to be compiled onto the target host as part of the migration process from purchasing/development, testing, integration and production/deployment.
If you're a purchaser shelling out a couple of million for a custom software package, you damn well better get the source or you'd better not have a board or an electorate to answer to.
Requiring the purchase of the code, not just licences, will cause a major change in the way Microsoft works but not in the way the rest of the world works.
According to some theories, the universe is an 11 dimensional finite state machine with a cycle time of 1x10-63second ... Plankt time.
It would seem to be guided by an irrational number calculation something very much like Mandlebrot's x=1/xi but in 11 dimensions.
A VERY simple calculation with chaotic consequences.
That nice plasticized corner with "Slashdot" on it.
The Helvetica-like sans-serif font for "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" and the 'ruled' background it and the topic icons rest on.
Strange isn't it?
And once you get a foot caught in that treadmill, you're forever waving your data gioidbye unless you churn it ALL with every revision.
I know I've permanently lost lots of IP this way. Stuff I'lll have to reinvent because the article I wrote is in a file format that is no longuer supported.
That's why I stopped upgrading my OS & word processor on at least one machine. I can't afford to eat the cost of recreating the old stuff.
Companies should be bound by law to maintain DTDs and XML converters for their proprietary formats.
Every time they change format, they MUST provide a converter. That would take care of the content loss every damn time M$ changes its fuckin' formats.
The last thing a company does before filing for Chapter 11 is provide the converter WITH their filing.
I've had to carry some files through "upgrade" after "upgrade."
I want something that I can watch in complete privacy of turn around and aim at a wall covered with "active paint" to amplify the emitted signal and watch with some friends.
HD TV's a crock anyway. It'll never happen. Too much money is already being made off the existing infrastructure and the content doesn't merit any increase in quality. Its all just filler between the ads anyway.
The reruns won't get any better just because you increase the resolution on your set. They were taped with one technology and that where its going to stay.
And reruns are all we're going to get when Valenti finally wins one for the xxAAs.
The death of content.
The use of the remote has taught me that we channel hop because these squat all worth watching.
When I found myself up in the middle of the night, hopping over one rerun after one infomarcial after one home shopping club after one movie that should have been confined to the same grave as the actors after some insipid jiggle TV ad vehicle I threw the set out. (Actually, we moved and it didn't get on the truck.)
I read, write, do interesting shit, talk with my wife and my ex-wife, have a drink, play with my computer. I have a life again.
Lenin said "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Well God is dead, (the portrait painted by the media is that priests are pedophiles, nuns are lesbians, and Moslems are wild-eyed fanatics,) and television with its high-bandwidth eyeball-capturing moving image is the new opiate of the masses.
The really fucked up masses take opiates and then watch TV.
I traded in my TV for a life.
That will insure that the accountants running the broadcast media eventually fuck themselves.
...
After all... Reruns of "My Mother the Car" are all gravy aren't they?
And who needs anything else as filler between the commercials?
Some soulless, humourless scum sucking, unimaginative accountants proceed to do the math, eliminate unnecessary expense like content production, reproduction and then
And then the artists are forced to find other distribution channels and income models.
And then the content producers die of cash starvation.
And then the broadcast media die of cash starvation and then...
Then the xxAAs and their leadership can be taken to a small field in central Jersey and introduced to the end of high-powered weapons without the stocks.
Oh boo hoo.
The player piano rolls are stealing our sheet music business.
Oh Boo hoo.
The home developper kit must be outlawed since anybody who can expose a film and handle vinegar can steal our movies.
Oh Boo hoo.
TV is stealing business from the drive ins.
Oh Boo hoo.
VCRs are stealing out TV programs.
Jack. KMFA!