This isn't true though. This is all over the news, not just the tech news. Hell, there is a VERY white-bread radio show on WGN in Chicago late at night with two of the most non-tech people on the planet and they were even having a big discussion about it...in between giving recipes for Thanksgiving and crap like that.
And it's getting bigger and bigger. This was on CNN, Fox, MS-NBC etc etc. It's everywhere.
I'm sure there are a few people who get fired up about it, but I suspect most people don't care all that much.
I suppose you didn't hear about the Sony DRM debacle did you? Ok, was being sarcastic there as you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about it. Then would you mind revising your statement above as obviously MANY people cared a bunch about that and it put DRM right into the limelight...which the RIAA doesn't want it shown. It doesn't want press about DRM or anything like this. They want the people not to "care all that much". But obviously this isn't going to happen as many people got fired up about the rootkit AND the DRM crap.
And as you see, now there's even editorials in the frickin New York Times!
Depends on what buildings you're looking at. Look at the Chrysler Building in New York. Pick a building by Frank Lloyd Wright such as Falling Water. Those are two of the easy ones.
There are many other great buildings that could have just been refrigerator boxes. But the architect spent time to truly make it a work of art.
Don't be a snob...there are plenty of fine examples in both Europe and America and all over the world really.
I would say more fights break out due to large amounts of tequila than just about anything else. Well, beer being number one followed very closely with tequila.
Worse yet, tequila usually means fights with vomiting involved.
Hardly a "love bomb"....unless you're into that kind of thing.
Was thinking: I have two normal arms and hands now, but could I attach another set of bionic arms and hands?
How about bionic tentacles? Like 4 metal bionic tentacles attached...I don't know...to my spinal cord somehow. Would that be possible? Make them really strong too, and extendable.
Yeah...that's the ticket! Then I will make them pay! Oh yes, I will make them ALL pay! MWHAHAHAHA! Laugh at me now will you!
1. Buy 200 billion Xbox 360s. 2. MS loses 25.2 trillion dollars. 3. No one buy any games for these 360's so no royalties go to now bankrupt MS. 4. Port OSX and Linux to Xbox 360. 5. Network together all 200 billion 360s to make ULTRAMAX, the supreme overlord computer that controls everyones daily lives. 6. ??? (who knows what the future will hold then).
Perhaps they could put into the code that when someone submits an article it does an auto-search of past articles and comes up with a match. Kind of like Digg does.
Also, have it to where anyone can post a story and it will be up to regular readers to be the editors and determine if the story makes it to the main page or not. Kind of like Digg does.
Or better yet, just go to Digg. Digg would be much better if they had threaded comments though.
Yeah, I know I sound like that. But the thing is, where do you really see anyone ranting like this? It's usually only the religious nut-jobs that get away with it.
And you're right, I don't respect their "beliefs" because that's all they are, beliefs. I respect science. I respect testing and proofs and facts. Not some fable meant to keep the masses in check for fear the boogieman will get them. How can you respect someone that claims to be intelligent yet still thinks this way? It's idiotic to begin with. But fine, everyone has a right to be idiotic just as many people reading my rant thought I was idiotic. Only thing is, I'm not trying to re-define science as the Kansas School Board did to encompass ID. I'm not trying to stifle free-speech because someone "may" show a naked breast on TV. I'm not trying to halt stem-cell research because it may or may not be immoral. I didn't set back the FDA when it tried to make the Morning After Pill over-the-counter for fear women may become more promiscuous. I could go on and on, but I won't.
Also, when you quoted my post you forgot to take out "believing in Santa Claus" etc etc. How many Atheists believe in that? And by the way, I'm not an Atheist, I'm just pissed.
He had an anti-religious agenda? Great! I like this guy more and more! I mean, we all know that religion in all it's forms is a bunch of bullshit. Staggering, blatant bullshit. Bullshit of the highest order!
I hope these Christian idiots cry out more and more because we're finally starting to see what these people really are. The more they bellow out, the more intelligent people will just shake their heads and move on with their lives. This will be the death-nell for religion and it's about time. It's time for these idiots to grow up and stop believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and God and for them to STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE. I was one for tolerance. For letting people do what they wish and believe in what they wish in the privacy of their own homes. But now this minority...yes they're in a minority...of Christian assholes is now effecting my life, and in a very negative way.
