Facebook is becoming youtube for "I'm on the crapper and thought of this", "look at my food" and "everybody upvote this but dont' do a damned real thing about it" videos.
Made a breakthrough album in his free time while working as a studio engineer. Made some more important records. Legendary live performer. Made a couple of film soundtracks. Ran his own label. Had bust-ups with his labels. Told Australian fans to steal his album Year Zero because the prices in the shops were too high. Released an album under Creative Commons NC and made money off the deluxe editions. Released another project under "pay something or don't, up to you". Released an album for free online. Makes remix stems available to all and hosts a site for community remixes. He's probably one of the most qualified people out there to talk about music production and distribution. And Slashdotters are going to ignore that because they don't like what he's saying.
I'm seeing a lot of hipocracy. "Released... free, told fans to steal it because... released under CC, pay something or don't". Now he's complaining about competing with free, when he's released his own stuff free (or near free) for years.
Yeah I bet you won't hear him saying the same thing about AM/FM radio which is also free.
AM/FM radio still has commercials and does in fact pay the music industry (not sure about artists cut) to play songs. Internet radio, like Pandora, follows the same sort of rules as AM/FM radio. The product (music) is free to the consumer, but the distributor (radio station) gets paid by ads.
I have yet to find a rhyme or reason to Youtube adds. They seem to be random with some lean toward "You must really want to watch this video so we will show 5 minutes of ads".
And yet those impulse buy paparrazi rags are still on sale at the grocery store. Honestly, who really gives a crap about "Obscure Soap Opera Actors 3rd cousin gave birth to an alien!"? There must be a market for that brain garbage because those "magazines" and sites like Gawker continue to pop up and exist.
Gawker is one case where voting with your wallet simply does not work. Since they own other, (arguably) more reputable and popular sites, they get some portion of the profits. Sure, their bankruptcy is attributable to a lawsuit funded by a billionaire with a grudge. However, I look at it more like "Crap reporting overstepped libel bounds and got their asses handed to them". It may set precedent for the rich directing media, but I hope it also sets precedent for the legal consequences of libelous reporting.
Now if only we could get Fox News and CNN to report more facts instead of political opinion...
There's a difference between Assault and Battery. Assault is the threat, Battery is the action. If I threaten to harm you, that's assault. I hit you with a golf club, that's battery. (disclaimer: I'm not a legal professional).
There's a subtlety to battery though, it has to be non-consensual. This guy likely has told people that his machine will poke you with a needle in your fingertip, at a random time, and his test subjects must have consented. Due to the consent, its not battery, regardless of where the blame lies (robot or creator). Similarly, running into a busy freeway and getting killed by a semi is suicide, not vehicular manslaughter (or homicide), as long as the driver was not driving recklessly.
So, if I know that this machine is designed with the sole purpose of poking me with a needle and I sit down to it and put my hand in the strike zone, it's my own damned fault for doing it. The machine and its creator can't be responsible for my decision to do so.
Good ol' Wikipedia:
Only 2 games "needed" the expansion pak, Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask and Donkey Kong 64.
In the former it increased texture detail and removed fog like was seen in Ocarina of Time. In Donkey Kong 64 it was needed to enhance graphics and expand the environments... oh, and there was that game-crashing bug that happened without the expansion pack. That's why they bundled it with that game.
There were a handful of other games that made use of it for things like higher resolution, larger textures, larger environments, or higher frame rates.
Since the PS4 is basically an AMD-based PC running a modified BSD, I think this "Neo" is going to be little more than a bump between performance levels of a laptop. If they continue down the road, I'd expect to see "Recommends at least PS4.x, required minimum console PS4.2 'NEO'" much like you see the recommended vs required for PC games. Time will tell if it makes sense to the consumer to buy a new PS4 every 3-5 years (or less).
If its truly a secure computing environment then it wouldn't be an issue in the first place... there would be air gaps and physical security mechanisms in place.
This is interesting to me and very enlightening to know the NHTSA would bend an auto maker over. I have a BMW E46 which had a subframe tear issue. There was a safety class action, but not recall. When my car exhibited the issue, BMW Corporate fought me on it. Eventually they agreed to pay a portion of it, but I had to sign one of these Goodwill docs too, saying I wouldn't share details (ooops....).
These sorts of documents aren't nearly as rare as you might think. They are there to save public face for the car manufacturers. In my case it was worth it to BMW to cough up a few grand instead of face a lawsuit and a slew of bad publicity.
