I hope that you're there at every step of the way, sabotaging every tiny step an author takes towards adapting to the internet. Just blow them into fscking oblivion if they don't take a transcendent leap from what's happening now to the perfect system some nameless hacker has visualized.
That'll get the authors running from the publishing/distribution houses to the internet in no time!
Anna and the King was not an animated movie. Are you thinking of Anastasia? Anastasia was not that bad, or should I say no worse than anything Disney puts out.
I disagree with your assertion that Disney has set the bar too high. I think that with animation in America, it has been successfully cast into niche status by Disney. Disney has successfully convinced everyone that they are the source of animation innovation in the world. They don't make bad movies, they're fine (if a little simple).
Movies like Iron Giant and Princess Mononoke are truly excellent films, animation or not, but are still considered fringe, despite their excellent production.
Obviously a comment from someone who has never bought pr0n.:) Porn companies have legitimate sounding names... no company bills as goatporn.com. It's run by the Sample Interactive Media Company, which is what it shows up as on your credit card bill.
Everything is derivitive. I'm not saying that he is a wonderful author, I'm saying that he brought that comic to a new level that I didn't know existed before then. I don't know whether he copied the storylines from current sci-fi, or used it to bring in new readers.
I'm not saying that the Brood War was a great plot, but he's written some really great stories (Dark Phoenix, God Loves Man Kills, etc). I still remember them now, and I read them 15 years ago. The plot subject was largely irrelevant anyway. The important part was the character interaction and development, something that he did very well.
By the way, as far as I know, he didn't invent Wolverine. Wolverine was introduced by a still unfamous writer as a side character in the Hulk, so Claremont didn't name him. After that issue, he was quickly drafted into the Xmen, but his origin wasn't with them.
You are absolutely correct. When they came out, the vibe was no different than any other comic of the age: "Wow!" Claremont added depth, moral complexity, and humanity to the world.
...they would be hauled off for contempt of congress, but the NSA managed to get away with it.
Your answer: the NSA could blackmail any (not every) politician in Congress out of office in a microsecond. Every politician has large skeletons in the closet, and NSA knows everything. Do you need a more plausible reason why Congress didn't press the point?
He's not just a self-appointed Katz-like "spokesman for the hackers".
He's not just that, but he still is that. I cringe every time I see him say "my tribe" or "my kind". Yeesh. We are a group centered around one activity: coding and software. It pisses me off to listen to him speak in my name as he talks about antitrust law, just because we both write code.
When you purchase a console game, you see it on the shelf, then go to the retailer and say, "I want a copy of Soul Caliber". They fish it out, and you're happy.
Why not do this with computer software? Have one "big box" on the shelf, but when you go to pick it up, you get a shrink-wrapped CD case and the mini-manual. No box.
This keeps the waste down, and they don't lose the current shelf-space purchasing strategy that retailers love so much.
If I can get a genuine Athlon 700 for ~$150 now, why would I want to buy a Duron? Not a winner on performance; not a winner on price; not a winner, period. Pity.
One reason would be that they are switching to a new architechture (socket). If you buy Duron, you could end up saving the cost of a new motherboard on your next purchase. Your pricewatch link shows Athlon Slot arch chips, which allow an upgrade to the Slot Athlon 800, no more. If you buy a Duron and want to upgrade to an Athlon Thunderbird, you don't need a new mobo, since they use the same socket.
If I were choosing between the two, I'd go with the future upgrade potential of the socket systems (Duron/Athlon Tbird).
Of course, if you already have an Athlon slot m/b, it's a no brainer to just continue to the best Athlon slot chips.
All we know is what JC posted in his.plan. Paul could have told both owners to fsck themselves for all we know. JC also alluded that there had been previous instances where Steed could have been fired.
We don't know the whole story, it's no use trying to figure out their work climate. Maybe they're all happy to see him go? Who knows?
This isn't that big of a deal. Arguments happen in most companies, and people get fired/leave. At high-profile companies like id, arguments and staff changes are "news".
What about when Romero left id, due to differences of opinion over the direction of the projects? id has been fine.
Just another line in the gaming industry soap opera.
Secondly, this seems not much different to what Sony is doing with PSX2 - except Sony don't expect the owners of original PSX games to pay the extra to play them on their new console.
That, and you don't have to have owned them in the first place. Like, if you rented it, liked it, never bought it... now you can rent it again. From home.:)
It's sad to see that big name artists are doing this sort of thing. Dre and Metallica are quickly losing credibility by going after the people who enjoy their work the most.
