what I don't understand is why the music companies don't all just get together and fucking buy clear channel and make them their bitch.(I know, I know, collusion).
But frankly, if playing a song on the radio is promotion for selling CDs and concert tickets, then why the fuck shouldn't the record companies be paying for these "commercial spots" the same as the furniture stores and stereo shops?
Because then, music radio would be exposed for what it is: commercials interrupted by more commercials.
You make it sound so nice when you realize, it's going to be $5 per (DRM-enforced) unrecordable episode with unskippable commercials, and $20 per episode without ads (but only playable one time).
And people will scream and cry at the loss of "free" TV, and beg congress to pass laws to make the circumvention devices (PVRs) illegal so they can watch 40 minutes of Friends with 20 minutes of commercials again.
This has already been tried - sort of. The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran 7 minutes longer than scheduled. Pretty much anyone who recorded it lost the last 7 minutes of the show. Which is why they re-played it when outraged fans complained.
The simple solution to that is: Shows like Star Trek (and Futurama, and Dark Angel, and X Files) will be cancelled, and replaced with shows like Dawson's Creek, or (gak!) Charmed. More compliant to the new advertising model.
Think of the potential shows that simply aren't ever produced because they don't fit TODAY'S advertising model (pacing which interferes with commercial cuts would be one factor I can think of. Having an antisocial or anticommercial, or negative or critical theme would be another).
It's only "dehumanizing" to those who have some romantic delusion of the nobility of humanity. When in fact, it is human beings who perpetrate these "insidious" techniques on their fellow man.
The only thing dehumanizing about it is how you're trying to paint the advertisers as somehow less than human, and worthy of our hatred. When in fact, they're no less human than their "chattel".
The funny thing is - this was all taught to me in my High School home economics class. And it was a part of the required curriculum. If that's the case nation wide - and we're all fully aware and well educated as to what the game's all about - why are so many people such suckers, and how can someone say that the government is complicit in our brainwashing - when the government actually funds the education that warns us of these dangers? I'll tell you how. Humans are greedy stupid animals, and if they allow themselves to be treated as cattle, then they deserve to be treated as cattle.
This isn't Carmack's approach. You can see this technique all over the place in Reboot episodes as well. I think it looks pretty good, and it's an excellent trade-off because it's hard to detect in an animated image. Only when you take a still and examine it closely can you really see this. What he does with the bump maps camoflages this very well IMO.
Oh that's lovely, so a bit of bad data like a corrupt.doc file will hang Word, hang IE, and hang Explorer too.
Funny thing is, as far back as Netscape 3, I've been able to open Acrobat documents inside my browser. But at least when that crashes, it doesn't take the whole OS with it.
Hell, screw Aqua - fix bugs, optimize performance. Who needs a pretty interface as long as it's usable. Skin it with a turd-texture for all I care. Just make it stable and fast, which was the whole point of the Mozilla project in the first place.
My experience matches yours exactly. Mozilla 1rc2 is more stable and faster than IE on both Win2k and OS X. Add tabbed browsing, and the free(beer) price tag, and I think I'll be clicking on the purple-M icon instead of the blue-E icon from now on. (actually, I have it set to launch on startup, so I don't even click on the icon - now if only BOTH OS platforms would get their shit together and let me specify Moz as my default browser without it spuriously resetting back to IE every few days. ..)
I don't mind having to have a good, secure password. My gripe is having to change it every 30 days, when I'm logged into 3 different NT domains, and I have to figure out how to get my accounts passwords all synchronized when trust relationships are broken. NT and domain trust relationshipss fucking sucks. MS created Active Directory to kill Novell, and IT bought it hook line and sinker, and nobody is even fucking using directory services.
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Well, I'd tell you some constructive criticism, but it's patented, you see, so we'll have to arrange a licensing fee before you start building your software patent litigation career based on the mind-blowing information I have to tell you.