Pretty sure we can blame Ballmer for Windows 8 (and Vista if I remember correctly). Now it's Nadella's fault Windows 10 is one big malware operation, positioning it as the PC version of Android instead of, you know, listening to his customers.
They must have done the same thing for Austin and surrounding area. From 6:30 to 9:00 each morning and 4:00 to 7:00 each afternoon the whole city slows to 25 mph.
Sad that theres so much password reuse that this sort of thing is needed... Awesome of these companies to take initiative and let people know their accounts aren't safe.
One of my favorites with the "Xbox - " commands was a dude with gamertag "XboxSignout". He would then proceed to troll everyone in CoD, then as soon as they called out his name they'd inadvertently drop themselves from the game. Check it out here , there's also "XboxTurnOff" and a few others.
It might be a little trickier to weave "Hey Cortana" into a gamertag, but i'm sure someone somewhere is smart enough to figure it out, and someone else is dumb enough to fall for it.
"aid and comfort" doesn't require war or even conflict. I'm not legal professional, but it seems anything that reveals US plans or tactics can be considered aiding the enemy.
If you partners secretary tells you how your business partner is collecting data about you, they just gave you "aid".
So... people have petitioned the Executive branch of the US government about a nonprofit organization to "investigate" a private corporation.
I feel I'm missing something here. Change.org was about government transparency and action, such as the petition to build the death star, or classify westboro baptist church as a hate group (thereby removing any federal funding for 'religious organization'). Where is the link between the Obama administration and a nonprofit organization?
I get why the EFF could be involved in a lawsuit against MS, but they likely aren't going to stir up crap here... nor do they have any investigative powers.
What exactly are they investigating for? Are they doing anything that illegal? if that EULA is enforcable as a contract, by clicking "ok" you've agreed to MS's terms.
Google pushes the GApps with every android device, all of which phone home in some way shape or form and collect your data. Even better, they are next to impossible to remove. So MS is doing the same thing with the desktop. Why is it okay for my phone, which I use many times a day to look things up and communicate with others, and not my desktop that I use every few days?
Not that I agree with either practice, but if something pisses you off, it should piss you off no matter who is doing it.
Good point with theaters. Though I still argue there is some "lower bound" for an acceptable sale price for physical products, some intrinsic cost for something tangible for us, the consumers. If paper alone is 5 cents per 100 sheets, you'll never see a new 200 page book for under 10 cents, ignoring all other costs associated with printing/binding/shipping/royalties/etc...
My point is that these perceptions of value are skewed by distributors clinging to an old sales model. Software/media pirates have a perception of value for a product lower than the asking price, many probably think $0 is perfectly fine. I've often thought that $60 is too much for some new games, while $50 or even $40 is more reasonable. Can I rationalize why I think a lower price is more reasonable? Not really, it comes down to my (likely flawed) memory of when games were cheaper, or maybe that I buy some older games used for $15. I doubt I'm the only one out there that feels this way.
You can make the same profits by selling 100,000 copies with a $1 margin as you can by selling 1000 copies with $100 margin. Lower that barrier for entry, and I'm pretty sure you'll see more purchases. After all, AAA titles are now competing with indie developers that are increasingly capable of making good games for 1/4 the price.
DRM and resale is less of a concern if people are able to spend less money on new.
The only cure for unpleasant speech is more speech. Anything else ultimately makes it worse.
This is one of those things that I think any rational person could agree with. Speech helps, but you need the tackle the source of the fear/prejudice. Unfortunately there's no being rational with an irrational person. Look no further than the definition:
phobia - (n) an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Trying to talk a group of people (or an entire culture) out of their phobia is kind of like talking someone out of arachnophobia by showing them spider documentaries. To bring about real change involves real action from both sides. To tackle this xenophobia or Islamophobia, we would need both the western countries to stop bombing Islamic nations AND have those Islamic countries enter peaceful talks and 'integration' into the western countries. The first part would reduce that initial fear and hatred of the west (after all, we stop lobbing bombs at women and children, getting the extremists angrier and angrier). The second part would introduce that mutual understanding of the cultures.
But then again, we still have confederate flags flying around in the southern U.S. some 150 years later.
Slashdot Mirror
Who knew that SNL would predict the future?
Netflix uses HTML5 in Chrome by default... they have been for a while. Both methods work fine.
Just wait for Facebook or Google to take advantage of it.
Facebook is becoming youtube for "I'm on the crapper and thought of this", "look at my food" and "everybody upvote this but dont' do a damned real thing about it" videos.
And i thought it was brain garbage before...
