I'm convinced that "Ant" doesn't have a job. Not only does he submit stories here, but also to Blues News EVERY day, also to VideoSift and other sites not to mention his own.
So not only does he have to go out and actually find these stories to submit to all these different sites, he has to take the time to write a submission. And I don't think he's getting compensated for it...I mean, how would he?
Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder
So let me get this straight, some person or group of persons could go and put a claim on every video on Youtube now and they'd have to take them all down...since they're not required to verify the entity making the request? That seems a bit silly doesn't it? What's stopping someone from mass emailing them with requests for a huge chunk of videos?
Well, unless these games have the same polished, smooth gameplay experience, then no....Blizzard has nothing to fear.
AoC seems to me to be rushed out of the door too early as all these games seem to be...giving people that pick it up early a bad experience with downed servers and buggy content.
What happened to Vanguard? Or Lord of the Rings Online? They too were suppose to carve a chunk out of the WoW numbers but neither did this.
Hey, I hope I'm wrong about AoC. I hope it has a smooth launch and is an excellent gameplay experience...but I'm not holding my breath. You have to go a LONG way to match the quality of a Blizzard product. Yes, people may be sick of WoW and Blizzard...but you can't deny that they give you a quality product.
I'm a little confused, isn't Ubuntu just another Debian distro?
Now, I'm a little dumb and all, but I thought that Ubuntu was just Debian with a great install and update system...but everything on it is all in Debian, yes? So if you install this, you have a Debian install, right?
While HDTVs may be slowly becoming a standard, Blu-Ray and HD DVD players are no where close. I think we are a bit tech biased here, but when I tend get out of my tech world, and my job, it seems a lot of people out there really have no clue what the hell either format is yet. Could it be that because there was no one standard for High Def video that people were all waiting to buy...which is why neither Blu Ray or HD-DVD are close to DVD sales? DVD sales took a little while to build up steam too, and was no where close to VHS sales. It takes time. DVD took over more quickly than CD did to vinyl, but it still took a few years. Now that we have a standard for high def, maybe adoption will come about quicker else all those 1080p TV's being sold today are being wasted on low-rez DVD content.
Also, and you're not the only one doing it, the elitist attitude of "the masses are asses" is growing old. When my 66 year old mother-in-law knows about this stuff, then lots of people do.
If this situation continues, and the other manufacturers don't drastically improve their performance, then Blu-ray is set to become almost as proprietary to Sony as the UMD. And who's fault will this be? Sony's? You answered this right in your statement: the other manufacturers need to drastically improve their performance. Are you saying that it's not fair that Sony builds a better Blu Ray player than other manufacturers? Why should other manufacturers get an easy ride? If they want to compete, then let them get their collective asses in gear and start making quality, high performance Blu Ray players. If they fail due to their ineptitude, I have no sympathy for them.
So there should be two formats or even more out in the world to give a choice for consumers? A choice to not buy either until one format wins so they don't get left with obsolete hardware where nothing new is going to be released on?
How about this, every studio comes up with their own format! That way, there's tons of choices for the consumer! Want to watch a Univeral or Paramount movie? You have to buy a special player to play their formats. Think of the possibilities! Think of the competition! Think of the illegal downloads because no one would want to put up with that bullshit!
And a new "Linux on the desktop is set to explode this year" comments from various people.
Though they're a little late on this aren't they? It's the end of January...they usually start this talk in the first 1 or 2 weeks of the year. But it's good to see they're consistent.
Also, not trolling here, I really hope Linux does explode and gain market share...it's just I've heard this year after year after year. But I suppose that one year it's actually going to happen.
Exactly, the CD itself it starting out with no dynamic range because that's how they're producing them now...well, a majority of them at least.
It's not like they lose the dynamic range just when converting to mp3's. Hell, even old recordings being "remastered" today are being purposely stripped of their dynamic range just to make it "louder".
Some people need to go and actually read the article.
