Want to know why you sit back and let it happen? Because the media tells you to, and you're conditioned to listen to the media. Just like the media told you Howard Dean was unelectable that, against all evidence, he'd be a bad president... And you blindly followed as they lead you into the arms of the beast. So now you've got to choose between John Bush and G. W. Kerry.
Hope you enjoy another four years of the Bush. Its not like you've got any choice.
Congradulations, are you happy being part of the problem?
Ignore anyone who tells you that you can't do anything. That you're powerless. That its inevitable, that its good for you. Ignore anyone that tells you to sit down, shut up, and eat whatever shit they feed you. Because they're wrong. You can do something, and that's what they're scared of. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
And no, corporate power isn't better-adapted to its environment than nation-states. To be more specific, Darwinian theories of evolution do NOT apply, as there IS NO ENVIRONMENT. What we have here is a power grab by a small segment of the population, one trying to return us to the "glory days" of late-19th-century Industrial Feudalism. The fact that they're using a philosophy as weak and repulsive as Social Darwinism to support their position is just the icing on the cake.
I'd say Tartakovsky has already surpassed Disney. PPG managed to be cute, smart, and funny at the same time, some of the time, which was quite an accomplishment. And while some Samurai Jack episodes really suck, others are incredible. (I'm looking at the Western one in particular) Not only has he managed to get a rather violent animated action show on TV in the USA and keep it there, he's managed to do so while simultaneously staying true to the feel of "Samurai movies" AND riffing off a bunch of other genres.
Yeah, even though the episodes are short, they're FUN. And the action sequences are just plain cool. Even though a lot of the stuff is really implausible or silly (the giant "crusher" that's going after Windu, the massive shrimp/beam cannon) it still feels like Star Wars... In a way that none of the prequels have.
I think its definite proof that its not just the audience growing older, but that Lucas has lost it.
I see no evidence of Microsoft doing any such thing.
I DO see evidence of certain TECHS at Microsoft making tiny tweaks to their filters. But MICROSOFT as a whole remains the same stubborn, unresponsible slug they always have been. They're not any more focused on security than the RIAA is on protecting the rights of its artists. They just want to look like they are.
Speaking as someone more interested in the theoretical side of CS than coming out and getting a grunt coding job...
Its about time enrollments dropped. A lot of people taking CS seem to be taking it because they wanted to make a quick buck. Half aren't even interested in computers, and of the other half, about a third aren't interested in learning.
This isn't can't code well, this is can't code at all. And modern CS programs turn out far too many people like that.
Disclaimer: I happen to be one of the people who thinks that CS programs should teach people how to code and CS theory but not necessarily how to develop software.
A couple more years if you're lucky. More likely a couple more decades, or that it'll turn into one of those "always just around the corner" things, like "true AI" or "affordable fusion".
Or hell, even just make an open interface protocol and let anyone sell content for the thing. And don't enforce any protection scheme (or make such a scheme optional) so that content providers can compete on that basis and people like Creative Commons won't get locked out.
Exactly. Every time Bush's deficits, Medicare irresponsibility, NCLB, etc. gets brought up around a Bush supporter, I see them go on about how this doesn't matter, Bush is REALLY small government. After all, he cuts taxes, cuts veteran benefits, cuts welfare, etc... So he MUST be small government.
Never mind that each cut to social programs is matched by an increase in corporate welfare. Or another program whose funding will break the bank in four years...
Either the publishers won't give it much support, or it'll be so burdened by DRI software that consumers simply won't care about it. If they have to pay each time they read a book...
The issue is, though, that NASA doesn't have the funding to do this. And Bush isn't going to give it to them, as that would disastrously breach the image of a "small-government" President that he tries (sometimes successfully) to project. Its an electon-day pledge to try and make him look like a visionary and nothing more, and will wind up in the dustbin of history as soon as he gets re-elected.
