Would you be more satisfied if the substance had just been referred to as bolognium. ..
Oh, yeah, right. You wish. I, KFG, have acquired the world's entire stock of bolognium, and, working from my secret underground laboratory (my mom's basement), soon I'll show all those unbelievers (mods). Yes, I'll show them. I'll them all!
Shhhhhhhh! Quiet. You wouldn't want people to get the idea that "going to the library" is a valid strategy for an anonymous file sharing club, would you?
Other than less than half being "the better part" a century I'm with you. I went and bought Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Waters for a second time on CD and still consider it a better financial deal, especially since I still retain some financial value in both the LPs and CDs.
I'll probably just copy Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. to a CD though, as I previously did to tape, which I can do because I own it.
Speaking of forgetting. The point isn't weither one can, or can not bypass these means. But the effort required to do so. It all eventually reaches a point were people will simply say "to hell with it"
Have you forgotten that we aren't discussing "people", but rather members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Frickin' Sciences?
I think any of them that are sufficiently motivated and skilled to rip a DVD in the first place can handle plugging a VCR into the video out jacks.
You say that like it's an obvious point, but a) it isn't and b) is a fairly new way of doing things. For most of its history the record industry actually paid for the recording process, simply considering it their capital investment in the product. Go figure, investing capital in your own product.
So, in the days when record companies actually payed for the recording process, and not unfrequently actually did pay the artists money up front, not loan, if they thought they really had winners, records weren't considered works for hire, but now that the money is merely a loan which the artists must pay back they are.
Nah, I'm not even going to give the record companies any credit for sticking behind artists. In the case of Springsteen what he had was a personal evangelist in John Hammond. John was special.
For instance, the Foo Fighters proved you don't need a state-of-the-art studio to produce a great album.
I thought The Beatles made that point adequately with Abbey Road, but it seems to be one of those lessons that needs to learned over and over again.
As things stand with certain massive netblocks that have sent me nothing but spam, viruses, phishing attempts, and 419 scams for several years, I am willing to risk losing one or two legitimate contacts in favor of eliminating thousands upon thousands of undesirable contacts.
And obviously, since you personally have only received unsolicited email from Nigeria, where you presumably have few social contacts, thousands upon thousands of them must be spammers/scammers and only one or two "legitimate contacts."
By that logic nearly every country in the world would be blocked by nearly every other country.
It would seem more reasonable to assume that, given the nature of spam, a few bad apples are spoiling it for thousands upon thousands of "legitimate contacts."
Yes, it would be nice if the respective governments would/could do something about it. Perhaps "we" should set them a shining example of how to go about it properly, for a change, before we bitch overmuch.
Don't forget that the record label puts up tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for studio time and marketing. ..
Don't forget that the artists owe this back to the record company.
. ..which they most of the time lose to artists who make a crappy record or even blow their advance on coke.
They should sign better artists. The recording studio is most often payed directly by the record company, the money for such is rarely in the form of a "cash advance." They know better than that. Unless you're an established artist that recording studio is also likely to be owned by or under contract to the record company. They get the money for every angle possible.
The record is a joint effort, and the label deserves to be rewarded for its speculation.
Certainly, but it is speculation, therefore they should also be prepared to take risks, and lose, just as I should be "rewarded" for speculating on a stock or house. I have to mind my own business, do my research, and take my chances. So do they.
What's a shame is that the standard contracts are "artist gets shit". ..
Ah, yes, you see? This is what they call what they deserve for their speculation. The artist speculates too, and such financial speculation is, these days, often stipulated by the terms of the recording contract and any monies advanced to them by the record companies to capitalize such speculation are loans owed back to the record company, taken off the top of record sales, but often still owed by the artists even if the record tanks. You can go bankrupt with a 100k in unit sales and a good tour.
So, you work for hire, don't get payed, but go massively into debt to boot to the people who "hired" you.
XML is also about semantics and graphs, which is why RDF is expressed in it. As such it isn't about relationships, it's about heirarchy. It most certainly isn't about data storage at all. That's a hardware issue that can't be solved by a markup language. The fact that some people are stretching it beyond the breaking point to try to make into a heirarchical database doesn't alter that fact. It's a semantic markup language. Period. Its theoretical basis in mathmatics is graph theory.
In fact, XML is only intended for transfering data, which can be more efficiently, and more easily, transfered by the simple expediant of agreeing to semantics ahead of time and not bothering with all the bloody tags. XML itself recognizes this by bundling that agreement with the document in the form of a DTD, which, once you have, you don't need all the bloody tags.
