I know you dug Starbuck. Tight pants and all. But its time to move on.
Sorry to piss all over your early-adolescent memories, and semi-gay love for joe-cool space-boy -- but Starbuck sucked. He couldn't act, and if he had his choice of roles he most likely would have opted for a gigolo on "Santa Barbara".
Was anyone else in here was honestly looking forward to the experience of some new cheese-dick, no name, b-movie actor (a la "Starship Troopers") swaggering around with a cigar in his mouth and sounding like "Top Gun"?
If so, congratulations: You are also gay.
The writers had obviously come to the very not-gay conclusions that:
a) Metallic walking robots are gay.
b) Fighter jocks are gay.
c) Hot chicks are decidedly not-gay.
In closing I'd like to call you all "Gay" one more time....Carry on.
If we're all so morally opposed to such "dangerous tampering with the natural state of the universe" and if its truly wrong to "influence the natural order by means that were never intended".
Don't think that these two words have anything to do with each other.
A "job" implies a contract between you and your employer. Your services rendered (ie: your job) contractually obligates your employer to pay you.
A musician is a capitalist and a free agent. A musician, like all other free agents -- be they artists, consultants or any other person who represents themselves -- UNDERSTANDS THE ELEMENT OF RISK.
If you do not or cannot understand the element of risk in your vocation -- and that risk applies to artistic risk, marketplace risk, and the risks that pertain to your industry as a whole -- then you SHOULD NOT BE A MUSICIAN.
Clothing manufacturers get their asses handed to them by Chinese laborers. Drug manufacturers get their asses handed to them by changes in legislation. Musicians get their asses handed to them by changes in technology. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Understand risk.
Undersatnd reward.
Oh and by the way it sucks about your business model no longer being viable.
Linking together smaller lower resolution pictures, to create a gigapixel image?
There are fabric printing services which seam together pictures to cover the entire surface of buildings. Samsung did one that was 18 stories tall in 1998.
Piracy is 100% the fault of the console manufacturers.
In an effort to save money over expensive-to-manufacture game cartridges, the industry moved to standard recordable media which had been "theft proofed" or reformatted for a specific console.
Historically copy-protection has always been defeatable and likely always will be unless a hardware component (or network aware system) is employed. Console manufacturers knew this well, and when they should have listened to the warnings of their engineers -- they listened to their accountants instead.
You *DO* realize that Hitler made the same comment in the Third Reich when he spoke of the "outsiders" that had led the government astray?
You also realize that the typical pre-genocidal condition for jews throughout history has been a country which blames its political, social and economic ills on them.
So go ahead, blame the jews.
After all, its not the wasps like Ken Lay, Dick Cheney, and the Bushes... its some jews somewhere that we can't see!!!
This is absolutely absurd!!! You blame the victims of persecution for the persecution itself!
That's like saying "Who wants black people in your neighborhood when it just promotes KKK violence"
When will the violence stop? When racism and intolerance stop.
Antisemitism is real and has killed millions and millions of people. It is not a response to some intolerable action on the part of jewish people. (What action could possibly justify the repeated murder of thousands of people year over year for a thousand years?)
Today the new effort to single out Israel for ""atrocities"" is the latest face of that same very real antisemitism.
Europe and the Middle East have a long history of intolerance and racial killing. It ain't a pretty history but its true.
And those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
The issue of who was there first is irrelevant for dozens of reasons. (Not the least of which being that it isn't answerable).
The fact is that ALL of our current "Peaceful" land ownership around the world is drenched in blood.
THERE *IS* NO PEACEFULLY ACQUIRED LAND - ANYWHERE.
The one question that can be answered is: on whose terms did the fighting take place?
But this question is bad for Americans (who slaughtered Indians), Scandinavians (who slaughtered the laps), The French (who pretty much slaughtered everybody), The Japanese (who pretty much slaughtered everybody around them), The Russians (ditto), The Australians (aborigines), The Chinese (Tibet, et al)...and curiously: Isn't bad for the Israeli's who were freely given their land, and occupied land in a purely defensive war (started by their enemies).
