Insightful article, and a great discussion piece. Sadly, as human nature will have it, we will probably do nothing until it actually happens, and we get bit HARD by it. California energy crisis, gasoline shortage panic, ozone depletion, rainforest depletion, shortage of fossil fuel, Y2k panic in 1999, etc... I'm no environmental freak -- just saying that like those issues, folks are not likely to try to fix the problem until it actually happens.
The Infringing Material denigrates the tragedy at Columbine High School and holds our client out as sponsoring this highly distasteful material by using the format of the MasterCard Priceless Advertisements and prominently displaying MasterCard's famous trademarks.
...is it just me, or is this an extremely weak argument? I think MC would have a hard time convincing any judge or jury that the satirical material made people think MC was the sponsor for the Columbine tragedy...
I would think free software is ideal if you're a start-up, since you don't have any legacy software/apps to support -- everything for production can be done using the free software.
Otherwise, trying to make all of your old apps/files/etc work, or to port your old software costs.... bucks... Lay off 200 people, or use those people to port all your software over? Hmm.... not sure about that.
Soon, it will become impossible to write a simple e-mail without using copyright symbols left and right.
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on a semi-serious note, while I'm not so sure this is *that* newsworthy, I applaud the author for his detail-oriented dissection.
In the end, it's all about the games....
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The biggest mistake a game console company can make is to make a console, but not make any "gotta have it" games for it. I felt that way when Nintendo made the N64, and now I feel the same way with the PS2. Great graphics and sound -- yet nothing special that I can't already get on my PS1 or PC.
Of course, to call a victory to Nintendo's return is probably premature, as we have no idea what kind of games they will offer. For all we know, the games offered with Nitendo's cube (as well as MS's X-box) may be just as uninspiring as the games on the PS2.
is when you get 10 different people with:
10 different network settings
9 different speed PC's
8 different versions of the game patch
7 game CD's missing
6 machines that need to be fixed after transport
5 machines with NIC's that don't work
4 different versions of OS
3 machines with viruses
2 people who have to go home, now that's it's getting late (and haven't even started)
1 long night wasted with no gaming
...very typical...
sure, it gets better after the first few times of this junk, but... with broadband, it's hardly even worth it...
Perhaps one day the portal/search engine load will reach such high demand/low profit that it will become (organizationally) centralized. Kinda like DNS, but... much much bigger in terms of data. (okay, I see the problem already, LOL)
Ahh, but never say never... bandwidth and servers speed up every day by a factor of 10, and keywords aren't going to get larger by such a large factor...
I think anyone who uses the web frequently enough knows that banner ads are a joke, and meant to be ignored. So, we continue to ignore them until the company that uses them as income starts to choke. What do we do next? Just jump to the next best company that isn't choking... yet.
Sadly, this will continue until the Internet community realizes it cannot jump around to 'the next newest site' forever, since the service has begun to degrade to the point of uselessness... When that day comes, people will be more open to the idea of paying a few bucks a year to keep some 'core' Internet sites (like Yahoo!, CNN, CNet, NYTimes, Slashdot, etc..) open.
Of course, the challenge will be to have people voluntarily pay, so that everyone can view it for free. (after all, we're looking for educational/informational access to the masses).
Inevitable, I suppose, but when I think of local public broadcasting stations and their endless fund-raiser drives, it does make me cringe...
I appreciate your insight, but I was a bit saddened by your statement of:
To facilitate the trade in illegal materials is obviously illegal. To offer illegal materials for sale is illegal. WTF are you thinking?
While I am surely partly to blame for not being clear in my points, I definitely never said the video tape material was legal, and was surprised I received such a harsh reply.
I clearly understand that the transaction is illegal. However, I was asking if the data transmitted through AOL's networks was illegal - the raw data itself did not contain any illegal material, right? If so, how can anyone expect AOL to track otherwise-legal data? AOL surely cannot track illegal intent...
While I'm no big fan of AOL, and the crims disgusts me, there is one key fact that shoots out at me:
Was the data that went through AOL's network illegal?
The video delivered through snail-mail is illegal - no question about that.. But... the 'order information' (in the form of name, address, credit card, phone number) sent via e-mail is surely not illegal, is it? I openly admit I may not understand the legal implications of this, but if this person had made the video order through the telephone, would she then sue the phone company for "allowing an illegal transaction to take place on their networks."??
a site like adcritic that has all of my favorite TV shows -- archived.
