Hmmmm...they fix a buffer overflow in 4 days, which is a helluva lot better track record than Microsoft, who might get something going 2 months from now.
I just got about 52 GB of music from a friend of mine, and you know what? I don't feel the least bit guilty about it. A lot of this shit either underground bands or uncommon stuff, and even the popular stuff I don't care if I didn't buy it. To pull an axiom from The Matrix:
The RIAA is a system, AC. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around and what do you see? Guitarists, Drummers, Mixers, Singers...the very minds of the people we're trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so innerred, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will that they will fight to protect it. Are you listening to me, AC? Or were you looking at the free lesbian porn?
Only if the user doesn't know English. I don't know who writes these e-mail viruses, but it certainly not any English-speaking country, since it can't even compete against Babelfish's translations in terms of readability (and that's sad). For example:
Hi,This is a excite game This game is my first work. You're the first player. I hope you would like it.
Really? An "excite game", and I'm the first player?! You've got to be a frelling MORON to click on a PIF file that has a message like this attached. I see these messages and just laugh as I throw it in the garbage. Nobody outsmarts the BOFH! Quite frankly, these messages shouldn't outsmart normal users either, but they do all the frelling time.
Exactly. (Mod this parent up!) $5-7 per disk would be reasonable, even $10 is better than what we're paying now. Think about it: if BuyMusic.com is charging $8 per album, why isn't the RIAA trying to compete? If tapes cost $10 a pop 10 years ago, why are CDs $15? If CDs are the default technology, why do they cost MORE than what tapes were when they were the default technology?
Same goes for software and DVDs. DVDs are now the default technology, yet they are higher than tapes. Instead, tapes should be lower, and DVDs should be the same price. Software is at an all-time high, because they all sell to business.
Why spend $600 on Office, when you can pirate it, or (if you want to stay legal) pay $0 for OpenOffice? Why do games cost $50? If I play a game at the arcade 100 times, I'd spend those $50, but most games aren't even worth playing 100 times like that. Then people are sick of spending MORE money on required expansion packs and monthly fees for MMOs. (Why is Star Wars Galaxies $15/mo? Inflation, or just trying to suck up as much money as you can get?)
The current business model demands that prices eventually go down as they age. Web hosting has gone down; the price of a watch has gone down; bikes have gone down. And they have all had improvements to their former models. However, the case seems to be the opposite for the media industry. So, yes, people are pissed off, and they really don't care about copyrights anymore.
Hey, take that back! Crusade was an excellent series, but they put it in a crappy timeslot. They (TNT) promote the hell out of Babylon 5, and then the new series was crammed in the 10PM (or even 11PM) time slot. To me, that's just wasting money on advertizing, if you're going to doom the series with a bad timeslot.
Okay, so why are we talking about independant radio stations, when it's WEBCASTERS that are the topic of discussion? INDEPENDANT WEBCASTERS! Get on topic and maybe people won't argue about your talking about.
I can plan a counterattack-counterattack on the telemarketers. Remember that preposed DoS attack via the Post Office? Well, I still have that Perl script in the back of my mind, and I'm not afraid to code and shoot it to a few random telemarketers' snail mail addresses!
Oh, you didn't want a thousand sales catalogues?! Well, I didn't want a thousand e-mails on increasing the size of my penis!
If they had started their lawsuit 10 years ago or so, they might have made a difference. Now, it's already in the dictionary and common English language, much like xerox. Xerox had their own lawsuit and lost. This will be similar.
I don't know about you, but I don't buy albums because of one or two songs. If you have an artist that can only produce one or two good songs on an album, maybe it's time to switch artists. Most of the artists -I- listen to produce some damn good shit, and sometimes I'm craving for more with the B-sides.
I agree with the artists' argument about singles vs. albums. The recording industry tried to break-up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon into singles back in the day, and they didn't want that because the album was an entire piece. Let's face it: Radiohead is not going to join this type of fight unless it's about creativity. They don't play the side of money.
I think the best way to fight the RIAA is not to try to promote singles (because I probably won't buy them anyway), but to lower the price of the damn CDs. If tapes were $10 each back in the day, why are CDs, the current technology, still at $15. Lower the damn price! The CD class action lawsuit was one step, but we need to ensure that we CONTINUE to punish the RIAA until they finally lower their price.
conÂcurÂrent adj. 1. Happening at the same time as something else. See Synonyms at contemporary. 2. Operating or acting in conjunction with another. 3. Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent. 4. Being in accordance; harmonious.
alÂso adv. 1. In addition; besides. 2. Likewise; too: If you will stay, I will also.
