>>>company that made the best, most reliable phones for the longest time
Really? (checks) Hey look at that! I have a Nokia in my coat pocket (the "shorty"). It is a rather nice phone and even though it's nearing five years old, still works like a charm. No apparent degradation in battery life.
It would be a shame if Nokia got corrupted by Microsoft, as seems to have happened with many many companies that collaborated with them.
>>>They are exploiting your fear of people you see as "opposite" to you in order to make millions
Funny. I don't remember giving anything to Beck/Limbaugh/Maddows/whomever. I watch them for free online or via radio. As for "conservatives in welfare" lines: - The poor people overwhelmingly live in cities. - The cities overwhelmingly are deep blue (democrat) in voting. - The poor people are democrat, not conservative.
Really? What a shame that Facts get in the way of your random, uncited belief. Here are the Nielsen demos for teens to 35 (i.e. the young) FOX News: 600,000 MS-NBC 240,000 CNN 180,000
Young persons are watching FOX approximately 3 to 1 versus the other liberal channels. (MSNBC is a self-proclaimed liberal channel.)
>>>Anyone who still takes that clown seriously is either already a paranoid schizophrenic or too stupid to be reasoned with
Or open-minded and willing to listen, rather than act like the monkeys in Planet of the Apes (refuse to see or hear Charlton Heston).
For example, I listen to Rachel Maddow's show even though I think she's 99% wrong. Still it's interesting to hear what the "other side" is thinking, as they steadily erode individual choice.
Radio host Alex Jones has been saying the same thing about Google since 2009. He claims Google was funded by the CIA, or something like that, and they maintain close ties. Of course Jones says the same about Wikileaks (funded by the CIA). I see no evidence that Google is funded by anybody, or has close ties to the government.
There are more important players to worry about, such as NBC/GE who received a ~50 billion dollar bailout in exchange for their continued support of the Bush administration (and later obama admin). Also the ISPs (ATT, Verizon, etc) that shutdown their Usenet access simply because the New York government told them to do so.
But fear google? Nah. Especially now that they have the original creators back in control, and the CEO kicked out.
I was talking about the size *when running*. For example I have Firefox open right now and it's using 500Meg, versus Non-google Chromium which hovers around 40Meg (but also does not have built-in video support - it launches external apps or plugins).
>>>relies on the OS for support for thousands of different codecs
That's just great (not). My Windows XP doesn't have the newer codecs built in. Neither does Ubuntu or Puppy Linux. Or Commodore Amiga OS.
>>>JavaScript/AJAX creates some of the worst clusterfucks already. Just look at the new/. design.
As I discovered with my Dialup connection. I imagine a sub-1000k Cellphone connection would be just as bad. Scripts supposedly speed things up, but I find plain-text pages (i.e. slashdot classic) load much much faster than the new script-based monstrosity. Probably because dialup uses compression, and text pages get squeezed to 5% their original size (images also get compressed - about 20% original size).
Most likely companies will do with HTML5 the same as they did with 28k and later 56k modems. Release the new technology 1-2 years ahead, and then make it reprogrammable to match the final standard.
>>>preentation should be dealt with via the browser and not a plugin (via HTML5)
Plugins have existed since the earliest days of browsers (like quicktime plugin to view embedded movies)(or wav plugin to deal with sounds). Why do you think that is an inferior method?
Personally I'd rather have the lightweight browser and then add features (like video) only as I need them.
Never heard of Mirror's Edge. What makes it so special that you say, "We've seen the single player campaign fps thing a billion times, it really needs to go big!"
>>>Piracy.is infringing copyright by distributing copies or derivatives of a work without permission.
Let me see if I care. (ponder) Nope. As long as producers refuse to let me return shit like Transformers 2, Day the Earth Stood Still, Avatar, and so on, then I feel I have a right to Take action to not waste my money (i.e. to try before I buy). Every other industry in the world provides a return policy - why should music/movie makers be any different? (And don't bring-up reviews, which are bought-and-paid for by those same companies and therefore reviews are worthless.)