It's time we take anyone that's religious and start treating them as if they had a mental illness. Stop giving these morons any air-time. Who the fuck cares if Billy Graham(and no, I don't care if I spelled his name right) had a vision about this country. If you have visions, that's an illness! Don't you get it? If God talks to you, you need to be on medication.
Yes, I know I'm going to be modded down to flame or troll or whatever. I don't care. I'm sick of this shit.
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Is it true that Athena really came out of Zeus' head? I find that really hard to believe because we all...oh, what's that? Not that type of myth?
The snakes have found a way to keep the rats in a coral, or so they think.
They still don't understand that the new age of music and songs and publishing is upon us. You don't need fancy million dollar studios to make music. You don't need radio airplay if you're good enough. You don't even need a marketing blitz if you're good enough.
This article is further proof that the music industry is at heart greedy and evil. They treat their artists like slaves and keep them bound to them with the "company store" tactics. Artists, break away. You don't need them.
What we need now is a MAJOR artist to break away and go it his or her or their own. Someone like Neil Young, or Dylan or the Stones or U2. A major musical act. They have the money to break away, and they can show that it CAN be done. Cut out the middle man, that's all these record companies are. They're unneeded in today's world.
Well, it WAS a 2000 dollar question, which means they're ment to be a little harder. Plus they had "War" in quoation marks meaning that the answer had "war" in it. Yet they still didn't get it.
Though it wouldn't happen in a million years, I'd like to think this will bring Sony to it's knees. It won't, but someone can dream.
Not that I had anything against Sony in the first place, but since this crap they threw out there and expected everyone to just "take it", they need to be slapped and slapped often.
They haven't even apologized yet. At least I haven't seen it. Though just saying "sorry" doesn't cut it anymore as thousands of computers are now vulnerable in the world due to their greed.
I liked at a Mac World Bungie was showing off their latest and greatest game that had ALL kinds of neat things on it plus it looked great. They demoed it onstage and said that it was going to be Mac only.
Wonder what ever happened to that game...and has it come out yet for the Mac? (/sarcasm)
Ico for the PS2. This was a great game and had a very moving ending.
Another game that may have gotten press back when it was going strong but kinda fell off the face of the Earth was Descent. I remember playing Descent 2 online a lot. It's a shame that it kinda died.
No no no...you have to label just about anything as "art" nowadays. The "art" of chess...the "art" of programming...the "art" of mechanics...the "art" of football.
This way no one feels bad about themselves as anyone can be considered an artist now. Spend years with a master at an Atelier learning how to draw and paint? Pfft...no need today! All you have to do is find something you're kinda-sorta good at and say you're an "artist".
Good at surfing the net? Just tell people you're perfecting the "art of surfing". Playing video games is an art also! Hey all you couch rats playing your Xboxes...you're all fricken Bouguereaus!
So it's like The Beatles. Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights (well, half of the publishing rights from what I understand as Sony owns the other half in some weird deal he did for cash) but the mechanical rights still belong to The Beatles...meaning the original recordings, right?
Thought I like what John Lennon said about all this: "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
The thing is, Joe Desktop is getting bombarded now with this story all over the main stream press. Heck it was even in my local Podunk newspaper!
I see this beginning to be the backlash of DRM for the average "Joe Desktop". Especially when the media is throwing in the scary worded "root kit" voodoo around.
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This isn't true though. This is all over the news, not just the tech news. Hell, there is a VERY white-bread radio show on WGN in Chicago late at night with two of the most non-tech people on the planet and they were even having a big discussion about it...in between giving recipes for Thanksgiving and crap like that.
And it's getting bigger and bigger. This was on CNN, Fox, MS-NBC etc etc. It's everywhere.
I'm sure there are a few people who get fired up about it, but I suspect most people don't care all that much.