Made a breakthrough album in his free time while working as a studio engineer. Made some more important records. Legendary live performer. Made a couple of film soundtracks. Ran his own label. Had bust-ups with his labels. Told Australian fans to steal his album Year Zero because the prices in the shops were too high. Released an album under Creative Commons NC and made money off the deluxe editions. Released another project under "pay something or don't, up to you". Released an album for free online. Makes remix stems available to all and hosts a site for community remixes. He's probably one of the most qualified people out there to talk about music production and distribution. And Slashdotters are going to ignore that because they don't like what he's saying.
I'm seeing a lot of hipocracy. "Released ... free, told fans to steal it because... released under CC, pay something or don't". Now he's complaining about competing with free, when he's released his own stuff free (or near free) for years.
Yeah I bet you won't hear him saying the same thing about AM/FM radio which is also free.
AM/FM radio still has commercials and does in fact pay the music industry (not sure about artists cut) to play songs. Internet radio, like Pandora, follows the same sort of rules as AM/FM radio. The product (music) is free to the consumer, but the distributor (radio station) gets paid by ads.
I have yet to find a rhyme or reason to Youtube adds. They seem to be random with some lean toward "You must really want to watch this video so we will show 5 minutes of ads".
Can Fox News be next?
And yet those impulse buy paparrazi rags are still on sale at the grocery store. Honestly, who really gives a crap about "Obscure Soap Opera Actors 3rd cousin gave birth to an alien!"? There must be a market for that brain garbage because those "magazines" and sites like Gawker continue to pop up and exist.
Gawker is one case where voting with your wallet simply does not work. Since they own other, (arguably) more reputable and popular sites, they get some portion of the profits. Sure, their bankruptcy is attributable to a lawsuit funded by a billionaire with a grudge. However, I look at it more like "Crap reporting overstepped libel bounds and got their asses handed to them". It may set precedent for the rich directing media, but I hope it also sets precedent for the legal consequences of libelous reporting.
Now if only we could get Fox News and CNN to report more facts instead of political opinion...
I'm gonna throw in a wrench.
There's a difference between Assault and Battery. Assault is the threat, Battery is the action. If I threaten to harm you, that's assault. I hit you with a golf club, that's battery. (disclaimer: I'm not a legal professional).
There's a subtlety to battery though, it has to be non-consensual. This guy likely has told people that his machine will poke you with a needle in your fingertip, at a random time, and his test subjects must have consented. Due to the consent, its not battery, regardless of where the blame lies (robot or creator). Similarly, running into a busy freeway and getting killed by a semi is suicide, not vehicular manslaughter (or homicide), as long as the driver was not driving recklessly.
So, if I know that this machine is designed with the sole purpose of poking me with a needle and I sit down to it and put my hand in the strike zone, it's my own damned fault for doing it. The machine and its creator can't be responsible for my decision to do so.
Good ol' Wikipedia:
Only 2 games "needed" the expansion pak, Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask and Donkey Kong 64. In the former it increased texture detail and removed fog like was seen in Ocarina of Time. In Donkey Kong 64 it was needed to enhance graphics and expand the environments... oh, and there was that game-crashing bug that happened without the expansion pack. That's why they bundled it with that game.
There were a handful of other games that made use of it for things like higher resolution, larger textures, larger environments, or higher frame rates.
Since the PS4 is basically an AMD-based PC running a modified BSD, I think this "Neo" is going to be little more than a bump between performance levels of a laptop. If they continue down the road, I'd expect to see "Recommends at least PS4.x, required minimum console PS4.2 'NEO'" much like you see the recommended vs required for PC games. Time will tell if it makes sense to the consumer to buy a new PS4 every 3-5 years (or less).
If its truly a secure computing environment then it wouldn't be an issue in the first place... there would be air gaps and physical security mechanisms in place.
It's about as coherent as an M. Night Shamalayan movie, without the predictable twist ending.
This is interesting to me and very enlightening to know the NHTSA would bend an auto maker over. I have a BMW E46 which had a subframe tear issue. There was a safety class action, but not recall. When my car exhibited the issue, BMW Corporate fought me on it. Eventually they agreed to pay a portion of it, but I had to sign one of these Goodwill docs too, saying I wouldn't share details (ooops....).
These sorts of documents aren't nearly as rare as you might think. They are there to save public face for the car manufacturers. In my case it was worth it to BMW to cough up a few grand instead of face a lawsuit and a slew of bad publicity.
It's just a shame that F***face VonClownstick is already taken.
