I'm absolutely sure there are enough people on this planet that would love to go to Mars, never to see Earth again but for a small blue glimmer hanging in the night sky of a red planet. Besides, it greatens humanity's chance for survival, or rather lengthens our species lifespan, if we spread ourselves out in the Universe. We are putting all our eggs in one basket by staying on Earth.
Brains are not neural nets, neural nets are a simplified model of how we think the human brain works. And I would bet that no one completely understands how the human brain works. You're original point still seems valid though.
Recording video is innovation? Man. Did I spend the last couple decades under a rock or did you? This isn't protecting rights, its the ugly-duckling version of a swan song, and its sickening. TiVo doesn't have shit, they cashed out early on a neat fad and got beat in the end when the real players came into the picture. The TV companies are both TiVo's competitors and only source of content. How stupid do you have to be to start a company that depends on its competitor? Epic fail and good riddance.
The mod point I'm looking to give you is "-1 Flamebait." Since when is destorying someone's personal life akin to stealing an album? Get some perspective on life, please. Laws do not define right and wrong! Sorry for the flame,/., but people that are blind enough to believe laws are some sort of unchangeable and divine Truth need be burned.
I use XML to wrap oil and gas pipeline data and then display it as a type of document. Am I going to get sued by Microsoft? Am I a personal example of prior art? We (the people I work with) have been doing this for over 10 years.
Start this off with a disclaimer: Microsoft and Apple both suck equally as much, and while I hate Apple more than Microsoft, I still hate Microsoft and will not buy any of their products. Yes this post is biased, and no I don't care what you have to say in response.
Apple is just as bottom-feeding as Microsoft, they just make you idiot, iTool, bottom dwelling wannabees feel like you're on top of the world (read: they have a crazy good advertising department). Microsoft will make money off of these stores, I guarantee* it. Microsoft Stores will be a collection of 3rd-party hardware, software, and accessories and, of course, the few bits of Microsoft software. As long as Windows has the largest market share,why the hell wouldn't these stores succeed? "But you can buy the same shit everywhere else," you say. If you can't buy an iPod at Costco, then you're a blind paraplegic with way too many posters of Steve Jobs on your wall. "What about the newest MacBook Pro? Costco ain't got that [snicker]." Neither does the Apple store. It was sold out three weeks before it was released. Take a minute, all of you "Apple Stores >> MS Stores!!" exclamators (new word, I like it), and realize how much of a Tool you are for placing any sort of faith in a company. Company's work towards profit, not a better, more shiny and white, world.
My best guess is that everyone will go into the Microsoft store expecting an epic failure of the Jobsian Utopia (best to read with an epic echo), and realize that its just another store where they can buy stuff for their PCs. Just like Apple Stores are for Macs. Oh look, a new Dip-n-dots kiosk just opened up!
Not that it adds much, but I recently stole my dad's old record player and have been buying vinyl for about a year. I like the sound quality, I feel somehow "closer" to the music/artist, and the album sleeves make for AWESOME wall decorations. And CDs remind me of the beginning of a terrible age of music. Vinyl reminds me of the end of the best.
I see this as the first indication that we pirates won! I only downloaded music illegally when I did not have a choice, or my choice was so expensive and temporary that it was a smarter move to pirate. Now I don't find myself needing to download music when prices are dropping (on the music I like at least) and I can quickly get a digital album for a decent price, quality, and without DRM. We forced the industry to begin changing and I can't wait to see where it ends up. Hell, there might actually be some decent pop music soon... hahaha... talk about drastic change.
Anyway, piracy of music goes down when publishers start listening to their customers, news at 11.
I'm not tired, and no its not a train wreck, but it may become one. You may see this as an immature squabble between "pirates" and *IAA but some of us value music (movies, etc) more than most anything else in life. We are getting borked in the butt by a government agency that somehow has clandestine rights to determine what we want to enjoy, how we want to enjoy it, and when we are able to enjoy it. This is bad, and the people should be angry and therefore stories about the borking, deborking, or reborking get front page on/.