Or, let me put it this way. Imagine where humanity would be today if 300,000 years ago, Oog the caveman had been granted a patent in perpetuity on his wonderful invention, FIRE. And that this patent was enforced. For the next 300,000 years, people might try to find ways around licensing Oog's invention, and probably fail miserably, because they have no sound foundation of knowledge to back up any other way to heat things. Possibly leaving things in the sun on a hot day, but those aren't really times you want stuff to be hot anyway. Without free use of fire, we'd be eating raw antelope meat and dying from parasites and whatnot. But that's beside the point. Nobody would have invented bronze, or iron, or any metal for that matter. Hell, we couldn't even fire mud-bricks to build houses, so we'd be living in tents made of animal skins and sticks, that is, when we weren't running from predators attacking our villages at night because we couldn't chase them away with fire.
Oog becomes the richest man in the stone-age, with many wives. But he's not living in a mansion. He's still living in a fucking cave.
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Your "no-labor, no-money" thesis sounds awfully flawed.
So you're telling me that if two people enter into a private agreement, where one person gives a thing or idea to another, and in return, the other agrees to pay that person money, in exchange for the use of that thing or idea, for the rest of his or her life - that the government should make a law making such agreements illegal? Such a law would surely be unconstitutional, as well as impractical (how would you enforce it?)
Also, I can think of one specific instance of a pretty good musician who would starve with your plan. Andy Partridge of XTC, writes pretty good music, and records some pretty good music, but he has an anxiety disorder which pretty much precludes public performances. How can somebody like that make a living? I guess he better get a job flipping burgers or something, society can do just fine without his Art, right?
You're trying to turn this into an ideological argument of black or white, right and wrong - placing the whole notion of copyright as wrong and evil. When clearly there's a middle ground that could be found which would be beneficial to all. The problem with the broken IP Law system as it stands today is that the original interests of "public domain" are not represented by the current American zeitgeist of "Capitalism above all else". Because Capitalism was our sword of vengence in the holy war against Communism. As it turns out, it's a double-edged sword, and it's been turned against us by greedy corporations who exploit the concept of "Freedom" for their own personal gain. The middle ground, the balance has been lost. We've fallen down the slippery slope on the side of the giant corporations who wield too much political influence.
The root of the problem is the influence. Remove that, and the voice of the people will be heard instead, and a balance will be restored. We should not tread down the other slippery slope of elimination of the concept of intellectual property, because things are different today - today's world, with today's population, and a technically advanced race of humans, NEEDS capitalism to survive. It NEEDS the concept of intellectual property. People need to profit from their ideas. We just need reasonable, balanced limits to be set. Quite departed from where we are now, and where you seem to want society to head.
They guy has the whole Alderaan/Terrorist thing wrong. Alderaan wasn't destroyed to kill terrorists/rebel-scum. It was destroyed as an example. Remember, Tarkin said "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this Battle Station".
Trying to compare the Empire to the US/Israel, and Star Wars to the War on Terrorism is just plain retarded. We ought to have a War on Retarded Internet Pundits.
come on, wake up. Science fiction, at least in it's cinematic form, has nothing at all to do with science. Never has, in all likelyhood, never will.
Name ONE sci-fi movie or tv show (other than B5) where space ships actually obeyed the BASIC laws of physics (with regard to acceleration, reaction thrusters, etc). Even B5 ignores a lot of physics, like - the impossibility of gravity on some of the ships - attributing it to some alien technology, or centrifugal force caused by impossibly slow rotation.
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what I don't understand is why the music companies don't all just get together and fucking buy clear channel and make them their bitch.(I know, I know, collusion).
But frankly, if playing a song on the radio is promotion for selling CDs and concert tickets, then why the fuck shouldn't the record companies be paying for these "commercial spots" the same as the furniture stores and stereo shops?
Because then, music radio would be exposed for what it is: commercials interrupted by more commercials.
This means that the CD you have in your cube with XP written on it with a Sharpie will not take the service pack.
It will if the key is my company's valid bulk lic #.