- "Grants of this sort can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all; the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, will be overbalanced by that the monopoly itself, in its original operation, may produce more evil than good [i.e. RIAA and MPAA]." - James Madison, author of the US Constitution.
"If Nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in Natural Right, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson, 1780s
If "everyone in the developed world" is using VLC Media Player
and the lawyers try to sue them for that choice, the lawyers would experience the same thing that Mussolini and his colleagues experienced (pummeled to death by the angry citizens). It is unwise to piss-off ~2 billion people.
Fixed.:-) They are typical fan rubbish, whereas the stuff found in magazines are professionally-reviewed and therefore I only see the the cream of the crop, not the badly-spelled, poorly-written shit that most fanfiction equals.
And yes I know that's harsh. But it's my honest opinion. Fanfiction is 99.9999% shit. I want professional quality work.
>>>ebooks which get reviewed like any other book
Yeah but Gardner Dozois was specifically discussing short fiction, not books. Personally I prefer short stories or novelettes to full-sized, padded books.
>>>The [80s] called, asking for its unique selling point back.
Fixed. Preemptive multitasking first came to the home in 1985 (on commodores). The other persons were slow to the table (Win1998 and OS X 2001), and acted like it was an innovation, but of course it wasn't.
As for Microsoft and Internet Explorer, they are trying to repeat the success they had in taking-over the PC, but now on mobile phones. I hope they >> null: (i.e. fail).
Halo is no better than the thousands of other Bloody simulators. I'd sooner play fun games like Metroid, Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, Dance Revolution, and so on.
>>>paperback. That way you can keep it indefinitely, sell it,
You sold me. Actually amazon sold me a long time ago - I've got a 4th edition of "Best Science Fiction of the Year (1986)" which is going for $150. Final Fantasy 7 I could sell for about the same price. I only paid ~$18 for these. Try that with an ebook (you'd get nothing).
Not going to post the whole thing, but I like this quote:
"Fiction magazines are steadily losing readership, down 40% since 2000. The survival of these magazines is essential if you'd like to see lots of good SF and fantasy stories - one important way you can help is by *subscribing* to them. It's never been easier to do, with a few clicks of your button... and receive the traditional print format by mail, or downloads to your Kindle or computer... you can now subscribe from Overseas just as easily as from the United States, something formerly difficult or impossible." - Gardner Dozois, editor, asimovs.com
Wow. He makes it sound like the short story is doomed. I would have thought, with the ease-of-use of Kindles, that these magazines would be gaining MORE readers not less. I still subscribe to the Paper, since it enables me to sell the whole 2011 bundle on ebay, come the end of the year (i.e. convert magazines to 10 dollars cash). If they gave me a discount for the E-version then I'd buy that instead.
For sites where I could care less, I have kept the same "handle" since the 80s, but elsewhere I change my name periodically to avoid being tracked. For example someone looking at my Usenet posts would have to know all ~20 IDs I've used over the last ~20 years to form any kind of profile.
Even when I was in school, that was true. We wasted soooo much time sitting in front of computers, for no other reason then the school bought them. We could have learned the same material 10x faster with an old-fashioned book (once called a "reader").
"In 2008, Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel signed an agreement with Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo to shut down access to sources of child pornography.[45] Time Warner Cable stopped offering access to Usenet. Verizon reduced its access to the "Big 8" hierarchies. Sprint stopped access to the alt.* hierarchies. AT&T stopped access to the alt.binaries.* hierarchies." - wikipedia
Of course there are still plenty of other places to get Usenet. Like groups.google.com (formerly dejanews.com)
Slashdot Mirror
>>>company that made the best, most reliable phones for the longest time
Really? (checks) Hey look at that! I have a Nokia in my coat pocket (the "shorty"). It is a rather nice phone and even though it's nearing five years old, still works like a charm. No apparent degradation in battery life.