$40 a year for Pandora and I get a high quality, on demand, just random enough stream of music 8+ hours a day, 7 days a week. The amount of new music I listen to boggles my mind... I hate the *IAA as much as the next, but you have to admit that our options for purchasing music have opened up recently. Digital downloads from Amazon and iTunes along with streaming services like Pandora and Last.fm are starting to grab hold. People are fed up with the music industry, everybody knows it, and things are starting to change. In 5-10 years we'll look back and think of this as an overnight music medium revolution, so long as *IAA gets whats coming to them.
If you're honestly fed up with shallow, carbon-copy pop music, look for new music and don't let new music be served to you. Local record shops still exist and they are chock full of people that love music, and love spreading that love. And most of all, use the internet! Wikipedia does bands decently well, and can be a great place to start spiderwebbing out into new genres. Don't let the RIAA ruin one of the few truly human things we humans have left.
And maybe the citizens are not in favor of them. I sure am against the idea of this police/nanny state that the US and other countries are spiraling towards. <tinFoilHat> Maybe the government and media only makes it seem like we the sheeple are in favor of surveillance. </tinFoilHat>
+5 insightful for ignorance? Hmm... wish I had mod points
What he did was not "obviously sick" or "disgusting," nor was it "probably immoral and/or unethical." I would love to put you to a test to distinguish 16-year-olds from 18-year-olds and watch you fail miserably, then through the Socratic method, make you realize how fucked up putting a blanket age on consent actually is. There is nothing morally wrong with getting aroused, even to a 16 year old when you are 18+. It used to be normal for people to be married by 16 and have kids by 18, so how can it be unnatural, unethical, or immoral? Yes, there are laws to protect kids from porn and there should be. I understand that the age of 18 is used because there has to be something. But morals and ethics have nothing to do with law, and your opinion of sick and disgusting is situational. I do not condone what he did, but for fucks sake this is not that big of a deal and he should have gotten a small fine for approaching the boundaries of child porn laws.
And besides, How many old farts do you see heckling young girls, not because they're going to go rape and victimize them. There is no harm in that, yeah its "gross" but only a very very VERY small percentage of people would even give a shit. America is so god damned afraid of being raped that we seem to just rape ourselves before anyone else has a chance...
Theres an infinite amount of shame that you accrue once you go to PeopleSoft. I don't know of anything better, but PeopleSoft is a steaming pile of shit, much like any other enterprise tool that tries to do it all. Its all just fodder that managers eat up like hotcakes because of the promise of higher productivity, and won't change until the next generation of IT professionals comes in and kicks the old clods off their thrones. Now that we have a generation of IT professionals that were born and grew up in a world with computers, I have plenty of optimism that enterprise bloatware like PeopleSoft (Microsoft *, Novell, FootPrints, Cadence, etc) will slowly but surely be replaced by modular programs that actually do a task, and do it well.
No, stop! You're thinking laterally. This is the government, and they can only see the next rung on the ladder to failure. Perhaps a new dimension of governmental thinking will rip a hole in the fabric of space-time, rendering our world without leaders! Oh, God save us.
Millions of people live in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah? Thats a surprise:). And you're only calling us Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts (thanks for the proper nouns btw!) because you're jealous of our weather. And yes, I'm a Flake and a Nut but not a Fruit, although I'm totally okay with Fruits.
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I'm absolutely sure there are enough people on this planet that would love to go to Mars, never to see Earth again but for a small blue glimmer hanging in the night sky of a red planet. Besides, it greatens humanity's chance for survival, or rather lengthens our species lifespan, if we spread ourselves out in the Universe. We are putting all our eggs in one basket by staying on Earth.
Marry your grandmother.
Brains are not neural nets, neural nets are a simplified model of how we think the human brain works. And I would bet that no one completely understands how the human brain works. You're original point still seems valid though.
