I've been part of that scene and once you've got the bug, there's no escaping. I haven't touched a tracker or made music for ages, and one of the next things I want to buy myself for xmass is a midi kb.
Some of the trackers of way back have become professional music artists. (and I mean true artists, not pop idols or 'project products') I still have the greatest respect for the technical skill of Necros, Basehead, WAVE, Carebear, PurpleMotion.. they see sound and waves like no other artist will ever see them.
..going a bit too far ? Unlike other 'star' professionals or 'artist' products, they contol a keyboard and they produce shakey motion video. It's not like I'm going to pay for it, certainly not if it is meant to sustain people in living of it. I mean, these people give me nothing except a bit of momentary visual awe, and it's not as if I am having fun.
Games should be for fun. It is obvious that games are copied because people want that fun, thus ripping off the companies that make them. Are we now not taking it one step further, ripping the fun out of it as well?
Uh. Hello. INDIE means independent. The MPAA can say that they own the moon it doens't mean a thing to the indies. They will keep on sending out screeners, and thus are not affected by the 'ban'. Only cheap low budget MPAA releases may be hit by the ban, because their box office sales depend on how well a movie is received in the adds and screeners on tele.
As to the notion of Art in MPAA releases, ouch, that fucking hurts!!
Out of all movies I've seen, usually only the non - US movies actually mean something to me, everything else is just very nice eyecandy, entertainment, and the occasional Michael Moore to actually contribute something valuable.
I mean.. I know I can do without the damn give-away-everything-in-5-seconds screeners.
Hmm.. I agree with what you say, but not for the reasons you mention. The only thing that should not change is the hardware specs, and yes, that includes the drive. Not because of the change in size, but because of the probably differences in transfer and troughput. I don't think that issue lives with RAM at all, as long as games hold to the minimum sizes.. What is much more important for games are things like the GPU and CPU specs, and DVD/CD transfer and throughput ratings. If those are nor consistent, we're not talking about a console at all..
On the one hand the fall of Builder, on the other the rise of Devstudio.
Well what happened was that basically everybody from Borland was bought by Microsoft to come work on devstudio. I know it sounds like a trivial sort of joke but unfortunately it was the reality for Borland. They had a major problem filling up the gaps to complete the projects, and on top of that, since the whole industry was jumping on the windows train, they had no choice but to comply with the OS specifications dictated by Microsoft, who surprisingly allways had the earliest updates and extensions available for their products. That's something everybody knows, but that the whole team was actually bought off from Borland is generally lesser well known.
When NVidia towered over legendary 3dfx I smelled something similar. And IBM, Motoralla and AMD have had a similar thing going. The industry lead often is based on people's capacities, not just on brand or production, and there's only just a few of those people that can actually set the rules.
Imho I think that is what every current leader does, african, american, asian or european. It just depends on how much you got to win/loose to actually do it..
When google came, it came with freedom. This what made google strong.
Imho, it isn't up to a corporation to decide on what is good and what is evil. It is not even up to the laywers. It is up to us, the people. If 80% of the people on the net are filesharing, then maybe there is something wrong with the pressure corporations have on what should be allowed and what should not be allowed.
Of course a good capitalist isn't supposed to say such things. The good of corporations is never to be questionned. But the globalisation of the socio - economic freedom movements has recently stepped up it's pace to catch on with what has happened over the last few decades in the industry, and the internet has played a catalysing role to level the playground. Are we now to condemn this progression and cling on to the old standards and customs ?
Maybe it is time that the industry adjusts to the new societies and customs, instead of trying to conform a society to industry rules and good practices. Failing to do so is sure to result in socio cultural disaster and will frustrate a world population because it is held back from what it wants.
The point is that you are going to have a hard time proving that any acces point serves any particular song fragment. And it seems that making the samples short enough (30 seconds) solves legal issues that may still be involved if you do get "caught".
I dunno if somebody knows about e-Mule, but this exellent P2P proggy allows one to leech blocks from different sources, even when a source itself does not have the complete file yet. So these sources are in effect not necessarily sharing media, just parts of it.
The only thing e-Mule now needs is a tedency to distribute complete files over different parts of the network, so that very few access points share the complete file. Once the file is downloaded, e-Mule then just shares parts of it, but never the complete file. Depending on the required parts, the shared parts may even vary over time.