Ok, granted...but my point is that he's been wrong about every decision that Apple has made. He was complaining about how they when with their own in-house scripting language instead of taking his. Said they were wrong for making clones...said they were wrong when they cancelled the clones. Said they were wrong when they went from 68000 to PPC...said they were wrong when they went from PPC to Intel...said they were wrong when they went with NeXT....said they were wrong with OS X blah blah blah. He's proclaimed Apple dead and buried so many times it's hard to take this guy seriously anymore.
He's still pissed that they made Applescript instead of buying/licensing Frontier from him all those years ago I think.
Dave "Whiner" complaining about something Apple did! (that is, when he's not patting himself on the back for inventing everything on the Internet)...SHOCKING! Stop the presses!
This guy isn't an industry pundent like Dvorak...he's suppose to just be a developer. Just about every decision that Apple has made in the past 20 years has been commented on by him as gloom and doom for the company.
These boneheads in Washington stop wasting my money and yours on idiotic crap like this that doesn't matter at all except to show their constituents that "they care"...so they can get their votes.
It's like their investigation into steroids in baseball. Who gives a crap? It's fricken baseball!
Stop wasting my money and time and get back to work!
Well, looking at it from that point of view there hasn't really been any "relevant" music in the past 30 years or so. That is in the Rock & Roll front.
The innovation and experimentations happened in the 50' and 60's and ended somewhere in the 70's. A quote from a friend of mine: "Any time you have a new artistic format you have a period of creative development a period of creative explosion and then a period of rehashing. Rock is a mature art form. It's all been done before to one degree or another. Nothing wrong with that, but "rock and roll" is yesterdays music and the creative explosions are happening in other areas now."
NIN and Radiohead are in the very broad genre of "Rock"...and they're very good and I like their music. But honestly, is it THAT radical and new and different than other things? Today it seems everything is a mix of something from the past. There really isn't any way around that as it's matured and no matter what you do, there is only so many ways you can make a song unless you do something that's so far removed from western music that it's almost unrecognizable as "music". Yes, when Rock started it too was a mixture of things in the past...but it quickly grew away from that and went into new and exciting territories. Now it's pretty much stagnant. Good music to be sure...but nothing radical.
This always bugs me. WTF does "relevant" music mean? Music stands by itself if it was made yesterday or 60 years ago. "Relevant" is a term clueless music critics use now when they have nothing else to say.
BTW, I was a kid in the 70's and a Kiss fan back then and no, they didn't really upset parents back then at all. Punk upset parents. Kiss was never really out there for the music anyway. It was always a show. A Broadway production. A spectical.
But having said all that, Gene Simmons is pretty much out of it. Another technology-illiterate person that's scared of new things and ideas. Simmons was a genius...but not really a musical one...but a marketing genius. He had all the angles covered...business wise.
They'll come up on something they haven't seen before...and they'll lose their transporter and warp drive capability. Then they'll take the (insert technobabble thing here) and reverse the (insert another technobabble thing here) to save the day with only seconds to spare only to end the movie with some quote from literature.
"finally"....what? That a trojan is on an OS? Every OS can have a trojan on it.
A "virus" takes advantage of flaws in the OS. A "trojan" takes advantage of flaws in the user of the OS.
You could have the most secure, bug free OS in the world and still a trojan could bring it all down like a house of cards. All it needs to do is fool the user/admin into giving it root access and WHAM, you're system is compromised. It's not the fault of the OS or any inherent flaws in the OS.
Hell, you could have a sheet of paper laying next to computer that itself is a "trojan". All it has to say is "To fix this problem, bring up Terminal, type "sudo rm -rf/" and all your troubles will be wiped away". Someone that isn't totally computer literate may fall for something like this.
So before anyone jumps all over OS X or any OS as being vulnerable, think for a moment.
There is no "finally" to this. This isn't an exploit. This isn't a virus.
That's the way I did it. Took about 25 minutes to install everything and I was back up and running with no problems.
