BTW implementing ART would be really cool. I always had trouble getting the full understanding of Grossberg's papers and didn't find many simulators that did ART 10 years ago when I was actually looking at all this stuff.
What exactly is the economic incentive to provide an IM service at all? It's not like anyone with half a brain pays any attention to the ads in ICQ, and half the rest of 'em are all under 15 and don't have lots of pocket cash anyway.
Keep in mind that it appears to cover more than just 'license fees'. The announce I saw mentioned service contracts as well. Go find a service quote from Sun and see how it compares to that $100,000.
No, it was closed down when the guy doing it met Bill Keane and realized what a truly nice guy he was and how awful he felt abusing Bill's work in that way.
Of course, DFC is some of the funniest black humor I've seen, nonetheless. Lucky for me I have some hardcopies and an old T-=shirt.
The billionaire that you describe is certainly unlikely. Except the problem is, he may have children who have plenty of spare time. If we go back a few years to the dotcom boom, there were some billionaires that I doubt would fit your stereotype either, though obviously they no longer apply. The fact is, billionaires are individuals like everyone else, and who's to say that none of them (or any of the multi-millionaires lying around) and more to the point none of their children for whom they'd be responsible in such a lawsuit, do any downloading? Oh, wait, I forgot that you had infinite and complete knowledge of everything. Hopefully you're helping Herr Ashcroft with homeland security.
Because you KNOW that you have to watch each bit come over the wire. Maybe SOMEDAY they'll come up with some way for you to make a list of what you want to download, and just leave it going for a while, leaving you to go do other stuff.
I disagree. I have never cared whether or not the tech described in any given sci-fi novel got it right or wrong. In particular, reading such books from the 50's talking about the 80's was generally amusing in the "how wrong did they get it" category. The fact is, SF isn't about the tech, it's about the story. Usually the tech plays an important role of some sort, but rarely have I been entertained by a book that was just technological extrapolation.
The main thing is the story, and there are still plenty of storytellers out there. They just don't seem to be writing science fiction (much of SF today, at least what you can buy at Borders, is as someone else here pointed out just another series that goes on forever, or a spinoff of one of the major franchises).
That was exactly the point. He has claimed at least twice that I can think of that he was ending the Callahan's franchise with THIS BOOK, only to go on and write another. After the second time, I didn't bother reading any more of them.
Have you considered what daily life will be like in 20 years? Really? Have you thought how it will affect how you interact with other people, how you'll view things like old age, distance, gender, equality, elitism?
If I spent time doing that, and felt I was any good at it, I'd be writing my own fiction. I have a hard enough time dealing with what daily life will be like next year, however, so I don't spend a lot of my time on it.
Good catch on the dig, BTW. It just struck me as ironic that Spider of all people was making this criticism.
would require file sharers to admit in writing that they illegally traded music online and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again.
Unlike any Corporate settlement in the last 30 years...
I think it's probably way generic (within the bounds of modern goth vampire tales). When I first heard about the plot of the film, I thought it sounded and awful lot like the Laurel K Hamilton Vampire novels that my wife reads.
The courts have repeatedly upheld things as "interstate commerce" which had no clear and obvious limitation to only interstate and only commerce. Nice try though.
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Very good points. And you can just as easily get screwed in business by "friends" who decide the buck is more important than your friendship as you can by the VC vultures and their pods. I'm too cowardly to have even tried to start a business, but a friend of mine could tell some really nasty stories about the time his "friends" tried to screw him out of his share of the company (this one had a happy ending, but only after years of legal wrangling).
Right. They said story, not comic book. As for the previous post's "cut the editors some slack", me thinks their about as slack as they can get already.
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BTW implementing ART would be really cool. I always had trouble getting the full understanding of Grossberg's papers and didn't find many simulators that did ART 10 years ago when I was actually looking at all this stuff.
What exactly is the economic incentive to provide an IM service at all? It's not like anyone with half a brain pays any attention to the ads in ICQ, and half the rest of 'em are all under 15 and don't have lots of pocket cash anyway.
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Ok, maybe not.
Keep in mind that it appears to cover more than just 'license fees'. The announce I saw mentioned service contracts as well. Go find a service quote from Sun and see how it compares to that $100,000.
becuz they're idiots?
They're trading under the name "iTunes Music Store".
Why do you need ocr? I thought the digital music streams had a data channel that had the artist info.
Of course, DFC is some of the funniest black humor I've seen, nonetheless. Lucky for me I have some hardcopies and an old T-=shirt.
The billionaire that you describe is certainly unlikely. Except the problem is, he may have children who have plenty of spare time. If we go back a few years to the dotcom boom, there were some billionaires that I doubt would fit your stereotype either, though obviously they no longer apply. The fact is, billionaires are individuals like everyone else, and who's to say that none of them (or any of the multi-millionaires lying around) and more to the point none of their children for whom they'd be responsible in such a lawsuit, do any downloading? Oh, wait, I forgot that you had infinite and complete knowledge of everything. Hopefully you're helping Herr Ashcroft with homeland security.
Because you KNOW that you have to watch each bit come over the wire. Maybe SOMEDAY they'll come up with some way for you to make a list of what you want to download, and just leave it going for a while, leaving you to go do other stuff.
Is that after the nanobots got him?
Try again.
Beyond that, there's no harm in checking a book out of the library to see if it's any good before spending your cash on it.
The main thing is the story, and there are still plenty of storytellers out there. They just don't seem to be writing science fiction (much of SF today, at least what you can buy at Borders, is as someone else here pointed out just another series that goes on forever, or a spinoff of one of the major franchises).
That was exactly the point. He has claimed at least twice that I can think of that he was ending the Callahan's franchise with THIS BOOK, only to go on and write another. After the second time, I didn't bother reading any more of them.
If I spent time doing that, and felt I was any good at it, I'd be writing my own fiction. I have a hard enough time dealing with what daily life will be like next year, however, so I don't spend a lot of my time on it.
Good catch on the dig, BTW. It just struck me as ironic that Spider of all people was making this criticism.
Unlike any Corporate settlement in the last 30 years...
Maybe because despite repeated claims to be ending a series, authors continue to go back to mine tired ideas when nothing else is making them money?
I think it's probably way generic (within the bounds of modern goth vampire tales). When I first heard about the plot of the film, I thought it sounded and awful lot like the Laurel K Hamilton Vampire novels that my wife reads.
The courts have repeatedly upheld things as "interstate commerce" which had no clear and obvious limitation to only interstate and only commerce. Nice try though.
Very good points. And you can just as easily get screwed in business by "friends" who decide the buck is more important than your friendship as you can by the VC vultures and their pods. I'm too cowardly to have even tried to start a business, but a friend of mine could tell some really nasty stories about the time his "friends" tried to screw him out of his share of the company (this one had a happy ending, but only after years of legal wrangling).
Powa mack A5, awwww yeah.... With 500 pounds of puddin'...
Ok, fine, they didn't say story. It's early :-)
Right. They said story, not comic book. As for the previous post's "cut the editors some slack", me thinks their about as slack as they can get already.