Seems like the perfect nightmare for any DMCA groupie-lawyer to me.
The educations of an entire generation are being destroyed in the rush to below-average mediocrity. Only the very few companies actually accomplish anything truly innovative. The rest simply exist, like tree moss, consuming resources and producing very little. This better get fixed, because this process is called "eating your own seedcorn."
How right you are! And this is not only apparent in the god of economy and it's consumerism laws, but also in morality, ecology, and science. I'm so glad this kind of good article content is finally gaining ground in the U.S., even if it's just a small step.
.. the harder it will be to nail down a single individual.
And maybe the generous people of the kazaa crowd can set up a small fund for anybody who get's sued after all? If the p2p networks also distribute the costs of the risks involved with a large userbase, then no-one should feel anything heavy at all.
Yes, missed opportunities, but quite obviously, c# is the better alternative here.
Microsoft essentially LOST BIG TIME in the Java race. But then it just learned, copied, rehashed, improved, and re-invented it. And it's just better than it's predecessors ever had the imagination of being possible to be. So it should survive and in it's own turn inspire new and rivaling technology. I may sound like an MS weasel now, I'm really not, I'm just convinced c# has more valid reasons to thrive than Java.
Yes, I used Netscape long after everyone had allready switched, because I had a better sence of trust of Netscape over IE. But it seems that regardless of what companies claim with their privacy statements, it's gonna be bogus anyway.
I think if you come over and see how well we're doing, as opposed to how poor people in your country are, then yes, you may ahve the strongest economy. You can keep it.
The UK people has no whish to join the EU. The UK corporations are begging the government. And the government is bullshitting the rest of Europe with strong claims and demands. Gimme one good reason why the UK should join Europe, because if the UK public doesn't see it, why should Europe even consider it. The UK is welcome, like any nation is, but on EU terms, not on UK terms.
Nice thought... but its like the metric system. Who will want to change what they have known for many a lifetime.
I know my 60 year old dad who does carpentry will never learn the metric system, even though it would be easier, why would he, or the millions like him want to learn a new addressing scheme?
It's not a matter of age, or even a matter of necessity to learn something new.
It's refusal to give up the knowledge you have allready acquired and leaned upon.
I'm not that old, but I for one like the addressing scheme we use here in our little european country, though I know full well that it's full of bizar things, and inefficient like hell. Still, it is something that also defines the identity of 'home'. No doubt using the newer system would eventually get familiar too, but I guess my address can never have the specific identity it has today.
For me it's culture thing, and I want to keep it as is.
To be able to determine the pre-conditions for a simulation that needs to be started as you enter it's 'importance'-zone, you need to simulate all the elements that determine the pre-condition. Since in real life everything is influenced by everything, the recursion never ends.
This example provides good intuition about how e.g. quark entanglement works in quantum space.
3d games are an overly simplified version of life. There's no smell, no wind, no moisture, no air pressure, incomplete material properties.. there are only some physics simulations that in most games are 'ok' at best.
(For the record, I work on 3d computer games, and even though our games are very much alive, you could never fool me:).. but I must agree with you saying halo2 and halflife2 are friggin close to a physically correct experience..)
One place where the left and the right agree (Score:1) by Bold Marauder (673130) on Friday May 30, @01:38PM (#6078527) Is that free spaces such as the internet cannot be allowed. Both sides [democrats and republicans] seem to feel that the internet needs to be regulated "we had burn the village to save it" style.
It's gone far, too far out of hand and sadly there are no viable [I know about the libertarians and the greens--note that I said 'viable'] alternatives available.
But that's assuming that the internet is regulated singlehandedly by US bodies. Which will not be the case. And that's a presumption that a lot of US posters make.
I think that the minute the US government starts taking ownership of the net, as in: regulating and listening in, you will see that a lot of euro-providers will be forced to snip the chord, pressured by the european parliament, who don't want the US patronizing their part of the Net. You will probably see the same thing happen in China and Russia. The once famous 'internet' will then be split in smaller parts and pieces where each nation can have it's desired sense of 'control'.
I would highly dislike such a course of action by your government officials if I were you. But hey, as they say, write your congressman today.