The only thing I've changed is the 3D dock to a 2D dock. It looks nicer...even nicer than the old dock. I'm one of the few it seems to really like the new Stacks feature, but I understand the gripes of others that used nested folders (I never did). I love the new Finder and Spotlight...even though I'll still be using Quicksilver. Spaces is useful for me so far. All my applications are up and running with no problems.
The new Mail and Safari are VERY fast. Opening Mail now is instant now. Again, another "feeling" description: everything feels faster. I know, there's really no way to quantify that statement, but Leopard does seem to have sped up my system.
But hey, there are always problems in upgrading an OS. Does anyone remember when Apple came out with Tiger? Everyone was coming out of the woodwork saying "I'm sticking with Panther".
Also, songs like "The Rain Song" with a guitar tuning so unique it's actually called "Rain Song Tuning".
DCGDGC isn't a typical tuning and it's one that Page came up with himself (though I'm sure there are people that like to go and change history and say he didn't)...but if you tune a guitar to this, it practically plays itself.
So, let me understand this...Led Zeppelin wasn't "creative"? They stole the music note-for-note?
On everything? Really?
So what was "Ten Years Gone" copied from? "That's the Way"? "Kashmir"? Hmmm...what about 95% of their catalog? Let's go on: "Tangerine"..."Going to California"...."Immigrant Song"..."Over the Hills and Far Away". What were all these songs stolen from?
Let's get the facts straight here, we're only talking about a few songs in their enormous catalog of CREATIVE and ORIGINAL music. Yes, they copied and "stole" some songs and didn't give credit as did many bands back then (Rolling Stones, I'm looking at you)...but I think that it was more over-zealous lawyers playing around with the royalty money more than Plant/Page sitting around saying to themselves "let's rip this off and not pay them" kind of thing.
Like, do you honestly think George Harrison sat down and said "I'm going to rip off "He's So Fine" and make it "My Sweet Lord""? Come on...
Actually, he's beyond that. He skipped the supermodel dating and the jets and all that and went straight to the weird Howard Hughes era.
I picture him shuffling into the Slashdot control center wearing a bathrobe and slippers and posting a few items that of course are all dupes before Zonk or someone else catches him, slaps his hand, then leads him back to his room.
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Yes, but in relative terms it was a small "kaboom" and not the "kaboom" many people associate with "nuclear kabooms".
I'm convinced that "Ant" doesn't have a job. Not only does he submit stories here, but also to Blues News EVERY day, also to VideoSift and other sites not to mention his own.
So not only does he have to go out and actually find these stories to submit to all these different sites, he has to take the time to write a submission. And I don't think he's getting compensated for it...I mean, how would he?
Would love to know the story behind "Ant".
Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder
So let me get this straight, some person or group of persons could go and put a claim on every video on Youtube now and they'd have to take them all down...since they're not required to verify the entity making the request? That seems a bit silly doesn't it? What's stopping someone from mass emailing them with requests for a huge chunk of videos?
Well, unless these games have the same polished, smooth gameplay experience, then no....Blizzard has nothing to fear.
AoC seems to me to be rushed out of the door too early as all these games seem to be...giving people that pick it up early a bad experience with downed servers and buggy content.
What happened to Vanguard? Or Lord of the Rings Online? They too were suppose to carve a chunk out of the WoW numbers but neither did this.
Hey, I hope I'm wrong about AoC. I hope it has a smooth launch and is an excellent gameplay experience...but I'm not holding my breath. You have to go a LONG way to match the quality of a Blizzard product. Yes, people may be sick of WoW and Blizzard...but you can't deny that they give you a quality product.
I'm a little confused, isn't Ubuntu just another Debian distro?
Now, I'm a little dumb and all, but I thought that Ubuntu was just Debian with a great install and update system...but everything on it is all in Debian, yes? So if you install this, you have a Debian install, right?