Which makes all this paranoia about those little gates at the airport rather redundant, don't you think? All it takes is a couple fanatics with a lot of fertilizer and you've got a smoking crater where you used to have a major downtown district.
Except, and this is really interesting, you might not be able to waive your rights to your own work. The GPL and BSDL are probably still leagal... But, according to Lessig, its somewhat unclear about whether an author can intentionally put a work into the public domain, or even use an "effectively public domain" license. As copying the work might still be a Federal offense in the USA.
Also true. But from a more technical point of view, a patent/copyright length shorter than the typical "apprentice to journeyman" cycle means that you can use cutting-edge stuff however you want when you're ready to do work on your own. In other words, software patents (heck, most patents these days) should last a decade, MAXIMUM. And six years is more than enough in most fields.
Copyrights are a little trickier, but seven years seems to be reasonable.
Why would I exclude Taiwan and Hong Kong? Hong Kong's had even less "IP" law enforcement than China. Ditto for Taiwan. And Hong Kong's had the benefit of a non-tyrannical government for much of the time and, even now, China's adopting a largely "hands off" policy. That just makes my point stronger, not weaker.
with out this there is no real incentive for most people to do anything much.
Actually, history has shown this to be untrue. There has, historically, been more innovation in countries where the duration of "IP" protection, be it copyright or patent, is less than the average "apprentice to journeyman" cycle. This was the case in Germany and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they both lept ahead of Britain (which had much more stringent IP laws) technologically because of it. Likewise, much of our most innovative music has been given to us by people who didn't give a fuck about whether or not they got paid - they just wanted to make music.
Yes, there are practical issues... But any sane society should already handle taking care of those.
And, strangely enough, China turns out a lot of culture. How many of Holywood's best directors and actors over the past fifteen years have been from China or been influenced by the Chinese? A hell of a lot.
Oh yea gods, that's UGLY! It looks like they blindly copied the one KDE uses (which is actually quite nicely designed, though it could be better) without actually thinking about what they were doing.
Right now, you have control over your computer. You control what gets installed, what can run, and what you do with your data.
This means that you can no longer do any of that except insofar as whoever DOES have control of your computer sees fit to allow you to. In other words, you no longer own or control your data.
Yes, but big companies don't think that way anymore. It stopped being about the profits about twenty years ago. Profits are irrelevant. Now its all about control. If you control a market absolutely and quash anything that even looks like a challenge to your rule, you're garunteed profit forevermore no matter what...
Or at least, that's how the theory they're teaching in Business School goes.
True, but as I said... (Possibly in another post) Google has some very good people working for them. Like, a sizable number of the major contributions to graph theory research over the last ten years major. I'm betting the USG could also deliver a (deliberately fuzzy) list of requirements to them and get back something that'd do what they wanted.
Google wouldn't need the clearances to be asked to supply the technology. The government just goes and says "we need to search some data quickly, what can you sell us?" and Google gives them some algorithms and code and such. Which they then pore over to look for security holes and then isolate nicely from everything else on the planet.
As you appear to be incapable of reading, let me point something out to you.
Final Fantasy Adventure != Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Legend (I, II, III) != Final Fantasy
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening != Legend of Zelda. (Though it is, IMHO, a much better game)
The Dragon Warrior remakes I'd forgotten about, but claiming that the above games are the classic NES games instead of later Game Boy games makes me wonder if you've ever played any of the above.
(Its also worth noting that Final Fantasy Adventure is actually a Seiken Densetsu, or Secret of Mana, game. And the Final Fantasy Legend games are, in fact, SAGA Frontier games. The only thing they have in common with the console line of Final Fantasy games is the title.)
The parent post isn't just funny, the poster has a very good point. Google does this on a regular basis and, from what I understand, does it very well. And without lots of really expensive and specialized hardware. They've got a lot of really, really good graph theorists and other such people working for them, too, so I'd expect that whatever they do can be generalized quite nicely.