Last time I checked, they went baosting on the millions of lines of code that the OS and related products comprises. Code cleaning means spotting POSSIBLE semantic errors, refactoring classes, refactoring organisation, and quite possibly, totaly rewrite whole parts just because it was all wrong from the start. That's gonna be some long hours for a handfull of programmers if they have to do everything again, with the added danger to introduce new bugs or alternative behavior. Unless they have the behavior of every little teensy bit of code clearly documented, with exceptions, timing issues, every damn possible pre and post condition, this is barely something you can oversee (and even if you had that kind of information you'd probably drown in it).
Most of all, additional security means additional cycles souped up. And introducing alternative code paths can potentially break an API.
The fact that they even try this approach means that their top execs have no understanding what it is to write software. It is often times better to throw everything away (well, at close hand range anyway) and restart from scratch with all the new ideas and designs. But I guess good old 'backwards compatibility' has allways been the haunting ghost in SF-bay & Redmond.
I don't know where you get your information from, but that is the official stance of this country, and I for one will not be one to go against the majority.
I'm afraid you seriously mean that don't you.
What democracy do you get when every opinion is that of the majority?
Your quotes were on the mark though.. the 'axis of evil' has never been more aware of the fact that a new cold war is to be upon them. I wonder if the US is aware they are not only refueling their own but also Russia's and China's war-economies. Thank you Mr. Wolfovitz. If I ever meet you I won't hesitate.
Well Again, I agree. Here in Europe, boycotts are rare but usually very good tools to let the government know what the people really want.
And again I support a 'voluntary organised boycott'. But even more strongly I oppose any commercial or politcal organisation making up the rules on this subject.
Seems the US has quite a tradition in boycotts. In europe the people are much more minding their own business.. Boycott manifestations are very rare. What does happen frequently are street protest marches against murderers, to mourn recently murdered people, against political or ecological disastrous decisions, both on a national and on an international level, and of course we have strikes like everywhere else. But I can't remember a real people's boycott. Don't think I've lived through one yet.
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I've been part of that scene and once you've got the bug, there's no escaping. I haven't touched a tracker or made music for ages, and one of the next things I want to buy myself for xmass is a midi kb.
Some of the trackers of way back have become professional music artists. (and I mean true artists, not pop idols or 'project products') I still have the greatest respect for the technical skill of Necros, Basehead, WAVE, Carebear, PurpleMotion.. they see sound and waves like no other artist will ever see them.
..going a bit too far ? Unlike other 'star' professionals or 'artist' products, they contol a keyboard and they produce shakey motion video. It's not like I'm going to pay for it, certainly not if it is meant to sustain people in living of it. I mean, these people give me nothing except a bit of momentary visual awe, and it's not as if I am having fun.
Games should be for fun. It is obvious that games are copied because people want that fun, thus ripping off the companies that make them. Are we now not taking it one step further, ripping the fun out of it as well?
Uh. Hello. INDIE means independent. The MPAA can say that they own the moon it doens't mean a thing to the indies. They will keep on sending out screeners, and thus are not affected by the 'ban'. Only cheap low budget MPAA releases may be hit by the ban, because their box office sales depend on how well a movie is received in the adds and screeners on tele.
As to the notion of Art in MPAA releases, ouch, that fucking hurts!!
Out of all movies I've seen, usually only the non - US movies actually mean something to me, everything else is just very nice eyecandy, entertainment, and the occasional Michael Moore to actually contribute something valuable.
I mean.. I know I can do without the damn give-away-everything-in-5-seconds screeners.
Hmm.. I agree with what you say, but not for the reasons you mention. The only thing that should not change is the hardware specs, and yes, that includes the drive. Not because of the change in size, but because of the probably differences in transfer and troughput. I don't think that issue lives with RAM at all, as long as games hold to the minimum sizes.. What is much more important for games are things like the GPU and CPU specs, and DVD/CD transfer and throughput ratings. If those are nor consistent, we're not talking about a console at all..
On the one hand the fall of Builder, on the other the rise of Devstudio.
Well what happened was that basically everybody from Borland was bought by Microsoft to come work on devstudio. I know it sounds like a trivial sort of joke but unfortunately it was the reality for Borland. They had a major problem filling up the gaps to complete the projects, and on top of that, since the whole industry was jumping on the windows train, they had no choice but to comply with the OS specifications dictated by Microsoft, who surprisingly allways had the earliest updates and extensions available for their products. That's something everybody knows, but that the whole team was actually bought off from Borland is generally lesser well known.