It would be a shame if Nokia got corrupted by Microsoft, as seems to have happened with many many companies that collaborated with them.
>>>They are exploiting your fear of people you see as "opposite" to you in order to make millions
Funny. I don't remember giving anything to Beck/Limbaugh/Maddows/whomever. I watch them for free online or via radio. As for "conservatives in welfare" lines:
- The poor people overwhelmingly live in cities.
- The cities overwhelmingly are deep blue (democrat) in voting.
- The poor people are democrat, not conservative.
>>>The conservative market are older
Really? What a shame that Facts get in the way of your random, uncited belief. Here are the Nielsen demos for teens to 35 (i.e. the young)
FOX News: 600,000
MS-NBC 240,000
CNN 180,000
Young persons are watching FOX approximately 3 to 1 versus the other liberal channels. (MSNBC is a self-proclaimed liberal channel.)
>>Mormons are polytheistic
Since when? This is news to me. I thought they believed in the same stuff christians believed in (i.e. a trinity).
>>>Anyone who still takes that clown seriously is either already a paranoid schizophrenic or too stupid to be reasoned with
Or open-minded and willing to listen, rather than act like the monkeys in Planet of the Apes (refuse to see or hear Charlton Heston).
For example, I listen to Rachel Maddow's show even though I think she's 99% wrong. Still it's interesting to hear what the "other side" is thinking, as they steadily erode individual choice.
Radio host Alex Jones has been saying the same thing about Google since 2009. He claims Google was funded by the CIA, or something like that, and they maintain close ties. Of course Jones says the same about Wikileaks (funded by the CIA). I see no evidence that Google is funded by anybody, or has close ties to the government.
There are more important players to worry about, such as NBC/GE who received a ~50 billion dollar bailout in exchange for their continued support of the Bush administration (and later obama admin). Also the ISPs (ATT, Verizon, etc) that shutdown their Usenet access simply because the New York government told them to do so.
But fear google? Nah. Especially now that they have the original creators back in control, and the CEO kicked out.
I was talking about the size *when running*. For example I have Firefox open right now and it's using 500Meg, versus Non-google Chromium which hovers around 40Meg (but also does not have built-in video support - it launches external apps or plugins).
>>>relies on the OS for support for thousands of different codecs
That's just great (not). My Windows XP doesn't have the newer codecs built in. Neither does Ubuntu or Puppy Linux. Or Commodore Amiga OS.
>>>JavaScript/AJAX creates some of the worst clusterfucks already. Just look at the new /. design.
As I discovered with my Dialup connection. I imagine a sub-1000k Cellphone connection would be just as bad. Scripts supposedly speed things up, but I find plain-text pages (i.e. slashdot classic) load much much faster than the new script-based monstrosity. Probably because dialup uses compression, and text pages get squeezed to 5% their original size (images also get compressed - about 20% original size).
A browser with built-in support for the thousands of different codecs AND lightweight (less than 100 MB)? Impossible.
Most likely companies will do with HTML5 the same as they did with 28k and later 56k modems. Release the new technology 1-2 years ahead, and then make it reprogrammable to match the final standard.
>>>preentation should be dealt with via the browser and not a plugin (via HTML5)
Plugins have existed since the earliest days of browsers (like quicktime plugin to view embedded movies)(or wav plugin to deal with sounds). Why do you think that is an inferior method?
Personally I'd rather have the lightweight browser and then add features (like video) only as I need them.
Never heard of Mirror's Edge. What makes it so special that you say, "We've seen the single player campaign fps thing a billion times, it really needs to go big!"
>>>Piracy.is infringing copyright by distributing copies or derivatives of a work without permission.
Let me see if I care.
(ponder)
Nope. As long as producers refuse to let me return shit like Transformers 2, Day the Earth Stood Still, Avatar, and so on, then I feel I have a right to Take action to not waste my money (i.e. to try before I buy). Every other industry in the world provides a return policy - why should music/movie makers be any different? (And don't bring-up reviews, which are bought-and-paid for by those same companies and therefore reviews are worthless.)