Also, and you're not the only one doing it, the elitist attitude of "the masses are asses" is growing old. When my 66 year old mother-in-law knows about this stuff, then lots of people do.
So there should be two formats or even more out in the world to give a choice for consumers? A choice to not buy either until one format wins so they don't get left with obsolete hardware where nothing new is going to be released on?
How about this, every studio comes up with their own format! That way, there's tons of choices for the consumer! Want to watch a Univeral or Paramount movie? You have to buy a special player to play their formats. Think of the possibilities! Think of the competition! Think of the illegal downloads because no one would want to put up with that bullshit!
I think your analogy needs work.
And a new "Linux on the desktop is set to explode this year" comments from various people.
Though they're a little late on this aren't they? It's the end of January...they usually start this talk in the first 1 or 2 weeks of the year. But it's good to see they're consistent.
Also, not trolling here, I really hope Linux does explode and gain market share...it's just I've heard this year after year after year. But I suppose that one year it's actually going to happen.
Good luck with that there Ford...
Meanwhile, I'll do what I fricken want with my car.
Yeah, Sony needs luck...poor poor company. On it's last legs...barely alive....struggling...
Oh wait...Sony?
Exactly, the CD itself it starting out with no dynamic range because that's how they're producing them now...well, a majority of them at least.
It's not like they lose the dynamic range just when converting to mp3's. Hell, even old recordings being "remastered" today are being purposely stripped of their dynamic range just to make it "louder".
Some people need to go and actually read the article.
Ok, granted...but my point is that he's been wrong about every decision that Apple has made. He was complaining about how they when with their own in-house scripting language instead of taking his. Said they were wrong for making clones...said they were wrong when they cancelled the clones. Said they were wrong when they went from 68000 to PPC...said they were wrong when they went from PPC to Intel...said they were wrong when they went with NeXT....said they were wrong with OS X blah blah blah. He's proclaimed Apple dead and buried so many times it's hard to take this guy seriously anymore.
He's still pissed that they made Applescript instead of buying/licensing Frontier from him all those years ago I think.
Dave "Whiner" complaining about something Apple did! (that is, when he's not patting himself on the back for inventing everything on the Internet)...SHOCKING! Stop the presses!
This guy isn't an industry pundent like Dvorak...he's suppose to just be a developer. Just about every decision that Apple has made in the past 20 years has been commented on by him as gloom and doom for the company.
to be fair though, that wasn't really Lucas' work...and he opposed it big time.
He screwed up all by himself, no need to credit him with this abomination.
These boneheads in Washington stop wasting my money and yours on idiotic crap like this that doesn't matter at all except to show their constituents that "they care"...so they can get their votes.
It's like their investigation into steroids in baseball. Who gives a crap? It's fricken baseball!
Stop wasting my money and time and get back to work!
Well, looking at it from that point of view there hasn't really been any "relevant" music in the past 30 years or so. That is in the Rock & Roll front.
The innovation and experimentations happened in the 50' and 60's and ended somewhere in the 70's. A quote from a friend of mine: "Any time you have a new artistic format you have a period of creative development a period of creative explosion and then a period of rehashing. Rock is a mature art form. It's all been done before to one degree or another. Nothing wrong with that, but "rock and roll" is yesterdays music and the creative explosions are happening in other areas now."
NIN and Radiohead are in the very broad genre of "Rock"...and they're very good and I like their music. But honestly, is it THAT radical and new and different than other things? Today it seems everything is a mix of something from the past. There really isn't any way around that as it's matured and no matter what you do, there is only so many ways you can make a song unless you do something that's so far removed from western music that it's almost unrecognizable as "music". Yes, when Rock started it too was a mixture of things in the past...but it quickly grew away from that and went into new and exciting territories. Now it's pretty much stagnant. Good music to be sure...but nothing radical.
This always bugs me. WTF does "relevant" music mean? Music stands by itself if it was made yesterday or 60 years ago. "Relevant" is a term clueless music critics use now when they have nothing else to say.
