The right to waive U.S. copyright isn't even as significant as, say, a letter of marque. God damn them all, I was told we'd leech the seeds for american gold we'd fire no guns, shed no teeeaaars Now i'm an embargoed shell of an antiguan peer, the last of beckermans priivaateeers
I do not know whats more impressive, the fact that something worthwhile is being posted as a reply to a comment of mine, or the fact that you got exactly what i was saying from the pre-caffeinated morning work rant of insensibility.
When i think of software "agents" i think more using ANN's as pattern analysis engines to crunch things into categories FOR the human. More likely would be finding correlations and bringing the set of states that these correlations are involved in to a humans attention to determine the meaning.
does that count as AI or just a complex set of heuristics....or is there a difference?
its a side effect of the debate-versus-conflict confusion people seem to end up in, where winning is a matter of who is loudest as opposed to who has points. Tactics for that are necessary when forcing an issue to the two extremes, so one can easily categorize people into sides and never look at new data again! "Well you gotta root for your team!"... why?
What i'd want to know is how many existing street lamps could just have struts affixed to the sides to allow more attachment points for the PV cells and lighting on their own? Why does it have to be a single new unit to begin with.
JackMeyhoff implied that this was a uniquely American problem, and I pointed out that it isn't. If people don't understand that this phenomenon is common to all rich, Western nations, people can't address it. Or idiots like you who do not realize that this is exactly what i'm agreeing with.
i'm glad you read the words following the first three, as you definitely show a massive measure of comprehension and patience.
So, what country are you from that you think you can point fingers? Come on, we want to know. Ding ding ding, and its exactly this mentality that is continuing the decline of the sense of community and the rise of materialistic individualism. It starts with the "I can't afford to think about that with my life" and moves to the "well look at group a, they're worse than we are!". Course, if the worst examples always getting "worse", then an equal decline for everyone else still gives them the ability to feel smug about it due to relative difference.
Being "better" than someone has a much different meaning than being "good". I've come to realize this being canadian, as a lot of canadians are quite smug about how we're supposed to be a "better society" in general than the united states in many opinions. What people do not realize is we're suffering from the exact same decline, its just that we do not have quite a much momentum. Drop a rock and drop a feather, they'll eventually hit the ground in any event.
You're on my wavelength, the only thing i'd expand is the fact that the ease of DIY recording is telescoping in nature. It becomes cheaper and less time intensive with each passing year.
Personally "Taxation without representation" is a weaker beef than "You bust into our countries and had to leverage control of what oil regions the british didnt already grab before the balfour days".
This sense of entitlement for having creating ANYTHING is one of the biggest scourges on the current human creative scene. An artist is someone who is continually creating based on their own perspective, not someone who got in line with a single trend.
Not everyone seeks out free works, listens to NPR, or watches educational documentaries on television Your points lost relevance with this. If you think this is the only form of free content to exist you are seriously out of touch. Enjoy your pablum.
Personally I think what will happen in 10, 20, or even 30 years is that these industries will finally be so impacted by the devaluing of distribution and production that they'll have to change business models. I also personally think that morally, copyright infringement IS a bad thing as by removing yourself from those sales completely you hurt the whole line of people involved from point "hey guys i got this idea for a song" to "hey guys, ima buy this (album|song)". Sadly this includes the talentless middlemen who provide nothing towards the finished product beyond a cool building to record it in.
Imagine though, a world where recording studios spend their time headhunting TALENT and then marketing that talent to artists. I'm not just talking about the musicians themselves, but the mixers, the choreographers, every step in between. A company that was a firm reputed to have power content creating talent and just needed someone to insert content would always have tremendous value to humanity until art is officially dead. You can pretty much s/recording studios/movie industry/ as well.