When NVidia towered over legendary 3dfx I smelled something similar. And IBM, Motoralla and AMD have had a similar thing going. The industry lead often is based on people's capacities, not just on brand or production, and there's only just a few of those people that can actually set the rules.
Imho I think that is what every current leader does, african, american, asian or european. It just depends on how much you got to win/loose to actually do it..
cheers..
I'm simply amazed by that people like you DO in fact exist. They just need to speek up much more often and much louder. Welcome to my friends list.
When google came, it came with freedom. This what made google strong.
Imho, it isn't up to a corporation to decide on what is good and what is evil. It is not even up to the laywers. It is up to us, the people. If 80% of the people on the net are filesharing, then maybe there is something wrong with the pressure corporations have on what should be allowed and what should not be allowed.
Of course a good capitalist isn't supposed to say such things. The good of corporations is never to be questionned. But the globalisation of the socio - economic freedom movements has recently stepped up it's pace to catch on with what has happened over the last few decades in the industry, and the internet has played a catalysing role to level the playground. Are we now to condemn this progression and cling on to the old standards and customs ?
Maybe it is time that the industry adjusts to the new societies and customs, instead of trying to conform a society to industry rules and good practices. Failing to do so is sure to result in socio cultural disaster and will frustrate a world population because it is held back from what it wants.
The point is that you are going to have a hard time proving that any acces point serves any particular song fragment. And it seems that making the samples short enough (30 seconds) solves legal issues that may still be involved if you do get "caught".
You mean like downloading the worst ever comic movie in hollywood history?
Why?
I dunno if somebody knows about e-Mule, but this exellent P2P proggy allows one to leech blocks from different sources, even when a source itself does not have the complete file yet. So these sources are in effect not necessarily sharing media, just parts of it.
The only thing e-Mule now needs is a tedency to distribute complete files over different parts of the network, so that very few access points share the complete file. Once the file is downloaded, e-Mule then just shares parts of it, but never the complete file. Depending on the required parts, the shared parts may even vary over time.
Seems like the perfect nightmare for any DMCA groupie-lawyer to me.
Better ask your missionaries to install some extra multi-boot options to keep the rush going..
The educations of an entire generation are being destroyed in the rush to below-average mediocrity.
Only the very few companies actually accomplish anything truly innovative. The rest simply exist, like tree moss, consuming resources and producing very little. This better get fixed, because this process is called "eating your own seedcorn."
How right you are! And this is not only apparent in the god of economy and it's consumerism laws, but also in morality, ecology, and science. I'm so glad this kind of good article content is finally gaining ground in the U.S., even if it's just a small step.
Sir, you just made my day!
And maybe the generous people of the kazaa crowd can set up a small fund for anybody who get's sued after all? If the p2p networks also distribute the costs of the risks involved with a large userbase, then no-one should feel anything heavy at all.
Now here's a business model that work..
Yes, missed opportunities, but quite obviously, c# is the better alternative here.
Microsoft essentially LOST BIG TIME in the Java race. But then it just learned, copied, rehashed, improved, and re-invented it. And it's just better than it's predecessors ever had the imagination of being possible to be. So it should survive and in it's own turn inspire new and rivaling technology. I may sound like an MS weasel now, I'm really not, I'm just convinced c# has more valid reasons to thrive than Java.
Flame away!
Yes, I used Netscape long after everyone had allready switched, because I had a better sence of trust of Netscape over IE. But it seems that regardless of what companies claim with their privacy statements, it's gonna be bogus anyway.
Allways nice to get a reminder..
I think if you come over and see how well we're doing, as opposed to how poor people in your country are, then yes, you may ahve the strongest economy. You can keep it.
The UK people has no whish to join the EU. The UK corporations are begging the government. And the government is bullshitting the rest of Europe with strong claims and demands. Gimme one good reason why the UK should join Europe, because if the UK public doesn't see it, why should Europe even consider it. The UK is welcome, like any nation is, but on EU terms, not on UK terms.
Nice thought... but its like the metric system. Who will want to change what they have known for many a lifetime.
I know my 60 year old dad who does carpentry will never learn the metric system, even though it would be easier, why would he, or the millions like him want to learn a new addressing scheme?