Haha... no, the people who love them the most buy their albums.:)
Being geekly gamers, on the first gaming day of each year we used to roll 6 d10s to determine whether that year we would become mass-murderers, devil-worshippers, etc. Not sure of the exact rolls for most stuff, although I think getting 3 sixes made one a devil worshipper.
The trouble is, there IS a bit of truth to be found in this fear. The film Mazes and Monsters was supposedly (loosely) based off of a real-life event (students ran live-action roleplaying games in the university's steam tunnels, one snapped). I've met a rare handfull of people who might be candidates for more such movies. For a very, very small few there might be some kind of danger. But then, I would question whether it is DnD or something else that has put them in that state of mind.
Just a guess, but I bet that you would find the same percentage of crazies that you would find in the general populace... but nobody ever does any metrics like that, since you get more attention just saying "D&D is from the devil!"
For me and thousands of others, role playing games have been (and sometimes still are) a constructive and enjoyable form of entertainment.
I hear you.:)
Cool story about your relatives.
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This cult is incredibally destructive, and relies on brainwashing, psuedopsychology, fake science, and so on to induct more and more members (especially rich ones) to give them shitloads of money.
I have a problem with the derogatory use of the word cult. Do you know that a cult is functionally equivalent to a small religion?
cult: 1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP 2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
Every cult/religion begins with one enlightened person (or group), trying to spread his/her ideas; every cult/religion uses it's own (new) words to express its concepts; every cult/religion needs the support of its worshippers to survive and grow.
Why not call it by its name, Church of Scientology? It just seems silly to resort to name-calling when you could express your point without it.
I'm not sure if suing Napster is valid for what they want, but I don't understand the anti-Metallica sentiment in a lot of these posts.
My (or your) feelings concerning the record industry are irrelevent. This is an issue of how an artist views their work. You can't make decisions for others, or their work. Right now, the law supports this:
1) If you want to give your art away, and say "Freely distribute my creation", that's fine. 2) You can convince someone that they're better off giving their art away, that's fine. 3) If you want to force someone else to give their art away (Napster), that's wrong.
These add up to respect for every individual in the process... and allows changing the system by communication and example, and not forcing your practices on others.
That is what Napster community is: forcing artists to follow the free distribution view, not their own. And that's wrong.
I'm not against the model of artists giving their art away, and I don't love the music industry companies, but I'm against the concept that it's ok to do it regardless of what they want.
I don't think that he's saying that stray bullets are less deadly than oppressive nations. He's saying that stray bullets are more deadly than secure email.
Like warez kiddies, many napster users are young people, without a lot of money, who would never have bought the official product anyway, so they aren't a loss to the artist.
That's pretty interesting. Do you have any data whatsoever to back this up?
Interestingly, this "budding theory" predates any computer language. Before a language may be conceived, we have to understand things like Turing Completeness, "regular languages", context/context free, lexicons, protocol, computational complexity, space/time constraints, discrete computation theory, etc.
You're right, of course. My grad school teachers would smack me for making such an incomplete remark.:)
Unlike engineering, computer science was _born_ in theory.
I wouldn't say that. Engineering is tightly coupled with science, and all engineering is an extension of science (theory). Name any engineering discipline, and I'll tell you the sciences that predated it.
In the past it has not been "See, here's how you program in C/C++/Java. And this is what a compiler and OS do. And here's 4 other things. Now go practice coding. Soon you'll be a scientist/engineer." That is, unfortunately, our current trend.
Again, you're right. My frustration carries over with all these jobs being labeled Computer Science or Software Engineering, when the majority of it is neither... it's hacking. That's not bad at all, it's just not what is described. And I think it serves to confuse people who don't understand the CS field, when Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, and Hacker are all used interchangably, when they really have different meanings.
In the past we have seen great teachers such as Turing, Dykstra (sp), and Knuth. If anything, we should _return_ to the theoretical roots of computer science to provide understanding for our current practice.
I agree. I think that as the field progresses (and programming becomes even more mainstream), the three titles I list above will play themselves out. Everyone will understand the difference between CS, SE, and haX0r.:)
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I hope that you're there at every step of the way, sabotaging every tiny step an author takes towards adapting to the internet. Just blow them into fscking oblivion if they don't take a transcendent leap from what's happening now to the perfect system some nameless hacker has visualized.
That'll get the authors running from the publishing/distribution houses to the internet in no time!
Anna and the King was not an animated movie. Are you thinking of Anastasia? Anastasia was not that bad, or should I say no worse than anything Disney puts out.