Recording video is innovation? Man. Did I spend the last couple decades under a rock or did you? This isn't protecting rights, its the ugly-duckling version of a swan song, and its sickening. TiVo doesn't have shit, they cashed out early on a neat fad and got beat in the end when the real players came into the picture. The TV companies are both TiVo's competitors and only source of content. How stupid do you have to be to start a company that depends on its competitor? Epic fail and good riddance.
The mod point I'm looking to give you is "-1 Flamebait." Since when is destorying someone's personal life akin to stealing an album? Get some perspective on life, please. Laws do not define right and wrong! Sorry for the flame, /., but people that are blind enough to believe laws are some sort of unchangeable and divine Truth need be burned.
Or a PC, an internet connection, and BitTorrent.
Hell yes! And those that truly want to express themselves are easy to find, but you have to actually look. It isn't served to you by TV and Radio.
Express yourself and support those truly expressing themselves.
I use XML to wrap oil and gas pipeline data and then display it as a type of document. Am I going to get sued by Microsoft? Am I a personal example of prior art? We (the people I work with) have been doing this for over 10 years.
How is a company that makes video codecs worth $106.5 M? I for one am very confused.
And for God's sake please give me a Slashdot 1.0 theme! I can't take this JavaScript-laden hell.
Start this off with a disclaimer: Microsoft and Apple both suck equally as much, and while I hate Apple more than Microsoft, I still hate Microsoft and will not buy any of their products. Yes this post is biased, and no I don't care what you have to say in response.
Apple is just as bottom-feeding as Microsoft, they just make you idiot, iTool, bottom dwelling wannabees feel like you're on top of the world (read: they have a crazy good advertising department). Microsoft will make money off of these stores, I guarantee* it. Microsoft Stores will be a collection of 3rd-party hardware, software, and accessories and, of course, the few bits of Microsoft software. As long as Windows has the largest market share,why the hell wouldn't these stores succeed? "But you can buy the same shit everywhere else," you say. If you can't buy an iPod at Costco, then you're a blind paraplegic with way too many posters of Steve Jobs on your wall. "What about the newest MacBook Pro? Costco ain't got that [snicker]." Neither does the Apple store. It was sold out three weeks before it was released. Take a minute, all of you "Apple Stores >> MS Stores!!" exclamators (new word, I like it), and realize how much of a Tool you are for placing any sort of faith in a company. Company's work towards profit, not a better, more shiny and white, world.
My best guess is that everyone will go into the Microsoft store expecting an epic failure of the Jobsian Utopia (best to read with an epic echo), and realize that its just another store where they can buy stuff for their PCs. Just like Apple Stores are for Macs. Oh look, a new Dip-n-dots kiosk just opened up!
* Guarantee not actually worth a shit
...they're only targeting the clueless upper middle class and rich wannabes.
Same idiotic crowed that buys iPods... In fact, I usually replace "upper middle class" with "iTool."
Not that it adds much, but I recently stole my dad's old record player and have been buying vinyl for about a year. I like the sound quality, I feel somehow "closer" to the music/artist, and the album sleeves make for AWESOME wall decorations. And CDs remind me of the beginning of a terrible age of music. Vinyl reminds me of the end of the best.
I see this as the first indication that we pirates won! I only downloaded music illegally when I did not have a choice, or my choice was so expensive and temporary that it was a smarter move to pirate. Now I don't find myself needing to download music when prices are dropping (on the music I like at least) and I can quickly get a digital album for a decent price, quality, and without DRM. We forced the industry to begin changing and I can't wait to see where it ends up. Hell, there might actually be some decent pop music soon... hahaha... talk about drastic change.
Anyway, piracy of music goes down when publishers start listening to their customers, news at 11.