Yes, I know TV networks and studios won't initially go for this, but it sure beats begging your friends for the episode of "Survivor" that you missed and forgot to tape.
I played ball in high school, so it's not as if I don't understand football. But... from what I saw, I just saw a regular football game being played by some folks who weren't as organized as the NFL players. (notice I didn't say skilled, as some of them were clearly very good players)
I somehow could not help but get annoyed when the players had to wait for the cameramen to get out of their way before getting to the line of scrimmage... That is REALLY uncalled for -- especially when it causes a delay of game. More cameras are nice... just.. stay out of the way, please...
On the other hand, I do like the idea of them allowing all of the players to introduce themselves. Getting to know the players -- that is usually a desire of most fans, if not all.
Wow, close to first post.. Anyhow, having been a victim of the traffic caused by the VW this morning.... I will share...
Anyhow... rumorville says that in the past years, they have managed to get a VW onto the bridge towers back home -- which is more impressive, IMHO, then tossing a car off the bridge. I mean... hanging a VW (chassis only, almost) off the side of the bridge via nylon cable sounds pretty simple... Tie car to bridge, throw car off bridge with multiple people, or off a ramp. Done.
But... getting the car to a higher ground would be far more challenging... I wonder how they managed to get the VW up onto the bridge towers in the past without getting caught...
Despite being inconvenienced, I thought it was pretty amusing. My only gripe was that they chose to do this prank on a bridge with already horrible visibility... Thankfully the VW was 100 feet off the ground, but if it ended up getting hung lower, we'd have ferries crashing into it...
While I agree that I'm sure it gives the iron chefs a slight advantage knowing the judge's tastes, go to a genre/style-inspecific cooking competition in any given country... guess who the judges are? People from that country. While it shouldn't be your only goal, it's part of your job/responsibility to know what the judges like/dislike, too.
In a cooking competition that does not limit the competitor to any specific genre/style of cuisine, the ethnicity of the judges probably has less implications.
I mean... deep-fried sashimi served with Peking duck and truffles, covered with white wine sauce, or some weird stuff like that -- who in the world is truly qualified for that type of dish?
Still... it would be nice to see a non-Asian on the panel of judges to give the whole competition a bit more international credibility...
I find it amazing that so many people blame marketing, when simple game reviews and game titles sold (volume) will show that the PSX had "bigger hits" (per console unit owned) than the Dreamcast.
IMHO, both consoles had good games, but the PSX simply had more variety, more choices, and when you're choosing between a slab of steak vs. a full-course meal, you choose the full-course meal...
Bad analogies, I know.. but.. don't blame marketing... 9.9.99 was promoted quite well by Sega. (release date of the Dreamcast in the US)
If you take the words "battle" and "bots", the reasonable conclusion these days (give the popularity of the battle-bots show), would be that the two robots would somehow fight.
Alas, not.
In other news, apples are compared to oranges, and found to be different.
I've always hated how you can't easily repair broken optic lines... Unless they address that, I assume drawing thousands of miles of lines will be a daunting task...
Copper wire (which is hardly fragile) gets broken seemingly often... I would assume this would only be worse with optic lines...
Of course, this is my "I'm about to go to sleep, can't use my moderation points since not too many people have posted, and I would really like some good discussion" post.
Er... apologies to moderators for the extra +1 on the above post... Not knowing what it does, I forgot to click on it... =(
However.. I will add one more thing... your example of schoolkids and teachers works well, as I, too had imagined. However, what about libraries? Policing that is troublesome, and enforcing punishment even more difficult.
Heh, sorry you didn't catch my sarcastic tone, but you basically wrote out the exact point I was driving at. IMHO, I've never trusted a programmed filter.
Maybe next time I should just come out and say it, considering you got higher moderation points... (sniff)
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I hear about this in the news every day -- something about Interest rates, VC's, stocks, money, and Greenspan...
sorry, couldn't resist... alas, I had noooo idea who these people were prior to today.
For the lazy...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001219.html
Insightful article, and a great discussion piece. Sadly, as human nature will have it, we will probably do nothing until it actually happens, and we get bit HARD by it. California energy crisis, gasoline shortage panic, ozone depletion, rainforest depletion, shortage of fossil fuel, Y2k panic in 1999, etc... I'm no environmental freak -- just saying that like those issues, folks are not likely to try to fix the problem until it actually happens.
