who wants to see the exact same movies re-released anyway? Just rent the tapes....
Except, unfortunately, you'll never be able to see Star Wars as it was originally released (granted, in mono, but a slightly different cut, with the "Episode IV: A New Hope" line missing from the opening crawl). And I'll bet you'll never see the non-special editions on DVD, which means you can only get them in digital format if you track down the old laserdiscs. Am I the only fan who hopes George Lucas releases the original versions as a DVD option? Anyone hear any rumors to that effect?
Environmental activism is supposed to be all about preserving "Earth's delicate balance," of which extinction is a natural, and vital process.
This is true, but at some point you have to ask yourself whether humans are going to screw themselves over by making so many species extinct through over-hunting or destruction of natural habitats.
But, of course, they'll overlook that if it means injecting a cutesy-woosty puddy-tat back into a wild that no longer finds the critter-witter necessary, because we got one over on the evil-weevil human beings.
Not to over-generalize, right? Just because humans don't "find a critter necessary" doesn't mean it doesn't throw off the ecosystem when the critter goes missing. What did Tasmanian tigers eat? Whatever it was, I'll bet its population is no longer naturally kept in check, since we hunted Tasmanian tigers to extinction.
Nonetheless, I'd have to agree with other posters that cloning sounds like a bad idea due to other reasons. (How many unique tigers would have to be cloned to get a viable gene pool? Is there even a natural habitat left for this animal?) It's probably too late to put things back in balance.
You're both forgetting about the overhead involved with marketing and distributing music. You have to send out promo copies to radio stations, DJs, reviewers, and stores. You have to invest in advertising and butter up radio station programmers. You have to deal with returned product if it doesn't get sold. I'm no expert, but it would be foolish to assume the only costs involved in making a CD are paying the artist and buying and pressing the media and packaging.
You need to do some more research. There were Time and Newsweek articles about fleeing civilians being killed on the "Highway of Death."
According to a Time magazine article March 18, 1991, cars, buses and trucks full of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees (families and all their possessions) were also hit.
Crap like that is the exact reason that Bush (rightly) pulled out from the ICC.
So as far as you're concerned killing fleeing civilians and burying alive soldiers (without even giving them the chance to surrender) is perfectly acceptable? We did the very things we accuse Hussein of doing.
Yes, but Iraq was provided millions of dollars of miliary equipment from the U.S. in the '80s (to fund its war against Ayatollah Khomeini). Cheney's company helped rebuilt Iraq's oil industry after the Gulf War.
As the Subject says, I'm not talking about POP-UP ads. I'm talking about ads in general! With OmniWeb I can block any advertising!!! Read: any pictures, flash animation, or whatnot that has a words like "ads" or "banner" or you name it (!) in their file path.
Why would you delete an app because it's built with the Carbon API? This O'Reilly article puts things in perspective. Other commonly used Carbon apps: IE and Finder.
I can understand your "looks awful" point.
See a post above for editing your prefs to block pop-up adds.
But Dmitry's software was specifically designed to circumvent Adobe's (measly) ebook copy protection. Felt tip pens are not specifically designed to circumvent Sony's CD copy protection...
If you read the article, you'd see this isn't the case. They didn't find that a FAQ is not copyrightable. They found that the idea of a FAQ is not copyrightable.
A FAQ is similar; "writing" one consists of copy and paste, and by that ruling can't be considered an original work.
I guess some Usenet FAQs work this way, where answers consist of someone else's post, but most FAQs on corporate sites have questions and answers that are carefully written and original. I know--I've written a few.
On the other hand, this is one stupid patent I'd love to see held up, just so that the licensing fees could discourage advertisers from attacking their potential clients.
A perfect example of Slashdot self-centeredness. "Stupid patents are bad unless they prevent me from being bothered by pop-up ads." Another example: "The MPAA is bad unless I want to see Spider-Man or buy the Tron DVD." Etc.