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Want to know why you sit back and let it happen? Because the media tells you to, and you're conditioned to listen to the media. Just like the media told you Howard Dean was unelectable that, against all evidence, he'd be a bad president... And you blindly followed as they lead you into the arms of the beast. So now you've got to choose between John Bush and G. W. Kerry.
Hope you enjoy another four years of the Bush. Its not like you've got any choice.
Congradulations, are you happy being part of the problem?
Ignore anyone who tells you that you can't do anything. That you're powerless. That its inevitable, that its good for you. Ignore anyone that tells you to sit down, shut up, and eat whatever shit they feed you. Because they're wrong. You can do something, and that's what they're scared of. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
And no, corporate power isn't better-adapted to its environment than nation-states. To be more specific, Darwinian theories of evolution do NOT apply, as there IS NO ENVIRONMENT. What we have here is a power grab by a small segment of the population, one trying to return us to the "glory days" of late-19th-century Industrial Feudalism. The fact that they're using a philosophy as weak and repulsive as Social Darwinism to support their position is just the icing on the cake.
I'd say Tartakovsky has already surpassed Disney. PPG managed to be cute, smart, and funny at the same time, some of the time, which was quite an accomplishment. And while some Samurai Jack episodes really suck, others are incredible. (I'm looking at the Western one in particular) Not only has he managed to get a rather violent animated action show on TV in the USA and keep it there, he's managed to do so while simultaneously staying true to the feel of "Samurai movies" AND riffing off a bunch of other genres.
Yeah, even though the episodes are short, they're FUN. And the action sequences are just plain cool. Even though a lot of the stuff is really implausible or silly (the giant "crusher" that's going after Windu, the massive shrimp/beam cannon) it still feels like Star Wars... In a way that none of the prequels have.
I think its definite proof that its not just the audience growing older, but that Lucas has lost it.
I see no evidence of Microsoft doing any such thing.
I DO see evidence of certain TECHS at Microsoft making tiny tweaks to their filters. But MICROSOFT as a whole remains the same stubborn, unresponsible slug they always have been. They're not any more focused on security than the RIAA is on protecting the rights of its artists. They just want to look like they are.
Speaking as someone more interested in the theoretical side of CS than coming out and getting a grunt coding job...
Its about time enrollments dropped. A lot of people taking CS seem to be taking it because they wanted to make a quick buck. Half aren't even interested in computers, and of the other half, about a third aren't interested in learning.
This isn't can't code well, this is can't code at all. And modern CS programs turn out far too many people like that.
Disclaimer: I happen to be one of the people who thinks that CS programs should teach people how to code and CS theory but not necessarily how to develop software.
A couple more years if you're lucky. More likely a couple more decades, or that it'll turn into one of those "always just around the corner" things, like "true AI" or "affordable fusion".
Or hell, even just make an open interface protocol and let anyone sell content for the thing. And don't enforce any protection scheme (or make such a scheme optional) so that content providers can compete on that basis and people like Creative Commons won't get locked out.
Exactly. Every time Bush's deficits, Medicare irresponsibility, NCLB, etc. gets brought up around a Bush supporter, I see them go on about how this doesn't matter, Bush is REALLY small government. After all, he cuts taxes, cuts veteran benefits, cuts welfare, etc... So he MUST be small government.
Never mind that each cut to social programs is matched by an increase in corporate welfare. Or another program whose funding will break the bank in four years...
Either the publishers won't give it much support, or it'll be so burdened by DRI software that consumers simply won't care about it. If they have to pay each time they read a book...
The issue is, though, that NASA doesn't have the funding to do this. And Bush isn't going to give it to them, as that would disastrously breach the image of a "small-government" President that he tries (sometimes successfully) to project. Its an electon-day pledge to try and make him look like a visionary and nothing more, and will wind up in the dustbin of history as soon as he gets re-elected.