The Infringing Material denigrates the tragedy at Columbine High School and holds our client out as sponsoring this highly distasteful material by using the format of the MasterCard Priceless Advertisements and prominently displaying MasterCard's famous trademarks.
...is it just me, or is this an extremely weak argument? I think MC would have a hard time convincing any judge or jury that the satirical material made people think MC was the sponsor for the Columbine tragedy...
I would think free software is ideal if you're a start-up, since you don't have any legacy software/apps to support -- everything for production can be done using the free software.
Otherwise, trying to make all of your old apps/files/etc work, or to port your old software costs.... bucks... Lay off 200 people, or use those people to port all your software over? Hmm.... not sure about that.
Soon, it will become impossible to write a simple e-mail without using copyright symbols left and right.
Since I Open (courtesy of SGI)ed an on-line store on the Internet (courtesy of Al Gore), now you can visit (courtesy of www.visit.com) me easily! I am but One-Click(courtesy of amazon.com) away! You can even get (courtesy of FTP) some stuff if you put (courtesy of FTP) it in the basket (courtesy of www.basket.com)!
sigh.
(if you haven't figured it out already, most of them are fakes)
eBay has had various MIR Pieces for days...
...I wonder how soon he'll be slashdotted...
on a semi-serious note, while I'm not so sure this is *that* newsworthy, I applaud the author for his detail-oriented dissection.
The biggest mistake a game console company can make is to make a console, but not make any "gotta have it" games for it. I felt that way when Nintendo made the N64, and now I feel the same way with the PS2. Great graphics and sound -- yet nothing special that I can't already get on my PS1 or PC.
Of course, to call a victory to Nintendo's return is probably premature, as we have no idea what kind of games they will offer. For all we know, the games offered with Nitendo's cube (as well as MS's X-box) may be just as uninspiring as the games on the PS2.
is when you get 10 different people with:
...very typical...
10 different network settings
9 different speed PC's
8 different versions of the game patch
7 game CD's missing
6 machines that need to be fixed after transport
5 machines with NIC's that don't work 4 different versions of OS
3 machines with viruses
2 people who have to go home, now that's it's getting late (and haven't even started) 1 long night wasted with no gaming
sure, it gets better after the first few times of this junk, but... with broadband, it's hardly even worth it...
Perhaps one day the portal/search engine load will reach such high demand/low profit that it will become (organizationally) centralized. Kinda like DNS, but... much much bigger in terms of data. (okay, I see the problem already, LOL)
Ahh, but never say never... bandwidth and servers speed up every day by a factor of 10, and keywords aren't going to get larger by such a large factor...
I think anyone who uses the web frequently enough knows that banner ads are a joke, and meant to be ignored. So, we continue to ignore them until the company that uses them as income starts to choke. What do we do next? Just jump to the next best company that isn't choking... yet.
Sadly, this will continue until the Internet community realizes it cannot jump around to 'the next newest site' forever, since the service has begun to degrade to the point of uselessness... When that day comes, people will be more open to the idea of paying a few bucks a year to keep some 'core' Internet sites (like Yahoo!, CNN, CNet, NYTimes, Slashdot, etc..) open.
Of course, the challenge will be to have people voluntarily pay, so that everyone can view it for free. (after all, we're looking for educational/informational access to the masses).
Inevitable, I suppose, but when I think of local public broadcasting stations and their endless fund-raiser drives, it does make me cringe...
Hi Eladio,
I appreciate your insight, but I was a bit saddened by your statement of:
To facilitate the trade in illegal materials is obviously illegal. To offer illegal materials for sale is illegal. WTF are you thinking?
While I am surely partly to blame for not being clear in my points, I definitely never said the video tape material was legal, and was surprised I received such a harsh reply.
I clearly understand that the transaction is illegal. However, I was asking if the data transmitted through AOL's networks was illegal - the raw data itself did not contain any illegal material, right? If so, how can anyone expect AOL to track otherwise-legal data? AOL surely cannot track illegal intent...
Well... that's what I was trying to say... =)
While I'm no big fan of AOL, and the crims disgusts me, there is one key fact that shoots out at me:
Was the data that went through AOL's network illegal?
