Large asteroids tend to have wandered the universe for quite a long time in which it is highly likely that it has gathered particles or some matter on the way.
This matter could contain anything, especially if it's from the depths of the universe (even the solar system) from forms of life, right down to highly hazardous chemical compounds which may not exist on earth already, but do so in outer space.
Anyone remember the fuss people were making about sending other planets microbes from earth sent probes or vehicles by accident.
Radio stations, TV shows and shops pay royalties to organisations such as APRA (in Australia) in order to cover for both the licensing of the material AND the fact that the material does get pirated. The problem is what do you pay when you have 40,000,000 pirates?
Media is the closest thing left to anything we can actually OWN these days. The rest is being rented, licensed and prostituted online. Let's not get rid of that too...
In that case I better go and get Metallicas songs from Napster since they're a dead act!
On that note, would all Metallica stuff before And Justice For All (ironic album title, isnt it) become free of copyright as their bass player (Cliff Burton) died? I mean, since he died all their stuff has been crap so I can only assume he wrote all the old stuff.
It's quite good to hear that Napster has an offer to make which sounds quite reasonable.
It keeps record companies flowing with $$ and the independents will be happy too.
First problem is that this will almost stop the whole notion that Napster is built upon a system where the middleman (record company) is removed. However, they no longer will be removed and will be very necessary for musicians to get any fianancial reward for putting their work online.
It's most likely that Napster will split the $50,000,000 a year for indie labels up in a manner where an indie label would have to register with Napster, and then Napster would be able to include them in the deal in which $50,000,000 is allocated accordingly. Unless Napster offers rewards for individuals who are keen to go around the middleman, the artists will have to sign up to a small indie label and eventually these labels are going to get large and no longer seen as an independent thus making Napster just an entry field in online music distribution/subscription without getting rid of the labels and all we would be left with is pretty much the same as before except you can download songs off the net at a cost from a source which is a record label not the artist themself.
This sort of technology is slowly starting to be used in animals and that's where I see it growing quite dramatically.
In Sydney, Australia you must by law register cats and dogs and implant a microchip inside them which allows the animal to later be identified.
Through eveoloution, the next phase of this technology will be chips which allow you to track your stray cat.
This technology is also useful in the assistance of saving endangered species etc.
I am not sure if this is already happening or not but, imagine if you could track panda populations in the wild just by tracking the chips that were implanted in them as babies instead of having to have humans go in the wild, tranquilize the animal and then check to see what it's been upto.
This in fact could open up an whole new era of humans being able to track animals in their natural habitat and find out animal behavioural patterns etc without having to physically enter/disturb the habitat.
But picture this also.
30 or so years after this technology is in place with animals and is seen as safe and solid, they could start to trial this technology on prisoners for example to see how they go in society at first and slowly introduce it to every baby born.
I think all technology can be used for good. It's just a matter of doing so.
I know I'll get a Flaimbait rating for this, but I don't care. I am totally sick of ignorance such as this.
Graphics are not always there just to fill in gaps
Yes a lot of websites use graphics carelessly and without thinking about them and it may seem that way at times, but visual representation of any information wether its a companys corporate history or wether it is specs for a motherboard is very important.
Majority of our sensory information is gathered by our eyes. This is a fact. A designers job is to make a connection between the information and the user. The way that is done is by tailoring that information to be gathered in a manner the designer wants.
Oh and someone who codes HTML is NOT a web DESIGNER.
The problem is that people constantly bitch about how they are sick of graphics on the web. Well If your brains sensors can only pick up information when it is isolated from any other elements, well, that is a problem with your brain. The problem should not be that there are graphics on the web. I mean what is a font on a web page it itself is a graphic. Yes little pixels being drawn on a screen are actually graphics. You shouldnt be complaining about design existing. You should be complaining that the design isnt right.
Why ?
Because design is needed. Even in a plain text page design would be needed. I know people who can work wonders with just using a single font type on a black and white screen.
I don't care about your ego.
Sounds like you're the one with the ego problem because you seem to be such a dull person that you seem as if you cannot handle the fact that some people have artistic ability. You say you have a problem with graphics which really means you have a problem with "designed" sites, but its really the technology that which you seem to be winging about.
Get your issues right buddy.
I don't care about your fancy layout.
Okay, so next time I make a site, I will just put the menu to the left, top, bottom and right of pages I make and I'll split the content up to be in 6 areas within the one page for you because you do not care for layout.
I don't care about your animated GIFs.
Why because your brain cannot absorb non static visual information?
I don't care about your eye candy.
Nor do I, it's an old photoshop plugin and the effects can be created without the plugin anyday
I don't care about your exact positioning "needs".
That's like car engineers putting the steering wheel in the back seat because things can be positioned wherever and according to you will work wherever they are put
I don't care about your midi sound effects.
Either you are deaf or biased against MIDI, would you like an embedded mp3 stream in a Flash file if thats the only way you can handle your sound?
Anyhow, get a proper MIDI implementation then complain about MIDI.
I don't care about your Java "enhancements".
The concept of Java in a website is not for added interactivity or to make it media rich, but as to add functionality to a website which will work on any platform on the clients side. The issue here is that when Java started getting used on the web at first, traditional programmers jumped at it and used it for all sorts of interactive abilities that were available to them in desktop programming for GUIs.