I disagree with your assertion that Disney has set the bar too high. I think that with animation in America, it has been successfully cast into niche status by Disney. Disney has successfully convinced everyone that they are the source of animation innovation in the world. They don't make bad movies, they're fine (if a little simple).
Movies like Iron Giant and Princess Mononoke are truly excellent films, animation or not, but are still considered fringe, despite their excellent production.
Obviously a comment from someone who has never bought pr0n. :) Porn companies have legitimate sounding names... no company bills as goatporn.com. It's run by the Sample Interactive Media Company, which is what it shows up as on your credit card bill.
Wow, you can bash a harmless hobby and homosexuals- at the same time!
Everything is derivitive. I'm not saying that he is a wonderful author, I'm saying that he brought that comic to a new level that I didn't know existed before then. I don't know whether he copied the storylines from current sci-fi, or used it to bring in new readers.
I'm not saying that the Brood War was a great plot, but he's written some really great stories (Dark Phoenix, God Loves Man Kills, etc). I still remember them now, and I read them 15 years ago. The plot subject was largely irrelevant anyway. The important part was the character interaction and development, something that he did very well.
By the way, as far as I know, he didn't invent Wolverine. Wolverine was introduced by a still unfamous writer as a side character in the Hulk, so Claremont didn't name him. After that issue, he was quickly drafted into the Xmen, but his origin wasn't with them.
You are absolutely correct. When they came out, the vibe was no different than any other comic of the age: "Wow!" Claremont added depth, moral complexity, and humanity to the world.
:)
How's that for a hardcore response?
...they would be hauled off for contempt of congress, but the NSA managed to get away with it.
Your answer: the NSA could blackmail any (not every) politician in Congress out of office in a microsecond. Every politician has large skeletons in the closet, and NSA knows everything. Do you need a more plausible reason why Congress didn't press the point?
He's not just a self-appointed Katz-like "spokesman for the hackers".
He's not just that, but he still is that. I cringe every time I see him say "my tribe" or "my kind". Yeesh. We are a group centered around one activity: coding and software. It pisses me off to listen to him speak in my name as he talks about antitrust law, just because we both write code.
When you purchase a console game, you see it on the shelf, then go to the retailer and say, "I want a copy of Soul Caliber". They fish it out, and you're happy.
Why not do this with computer software? Have one "big box" on the shelf, but when you go to pick it up, you get a shrink-wrapped CD case and the mini-manual. No box.
This keeps the waste down, and they don't lose the current shelf-space purchasing strategy that retailers love so much.
If I can get a genuine Athlon 700 for ~$150 now, why would I want to buy a Duron? Not a winner on performance; not a winner on price; not a winner, period. Pity.
One reason would be that they are switching to a new architechture (socket). If you buy Duron, you could end up saving the cost of a new motherboard on your next purchase. Your pricewatch link shows Athlon Slot arch chips, which allow an upgrade to the Slot Athlon 800, no more. If you buy a Duron and want to upgrade to an Athlon Thunderbird, you don't need a new mobo, since they use the same socket.
If I were choosing between the two, I'd go with the future upgrade potential of the socket systems (Duron/Athlon Tbird).
Of course, if you already have an Athlon slot m/b, it's a no brainer to just continue to the best Athlon slot chips.
I was not expecting Courtney Love's article to kick so much ass. One of the better reads I've had in the last year. She's absolutely amazing.
Please, please read it if you haven't already.
All we know is what JC posted in his .plan. Paul could have told both owners to fsck themselves for all we know. JC also alluded that there had been previous instances where Steed could have been fired.
We don't know the whole story, it's no use trying to figure out their work climate. Maybe they're all happy to see him go? Who knows?
This isn't that big of a deal. Arguments happen in most companies, and people get fired/leave. At high-profile companies like id, arguments and staff changes are "news".
What about when Romero left id, due to differences of opinion over the direction of the projects? id has been fine.
Just another line in the gaming industry soap opera.
Secondly, this seems not much different to what Sony is doing with PSX2 - except Sony don't expect the owners of original PSX games to pay the extra to play them on their new console.
:)
That, and you don't have to have owned them in the first place. Like, if you rented it, liked it, never bought it... now you can rent it again. From home.
Dr. Dre is a multi-millionaire because of the very fans that he is suing!
No, he's only suing the ones who steal his music.
It's sad to see that big name artists are doing this sort of thing. Dre and Metallica are quickly losing credibility by going after the people who enjoy their work the most.
:)
Haha... no, the people who love them the most buy their albums.