Is THAT why Celine Dion gets so much viewership up there?
You make it sound so nice when you realize, it's going to be $5 per (DRM-enforced) unrecordable episode with unskippable commercials, and $20 per episode without ads (but only playable one time).
And people will scream and cry at the loss of "free" TV, and beg congress to pass laws to make the circumvention devices (PVRs) illegal so they can watch 40 minutes of Friends with 20 minutes of commercials again.
This has already been tried - sort of. The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran 7 minutes longer than scheduled. Pretty much anyone who recorded it lost the last 7 minutes of the show. Which is why they re-played it when outraged fans complained.
BS - the same analog segment of video, digitized twice, will not yeild the same MD5.
The simple solution to that is:
Shows like Star Trek (and Futurama, and Dark Angel, and X Files) will be cancelled, and replaced with shows like Dawson's Creek, or (gak!) Charmed. More compliant to the new advertising model.
Think of the potential shows that simply aren't ever produced because they don't fit TODAY'S advertising model (pacing which interferes with commercial cuts would be one factor I can think of. Having an antisocial or anticommercial, or negative or critical theme would be another).
It's only "dehumanizing" to those who have some romantic delusion of the nobility of humanity. When in fact, it is human beings who perpetrate these "insidious" techniques on their fellow man.
The only thing dehumanizing about it is how you're trying to paint the advertisers as somehow less than human, and worthy of our hatred. When in fact, they're no less human than their "chattel".
The funny thing is - this was all taught to me in my High School home economics class. And it was a part of the required curriculum. If that's the case nation wide - and we're all fully aware and well educated as to what the game's all about - why are so many people such suckers, and how can someone say that the government is complicit in our brainwashing - when the government actually funds the education that warns us of these dangers? I'll tell you how. Humans are greedy stupid animals, and if they allow themselves to be treated as cattle, then they deserve to be treated as cattle.
This isn't Carmack's approach. You can see this technique all over the place in Reboot episodes as well. I think it looks pretty good, and it's an excellent trade-off because it's hard to detect in an animated image. Only when you take a still and examine it closely can you really see this. What he does with the bump maps camoflages this very well IMO.
Oh that's lovely, so a bit of bad data like a corrupt .doc file will hang Word, hang IE, and hang Explorer too.
Funny thing is, as far back as Netscape 3, I've been able to open Acrobat documents inside my browser. But at least when that crashes, it doesn't take the whole OS with it.
Hell, screw Aqua - fix bugs, optimize performance. Who needs a pretty interface as long as it's usable. Skin it with a turd-texture for all I care. Just make it stable and fast, which was the whole point of the Mozilla project in the first place.
My experience matches yours exactly. Mozilla 1rc2 is more stable and faster than IE on both Win2k and OS X. Add tabbed browsing, and the free(beer) price tag, and I think I'll be clicking on the purple-M icon instead of the blue-E icon from now on. (actually, I have it set to launch on startup, so I don't even click on the icon - now if only BOTH OS platforms would get their shit together and let me specify Moz as my default browser without it spuriously resetting back to IE every few days. . .)
I don't mind having to have a good, secure password. My gripe is having to change it every 30 days, when I'm logged into 3 different NT domains, and I have to figure out how to get my accounts passwords all synchronized when trust relationships are broken. NT and domain trust relationshipss fucking sucks. MS created Active Directory to kill Novell, and IT bought it hook line and sinker, and nobody is even fucking using directory services.
Well, I'd tell you some constructive criticism, but it's patented, you see, so we'll have to arrange a licensing fee before you start building your software patent litigation career based on the mind-blowing information I have to tell you.
Or, let me put it this way. Imagine where humanity would be today if 300,000 years ago, Oog the caveman had been granted a patent in perpetuity on his wonderful invention, FIRE. And that this patent was enforced. For the next 300,000 years, people might try to find ways around licensing Oog's invention, and probably fail miserably, because they have no sound foundation of knowledge to back up any other way to heat things. Possibly leaving things in the sun on a hot day, but those aren't really times you want stuff to be hot anyway.
