I see both sides of this argument. Performers don't want to stare at cell phone camera lenses, they want to see and connect with their fans. You can only do that when you see the whites of their eyes. Also, all that money bullshit for some more shallow performers comes into play I'm sure. But I think the core reason is that when you're a professional, performing live in front of a room of people, no matter how big or small, it's a very intimate experience. Seeing that very literal layer of abstraction with someone simply holding up their phones at you and looking at their screens just ruins it.
I also see the side that people want to be able to see and share the performance they paid for later. In a lot of ways it should be a given that you can record something like this. Not only does it make sense nostalgically but it makes sense in a sharing, exposure kind of way. Of course, if the video is shaky and the audio sucks ass, it really does do more harm than good. Maybe venues can offer a professional shot video of the concert and give it to you afterwards? That could rake in some additional revenue as well.
Anyway, I think augmented reality will help. I believe people won't be holding up phones in a few years. They'll be wearing camera lenses on their hats, their shirts, their glasses. This will free people up to experience performances the way they were intended - with their full attention on the performer that's working so hard to make the experience unforgettable.
This is ridiculous. Why allow such bias towards someone's musicianship when you're posting an article about something completely different? The comments are plagued now, very little to do with the topic of UFOs or whatever the fuck it was. I don't remember, I saw "shitty guitar riffs" and got agitated and wanted to post a comment rebuking it. Fucking Slashdot, get it together. I've been on since the year 2000 and this blatant editorial nonsense in an otherwise "News for Nerds" story just makes you look like you're from my high school newspaper in the 90's, talking about how shitty Offspring was because they played 3 riffs over and over. You know what, they played the SHIT out of those riffs, with more rhythm than you'll ever be able to produce out of your cynical ass.
See, now shit's turned into ass. Thanks, Slashdot!
Instead of throwing money at technology that has side-effect of oppressing and suffocating the privacy of normal citizens, why not put that money toward promoting peace, cooperation and understanding?
I remember when people around the world loved America because it led by example. Because it was a place people could go that offered more freedom and privacy than the nation they were currently in. Its constitution was followed STRICTLY because the words in it were written specifically by those who literally fought against the kind of thing we're seeing in this article.
America seems to be losing its way, in the most general sense of the term. If its people don't start realizing this soon and backpedal furiously to restore the integrity it once stood for, it's just going to be another brick in the wall.
I have a vision of the future where this is actually going to bring us together as "a people".
Sure, some countries may abuse the power of trying to block DNS records they feel are immoral, or whatever their excuse is. Fact is, the more this happens, the more will be exposed that these countries are censoring what doesn't really belong to *any* governmental body. The U.S. has had its fair share of abuse over their control of the Internet and the DNS. Who are they to say they're the most qualified, most moral? That's just arrogant IMHO. Not saying they're the worst, but it's not up to any one nation to decide.
And who will defend against abuses of power now that they're equally divided? The netizens. The people of the Internet. The hackers. I'm honestly looking forward to seeing how this pans out. I think it will be something that may just bring people of Earth closer together, seeing how we can cooperatively administrate the largest network in the world.
Huh?? How does a distributed and independent service like email relate to a top-down governed monolithic social network at all? "Email lied to me"...you mean people?
Women used cucumbers, and they didn't have to worry about sending private information to anyone...besides the neighbors, if they forgot to close the windows first.
There are stupid people all around the world, my friend. Pointing the finger at a country and calling its people stupid is like pointing at the Sun and calling it helium.
If I were Snowden I'd be looking at every possible media outlet to get the word out about the disgusting things I've learned. Some of those media outlets require money/funding, and inevitably will return some kind of profit (ticket sales for movies for example). But them trying to play that card on Snowden in the first place is just proof that they need to examine his motives and his position as someone who wants to stop the breaking of laws and constitutional foundations that his country was founded on by its own government. Relating him, even remotely, to "terrorism" is appalling and insulting to his integrity and willingness to essentially throw his life away for the sake of informing people that their government isn't playing by its own rules.
I'm not totally versed in the politics of getting MS to sign your drivers, so apologies if this seems like a dumb question - what if, say, MS didn't want to sign software drivers for OpenVPN TAP/TUN network devices (let's say they just rolled out their shiny new VPN software). Or basically any other driver, hardware or software - Can they just say, "no" to OpenVPN, then OpenVPN team (or whoever else) is SOL? If true, that basically means MS has a complete, Apple-like stronghold over the hardware (and lots of software that utilizes driver framework to function) that runs on Win10+.