The Spider-Man story is pretty basic, especially when compared to the lumbering twists and turns of Star Wars: wimpy outer-borough kid contracts enormous powers, learns to use them wisely and well, faces terrible danger, sacrifices much.
Actually this is the Star Wars story as well. First trilogy: Anakin contract enormous powers (the Force), learns to use them, succumbs to evil. Second trilogy: Luke contracts enormous powers (the Force), learns to use them wisely and well, faces terrible danger, and redeems his father.
Of course there's some other themes, like man vs. technology, but I'd say the main theme of Star Wars is similar to the main theme of Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Star Wars were inspired by similar source materials as well: a comic book for the former, matinee serials for the latter.
I gotta admit, I find this amusing, although I'd never bother downloading it: I've had 12:01 tickets ready to go and there is no way I'm gonna spoil it watching a low quality divx.
So I take it you don't object to the bootleg on ethical grounds?
The upside is costs drop, and society finds other uses for previously inefficient workers.
It's not that local businesses employee inefficient workers, it's just that they don't have the buying power or the money reserves to offer prices like Walmart.
The latest Walmart controversy (as heard on NPR): they're running supermarkets in their stores and employing non-union butchers.
Supposedly Walmart treats their employees like crap. Maybe you and I don't have to worry about getting a job as a cashier, but that's no reason to applaud paying people next to nothing just so you can get a better deal on paper towels.
Which is better for the economy, a bunch of people in each city making good money selling goods at local stores, or a couple of guys in Texas making good money running a chain?
Humans should evolve to my level, or else why should I consider them human?
I don't think "evolution" is the correct word here. It's a common myth that evolution has a goal--that "higher" life forms are always the most fit. Actually it all depends on the environment. Some successful creatures are simpler than their ancestors.
Of course our medical technology means that people who wouldn't have survived a couple of thousand years ago will lead long, healthy, reproductive lives. This isn't a bad thing, but perhaps it will prevent humans from evolving through survival of the fittest.
Figure out how much you make an hour, then multiply that by the number of hours it'll take you to put together each machine. Then you'll see if building your own really is cheaper.
MacPerl may be needed for pre-X Mac OS, but what's the point of running a port of perl to a legacy environment? The "real" perl runs on Mac OS X without any porting. Why anyone would waste time and resources running it under Classic is beyond me.
The point is people will be using Classic for years. I know musicians who are still running OS 8. Heck, I know schools that are still running System 7.
I have X, but I can't stand using it because:
It's slow, even on my 733 Mhz G4. Try organizing files in Finder's list view. Yuck. I can't believe Apple added so much eye candy (for purely marketing reasons) that their new OS is slower than the old.
The dock. Enough said. There's lots of articles on why the dock is less powerful than ye old application menu/Apple Menu/tabbed folders, etc.
I have lots of apps that won't run natively on X. I have lots of other apps that would require expensive upgrades to run natively on X.
I have a fairly new printer, but there are no OS X printer drivers, and likely won't be.
I find OS X's interface patronizing. Everything takes up more screen real estate. It's bright with stripes and huge child-like candy buttons. It's not very customizable--you can't even change the system font.
The commentary track on the film is interesting and informative.
Geez timothy, this sounds like a fourth-grade book report. Can anyone fill in the details here? Who does the commentary? What types of insights does it offer?
Personal attack. Real good. Definitely worth a mod point.
Where did you go to school?
Snobby personal attack. Again, real good.
"Lone" Senators don't pass legislation. They introduce legislation and it gets discussed and voted on. How did you think legislation was introduced? By Moses on stone tablets?
No shit. My point is the Senator who's getting bad TV reception is going to have to gain a hell of a lot of support to get his bill passed in the Senate and House. Considering the computer industry is a pretty powerful lobby, I don't think he would have a chance.
Members of Congress are there to pass laws. They are looking for laws that will be popular with voters and campaign contributers.