I suppose you didn't hear about the Sony DRM debacle did you? Ok, was being sarcastic there as you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about it. Then would you mind revising your statement above as obviously MANY people cared a bunch about that and it put DRM right into the limelight...which the RIAA doesn't want it shown. It doesn't want press about DRM or anything like this. They want the people not to "care all that much". But obviously this isn't going to happen as many people got fired up about the rootkit AND the DRM crap.
And as you see, now there's even editorials in the frickin New York Times!
In other news, Apple is rumored to be working on an operating system that is based on BSD Unix and will have a user-friendly UI attached to it.
They are also thinking of getting into the music arena, possibly with portable MP3 players, but analysts say this is just crazy.
Depends on what buildings you're looking at. Look at the Chrysler Building in New York. Pick a building by Frank Lloyd Wright such as Falling Water. Those are two of the easy ones.
There are many other great buildings that could have just been refrigerator boxes. But the architect spent time to truly make it a work of art.
Don't be a snob...there are plenty of fine examples in both Europe and America and all over the world really.
I would say more fights break out due to large amounts of tequila than just about anything else. Well, beer being number one followed very closely with tequila.
Worse yet, tequila usually means fights with vomiting involved.
Hardly a "love bomb"....unless you're into that kind of thing.
Was thinking: I have two normal arms and hands now, but could I attach another set of bionic arms and hands?
How about bionic tentacles? Like 4 metal bionic tentacles attached...I don't know...to my spinal cord somehow. Would that be possible? Make them really strong too, and extendable.
Yeah...that's the ticket! Then I will make them pay! Oh yes, I will make them ALL pay! MWHAHAHAHA! Laugh at me now will you!
Renderfarm maybe?
If only we could port Vray, Mental Ray and PRman to it.
Cheap renderfarm networked together. Need lots of cooling though from what I understand about the 360
1. Buy 200 billion Xbox 360s.
2. MS loses 25.2 trillion dollars.
3. No one buy any games for these 360's so no royalties go to now bankrupt MS.
4. Port OSX and Linux to Xbox 360.
5. Network together all 200 billion 360s to make ULTRAMAX, the supreme overlord computer that controls everyones daily lives.
6. ??? (who knows what the future will hold then).
Let's get going on this people.
Perhaps they could put into the code that when someone submits an article it does an auto-search of past articles and comes up with a match. Kind of like Digg does.
Also, have it to where anyone can post a story and it will be up to regular readers to be the editors and determine if the story makes it to the main page or not. Kind of like Digg does.
Or better yet, just go to Digg. Digg would be much better if they had threaded comments though.
Yeah, I know I sound like that. But the thing is, where do you really see anyone ranting like this? It's usually only the religious nut-jobs that get away with it.
And you're right, I don't respect their "beliefs" because that's all they are, beliefs. I respect science. I respect testing and proofs and facts. Not some fable meant to keep the masses in check for fear the boogieman will get them. How can you respect someone that claims to be intelligent yet still thinks this way? It's idiotic to begin with. But fine, everyone has a right to be idiotic just as many people reading my rant thought I was idiotic. Only thing is, I'm not trying to re-define science as the Kansas School Board did to encompass ID. I'm not trying to stifle free-speech because someone "may" show a naked breast on TV. I'm not trying to halt stem-cell research because it may or may not be immoral. I didn't set back the FDA when it tried to make the Morning After Pill over-the-counter for fear women may become more promiscuous. I could go on and on, but I won't.
Also, when you quoted my post you forgot to take out "believing in Santa Claus" etc etc. How many Atheists believe in that? And by the way, I'm not an Atheist, I'm just pissed.
He had an anti-religious agenda? Great! I like this guy more and more! I mean, we all know that religion in all it's forms is a bunch of bullshit. Staggering, blatant bullshit. Bullshit of the highest order!
I hope these Christian idiots cry out more and more because we're finally starting to see what these people really are. The more they bellow out, the more intelligent people will just shake their heads and move on with their lives. This will be the death-nell for religion and it's about time. It's time for these idiots to grow up and stop believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and God and for them to STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE. I was one for tolerance. For letting people do what they wish and believe in what they wish in the privacy of their own homes. But now this minority...yes they're in a minority...of Christian assholes is now effecting my life, and in a very negative way.