- "Grants of this sort can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all; the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, will be overbalanced by that the monopoly itself, in its original operation, may produce more evil than good [i.e. RIAA and MPAA]." - James Madison, author of the US Constitution.
"If Nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in Natural Right, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson, 1780s
I'd like to try it.
If "everyone in the developed world" is using VLC Media Player
and the lawyers try to sue them for that choice, the lawyers would experience the same thing that Mussolini and his colleagues experienced (pummeled to death by the angry citizens). It is unwise to piss-off ~2 billion people.
>>>They just aren't particularly [good]
Fixed. :-) They are typical fan rubbish, whereas the stuff found in magazines are professionally-reviewed and therefore I only see the the cream of the crop, not the badly-spelled, poorly-written shit that most fanfiction equals.
And yes I know that's harsh.
But it's my honest opinion.
Fanfiction is 99.9999% shit.
I want professional quality work.
>>>ebooks which get reviewed like any other book
Yeah but Gardner Dozois was specifically discussing short fiction, not books. Personally I prefer short stories or novelettes to full-sized, padded books.
IDIOMS:
"from time to time - If something happens or is done from time to time, it happens or is done sometimes, but not regularly." - Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006
>>>The [80s] called, asking for its unique selling point back.
Fixed. Preemptive multitasking first came to the home in 1985 (on commodores). The other persons were slow to the table (Win1998 and OS X 2001), and acted like it was an innovation, but of course it wasn't.
As for Microsoft and Internet Explorer, they are trying to repeat the success they had in taking-over the PC, but now on mobile phones. I hope they >> null: (i.e. fail).
Halo is no better than the thousands of other Bloody simulators. I'd sooner play fun games like Metroid, Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, Dance Revolution, and so on.
>>>paperback. That way you can keep it indefinitely, sell it,
You sold me. Actually amazon sold me a long time ago - I've got a 4th edition of "Best Science Fiction of the Year (1986)" which is going for $150. Final Fantasy 7 I could sell for about the same price. I only paid ~$18 for these. Try that with an ebook (you'd get nothing).
Not going to post the whole thing, but I like this quote:
"Fiction magazines are steadily losing readership, down 40% since 2000.
The survival of these magazines is essential if you'd like to see
lots of good SF and fantasy stories - one important way you can help
is by *subscribing* to them. It's never been easier to do, with a few
clicks of your button... and receive the traditional print format by
mail, or downloads to your Kindle or computer... you can now subscribe
from Overseas just as easily as from the United States, something
formerly difficult or impossible." - Gardner Dozois, editor, asimovs.com
Wow. He makes it sound like the short story is doomed. I would have thought, with the ease-of-use of Kindles, that these magazines would be gaining MORE readers not less. I still subscribe to the Paper, since it enables me to sell the whole 2011 bundle on ebay, come the end of the year (i.e. convert magazines to 10 dollars cash). If they gave me a discount for the E-version then I'd buy that instead.
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What's going on?
I change my username from time-to-time.
For sites where I could care less, I have kept the same "handle" since the 80s, but elsewhere I change my name periodically to avoid being tracked. For example someone looking at my Usenet posts would have to know all ~20 IDs I've used over the last ~20 years to form any kind of profile.
Even when I was in school, that was true. We wasted soooo much time sitting in front of computers, for no other reason then the school bought them. We could have learned the same material 10x faster with an old-fashioned book (once called a "reader").
"In 2008, Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel signed an agreement with Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo to shut down access to sources of child pornography.[45] Time Warner Cable stopped offering access to Usenet. Verizon reduced its access to the "Big 8" hierarchies. Sprint stopped access to the alt.* hierarchies. AT&T stopped access to the alt.binaries.* hierarchies."
- wikipedia
Of course there are still plenty of other places to get Usenet. Like groups.google.com (formerly dejanews.com)