You're very idealistic. I would say most Senators are there to pass laws that are popular with the companies in their state that are likely to contribute the most to their campaign funds.
Ham radios, walkie talkies, etc. are all regulated by the FCC. They operate on specific bands with specific power outputs. They can't just randomly spew interference or the FCC takes action against the manufacturer.
I'm saying you could modify all these things so they cause interference. They can't outlaw everything that could be modified to cause interference--we wouldn't be able to buy appliances.
Grow up.
A third personal attack.
I realize you're genuinely worried that someday you won't be able to buy a second harddrive, but I don't think it's going to happen because one in three million computer users screw up their computer's shielding.
Kids have somehow been raised with the inclination and ability to kill their companions in cold blood. Some aspect of social engineering has failed, and they've been dramatically warped.
This would be more accurate if you changed "kids" to "boys."
One call to the FCC from a Senator and there would be more more field strength meters and RF triangulation equipment than you've ever seen. The FCC might just send you or me a pamphlet, but they'll send a team of experts out to a Senator's home.
So to sum up your theory, someday a Senator's phone, TV, or radio will have poor reception because a wealthy computer geek is running an unshielded computer in the next room. (We all know how close you are to your neighbors in "ritzy condos.") Instead of calling the phone or cable company or sending an aide to buy a new TV (assuming the interference is constant and really annoying), this Senator will call an imaginary FCC emergency response team which will go to great lengths to track the interference down to the room next store. Then I suppose they'll have to get a search warrant to find the unshielded computer. Then this lone senator will pass legislation outlawing all computer parts. And broken microwaves. And ham radios. And walkie-talkies. And Radio Shacks.
This post gets mod points everytime there's a case mod thread. But how many Senators are living in apartment complexes watching TV on sets with rabbit ears? How many would be able to figure out what's causing interference on their TV when there must be dozens of possible causes? Very silly.
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who wants to see the exact same movies re-released anyway? Just rent the tapes....
Except, unfortunately, you'll never be able to see Star Wars as it was originally released (granted, in mono, but a slightly different cut, with the "Episode IV: A New Hope" line missing from the opening crawl). And I'll bet you'll never see the non-special editions on DVD, which means you can only get them in digital format if you track down the old laserdiscs. Am I the only fan who hopes George Lucas releases the original versions as a DVD option? Anyone hear any rumors to that effect?
Environmental activism is supposed to be all about preserving "Earth's delicate balance," of which extinction is a natural, and vital process.
This is true, but at some point you have to ask yourself whether humans are going to screw themselves over by making so many species extinct through over-hunting or destruction of natural habitats.
But, of course, they'll overlook that if it means injecting a cutesy-woosty puddy-tat back into a wild that no longer finds the critter-witter necessary, because we got one over on the evil-weevil human beings.
Not to over-generalize, right? Just because humans don't "find a critter necessary" doesn't mean it doesn't throw off the ecosystem when the critter goes missing. What did Tasmanian tigers eat? Whatever it was, I'll bet its population is no longer naturally kept in check, since we hunted Tasmanian tigers to extinction.
Nonetheless, I'd have to agree with other posters that cloning sounds like a bad idea due to other reasons. (How many unique tigers would have to be cloned to get a viable gene pool? Is there even a natural habitat left for this animal?) It's probably too late to put things back in balance.
You're both forgetting about the overhead involved with marketing and distributing music. You have to send out promo copies to radio stations, DJs, reviewers, and stores. You have to invest in advertising and butter up radio station programmers. You have to deal with returned product if it doesn't get sold. I'm no expert, but it would be foolish to assume the only costs involved in making a CD are paying the artist and buying and pressing the media and packaging.
So the Iraqi military are civilians?
You need to do some more research. There were Time and Newsweek articles about fleeing civilians being killed on the "Highway of Death."
According to a Time magazine article March 18, 1991, cars, buses and trucks full of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees (families and all their possessions) were also hit.
I've done a bit of research in this area.