RDF, from what I can gather quickly, may be formulated with a predefined semantics, so you you don't need to use XML and thus you don't need all the bloody tags, but, as per above, the same goes for XML itself.
Did I mention that you don't need all the bloody tags?
I think Chris "Jar'anthe" Le Sueur is referring to JCL
Yeah, I figured, but I have a hard time resisting a straight line.
Around my house I let my mom handle the JCL anyway. When she took her aptitude test for state employment the answer came back "sheet metal worker." In the early 60s that was out of the question, so for some reason they figured that the next closest thing was mainframe guru.
Maybe they got confused by the fact that it was called "Big Iron."
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Would you be more satisfied if the substance had just been referred to as bolognium. . .
Oh, yeah, right. You wish. I, KFG, have acquired the world's entire stock of bolognium, and, working from my secret underground laboratory (my mom's basement), soon I'll show all those unbelievers (mods). Yes, I'll show them. I'll them all!
Behold! The birth of The Green Slashdotter!
KFG
I was wondering, if Slashdot readers have any recommendations for a cheap automated way to store and retrieve data."
Although the good ones don't come cheap. I guess this another case of "pick any two."
KFG
Shhhhhhhh! Quiet. You wouldn't want people to get the idea that "going to the library" is a valid strategy for an anonymous file sharing club, would you?
KFG
Pre-verts and communists have created a new device made to infiltrate the NorthAm-complex.
But, Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name, if you shoot it you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
KFG
On the other hand, no 1909 Hupmobiles were stolen last year. Obviously the one to have despite their lack of electronic gizmos.
KFG
. . .but stores arent always opened when Murphy's Law decides to apply itself.
Or even any stores within a days walking distance through the blizzard/desert/what have you.
KFG
Electronic voting involves the press of a button next to party name/candidate/symbol, which greatly simplifies things..
Please explain how and why.
KFG
Is it possible to design better slashdotting bait than that?
An MPEG of Natalie Portman with hot grits down her pants installing Debian in SpaceShipOne in preperation for including it in the LEO beowulf cluster?
KFG
Other than less than half being "the better part" a century I'm with you. I went and bought Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Waters for a second time on CD and still consider it a better financial deal, especially since I still retain some financial value in both the LPs and CDs.
I'll probably just copy Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. to a CD though, as I previously did to tape, which I can do because I own it.
KFG
If I "have few [where few==0] contacts in Nigeria", how can I have "thousands upon thousands" of contacts there?
Exactly.
KFG
Damn, I hope NASA remembered to keep up with its insurance premiums.
KFG
What type of organisms can sustain life under such low tempartures?
Sapmelas.
KFG
Speaking of forgetting. The point isn't weither one can, or can not bypass these means. But the effort required to do so. It all eventually reaches a point were people will simply say "to hell with it"
Have you forgotten that we aren't discussing "people", but rather members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Frickin' Sciences?
I think any of them that are sufficiently motivated and skilled to rip a DVD in the first place can handle plugging a VCR into the video out jacks.
KFG
Well no shit, it's not a gift, it's a loan.
You say that like it's an obvious point, but a) it isn't and b) is a fairly new way of doing things. For most of its history the record industry actually paid for the recording process, simply considering it their capital investment in the product. Go figure, investing capital in your own product.
So, in the days when record companies actually payed for the recording process, and not unfrequently actually did pay the artists money up front, not loan, if they thought they really had winners, records weren't considered works for hire, but now that the money is merely a loan which the artists must pay back they are.
Again, seems like a fair deal to me.
KFG
Nah, I'm not even going to give the record companies any credit for sticking behind artists. In the case of Springsteen what he had was a personal evangelist in John Hammond. John was special.
For instance, the Foo Fighters proved you don't need a state-of-the-art studio to produce a great album.
I thought The Beatles made that point adequately with Abbey Road, but it seems to be one of those lessons that needs to learned over and over again.
KFG
Has everyone forgotten that you still have this kind of copy protection?
Has everyone forgotten that all you need to get around it is a TV monitor with video out as well?
KFG
Yet at the same time it makes a few poor arguments. . . -- that does seem like a lame way about it, don't you think?
Yes, I do agree that it was a poorly written article.
KFG
And what about all the bloody tags. Do we still need them?
Did I mention that we don't need all the bloody tags?