The video delivered through snail-mail is illegal - no question about that.. But... the 'order information' (in the form of name, address, credit card, phone number) sent via e-mail is surely not illegal, is it? I openly admit I may not understand the legal implications of this, but if this person had made the video order through the telephone, would she then sue the phone company for "allowing an illegal transaction to take place on their networks."??
those darn punch-hole voter cards... I've had my lifetime's share of pregnant chads....
a site like adcritic that has all of my favorite TV shows -- archived.
Yes, I know TV networks and studios won't initially go for this, but it sure beats begging your friends for the episode of "Survivor" that you missed and forgot to tape.
I played ball in high school, so it's not as if I don't understand football. But... from what I saw, I just saw a regular football game being played by some folks who weren't as organized as the NFL players. (notice I didn't say skilled, as some of them were clearly very good players)
I somehow could not help but get annoyed when the players had to wait for the cameramen to get out of their way before getting to the line of scrimmage... That is REALLY uncalled for -- especially when it causes a delay of game. More cameras are nice... just.. stay out of the way, please...
On the other hand, I do like the idea of them allowing all of the players to introduce themselves. Getting to know the players -- that is usually a desire of most fans, if not all.
Wow, close to first post.. Anyhow, having been a victim of the traffic caused by the VW this morning.... I will share...
Anyhow... rumorville says that in the past years, they have managed to get a VW onto the bridge towers back home -- which is more impressive, IMHO, then tossing a car off the bridge. I mean... hanging a VW (chassis only, almost) off the side of the bridge via nylon cable sounds pretty simple... Tie car to bridge, throw car off bridge with multiple people, or off a ramp. Done.
But... getting the car to a higher ground would be far more challenging... I wonder how they managed to get the VW up onto the bridge towers in the past without getting caught...
Despite being inconvenienced, I thought it was pretty amusing. My only gripe was that they chose to do this prank on a bridge with already horrible visibility... Thankfully the VW was 100 feet off the ground, but if it ended up getting hung lower, we'd have ferries crashing into it...
While I agree that I'm sure it gives the iron chefs a slight advantage knowing the judge's tastes, go to a genre/style-inspecific cooking competition in any given country... guess who the judges are? People from that country. While it shouldn't be your only goal, it's part of your job/responsibility to know what the judges like/dislike, too.
In a cooking competition that does not limit the competitor to any specific genre/style of cuisine, the ethnicity of the judges probably has less implications.
I mean... deep-fried sashimi served with Peking duck and truffles, covered with white wine sauce, or some weird stuff like that -- who in the world is truly qualified for that type of dish?
Still... it would be nice to see a non-Asian on the panel of judges to give the whole competition a bit more international credibility...
I find it amazing that so many people blame marketing, when simple game reviews and game titles sold (volume) will show that the PSX had "bigger hits" (per console unit owned) than the Dreamcast.
IMHO, both consoles had good games, but the PSX simply had more variety, more choices, and when you're choosing between a slab of steak vs. a full-course meal, you choose the full-course meal...
Bad analogies, I know.. but.. don't blame marketing... 9.9.99 was promoted quite well by Sega. (release date of the Dreamcast in the US)
If you take the words "battle" and "bots", the reasonable conclusion these days (give the popularity of the battle-bots show), would be that the two robots would somehow fight.
Alas, not.
In other news, apples are compared to oranges, and found to be different.
I've always hated how you can't easily repair broken optic lines... Unless they address that, I assume drawing thousands of miles of lines will be a daunting task...
Copper wire (which is hardly fragile) gets broken seemingly often... I would assume this would only be worse with optic lines...
Of course, this is my "I'm about to go to sleep, can't use my moderation points since not too many people have posted, and I would really like some good discussion" post.
Er... apologies to moderators for the extra +1 on the above post... Not knowing what it does, I forgot to click on it... =(
However.. I will add one more thing... your example of schoolkids and teachers works well, as I, too had imagined. However, what about libraries? Policing that is troublesome, and enforcing punishment even more difficult.
Heh, sorry you didn't catch my sarcastic tone, but you basically wrote out the exact point I was driving at. IMHO, I've never trusted a programmed filter.
Maybe next time I should just come out and say it, considering you got higher moderation points... (sniff)