Which makes all this paranoia about those little gates at the airport rather redundant, don't you think? All it takes is a couple fanatics with a lot of fertilizer and you've got a smoking crater where you used to have a major downtown district.
Except, and this is really interesting, you might not be able to waive your rights to your own work. The GPL and BSDL are probably still leagal... But, according to Lessig, its somewhat unclear about whether an author can intentionally put a work into the public domain, or even use an "effectively public domain" license. As copying the work might still be a Federal offense in the USA.
Also true. But from a more technical point of view, a patent/copyright length shorter than the typical "apprentice to journeyman" cycle means that you can use cutting-edge stuff however you want when you're ready to do work on your own. In other words, software patents (heck, most patents these days) should last a decade, MAXIMUM. And six years is more than enough in most fields.
Copyrights are a little trickier, but seven years seems to be reasonable.
Why would I exclude Taiwan and Hong Kong? Hong Kong's had even less "IP" law enforcement than China. Ditto for Taiwan. And Hong Kong's had the benefit of a non-tyrannical government for much of the time and, even now, China's adopting a largely "hands off" policy. That just makes my point stronger, not weaker.
with out this there is no real incentive for most people to do anything much.
Actually, history has shown this to be untrue. There has, historically, been more innovation in countries where the duration of "IP" protection, be it copyright or patent, is less than the average "apprentice to journeyman" cycle. This was the case in Germany and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they both lept ahead of Britain (which had much more stringent IP laws) technologically because of it. Likewise, much of our most innovative music has been given to us by people who didn't give a fuck about whether or not they got paid - they just wanted to make music.
Yes, there are practical issues... But any sane society should already handle taking care of those.
And, strangely enough, China turns out a lot of culture. How many of Holywood's best directors and actors over the past fifteen years have been from China or been influenced by the Chinese? A hell of a lot.
Oh yea gods, that's UGLY! It looks like they blindly copied the one KDE uses (which is actually quite nicely designed, though it could be better) without actually thinking about what they were doing.
Let me put it this way.
Right now, you have control over your computer. You control what gets installed, what can run, and what you do with your data.
This means that you can no longer do any of that except insofar as whoever DOES have control of your computer sees fit to allow you to. In other words, you no longer own or control your data.
Yes, but big companies don't think that way anymore. It stopped being about the profits about twenty years ago. Profits are irrelevant. Now its all about control. If you control a market absolutely and quash anything that even looks like a challenge to your rule, you're garunteed profit forevermore no matter what...
Or at least, that's how the theory they're teaching in Business School goes.
True, but as I said... (Possibly in another post) Google has some very good people working for them. Like, a sizable number of the major contributions to graph theory research over the last ten years major. I'm betting the USG could also deliver a (deliberately fuzzy) list of requirements to them and get back something that'd do what they wanted.
Google wouldn't need the clearances to be asked to supply the technology. The government just goes and says "we need to search some data quickly, what can you sell us?" and Google gives them some algorithms and code and such. Which they then pore over to look for security holes and then isolate nicely from everything else on the planet.
No classification req'd.
As you appear to be incapable of reading, let me point something out to you.
Final Fantasy Adventure != Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Legend (I, II, III) != Final Fantasy
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening != Legend of Zelda. (Though it is, IMHO, a much better game)
The Dragon Warrior remakes I'd forgotten about, but claiming that the above games are the classic NES games instead of later Game Boy games makes me wonder if you've ever played any of the above.
(Its also worth noting that Final Fantasy Adventure is actually a Seiken Densetsu, or Secret of Mana, game. And the Final Fantasy Legend games are, in fact, SAGA Frontier games. The only thing they have in common with the console line of Final Fantasy games is the title.)
The parent post isn't just funny, the poster has a very good point. Google does this on a regular basis and, from what I understand, does it very well. And without lots of really expensive and specialized hardware. They've got a lot of really, really good graph theorists and other such people working for them, too, so I'd expect that whatever they do can be generalized quite nicely.