It's time we take anyone that's religious and start treating them as if they had a mental illness. Stop giving these morons any air-time. Who the fuck cares if Billy Graham(and no, I don't care if I spelled his name right) had a vision about this country. If you have visions, that's an illness! Don't you get it? If God talks to you, you need to be on medication.
Yes, I know I'm going to be modded down to flame or troll or whatever. I don't care. I'm sick of this shit.
Is it true that Athena really came out of Zeus' head? I find that really hard to believe because we all...oh, what's that? Not that type of myth?
Never mind then...oh, and great show!
go to the RIAA Radar Home and put in any artist or album or UPC code and it will tell you if it's from a RIAA artist or not.
I used it a lot when Pepsi and Apple were giving away all those songs and I only redeemed the songs from Indy acts.
Check it out.
The snakes have found a way to keep the rats in a coral, or so they think.
They still don't understand that the new age of music and songs and publishing is upon us. You don't need fancy million dollar studios to make music. You don't need radio airplay if you're good enough. You don't even need a marketing blitz if you're good enough.
This article is further proof that the music industry is at heart greedy and evil. They treat their artists like slaves and keep them bound to them with the "company store" tactics. Artists, break away. You don't need them.
What we need now is a MAJOR artist to break away and go it his or her or their own. Someone like Neil Young, or Dylan or the Stones or U2. A major musical act. They have the money to break away, and they can show that it CAN be done. Cut out the middle man, that's all these record companies are. They're unneeded in today's world.
Well, it WAS a 2000 dollar question, which means they're ment to be a little harder. Plus they had "War" in quoation marks meaning that the answer had "war" in it. Yet they still didn't get it.
This story get's weirder by the minute.
Though it wouldn't happen in a million years, I'd like to think this will bring Sony to it's knees. It won't, but someone can dream.
Not that I had anything against Sony in the first place, but since this crap they threw out there and expected everyone to just "take it", they need to be slapped and slapped often.
They haven't even apologized yet. At least I haven't seen it. Though just saying "sorry" doesn't cut it anymore as thousands of computers are now vulnerable in the world due to their greed.
You haven't seen Pirates I take it? It's high def and it's great. Well, for porn standards it's great.
All I saw was "HD-DVD 9GB HD HD-DVD AACS, BD Plus, and ROM Mark iHD (HD-DVD) vs BD-J/Java (Blu-Ray)"
My acronym cup runneth over...
Um...nah...I like my version better. Sounds more dramatic.
Your facts and insight are not welcome here!
I liked at a Mac World Bungie was showing off their latest and greatest game that had ALL kinds of neat things on it plus it looked great. They demoed it onstage and said that it was going to be Mac only.
Wonder what ever happened to that game...and has it come out yet for the Mac? (/sarcasm)
ah, you're assuming that I read the "press". When I picked this game up it was in the bargin bin and I'd never even heard of it before.
Oh well, that's what I get for living in a cave.
Ico for the PS2. This was a great game and had a very moving ending.
Another game that may have gotten press back when it was going strong but kinda fell off the face of the Earth was Descent. I remember playing Descent 2 online a lot. It's a shame that it kinda died.
No no no...you have to label just about anything as "art" nowadays. The "art" of chess...the "art" of programming...the "art" of mechanics...the "art" of football.
This way no one feels bad about themselves as anyone can be considered an artist now. Spend years with a master at an Atelier learning how to draw and paint? Pfft...no need today! All you have to do is find something you're kinda-sorta good at and say you're an "artist".
Good at surfing the net? Just tell people you're perfecting the "art of surfing". Playing video games is an art also! Hey all you couch rats playing your Xboxes...you're all fricken Bouguereaus!
So it's like The Beatles. Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights (well, half of the publishing rights from what I understand as Sony owns the other half in some weird deal he did for cash) but the mechanical rights still belong to The Beatles...meaning the original recordings, right?
Thought I like what John Lennon said about all this: "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
The thing is, Joe Desktop is getting bombarded now with this story all over the main stream press. Heck it was even in my local Podunk newspaper!
I see this beginning to be the backlash of DRM for the average "Joe Desktop". Especially when the media is throwing in the scary worded "root kit" voodoo around.