Pretty sure we can blame Ballmer for Windows 8 (and Vista if I remember correctly). Now it's Nadella's fault Windows 10 is one big malware operation, positioning it as the PC version of Android instead of, you know, listening to his customers.
I, for one, am voting for Kodos.
Either way, our planet is doomed.
They must have done the same thing for Austin and surrounding area. From 6:30 to 9:00 each morning and 4:00 to 7:00 each afternoon the whole city slows to 25 mph.
Sad that theres so much password reuse that this sort of thing is needed... Awesome of these companies to take initiative and let people know their accounts aren't safe.
One of my favorites with the "Xbox - " commands was a dude with gamertag "XboxSignout". He would then proceed to troll everyone in CoD, then as soon as they called out his name they'd inadvertently drop themselves from the game. Check it out here , there's also "XboxTurnOff" and a few others.
It might be a little trickier to weave "Hey Cortana" into a gamertag, but i'm sure someone somewhere is smart enough to figure it out, and someone else is dumb enough to fall for it.
"aid and comfort" doesn't require war or even conflict. I'm not legal professional, but it seems anything that reveals US plans or tactics can be considered aiding the enemy.
If you partners secretary tells you how your business partner is collecting data about you, they just gave you "aid".
So... people have petitioned the Executive branch of the US government about a nonprofit organization to "investigate" a private corporation.
I feel I'm missing something here. Change.org was about government transparency and action, such as the petition to build the death star, or classify westboro baptist church as a hate group (thereby removing any federal funding for 'religious organization'). Where is the link between the Obama administration and a nonprofit organization?
I get why the EFF could be involved in a lawsuit against MS, but they likely aren't going to stir up crap here... nor do they have any investigative powers.
What exactly are they investigating for? Are they doing anything that illegal? if that EULA is enforcable as a contract, by clicking "ok" you've agreed to MS's terms.
Google pushes the GApps with every android device, all of which phone home in some way shape or form and collect your data. Even better, they are next to impossible to remove. So MS is doing the same thing with the desktop. Why is it okay for my phone, which I use many times a day to look things up and communicate with others, and not my desktop that I use every few days?
Not that I agree with either practice, but if something pisses you off, it should piss you off no matter who is doing it.
Yup, the universe is making me look FAT
Yea, it's the universe doing that... not the doughnuts, doritos and mountain dew.... ;-)
Good point with theaters. Though I still argue there is some "lower bound" for an acceptable sale price for physical products, some intrinsic cost for something tangible for us, the consumers. If paper alone is 5 cents per 100 sheets, you'll never see a new 200 page book for under 10 cents, ignoring all other costs associated with printing/binding/shipping/royalties/etc...
My point is that these perceptions of value are skewed by distributors clinging to an old sales model. Software/media pirates have a perception of value for a product lower than the asking price, many probably think $0 is perfectly fine. I've often thought that $60 is too much for some new games, while $50 or even $40 is more reasonable. Can I rationalize why I think a lower price is more reasonable? Not really, it comes down to my (likely flawed) memory of when games were cheaper, or maybe that I buy some older games used for $15. I doubt I'm the only one out there that feels this way.
You can make the same profits by selling 100,000 copies with a $1 margin as you can by selling 1000 copies with $100 margin. Lower that barrier for entry, and I'm pretty sure you'll see more purchases. After all, AAA titles are now competing with indie developers that are increasingly capable of making good games for 1/4 the price.
DRM and resale is less of a concern if people are able to spend less money on new.
The only cure for unpleasant speech is more speech. Anything else ultimately makes it worse.
This is one of those things that I think any rational person could agree with. Speech helps, but you need the tackle the source of the fear/prejudice. Unfortunately there's no being rational with an irrational person. Look no further than the definition:
phobia - (n) an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Trying to talk a group of people (or an entire culture) out of their phobia is kind of like talking someone out of arachnophobia by showing them spider documentaries. To bring about real change involves real action from both sides. To tackle this xenophobia or Islamophobia, we would need both the western countries to stop bombing Islamic nations AND have those Islamic countries enter peaceful talks and 'integration' into the western countries. The first part would reduce that initial fear and hatred of the west (after all, we stop lobbing bombs at women and children, getting the extremists angrier and angrier). The second part would introduce that mutual understanding of the cultures.
But then again, we still have confederate flags flying around in the southern U.S. some 150 years later.
Thank you, go take a god damn civics class, and don't post on anything happening in the Congress again until you do.
Wait... Things are happening in this Congress? I thought we discussed their inaction before.