The problem with this is it would invert the power structure. This would put tremendous control into the hands of the actual content creators, as well as the various talented studio people. The companies would have to woo talent as being highly rated in terms of talent would be the only metric. This would create an environment where either studios have to woo potential content creators, or allow the creators to shop around. This would also create tremendous competition, with studios with price ranges for the already successful, ones who did well in their debuts, and ones who have to apply for a loan to even consider getting into he business to begin with (read: the ones who normally would have had to swallow whatever contract terms were to be had to have a significant chance of ever existing on the world stage). Granted, wealthy artists would then have a fair bit of leverage to create a new cartel that could suck, but then there ALREADY ARE artists producing completely independently.
If a company such as this was created, was profitable, and gained serious investment backing i think the current boys club would have a bloody stroke on the spot.
Then there are TV studios, whose current model is to have their customers pay for the privilege of having their eyes sold off wholesale for the content they offer. To boot, it's always the SAME offerings from any cable company anywhere for the most part. Hopefully the pushes for a-la-carte content will shift this current situation but who knows.
I imagine a world where customers pay for the content they want to see, and stations shift their model to being paid to provide the best range of coverage for their local regional demographic. Skews of what is popular changes by region a fair bit, and there would be value in doing the research to find what is popular in what proportions to see how to allot ones budget on the rights from the creators.
Sadly, I do not actually believe any of this will come to pass in a means that benefits the consumers.
Also sadly, many see copyright infringement as the means to nudge the current top-heavy structure, but I still find most people are merely rationalizing their desire for free-as-in-beer content that isn't free. If one is truly so self-righteous about it, consume truly free content. There's only metric goat-loads of it out there.
Too bad most people also think Good Content == { Shiny Expensive Effects , TnA , Celebrities } exclusively.
What will happen then? They'll have to stop manufacturing buggy whips and find a way to make money from promoting and an eye for talent again as their primary function.
Plus, from a wavelength point of view, why aren't we also considering LED arrays in certain cases. These days you can nearly pick and choose your diode's wavelengths and lumens to your exact specifications.
Wouldn't help from the heating perspective, but could there not be a secondary solution to that? Does the heat HAVE to be the same source as the light source?
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Touche, I wasn't even considering the "shinyness" aspect when one is first pitching a technology to the suits behind the table =)
thats a really good point heh.
No worries, we'd have to find a way to mod up my lack of coffee in my place as it gets the credit in any event heh.
Then again, is Thought == Intelligence =). I suppose I would call it an artificial neocortex extension.
Thats just my opinion on weighting the words though, i know it doesnt actually change anything you said =).
wow. ok.
i suppose its as good a rationalization as any.
we'd fire no guns, shed no teeeaaars
Now i'm an embargoed shell of an antiguan peer, the last of beckermans priivaateeers
Idiocy knows no bounds of class, creed, or corporation.
I do not know whats more impressive, the fact that something worthwhile is being posted as a reply to a comment of mine, or the fact that you got exactly what i was saying from the pre-caffeinated morning work rant of insensibility.
When i think of software "agents" i think more using ANN's as pattern analysis engines to crunch things into categories FOR the human. More likely would be finding correlations and bringing the set of states that these correlations are involved in to a humans attention to determine the meaning.
does that count as AI or just a complex set of heuristics....or is there a difference?
*nog*nog*
... why?
rant
its a side effect of the debate-versus-conflict confusion people seem to end up in, where winning is a matter of who is loudest as opposed to who has points. Tactics for that are necessary when forcing an issue to the two extremes, so one can easily categorize people into sides and never look at new data again! "Well you gotta root for your team!"
god humanity sucks.
tnar
What i'd want to know is how many existing street lamps could just have struts affixed to the sides to allow more attachment points for the PV cells and lighting on their own? Why does it have to be a single new unit to begin with.
i'm glad you read the words following the first three, as you definitely show a massive measure of comprehension and patience.
Being "better" than someone has a much different meaning than being "good". I've come to realize this being canadian, as a lot of canadians are quite smug about how we're supposed to be a "better society" in general than the united states in many opinions. What people do not realize is we're suffering from the exact same decline, its just that we do not have quite a much momentum. Drop a rock and drop a feather, they'll eventually hit the ground in any event.
Well, a lot of the original bill WAS paid in francs after all.