KFG
The poster is rather plainly a Macedonian who is annoyed at having trouble with web sites. . .
.it's the USA's fault, Israel's fault, Russia's fault. . .
.
.especially given the limited news value of a pure opinion post.
Plainly. Any number of Slashdot stories have been based on similar complaints. Do they only count if it's an American doing the bitching?
. .
He said nothing of the kind. He pointed out a certain hypocrisy in the blacklisting.
I don't see why it's Slashdot's job to be free advertising for this guy's personal opinion. .
I rather thought that was one of its overt functions where the opinion might be relevant to the tech/computer/internet world.
. .
I disagree that it is pure opinion or of limited news value, but then I don't take a purely "western" point of view either.
C'mon, really, slashdot is a news site, not "opinionated rant of the week", for that I read the comments, not the articles.
And now you have mine.
KFG
As things stand with certain massive netblocks that have sent me nothing but spam, viruses, phishing attempts, and 419 scams for several years, I am willing to risk losing one or two legitimate contacts in favor of eliminating thousands upon thousands of undesirable contacts.
And obviously, since you personally have only received unsolicited email from Nigeria, where you presumably have few social contacts, thousands upon thousands of them must be spammers/scammers and only one or two "legitimate contacts."
By that logic nearly every country in the world would be blocked by nearly every other country.
It would seem more reasonable to assume that, given the nature of spam, a few bad apples are spoiling it for thousands upon thousands of "legitimate contacts."
Yes, it would be nice if the respective governments would/could do something about it. Perhaps "we" should set them a shining example of how to go about it properly, for a change, before we bitch overmuch.
KFG
Don't forget that the record label puts up tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for studio time and marketing. . .
.which they most of the time lose to artists who make a crappy record or even blow their advance on coke.
.
Don't forget that the artists owe this back to the record company.
. .
They should sign better artists. The recording studio is most often payed directly by the record company, the money for such is rarely in the form of a "cash advance." They know better than that. Unless you're an established artist that recording studio is also likely to be owned by or under contract to the record company. They get the money for every angle possible.
The record is a joint effort, and the label deserves to be rewarded for its speculation.
Certainly, but it is speculation, therefore they should also be prepared to take risks, and lose, just as I should be "rewarded" for speculating on a stock or house. I have to mind my own business, do my research, and take my chances. So do they.
What's a shame is that the standard contracts are "artist gets shit". .
Ah, yes, you see? This is what they call what they deserve for their speculation. The artist speculates too, and such financial speculation is, these days, often stipulated by the terms of the recording contract and any monies advanced to them by the record companies to capitalize such speculation are loans owed back to the record company, taken off the top of record sales, but often still owed by the artists even if the record tanks. You can go bankrupt with a 100k in unit sales and a good tour.
So, you work for hire, don't get payed, but go massively into debt to boot to the people who "hired" you.
Sounds like a fair deal to me.
KFG
XML is also about semantics and graphs, which is why RDF is expressed in it. As such it isn't about relationships, it's about heirarchy. It most certainly isn't about data storage at all. That's a hardware issue that can't be solved by a markup language. The fact that some people are stretching it beyond the breaking point to try to make into a heirarchical database doesn't alter that fact. It's a semantic markup language. Period. Its theoretical basis in mathmatics is graph theory.
In fact, XML is only intended for transfering data, which can be more efficiently, and more easily, transfered by the simple expediant of agreeing to semantics ahead of time and not bothering with all the bloody tags. XML itself recognizes this by bundling that agreement with the document in the form of a DTD, which, once you have, you don't need all the bloody tags.
RDF, from what I can gather quickly, may be formulated with a predefined semantics, so you you don't need to use XML and thus you don't need all the bloody tags, but, as per above, the same goes for XML itself.
Did I mention that you don't need all the bloody tags?
KFG
I think Chris "Jar'anthe" Le Sueur is referring to JCL
Yeah, I figured, but I have a hard time resisting a straight line.
Around my house I let my mom handle the JCL anyway. When she took her aptitude test for state employment the answer came back "sheet metal worker." In the early 60s that was out of the question, so for some reason they figured that the next closest thing was mainframe guru.
Maybe they got confused by the fact that it was called "Big Iron."
KFG
Presumably you don't have to use the mainframe's arcane language to get around.
.bash?
You mean, like. .
KFG
500 Channels and there's nothing on!
Nonsense. At any given moment Ron Popeil is on about 247 of them. In the wee hours I think it's closer to 476.
KFG