It's not a matter of age, or even a matter of necessity to learn something new.
It's refusal to give up the knowledge you have allready acquired and leaned upon.
I'm not that old, but I for one like the addressing scheme we use here in our little european country, though I know full well that it's full of bizar things, and inefficient like hell. Still, it is something that also defines the identity of 'home'. No doubt using the newer system would eventually get familiar too, but I guess my address can never have the specific identity it has today.
For me it's culture thing, and I want to keep it as is.
Not quite.
To be able to determine the pre-conditions for a simulation that needs to be started as you enter it's 'importance'-zone, you need to simulate all the elements that determine the pre-condition. Since in real life everything is influenced by everything, the recursion never ends.
This example provides good intuition about how e.g. quark entanglement works in quantum space.
3d games are an overly simplified version of life. There's no smell, no wind, no moisture, no air pressure, incomplete material properties.. there are only some physics simulations that in most games are 'ok' at best.
(For the record, I work on 3d computer games, and even though our games are very much alive, you could never fool me
Haha, man, you really do make me laugh.
You're trying to get me on my horse, aren't you.. funny that.. but as much as I'd like to tell you that you're wrong, I won't.
Cheers,
One place where the left and the right agree (Score:1)
by Bold Marauder (673130) on Friday May 30, @01:38PM (#6078527)
Is that free spaces such as the internet cannot be allowed. Both sides [democrats and republicans] seem to feel that the internet needs to be regulated "we had burn the village to save it" style.
It's gone far, too far out of hand and sadly there are no viable [I know about the libertarians and the greens--note that I said 'viable'] alternatives available.
But that's assuming that the internet is regulated singlehandedly by US bodies. Which will not be the case. And that's a presumption that a lot of US posters make.
I think that the minute the US government starts taking ownership of the net, as in: regulating and listening in, you will see that a lot of euro-providers will be forced to snip the chord, pressured by the european parliament, who don't want the US patronizing their part of the Net. You will probably see the same thing happen in China and Russia. The once famous 'internet' will then be split in smaller parts and pieces where each nation can have it's desired sense of 'control'.
I would highly dislike such a course of action by your government officials if I were you. But hey, as they say, write your congressman today.
Last time I checked, they went baosting on the millions of lines of code that the OS and related products comprises. Code cleaning means spotting POSSIBLE semantic errors, refactoring classes, refactoring organisation, and quite possibly, totaly rewrite whole parts just because it was all wrong from the start. That's gonna be some long hours for a handfull of programmers if they have to do everything again, with the added danger to introduce new bugs or alternative behavior. Unless they have the behavior of every little teensy bit of code clearly documented, with exceptions, timing issues, every damn possible pre and post condition, this is barely something you can oversee (and even if you had that kind of information you'd probably drown in it).
Most of all, additional security means additional cycles souped up. And introducing alternative code paths can potentially break an API.
The fact that they even try this approach means that their top execs have no understanding what it is to write software. It is often times better to throw everything away (well, at close hand range anyway) and restart from scratch with all the new ideas and designs. But I guess good old 'backwards compatibility' has allways been the haunting ghost in SF-bay & Redmond.
Cheers & eurocents,
I don't know where you get your information from, but that is the official stance of this country, and I for one will not be one to go against the majority.
I'm afraid you seriously mean that don't you.
What democracy do you get when every opinion is that of the majority?
Your quotes were on the mark though.. the 'axis of evil' has never been more aware of the fact that a new cold war is to be upon them. I wonder if the US is aware they are not only refueling their own but also Russia's and China's war-economies. Thank you Mr. Wolfovitz. If I ever meet you I won't hesitate.
Well Again, I agree. Here in Europe, boycotts are rare but usually very good tools to let the government know what the people really want.
And again I support a 'voluntary organised boycott'. But even more strongly I oppose any commercial or politcal organisation making up the rules on this subject.
Seems the US has quite a tradition in boycotts. In europe the people are much more minding their own business.. Boycott manifestations are very rare. What does happen frequently are street protest marches against murderers, to mourn recently murdered people, against political or ecological disastrous decisions, both on a national and on an international level, and of course we have strikes like everywhere else. But I can't remember a real people's boycott. Don't think I've lived through one yet.