You're on my wavelength, the only thing i'd expand is the fact that the ease of DIY recording is telescoping in nature. It becomes cheaper and less time intensive with each passing year.
and thank you for differentiating celines.
hey now, just because the largest marketable north american audience is stupid, doesnt make them right =),
Personally "Taxation without representation" is a weaker beef than "You bust into our countries and had to leverage control of what oil regions the british didnt already grab before the balfour days".
freedom? whatever helps you sleep at night.
Especially amazing since America's current content industry was built on the back of the concept of IGNORING patent laws of Europe prior to WWII.
I mean, the US was stifling their innnovation...apparently...back then...but now the AMERICAN public is doing its completely immoral.
wait what?
THANK you AC.
This sense of entitlement for having creating ANYTHING is one of the biggest scourges on the current human creative scene. An artist is someone who is continually creating based on their own perspective, not someone who got in line with a single trend.
I agree, i'm simply saying its the "problem" in terms of those who currently have the broadest influence.
Takes a while to bleed massive capital.
Personally I think what will happen in 10, 20, or even 30 years is that these industries will finally be so impacted by the devaluing of distribution and production that they'll have to change business models. I also personally think that morally, copyright infringement IS a bad thing as by removing yourself from those sales completely you hurt the whole line of people involved from point "hey guys i got this idea for a song" to "hey guys, ima buy this (album|song)". Sadly this includes the talentless middlemen who provide nothing towards the finished product beyond a cool building to record it in.
Imagine though, a world where recording studios spend their time headhunting TALENT and then marketing that talent to artists. I'm not just talking about the musicians themselves, but the mixers, the choreographers, every step in between. A company that was a firm reputed to have power content creating talent and just needed someone to insert content would always have tremendous value to humanity until art is officially dead. You can pretty much s/recording studios/movie industry/ as well.
The problem with this is it would invert the power structure. This would put tremendous control into the hands of the actual content creators, as well as the various talented studio people. The companies would have to woo talent as being highly rated in terms of talent would be the only metric. This would create an environment where either studios have to woo potential content creators, or allow the creators to shop around. This would also create tremendous competition, with studios with price ranges for the already successful, ones who did well in their debuts, and ones who have to apply for a loan to even consider getting into he business to begin with (read: the ones who normally would have had to swallow whatever contract terms were to be had to have a significant chance of ever existing on the world stage). Granted, wealthy artists would then have a fair bit of leverage to create a new cartel that could suck, but then there ALREADY ARE artists producing completely independently.
If a company such as this was created, was profitable, and gained serious investment backing i think the current boys club would have a bloody stroke on the spot.
Then there are TV studios, whose current model is to have their customers pay for the privilege of having their eyes sold off wholesale for the content they offer. To boot, it's always the SAME offerings from any cable company anywhere for the most part. Hopefully the pushes for a-la-carte content will shift this current situation but who knows.
I imagine a world where customers pay for the content they want to see, and stations shift their model to being paid to provide the best range of coverage for their local regional demographic. Skews of what is popular changes by region a fair bit, and there would be value in doing the research to find what is popular in what proportions to see how to allot ones budget on the rights from the creators.
Sadly, I do not actually believe any of this will come to pass in a means that benefits the consumers.
Also sadly, many see copyright infringement as the means to nudge the current top-heavy structure, but I still find most people are merely rationalizing their desire for free-as-in-beer content that isn't free. If one is truly so self-righteous about it, consume truly free content. There's only metric goat-loads of it out there.
Too bad most people also think Good Content == { Shiny Expensive Effects , TnA , Celebrities } exclusively.
A Merry X-Mas Rant from Lower Canuckia
Or die. Horribly.
Plus, from a wavelength point of view, why aren't we also considering LED arrays in certain cases. These days you can nearly pick and choose your diode's wavelengths and lumens to your exact specifications.
Wouldn't help from the heating perspective, but could there not be a secondary solution to that? Does the heat HAVE to be the same source as the light source?
And someone finally gets the reference in The Color of Magic from the scene in the airplane.
Damnit, I never knew that =)