When are the people of the United States going to stop grasping so tightly the idea that a new president is going to change the course that everyone is on? I am sick and tired of people rooting for a president like they do a fucking football team. 'GO HILLARY!' 'WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP!' Like any one person, even the supposed "leader", will somehow make the necessary change to purge the bowels of a rotten political and federal government system.
"WE THE PEOPLE" must make the change. I don't mean voting (though it doesn't hurt), I mean CHANGE. The people of the United States must remember that it is they themselves that are the superpower, not the few that hold the keys to the kingdom. The people must organize and steer their ship in the direction of positive change, of prosperity, of justice and freedom. Only then will USA again be chanted across the world instead of cursed.
Do we really need it anymore now that we have NTP running on most of our smartphones, computers, etc.?
I do miss the "time lady" though. Or "popcorn" - (767-2676, or 767-1111). "At the tone, the time will be, 9:38am. *BEEP*"
I was just thinking yesterday about an automated telephone game system I used to call when I was growing up in the 80's. 573-3400. I forget what it was called, but there were 3 games you could play all by 'choose your own adventure' touch-tone style choices. One was a cowboy type game, one was a vampire, and I forget what the third one was. It was all free to play for us latch-key kids. Heh. Now get off my lawn!
What I'm seeing here is a rush for the major social networking players to provide live video streaming services to their user bases...but, the question is, why? How does that fit into their business models? I honestly don't see that it does in most cases.
If I'm at my computer I'm not really going to handwrite notes. But if I'm somewhere that accessing/using pen+paper is more beneficial to use, I'll use that. I have a Palm Tungsten C I still use daily for work because IMHO its core function of a general purpose, disconnected personal data assistant has yet to be bested. It's always on me so unless hitting a single button and entering my password is too long then pen[cil] + paper win I guess.
People have always been stupid. The smart ones that invent the tech that stupid people use to get themselves in trouble is just a coincidence. I'd think it's pretty obvious, really. Stuff like FB, Meerkat, etc. just enables the stupidity of people to be broadcast much further.
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I see both sides of this argument. Performers don't want to stare at cell phone camera lenses, they want to see and connect with their fans. You can only do that when you see the whites of their eyes. Also, all that money bullshit for some more shallow performers comes into play I'm sure. But I think the core reason is that when you're a professional, performing live in front of a room of people, no matter how big or small, it's a very intimate experience. Seeing that very literal layer of abstraction with someone simply holding up their phones at you and looking at their screens just ruins it.
I also see the side that people want to be able to see and share the performance they paid for later. In a lot of ways it should be a given that you can record something like this. Not only does it make sense nostalgically but it makes sense in a sharing, exposure kind of way. Of course, if the video is shaky and the audio sucks ass, it really does do more harm than good. Maybe venues can offer a professional shot video of the concert and give it to you afterwards? That could rake in some additional revenue as well.
Anyway, I think augmented reality will help. I believe people won't be holding up phones in a few years. They'll be wearing camera lenses on their hats, their shirts, their glasses. This will free people up to experience performances the way they were intended - with their full attention on the performer that's working so hard to make the experience unforgettable.
This is ridiculous. Why allow such bias towards someone's musicianship when you're posting an article about something completely different? The comments are plagued now, very little to do with the topic of UFOs or whatever the fuck it was. I don't remember, I saw "shitty guitar riffs" and got agitated and wanted to post a comment rebuking it. Fucking Slashdot, get it together. I've been on since the year 2000 and this blatant editorial nonsense in an otherwise "News for Nerds" story just makes you look like you're from my high school newspaper in the 90's, talking about how shitty Offspring was because they played 3 riffs over and over. You know what, they played the SHIT out of those riffs, with more rhythm than you'll ever be able to produce out of your cynical ass.
See, now shit's turned into ass. Thanks, Slashdot!
Instead of throwing money at technology that has side-effect of oppressing and suffocating the privacy of normal citizens, why not put that money toward promoting peace, cooperation and understanding?
I remember when people around the world loved America because it led by example. Because it was a place people could go that offered more freedom and privacy than the nation they were currently in. Its constitution was followed STRICTLY because the words in it were written specifically by those who literally fought against the kind of thing we're seeing in this article.
America seems to be losing its way, in the most general sense of the term. If its people don't start realizing this soon and backpedal furiously to restore the integrity it once stood for, it's just going to be another brick in the wall.
I have a vision of the future where this is actually going to bring us together as "a people".
Sure, some countries may abuse the power of trying to block DNS records they feel are immoral, or whatever their excuse is. Fact is, the more this happens, the more will be exposed that these countries are censoring what doesn't really belong to *any* governmental body. The U.S. has had its fair share of abuse over their control of the Internet and the DNS. Who are they to say they're the most qualified, most moral? That's just arrogant IMHO. Not saying they're the worst, but it's not up to any one nation to decide.