See, they have different definitions, thus he uses the one that fits better. Sometimes you can also pick a word because it has more than one meaning that fits the ALL of the definitions in the context that you are using the word. Humans have a tendancy to overuse the same words and use the wrong word without a precise definition. The Artitect, as both a program and as a mathematical/technical mastermind, demands the most precise (see, I'm overusing this word) and logical word, even if us lowly humans can't understand our own English language.
I disagree with this insanely popular theory, because it is insanely popular, and thus, too easy. I have a feeling that the Brothers gave this bit of information away as a red herring. I never considered this and just thought that he had some control over the machines now. Instead of being some sort of other world, he could had just had some amount of command control within the machines, with the ability to say "Hey, go blow up now".
Perhaps the machines have been trying to develop telepathy among the humans. After all, the Oracle was created to "explore certain aspects of the human psyche".
It is the job of the one to simply experience humanity from the side of those who live in Zion. He then takes this experience back into the source and it is combined with the existing code of the matrix in an attempt to make the matrix more suited to humanity. The idea is that eventually you're going to refine the code enough that anyone and everyone accepts the matrix and Zion is no longer needed.
Wow...that's like the best explaination of that I've heard. It's funny how this movie has so many missing pieces that other people have already figured out.
Or more correctly, the Oracle explained that Neo is not the One, "not in this lifetime anyway". Thus, Neo was not the One, not until he DIED, and was "reborn". New lifetime, and now he's the One. Perhaps it's stretching the definition of "lifetime", but it definately fits.
There's nothing wrong with using a large vocabulary to be as precise as possible. It doesn't make it "intellectual nonsense" but something that is more correct than just saying "Dude, go in the other door, cuz the Matrix is fried." See, that one sentence didn't really tell me shit. In the same respect, a normal sentence may not be as precise as something the Architect says: short and concise. It's sorta like how the Japanese language can express a thousand ideas in one short word, in which (on the other end of the spectrum), the Spanish language needs a thousand words just for that same exact meaning.
Not the Architect, but the Oracle. It was the Oracle that planted the seeds of love in them both, specifically so that Neo would make a "better" choice when he was faced with it. The Oracle was probably getting tired of the cycle of pain of the last five times.
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Hmmmm...they fix a buffer overflow in 4 days, which is a helluva lot better track record than Microsoft, who might get something going 2 months from now.
I just got about 52 GB of music from a friend of mine, and you know what? I don't feel the least bit guilty about it. A lot of this shit either underground bands or uncommon stuff, and even the popular stuff I don't care if I didn't buy it. To pull an axiom from The Matrix:
The RIAA is a system, AC. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around and what do you see? Guitarists, Drummers, Mixers, Singers...the very minds of the people we're trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so innerred, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will that they will fight to protect it. Are you listening to me, AC? Or were you looking at the free lesbian porn?
Only if the user doesn't know English. I don't know who writes these e-mail viruses, but it certainly not any English-speaking country, since it can't even compete against Babelfish's translations in terms of readability (and that's sad). For example:
Hi,This is a excite game
This game is my first work.
You're the first player.
I hope you would like it.
Really? An "excite game", and I'm the first player?! You've got to be a frelling MORON to click on a PIF file that has a message like this attached. I see these messages and just laugh as I throw it in the garbage. Nobody outsmarts the BOFH! Quite frankly, these messages shouldn't outsmart normal users either, but they do all the frelling time.
"I am also disappointed that you have chosen litigation rather than good faith discussions with SCO about the problems inherent in Linux."
Nobody else get the Darth Vader reference? "I find your lack of faith disturbing..."
Exactly. (Mod this parent up!) $5-7 per disk would be reasonable, even $10 is better than what we're paying now. Think about it: if BuyMusic.com is charging $8 per album, why isn't the RIAA trying to compete? If tapes cost $10 a pop 10 years ago, why are CDs $15? If CDs are the default technology, why do they cost MORE than what tapes were when they were the default technology?
Same goes for software and DVDs. DVDs are now the default technology, yet they are higher than tapes. Instead, tapes should be lower, and DVDs should be the same price. Software is at an all-time high, because they all sell to business.
Why spend $600 on Office, when you can pirate it, or (if you want to stay legal) pay $0 for OpenOffice? Why do games cost $50? If I play a game at the arcade 100 times, I'd spend those $50, but most games aren't even worth playing 100 times like that. Then people are sick of spending MORE money on required expansion packs and monthly fees for MMOs. (Why is Star Wars Galaxies $15/mo? Inflation, or just trying to suck up as much money as you can get?)
The current business model demands that prices eventually go down as they age. Web hosting has gone down; the price of a watch has gone down; bikes have gone down. And they have all had improvements to their former models. However, the case seems to be the opposite for the media industry. So, yes, people are pissed off, and they really don't care about copyrights anymore.
Why in the hell is this modded offtopic?
Just go here and plug away. Or you can write a script to do it for you.
You mean funding idiotic wars?
Ditto.