BTW, I was a kid in the 70's and a Kiss fan back then and no, they didn't really upset parents back then at all. Punk upset parents. Kiss was never really out there for the music anyway. It was always a show. A Broadway production. A spectical.
But having said all that, Gene Simmons is pretty much out of it. Another technology-illiterate person that's scared of new things and ideas. Simmons was a genius...but not really a musical one...but a marketing genius. He had all the angles covered...business wise.
They'll come up on something they haven't seen before...and they'll lose their transporter and warp drive capability. Then they'll take the (insert technobabble thing here) and reverse the (insert another technobabble thing here) to save the day with only seconds to spare only to end the movie with some quote from literature.
"finally"....what? That a trojan is on an OS? Every OS can have a trojan on it.
/" and all your troubles will be wiped away". Someone that isn't totally computer literate may fall for something like this.
A "virus" takes advantage of flaws in the OS. A "trojan" takes advantage of flaws in the user of the OS.
You could have the most secure, bug free OS in the world and still a trojan could bring it all down like a house of cards. All it needs to do is fool the user/admin into giving it root access and WHAM, you're system is compromised. It's not the fault of the OS or any inherent flaws in the OS.
Hell, you could have a sheet of paper laying next to computer that itself is a "trojan". All it has to say is "To fix this problem, bring up Terminal, type "sudo rm -rf
So before anyone jumps all over OS X or any OS as being vulnerable, think for a moment.
There is no "finally" to this. This isn't an exploit. This isn't a virus.
That's the way I did it. Took about 25 minutes to install everything and I was back up and running with no problems.
The only thing I've changed is the 3D dock to a 2D dock. It looks nicer...even nicer than the old dock. I'm one of the few it seems to really like the new Stacks feature, but I understand the gripes of others that used nested folders (I never did). I love the new Finder and Spotlight...even though I'll still be using Quicksilver. Spaces is useful for me so far. All my applications are up and running with no problems.
The new Mail and Safari are VERY fast. Opening Mail now is instant now. Again, another "feeling" description: everything feels faster. I know, there's really no way to quantify that statement, but Leopard does seem to have sped up my system.
But hey, there are always problems in upgrading an OS. Does anyone remember when Apple came out with Tiger? Everyone was coming out of the woodwork saying "I'm sticking with Panther".
Also, songs like "The Rain Song" with a guitar tuning so unique it's actually called "Rain Song Tuning".
DCGDGC isn't a typical tuning and it's one that Page came up with himself (though I'm sure there are people that like to go and change history and say he didn't)...but if you tune a guitar to this, it practically plays itself.
So, let me understand this...Led Zeppelin wasn't "creative"? They stole the music note-for-note?
On everything? Really?
So what was "Ten Years Gone" copied from? "That's the Way"? "Kashmir"? Hmmm...what about 95% of their catalog? Let's go on: "Tangerine"..."Going to California"...."Immigrant Song"..."Over the Hills and Far Away". What were all these songs stolen from?
Let's get the facts straight here, we're only talking about a few songs in their enormous catalog of CREATIVE and ORIGINAL music. Yes, they copied and "stole" some songs and didn't give credit as did many bands back then (Rolling Stones, I'm looking at you)...but I think that it was more over-zealous lawyers playing around with the royalty money more than Plant/Page sitting around saying to themselves "let's rip this off and not pay them" kind of thing.
Like, do you honestly think George Harrison sat down and said "I'm going to rip off "He's So Fine" and make it "My Sweet Lord""? Come on...
I too feel that they should have ended it right there, of him forever staring at the Blue Fairy making his wish.
Then ended they put on there just was weak.
Actually, he's beyond that. He skipped the supermodel dating and the jets and all that and went straight to the weird Howard Hughes era.
I picture him shuffling into the Slashdot control center wearing a bathrobe and slippers and posting a few items that of course are all dupes before Zonk or someone else catches him, slaps his hand, then leads him back to his room.