So in order to single out the Israeli's for taking land that wasn't theirs... you'd have to say they weren't selfish enough!
The premise of this entire project is that we really *need* european letters for domain names. I say we don't. (I'm not being U.S.-centric... hell, I'm not even American.)
The point is:
Let's say I claim to need a ' ' (space) in my domain name. Or let's say J.Crew needs a '.' for their URL. Or let's say I need an exclamation point for my domain name here in the U.S. in order to correctly reflect my copyright.
The point is that domain names were *never intended* to completely reflect spoken or written language -- English or any other. They have and have *always* been a 'semi-representational' system.
The undercurrent of most of the discussion here is that the current lack of unicode characters reflects a sort of digital American unilateralism.
This is a crock.
Let's not forget that what the current lack of unicode actually represents is a *non-capitalist* system where brand names and precise spellings are less important.
I for one am quite happy to approximate German letters with the closest equivalent. And if Volkswagen gets upset about it then maybe their advertising agency should have been thinking globally and rebranded without an umlaut.
Pthtp!
Hmm... not really seeing this as a big money maker
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Advertising agencies typically make most of their revenue as buyers and resellers of media. The "creative" tends to be a small part of the overall billing. (In fact, in the old days ad agencies didn't charge fees for their creative services *at all*, revenues were generated by purchasing blocks of media at a discount from the broadcast companies, and upselling the media to the client. The creative was a 'free' service that the agency used to provide for the right to sell the client the airtime). Today ad agencies bill at rates that are closer to traditional service companies, but: in the broadcast advertising realm, these billings still don't come close to the revenue generated from a single network media buy.
In other words: If your client is buying airtime on broadcast television -- he's probably not going to nickel and dime you on the creative.
Second -- the really *choice* old spots are owned by the companies that paid for them -- even if they never aired. If a repurposed spot costs about $10k, it means the rights to the old footage cost far less than that. I can't imagine many big companies being interested in selling their old footage for small change like that... And if its not a big company, the spot probably sucked anyway. So my guess is while this sounds like a new groovy digital rights marketplace, its probably full of dreck.
The trick to pissing in cornflakes, is not to hit the spoon. -Popo
The value-per-pound of minerals (even gold) exceeds the cost-of-launch-transport-and-reentry-per-pound.
Or in formulaic terms (V/W) > (CLTR/W) (where W is weight)
Thus we have the inherent problem of space mining.
Basically the problem is that 'gold' is either too heavy, or not valuable enough -- depending on how you look at it.
However... if we were talking about 'spice' from Arrakis, or 'gold pressed latinum'... or 'Droids' even... then the whole space trading would totally make sense.
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"The laser beam is about 40,000 times more powerful than a common laser pointer pen...."
Anyone up for building a just-as-powerful homemade array?
That's a whole lot of AAA batteries...
And I thought "OS/2" was the worst brand name for an operating system.
"Java-Desktop"?
I'll install that along with my "VB Document- Editor" and "C++ Grid-Based- Number-Calculator" software.
Anyone want to play a game of "Run-Around-and-Shoot-Each-Other-in-a-Sci-Fi-Envi
I'm still unclear on this:
If you walk out of a theater brandishing a
camera, does anyone have the legal right or authority to demand to see what's on it?
Does having a camera in one's possesion constitute probable cause now?
Or does one have to be caught in the act?
After all, one could argue that PVR users are "stealing" television.
The issue here isn't what is or isn't "theft". The issue is what business models receive legal/gov't protection and which don't.
Fortunately some stores used "Stinking Cloud" and other area-of-effect spells to keep the Hordes from disrupting Christmas shoppers.
All of you stop being gay.
Yes, you. Stop being a homosexual.
I know you dug Starbuck. Tight pants and all. But its time to move on.
Sorry to piss all over your early-adolescent memories, and semi-gay love for joe-cool space-boy -- but Starbuck sucked. He couldn't act, and if he had his choice of roles he most likely would have opted for a gigolo on "Santa Barbara".