Crap like that is the exact reason that Bush (rightly) pulled out from the ICC.
So as far as you're concerned killing fleeing civilians and burying alive soldiers (without even giving them the chance to surrender) is perfectly acceptable? We did the very things we accuse Hussein of doing.
Yes, but Iraq was provided millions of dollars of miliary equipment from the U.S. in the '80s (to fund its war against Ayatollah Khomeini). Cheney's company helped rebuilt Iraq's oil industry after the Gulf War.
The U.S. was convicted of war crimes due to the way it conducted the Gulf War. It's estimated that 500,000 Iraqi children have died during the U.S. embargo (even though Iraq is still America's fourth largest oil supplier).
The situation isn't so black and white.
As the Subject says, I'm not talking about POP-UP ads. I'm talking about ads in general! With OmniWeb I can block any advertising!!! Read: any pictures, flash animation, or whatnot that has a words like "ads" or "banner" or you name it (!) in their file path.
;-)
Well, so much for Slashdot's source of revenue
AOL isn't going to be stupid enough to try foisting a noticeably slower browser on their users.
Actually, AOL's most recent beta for Mac OS X uses Gecko in place of IE. I think this is a sign of things to come.
Tell that to Dmitry.
But Dmitry's software was specifically designed to circumvent Adobe's (measly) ebook copy protection. Felt tip pens are not specifically designed to circumvent Sony's CD copy protection...
I figured I'd post it again since I'm really sick of deleting hundreds of submissions...
What do you say, should we submit this story repeatedly over the next week or two and try for a triplicate post?
If you read the article, you'd see this isn't the case. They didn't find that a FAQ is not copyrightable. They found that the idea of a FAQ is not copyrightable.
A FAQ is similar; "writing" one consists of copy and paste, and by that ruling can't be considered an original work.
I guess some Usenet FAQs work this way, where answers consist of someone else's post, but most FAQs on corporate sites have questions and answers that are carefully written and original. I know--I've written a few.
On the other hand, this is one stupid patent I'd love to see held up, just so that the licensing fees could discourage advertisers from attacking their potential clients.
A perfect example of Slashdot self-centeredness. "Stupid patents are bad unless they prevent me from being bothered by pop-up ads." Another example: "The MPAA is bad unless I want to see Spider-Man or buy the Tron DVD." Etc.
The Spider-Man story is pretty basic, especially when compared to the lumbering twists and turns of Star Wars: wimpy outer-borough kid contracts enormous powers, learns to use them wisely and well, faces terrible danger, sacrifices much.
Actually this is the Star Wars story as well. First trilogy: Anakin contract enormous powers (the Force), learns to use them, succumbs to evil. Second trilogy: Luke contracts enormous powers (the Force), learns to use them wisely and well, faces terrible danger, and redeems his father.
Of course there's some other themes, like man vs. technology, but I'd say the main theme of Star Wars is similar to the main theme of Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Star Wars were inspired by similar source materials as well: a comic book for the former, matinee serials for the latter.
I gotta admit, I find this amusing, although I'd never bother downloading it: I've had 12:01 tickets ready to go and there is no way I'm gonna spoil it watching a low quality divx.
So I take it you don't object to the bootleg on ethical grounds?
The upside is costs drop, and society finds other uses for previously inefficient workers.
It's not that local businesses employee inefficient workers, it's just that they don't have the buying power or the money reserves to offer prices like Walmart.
The latest Walmart controversy (as heard on NPR): they're running supermarkets in their stores and employing non-union butchers.
Supposedly Walmart treats their employees like crap. Maybe you and I don't have to worry about getting a job as a cashier, but that's no reason to applaud paying people next to nothing just so you can get a better deal on paper towels.
Which is better for the economy, a bunch of people in each city making good money selling goods at local stores, or a couple of guys in Texas making good money running a chain?
Humans should evolve to my level, or else why should I consider them human?