Being geekly gamers, on the first gaming day of each year we used to roll 6 d10s to determine whether that year we would become mass-murderers, devil-worshippers, etc. Not sure of the exact rolls for most stuff, although I think getting 3 sixes made one a devil worshipper.
:)
d6s increase the odds.
The trouble is, there IS a bit of truth to be found in this fear. The film Mazes and Monsters was supposedly (loosely) based off of a real-life event (students ran live-action roleplaying games in the university's steam tunnels, one snapped). I've met a rare handfull of people who might be candidates for more such movies. For a very, very small few there might be some kind of danger. But then, I would question whether it is DnD or something else that has put them in that state of mind.
:)
Just a guess, but I bet that you would find the same percentage of crazies that you would find in the general populace... but nobody ever does any metrics like that, since you get more attention just saying "D&D is from the devil!"
For me and thousands of others, role playing games have been (and sometimes still are) a constructive and enjoyable form of entertainment.
I hear you.
Cool story about your relatives.
This cult is incredibally destructive, and relies on brainwashing, psuedopsychology, fake science, and so on to induct more and more members (especially rich ones) to give them shitloads of money.
I have a problem with the derogatory use of the word cult. Do you know that a cult is functionally equivalent to a small religion?
cult:
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
Every cult/religion begins with one enlightened person (or group), trying to spread his/her ideas; every cult/religion uses it's own (new) words to express its concepts; every cult/religion needs the support of its worshippers to survive and grow.
Why not call it by its name, Church of Scientology? It just seems silly to resort to name-calling when you could express your point without it.
I'm not sure if suing Napster is valid for what they want, but I don't understand the anti-Metallica sentiment in a lot of these posts.
My (or your) feelings concerning the record industry are irrelevent. This is an issue of how an artist views their work. You can't make decisions for others, or their work. Right now, the law supports this:
1) If you want to give your art away, and say "Freely distribute my creation", that's fine.
2) You can convince someone that they're better off giving their art away, that's fine.
3) If you want to force someone else to give their art away (Napster), that's wrong.
These add up to respect for every individual in the process... and allows changing the system by communication and example, and not forcing your practices on others.
That is what Napster community is: forcing artists to follow the free distribution view, not their own. And that's wrong.
I'm not against the model of artists giving their art away, and I don't love the music industry companies, but I'm against the concept that it's ok to do it regardless of what they want.
What's the problem?
I don't think that he's saying that stray bullets are less deadly than oppressive nations. He's saying that stray bullets are more deadly than secure email.
If you want market research data, you are going to have to pay for it yourself.
:)
If you look at the music available on napster, you can get an idea of the demographics of the users.
Search for "Miles Davis", "Frank Sinatra", "O Fortuna", and "Beatles". Keep in mind that you only see the first 100 hits, by default.
I wasn't meaning to slam on you, Detritus, but it bugs me to see someone's opinion put forth as fact, without some kind of qualifier.
I know that this is a glorified "me too", but I wish I hadn't already submitted to this article, so I could modify you up. :)
Like warez kiddies, many napster users are young people, without a lot of money, who would never have bought the official product anyway, so they aren't a loss to the artist.
That's pretty interesting. Do you have any data whatsoever to back this up?
Interestingly, this "budding theory" predates any computer language. Before a language may be conceived, we have to understand things like Turing Completeness, "regular languages", context/context free, lexicons, protocol, computational complexity, space/time constraints, discrete computation theory, etc.
:)
:)
You're right, of course. My grad school teachers would smack me for making such an incomplete remark.
Unlike engineering, computer science was _born_ in theory.
I wouldn't say that. Engineering is tightly coupled with science, and all engineering is an extension of science (theory). Name any engineering discipline, and I'll tell you the sciences that predated it.
In the past it has not been "See, here's how you program in C/C++/Java. And this is what a compiler and OS do. And here's 4 other things. Now go practice coding. Soon you'll be a scientist/engineer." That is, unfortunately, our current trend.
Again, you're right. My frustration carries over with all these jobs being labeled Computer Science or Software Engineering, when the majority of it is neither... it's hacking. That's not bad at all, it's just not what is described. And I think it serves to confuse people who don't understand the CS field, when Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, and Hacker are all used interchangably, when they really have different meanings.
In the past we have seen great teachers such as Turing, Dykstra (sp), and Knuth. If anything, we should _return_ to the theoretical roots of computer science to provide understanding for our current practice.
I agree. I think that as the field progresses (and programming becomes even more mainstream), the three titles I list above will play themselves out. Everyone will understand the difference between CS, SE, and haX0r.