Was anyone else in here was honestly looking forward to the experience of some new cheese-dick, no name, b-movie actor (a la "Starship Troopers") swaggering around with a cigar in his mouth and sounding like "Top Gun"?
If so, congratulations: You are also gay.
The writers had obviously come to the very not-gay conclusions that:
a) Metallic walking robots are gay.
b) Fighter jocks are gay.
c) Hot chicks are decidedly not-gay.
In closing I'd like to call you all "Gay" one more time.
If we're all so morally opposed to such "dangerous tampering with the natural state of the universe" and if its truly wrong to "influence the natural order by means that were never intended".
Maybe we should ban California!
"The Chicken Of the Sea" will have a drastically new meaning one day...
Your analogy is absurd.
You didn't have a "job". You were a musician.
Don't think that these two words have anything to do with each other.
A "job" implies a contract between you and your employer. Your services rendered (ie: your job) contractually obligates your employer to pay you.
A musician is a capitalist and a free agent. A musician, like all other free agents -- be they artists, consultants or any other person who represents themselves -- UNDERSTANDS THE ELEMENT OF RISK.
If you do not or cannot understand the element of risk in your vocation -- and that risk applies to artistic risk, marketplace risk, and the risks that pertain to your industry as a whole -- then you SHOULD NOT BE A MUSICIAN.
Clothing manufacturers get their asses handed to them by Chinese laborers. Drug manufacturers get their asses handed to them by changes in legislation. Musicians get their asses handed to them by changes in technology. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Understand risk.
Undersatnd reward.
Oh and by the way it sucks about your business model no longer being viable.
Is there anyone out there who actually believes this is the first gigapixel image?
Hey everyone!!! I've created the worlds first terrabyte
Linking together smaller lower resolution pictures, to create a gigapixel image?
There are fabric printing services which seam together pictures to cover the entire surface of buildings. Samsung did one that was 18 stories tall in 1998.
It was created from hundreds of smaller files.
Send your vote by mail.
This article jumps straight to the rosy suggestion that just because a planet is small and dense (ie: non-gaseous) that it is "Earthlike".
This is extremely poor journalism.
It would be like saying, "Human-like life found at the bottom of the sea!", when what you found in fact was a carbon-based multi-cellular organism.
Don't believe the hype.
Piracy is 100% the fault of the console manufacturers.
In an effort to save money over expensive-to-manufacture game cartridges, the industry moved to standard recordable media which had been "theft proofed" or reformatted for a specific console.
Historically copy-protection has always been defeatable and likely always will be unless a hardware component (or network aware system) is employed. Console manufacturers knew this well, and when they should have listened to the warnings of their engineers -- they listened to their accountants instead.
What if this type of billing applied to use of copyrighted words as well?
"We don't need no education"
There, I just cost my ISP 5 cents.
"Ain't nothin' but a hound dog"
There, take that ISP: another 5 cents for copyright trafficking.
Technically I just "sampled" two sets of lyrics right here on Slashdot.
The suggestion of the recording industry is that sound and video somehow have a higher place in copyright law than text and images.
I wonder: Does it?
by Norwegian 9 year-old within 4 minutes of first EDVD release.
Norwegian 9 year old sentenced to 140 years in prison in Guantanamo.
Norwegian 9 year old: "P-P-Please I just wanted to make a back up!"
Want to know what happens to Palestinian aid money?
Would you believe that Yasser Arafat is listed in the TOP 5 of Forbes Magazines "Wealthiest Kings Queens and Despots".
And no
And no
Read fer yerself:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0317/
and while yer at it:
http://www.forbes.com/global/2003/0317/014.h
You *DO* realize that Hitler made the same comment in the Third Reich when he spoke of the "outsiders" that had led the government astray?
You also realize that the typical pre-genocidal condition for jews throughout history has been a country which blames its political, social and economic ills on them.
So go ahead, blame the jews.
After all, its not the wasps like Ken Lay, Dick Cheney, and the Bushes... its some jews somewhere that we can't see!!!
Oh please!
This is absolutely absurd!!! You blame the victims of persecution for the persecution itself!