I don't think "evolution" is the correct word here. It's a common myth that evolution has a goal--that "higher" life forms are always the most fit. Actually it all depends on the environment. Some successful creatures are simpler than their ancestors.
Of course our medical technology means that people who wouldn't have survived a couple of thousand years ago will lead long, healthy, reproductive lives. This isn't a bad thing, but perhaps it will prevent humans from evolving through survival of the fittest.
I can consider them animals
Humans are animals.
Figure out how much you make an hour, then multiply that by the number of hours it'll take you to put together each machine. Then you'll see if building your own really is cheaper.
MacPerl may be needed for pre-X Mac OS, but what's the point of running a port of perl to a legacy environment? The "real" perl runs on Mac OS X without any porting. Why anyone would waste time and resources running it under Classic is beyond me.
The point is people will be using Classic for years. I know musicians who are still running OS 8. Heck, I know schools that are still running System 7.
I have X, but I can't stand using it because:
Just booting into X, I feel like my Mac's turned to molasses. I can do everything I want in 9 more efficiently and faster. I'm a big proponent of the "select an operating system that's STABLE, rather than bleeding edge.... come up with a suite of Pretty Good Software.... Do NOT come back for at least five years" meme. I hope X does get better, since I do want the power of Unix. I just don't want to make so many sacrifices to get it.
The commentary track on the film is interesting and informative.
Geez timothy, this sounds like a fourth-grade book report. Can anyone fill in the details here? Who does the commentary? What types of insights does it offer?
...get a clue.
Personal attack. Real good. Definitely worth a mod point.
Where did you go to school?
Snobby personal attack. Again, real good.
"Lone" Senators don't pass legislation. They introduce legislation and it gets discussed and voted on. How did you think legislation was introduced? By Moses on stone tablets?
No shit. My point is the Senator who's getting bad TV reception is going to have to gain a hell of a lot of support to get his bill passed in the Senate and House. Considering the computer industry is a pretty powerful lobby, I don't think he would have a chance.
Members of Congress are there to pass laws. They are looking for laws that will be popular with voters and campaign contributers.
You're very idealistic. I would say most Senators are there to pass laws that are popular with the companies in their state that are likely to contribute the most to their campaign funds.
Ham radios, walkie talkies, etc. are all regulated by the FCC. They operate on specific bands with specific power outputs. They can't just randomly spew interference or the FCC takes action against the manufacturer.
I'm saying you could modify all these things so they cause interference. They can't outlaw everything that could be modified to cause interference--we wouldn't be able to buy appliances.
Grow up.
A third personal attack.
I realize you're genuinely worried that someday you won't be able to buy a second harddrive, but I don't think it's going to happen because one in three million computer users screw up their computer's shielding.
Kids have somehow been raised with the inclination and ability to kill their companions in cold blood. Some aspect of social engineering has failed, and they've been dramatically warped.
This would be more accurate if you changed "kids" to "boys."
One call to the FCC from a Senator and there would be more more field strength meters and RF triangulation equipment than you've ever seen. The FCC might just send you or me a pamphlet, but they'll send a team of experts out to a Senator's home.
So to sum up your theory, someday a Senator's phone, TV, or radio will have poor reception because a wealthy computer geek is running an unshielded computer in the next room. (We all know how close you are to your neighbors in "ritzy condos.") Instead of calling the phone or cable company or sending an aide to buy a new TV (assuming the interference is constant and really annoying), this Senator will call an imaginary FCC emergency response team which will go to great lengths to track the interference down to the room next store. Then I suppose they'll have to get a search warrant to find the unshielded computer. Then this lone senator will pass legislation outlawing all computer parts. And broken microwaves. And ham radios. And walkie-talkies. And Radio Shacks.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Case mods are "rude."
This post gets mod points everytime there's a case mod thread. But how many Senators are living in apartment complexes watching TV on sets with rabbit ears? How many would be able to figure out what's causing interference on their TV when there must be dozens of possible causes? Very silly.