I'm not tired, and no its not a train wreck, but it may become one. You may see this as an immature squabble between "pirates" and *IAA but some of us value music (movies, etc) more than most anything else in life. We are getting borked in the butt by a government agency that somehow has clandestine rights to determine what we want to enjoy, how we want to enjoy it, and when we are able to enjoy it. This is bad, and the people should be angry and therefore stories about the borking, deborking, or reborking get front page on /.
This just means that they found something better. And better means worse.
Weird, my consumption of music has gone way up.
$40 a year for Pandora and I get a high quality, on demand, just random enough stream of music 8+ hours a day, 7 days a week. The amount of new music I listen to boggles my mind... I hate the *IAA as much as the next, but you have to admit that our options for purchasing music have opened up recently. Digital downloads from Amazon and iTunes along with streaming services like Pandora and Last.fm are starting to grab hold. People are fed up with the music industry, everybody knows it, and things are starting to change. In 5-10 years we'll look back and think of this as an overnight music medium revolution, so long as *IAA gets whats coming to them.
If you're honestly fed up with shallow, carbon-copy pop music, look for new music and don't let new music be served to you. Local record shops still exist and they are chock full of people that love music, and love spreading that love. And most of all, use the internet! Wikipedia does bands decently well, and can be a great place to start spiderwebbing out into new genres. Don't let the RIAA ruin one of the few truly human things we humans have left.
I think Billy was a bit tossed and made a prank call to the patent office.
And maybe the citizens are not in favor of them. I sure am against the idea of this police/nanny state that the US and other countries are spiraling towards. <tinFoilHat> Maybe the government and media only makes it seem like we the sheeple are in favor of surveillance. </tinFoilHat>
+5 insightful for ignorance? Hmm... wish I had mod points
What he did was not "obviously sick" or "disgusting," nor was it "probably immoral and/or unethical." I would love to put you to a test to distinguish 16-year-olds from 18-year-olds and watch you fail miserably, then through the Socratic method, make you realize how fucked up putting a blanket age on consent actually is. There is nothing morally wrong with getting aroused, even to a 16 year old when you are 18+. It used to be normal for people to be married by 16 and have kids by 18, so how can it be unnatural, unethical, or immoral? Yes, there are laws to protect kids from porn and there should be. I understand that the age of 18 is used because there has to be something. But morals and ethics have nothing to do with law, and your opinion of sick and disgusting is situational. I do not condone what he did, but for fucks sake this is not that big of a deal and he should have gotten a small fine for approaching the boundaries of child porn laws.
And besides, How many old farts do you see heckling young girls, not because they're going to go rape and victimize them. There is no harm in that, yeah its "gross" but only a very very VERY small percentage of people would even give a shit. America is so god damned afraid of being raped that we seem to just rape ourselves before anyone else has a chance...
Theres an infinite amount of shame that you accrue once you go to PeopleSoft. I don't know of anything better, but PeopleSoft is a steaming pile of shit, much like any other enterprise tool that tries to do it all. Its all just fodder that managers eat up like hotcakes because of the promise of higher productivity, and won't change until the next generation of IT professionals comes in and kicks the old clods off their thrones. Now that we have a generation of IT professionals that were born and grew up in a world with computers, I have plenty of optimism that enterprise bloatware like PeopleSoft (Microsoft *, Novell, FootPrints, Cadence, etc) will slowly but surely be replaced by modular programs that actually do a task, and do it well.
You're also in California... drug abuse is assumed.
um, www.Freerangekids.org -- I copy-and-pasted it into the address bar, and failed in the comment. Still a phishing site.
freefrangekids.org is a phishing site, don't follow the link
No, stop! You're thinking laterally. This is the government, and they can only see the next rung on the ladder to failure. Perhaps a new dimension of governmental thinking will rip a hole in the fabric of space-time, rendering our world without leaders! Oh, God save us.
Millions of people live in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah? Thats a surprise :). And you're only calling us Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts (thanks for the proper nouns btw!) because you're jealous of our weather. And yes, I'm a Flake and a Nut but not a Fruit, although I'm totally okay with Fruits.