That's like saying "Who wants black people in your neighborhood when it just promotes KKK violence"
When will the violence stop? When racism and intolerance stop.
Antisemitism is real and has killed millions and millions of people. It is not a response to some intolerable action on the part of jewish people. (What action could possibly justify the repeated murder of thousands of people year over year for a thousand years?)
Today the new effort to single out Israel for ""atrocities"" is the latest face of that same very real antisemitism.
Europe and the Middle East have a long history of intolerance and racial killing. It ain't a pretty history but its true.
And those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
Exactly.
...and curiously: Isn't bad for the Israeli's who were freely given their land, and occupied land in a purely defensive war (started by their enemies).
The issue of who was there first is irrelevant for dozens of reasons. (Not the least of which being that it isn't answerable).
The fact is that ALL of our current "Peaceful" land ownership around the world is drenched in blood.
THERE *IS* NO PEACEFULLY ACQUIRED LAND - ANYWHERE.
The one question that can be answered is: on whose terms did the fighting take place?
But this question is bad for Americans (who slaughtered Indians), Scandinavians (who slaughtered the laps), The French (who pretty much slaughtered everybody), The Japanese (who pretty much slaughtered everybody around them), The Russians (ditto), The Australians (aborigines), The Chinese (Tibet, et al)
So in order to single out the Israeli's for taking land that wasn't theirs... you'd have to say they weren't selfish enough!
I'll just be the devil's advocate here:
The premise of this entire project is that we really *need* european letters for domain names. I say we don't. (I'm not being U.S.-centric... hell, I'm not even American.)
The point is:
Let's say I claim to need a ' ' (space) in my domain name. Or let's say J.Crew needs a '.' for their URL. Or let's say I need an exclamation point for my domain name here in the U.S. in order to correctly reflect my copyright.
The point is that domain names were *never intended* to completely reflect spoken or written language -- English or any other. They have and have *always* been a 'semi-representational' system.
The undercurrent of most of the discussion here is that the current lack of unicode characters reflects a sort of digital American unilateralism.
This is a crock.
Let's not forget that what the current lack of unicode actually represents is a *non-capitalist* system where brand names and precise spellings are less important.
I for one am quite happy to approximate German letters with the closest equivalent. And if Volkswagen gets upset about it then maybe their advertising agency should have been thinking globally and rebranded without an umlaut.
Pthtp!
Advertising agencies typically make most of their revenue as buyers and resellers of media. The "creative" tends to be a small part of the overall billing. (In fact, in the old days ad agencies didn't charge fees for their creative services *at all*, revenues were generated by purchasing blocks of media at a discount from the broadcast companies, and upselling the media to the client. The creative was a 'free' service that the agency used to provide for the right to sell the client the airtime). Today ad agencies bill at rates that are closer to traditional service companies, but: in the broadcast advertising realm, these billings still don't come close to the revenue generated from a single network media buy.
In other words: If your client is buying airtime on broadcast television -- he's probably not going to nickel and dime you on the creative.
Second -- the really *choice* old spots are owned by the companies that paid for them -- even if they never aired. If a repurposed spot costs about $10k, it means the rights to the old footage cost far less than that. I can't imagine many big companies being interested in selling their old footage for small change like that...
And if its not a big company, the spot probably sucked anyway. So my guess is while this sounds like a new groovy digital rights marketplace, its probably full of dreck.
The trick to pissing in cornflakes, is not to hit the spoon.
-Popo
It's totally true.
You heard it here first.
The RIAA has been conducting SURPRISE RAIDS of people's homes.
The value-per-pound of minerals (even gold) exceeds the cost-of-launch-transport-and-reentry-per-pound.
Or in formulaic terms (V/W) > (CLTR/W)
(where W is weight)
Thus we have the inherent problem of space mining.
Basically the problem is that 'gold' is either too heavy, or not valuable enough -- depending on how you look at it.
However... if we were talking about 'spice' from Arrakis, or 'gold pressed latinum'... or 'Droids' even... then the whole space trading would totally make sense.
(of course)