Hey, take that back! Crusade was an excellent series, but they put it in a crappy timeslot. They (TNT) promote the hell out of Babylon 5, and then the new series was crammed in the 10PM (or even 11PM) time slot. To me, that's just wasting money on advertizing, if you're going to doom the series with a bad timeslot.
Okay, so why are we talking about independant radio stations, when it's WEBCASTERS that are the topic of discussion? INDEPENDANT WEBCASTERS! Get on topic and maybe people won't argue about your talking about.
I can plan a counterattack-counterattack on the telemarketers. Remember that preposed DoS attack via the Post Office? Well, I still have that Perl script in the back of my mind, and I'm not afraid to code and shoot it to a few random telemarketers' snail mail addresses!
Oh, you didn't want a thousand sales catalogues?! Well, I didn't want a thousand e-mails on increasing the size of my penis!
If they had started their lawsuit 10 years ago or so, they might have made a difference. Now, it's already in the dictionary and common English language, much like xerox. Xerox had their own lawsuit and lost. This will be similar.
Wait wait wait...a space HEATER?! In a DATA CENTER?! With tons of SERVERS?!?!
I don't know about you, but I don't buy albums because of one or two songs. If you have an artist that can only produce one or two good songs on an album, maybe it's time to switch artists. Most of the artists -I- listen to produce some damn good shit, and sometimes I'm craving for more with the B-sides.
I agree with the artists' argument about singles vs. albums. The recording industry tried to break-up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon into singles back in the day, and they didn't want that because the album was an entire piece. Let's face it: Radiohead is not going to join this type of fight unless it's about creativity. They don't play the side of money.
I think the best way to fight the RIAA is not to try to promote singles (because I probably won't buy them anyway), but to lower the price of the damn CDs. If tapes were $10 each back in the day, why are CDs, the current technology, still at $15. Lower the damn price! The CD class action lawsuit was one step, but we need to ensure that we CONTINUE to punish the RIAA until they finally lower their price.
The Architect said "While the process has changed you, you are still irrevocably human." Sorry, try again.
conÂcurÂrent adj.
1. Happening at the same time as something else. See Synonyms at contemporary.
2. Operating or acting in conjunction with another.
3. Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent.
4. Being in accordance; harmonious.
alÂso adv.
1. In addition; besides.
2. Likewise; too: If you will stay, I will also.
See, they have different definitions, thus he uses the one that fits better. Sometimes you can also pick a word because it has more than one meaning that fits the ALL of the definitions in the context that you are using the word. Humans have a tendancy to overuse the same words and use the wrong word without a precise definition. The Artitect, as both a program and as a mathematical/technical mastermind, demands the most precise (see, I'm overusing this word) and logical word, even if us lowly humans can't understand our own English language.
Can you imagine Neo being somebody else than Reeves? Really, the Keanu-bashing is grating my nerves.
I disagree with this insanely popular theory, because it is insanely popular, and thus, too easy. I have a feeling that the Brothers gave this bit of information away as a red herring. I never considered this and just thought that he had some control over the machines now. Instead of being some sort of other world, he could had just had some amount of command control within the machines, with the ability to say "Hey, go blow up now".
Perhaps the machines have been trying to develop telepathy among the humans. After all, the Oracle was created to "explore certain aspects of the human psyche".
It is the job of the one to simply experience humanity from the side of those who live in Zion. He then takes this experience back into the source and it is combined with the existing code of the matrix in an attempt to make the matrix more suited to humanity. The idea is that eventually you're going to refine the code enough that anyone and everyone accepts the matrix and Zion is no longer needed.
Wow...that's like the best explaination of that I've heard. It's funny how this movie has so many missing pieces that other people have already figured out.
Or more correctly, the Oracle explained that Neo is not the One, "not in this lifetime anyway". Thus, Neo was not the One, not until he DIED, and was "reborn". New lifetime, and now he's the One. Perhaps it's stretching the definition of "lifetime", but it definately fits.
There's nothing wrong with using a large vocabulary to be as precise as possible. It doesn't make it "intellectual nonsense" but something that is more correct than just saying "Dude, go in the other door, cuz the Matrix is fried." See, that one sentence didn't really tell me shit. In the same respect, a normal sentence may not be as precise as something the Architect says: short and concise. It's sorta like how the Japanese language can express a thousand ideas in one short word, in which (on the other end of the spectrum), the Spanish language needs a thousand words just for that same exact meaning.
Not the Architect, but the Oracle. It was the Oracle that planted the seeds of love in them both, specifically so that Neo would make a "better" choice when he was faced with it. The Oracle was probably getting tired of the cycle of pain of the last five times.
Imagine a Beow...errr, I'll shut up now.
Great game, too. But, I can't seem to find that Transvibrator anywhere on EBay.