And who will defend against abuses of power now that they're equally divided? The netizens. The people of the Internet. The hackers. I'm honestly looking forward to seeing how this pans out. I think it will be something that may just bring people of Earth closer together, seeing how we can cooperatively administrate the largest network in the world.
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It's as bad as e-mail at this point.
Huh?? How does a distributed and independent service like email relate to a top-down governed monolithic social network at all? "Email lied to me"...you mean people?
I laughed at the name "YouTube Red" because of the infamous porn site, "RedTube". I was all.....
Women used cucumbers, and they didn't have to worry about sending private information to anyone...besides the neighbors, if they forgot to close the windows first.
Blame Someone Else for your own stupidity.
Agreed.
She must be an American at heart.
There are stupid people all around the world, my friend. Pointing the finger at a country and calling its people stupid is like pointing at the Sun and calling it helium.
Really?
If I were Snowden I'd be looking at every possible media outlet to get the word out about the disgusting things I've learned. Some of those media outlets require money/funding, and inevitably will return some kind of profit (ticket sales for movies for example). But them trying to play that card on Snowden in the first place is just proof that they need to examine his motives and his position as someone who wants to stop the breaking of laws and constitutional foundations that his country was founded on by its own government. Relating him, even remotely, to "terrorism" is appalling and insulting to his integrity and willingness to essentially throw his life away for the sake of informing people that their government isn't playing by its own rules.
I'm not totally versed in the politics of getting MS to sign your drivers, so apologies if this seems like a dumb question - what if, say, MS didn't want to sign software drivers for OpenVPN TAP/TUN network devices (let's say they just rolled out their shiny new VPN software). Or basically any other driver, hardware or software - Can they just say, "no" to OpenVPN, then OpenVPN team (or whoever else) is SOL? If true, that basically means MS has a complete, Apple-like stronghold over the hardware (and lots of software that utilizes driver framework to function) that runs on Win10+.
When are the people of the United States going to stop grasping so tightly the idea that a new president is going to change the course that everyone is on? I am sick and tired of people rooting for a president like they do a fucking football team. 'GO HILLARY!' 'WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP!' Like any one person, even the supposed "leader", will somehow make the necessary change to purge the bowels of a rotten political and federal government system.
"WE THE PEOPLE" must make the change. I don't mean voting (though it doesn't hurt), I mean CHANGE. The people of the United States must remember that it is they themselves that are the superpower, not the few that hold the keys to the kingdom. The people must organize and steer their ship in the direction of positive change, of prosperity, of justice and freedom. Only then will USA again be chanted across the world instead of cursed.
Creative Commons.
Do we really need it anymore now that we have NTP running on most of our smartphones, computers, etc.?
I do miss the "time lady" though. Or "popcorn" - (767-2676, or 767-1111). "At the tone, the time will be, 9:38am. *BEEP*"
I was just thinking yesterday about an automated telephone game system I used to call when I was growing up in the 80's. 573-3400. I forget what it was called, but there were 3 games you could play all by 'choose your own adventure' touch-tone style choices. One was a cowboy type game, one was a vampire, and I forget what the third one was. It was all free to play for us latch-key kids. Heh. Now get off my lawn!
I will sleep soundly tonight knowing that our new robotic dog overlords can be foiled by a simple banana peel on the floor. =p
What I'm seeing here is a rush for the major social networking players to provide live video streaming services to their user bases...but, the question is, why? How does that fit into their business models? I honestly don't see that it does in most cases.
Why does Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight browser plugins bypass data execution prevention?
If I'm at my computer I'm not really going to handwrite notes. But if I'm somewhere that accessing/using pen+paper is more beneficial to use, I'll use that. I have a Palm Tungsten C I still use daily for work because IMHO its core function of a general purpose, disconnected personal data assistant has yet to be bested. It's always on me so unless hitting a single button and entering my password is too long then pen[cil] + paper win I guess.
Was it worth all this commotion? Will they stop future terrorist attacks from the information retrieved?
Why is this not the question everyone is asking??
Tic-Tac-Toe vs. Go.
The WOPR would have exploded after a few minutes of load from playing Go with itself.
LTSP
Is unplugged, encased in concrete, at the bottom of the ocean.
And even then...
Funny how double standards are sort of the staple of the U.S. lately.
People have always been stupid. The smart ones that invent the tech that stupid people use to get themselves in trouble is just a coincidence. I'd think it's pretty obvious, really. Stuff like FB, Meerkat, etc. just enables the stupidity of people to be broadcast much further.