Without free use of fire, we'd be eating raw antelope meat and dying from parasites and whatnot. But that's beside the point. Nobody would have invented bronze, or iron, or any metal for that matter. Hell, we couldn't even fire mud-bricks to build houses, so we'd be living in tents made of animal skins and sticks, that is, when we weren't running from predators attacking our villages at night because we couldn't chase them away with fire.
Oog becomes the richest man in the stone-age, with many wives. But he's not living in a mansion. He's still living in a fucking cave.
Your "no-labor, no-money" thesis sounds awfully flawed.
So you're telling me that if two people enter into a private agreement, where one person gives a thing or idea to another, and in return, the other agrees to pay that person money, in exchange for the use of that thing or idea, for the rest of his or her life - that the government should make a law making such agreements illegal? Such a law would surely be unconstitutional, as well as impractical (how would you enforce it?)
Also, I can think of one specific instance of a pretty good musician who would starve with your plan. Andy Partridge of XTC, writes pretty good music, and records some pretty good music, but he has an anxiety disorder which pretty much precludes public performances. How can somebody like that make a living? I guess he better get a job flipping burgers or something, society can do just fine without his Art, right?
You're trying to turn this into an ideological argument of black or white, right and wrong - placing the whole notion of copyright as wrong and evil. When clearly there's a middle ground that could be found which would be beneficial to all. The problem with the broken IP Law system as it stands today is that the original interests of "public domain" are not represented by the current American zeitgeist of "Capitalism above all else". Because Capitalism was our sword of vengence in the holy war against Communism. As it turns out, it's a double-edged sword, and it's been turned against us by greedy corporations who exploit the concept of "Freedom" for their own personal gain. The middle ground, the balance has been lost. We've fallen down the slippery slope on the side of the giant corporations who wield too much political influence.
The root of the problem is the influence. Remove that, and the voice of the people will be heard instead, and a balance will be restored. We should not tread down the other slippery slope of elimination of the concept of intellectual property, because things are different today - today's world, with today's population, and a technically advanced race of humans, NEEDS capitalism to survive. It NEEDS the concept of intellectual property. People need to profit from their ideas. We just need reasonable, balanced limits to be set. Quite departed from where we are now, and where you seem to want society to head.
They guy has the whole Alderaan/Terrorist thing wrong. Alderaan wasn't destroyed to kill terrorists/rebel-scum. It was destroyed as an example. Remember, Tarkin said "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this Battle Station".
Trying to compare the Empire to the US/Israel, and Star Wars to the War on Terrorism is just plain retarded. We ought to have a War on Retarded Internet Pundits.
So *THAT'S* how you sugarcoat the destruction of an entire planet and it's population. The Bush administration needs to hire this guy PRONTO.
come on, wake up. Science fiction, at least in it's cinematic form, has nothing at all to do with science. Never has, in all likelyhood, never will.
Name ONE sci-fi movie or tv show (other than B5) where space ships actually obeyed the BASIC laws of physics (with regard to acceleration, reaction thrusters, etc).
Even B5 ignores a lot of physics, like - the impossibility of gravity on some of the ships - attributing it to some alien technology, or centrifugal force caused by impossibly slow rotation.
The Second Law of thermodynamics is just another Lie fed to you by The Matrix.
People will just have to cease believing everything they watch on TV. Just as we've all learned to not believe everything we read. (yeah right)
It's kinda hard to mistranslate Arafat spitting and screaming "Jihad! Jihad! Jihad!".
Wow! I just realized that I was never required to take an ethics course for my Art degree!
Think of all those muderous filthy greedy backstabbing artists out there!
As a former Chicagoan who lost a job to a lower-paid Floridian, I resent that. (then I moved to California)
Hire Chicagoan indeed!
don't do it, it will be a total clusterfuck. Unless you like daily conference calls at 11:30pm.