I don't care about your Flash animation.
What kind of animation WOULD you care about? Flash is a great way of delivering vector based animation and interactivity on the web. If you cannot process more than just text scrolling on a screen, it is not my fault. Flash is great for interactivity, but what I do hate are sites with useless flash intros and one of those "skip intro" links. I mean, how many of those are there with frames which just speed up as it gets closer to the end of the animation.
I finished working on a web site for a famous film director a few months ago, and the site is pretty much not accessible unless you have shockwave, flash and DHTML. There has been nothing but praise for the site (Mystery Clock Cinema). People like yourself who are against multimedia online have said things such as "I normally hate flash and extra graphics on the web, but this has made me think twice" etc...
The director chose that to be his limiting factor because he didn't want to compromise his artistic freedom.
This clearly to me is a case of people encountering bad uses of technology and theories and counting it as a permanent strike against it just because of the form theyre used to encountering it in.
One thing I would like to know however.
What about entertainment? Seriously, not every website is there to inform. The web is also used to entertain and engage. If you think you and your non design is enough to entertain for good then so be it. The web is converging with TV in front of your own eyes. There will be a day soon where if you don't look good enough to go on the screen, you simply won't!
If/when all this crazy mess with digital rights and music industry gets sorted out, will anyone remember to take off the tax on those products or will it be an income source for some greedy bastards for the rest of their lives....
What sort of tax can one introduce and be serious about it when its a taxing of the possibility that someone "might" do something.
YEah I've got thousands of mp3's.
Yes I've got a hard drive to store them on.
Yes I have a CD Burner.
I even have blank CD's to burn onto aswell.
But I also have 200+ purchased audio CD's which is what I've ripped. I believe that this does not count as pirating music.
So why then do I have to pay much more for all the components in my computer just because I "might" do something whereas there is no proof nor intention of having done so.
Oh hey guess what, my computer can also be used to bring down a million websites and do cyberterrorism. Will you put me in prison too just because the computer I am using can do these things? Or will you just tax me?
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How do you know that when Joe Bloggs was walking into the stadium and had to walk through a highly lit area with what he thinks are TV cameras, that he wasn't in fact being photographed with a calibrated camera in a fairly suitable lighting environment?
Those calibrated shots can be taken outside of the Police station too you know.
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If you were the mother, father, lover or somehow close to a someone who had been murdered by a wanted criminal and the murder could have been prevented by usage of such a system, I'm sure you would change your tune, quite quickly too.
I personally do not see being hassled by police at times as big a deal as oh let's say getitng shot in the back by a known criminal?
The one I have with my company allows me to do work for other companies during and after I work for my them as long as I do not sell myself as an alternative to going to the company I work for.
Oh yeah and I have to tell them of what I do outside just out of courtesy.
I have been doing loads of freelance work on the side and they are cool with it.
Starting up a chip manufacturing company = $billions
Getting the world hooked on computers and your chips = $billions
Making billions around the world depend on computers and computer chips only to tell them that they cannot advance it any further on April fools day 2001...priceless....
Okay, you must have used Bcentral to try and support your online presence.
Unless you paid for Bcentral (theres a freebie plan and a payment plan), you have no right to complain about wether or not they keep their databases intact!
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This matter could contain anything, especially if it's from the depths of the universe (even the solar system) from forms of life, right down to highly hazardous chemical compounds which may not exist on earth already, but do so in outer space.
Anyone remember the fuss people were making about sending other planets microbes from earth sent probes or vehicles by accident.
What about the opposite!!!
Radio stations, TV shows and shops pay royalties to organisations such as APRA (in Australia) in order to cover for both the licensing of the material AND the fact that the material does get pirated. The problem is what do you pay when you have 40,000,000 pirates?
Media is the closest thing left to anything we can actually OWN these days. The rest is being rented, licensed and prostituted online. Let's not get rid of that too...
What one man knows as freedom another knows as mess...
On that note, would all Metallica stuff before And Justice For All (ironic album title, isnt it) become free of copyright as their bass player (Cliff Burton) died? I mean, since he died all their stuff has been crap so I can only assume he wrote all the old stuff.
It keeps record companies flowing with $$ and the independents will be happy too.
First problem is that this will almost stop the whole notion that Napster is built upon a system where the middleman (record company) is removed. However, they no longer will be removed and will be very necessary for musicians to get any fianancial reward for putting their work online.
It's most likely that Napster will split the $50,000,000 a year for indie labels up in a manner where an indie label would have to register with Napster, and then Napster would be able to include them in the deal in which $50,000,000 is allocated accordingly. Unless Napster offers rewards for individuals who are keen to go around the middleman, the artists will have to sign up to a small indie label and eventually these labels are going to get large and no longer seen as an independent thus making Napster just an entry field in online music distribution/subscription without getting rid of the labels and all we would be left with is pretty much the same as before except you can download songs off the net at a cost from a source which is a record label not the artist themself.
As a musician I think that would suck.
In Sydney, Australia you must by law register cats and dogs and implant a microchip inside them which allows the animal to later be identified.
Through eveoloution, the next phase of this technology will be chips which allow you to track your stray cat.
This technology is also useful in the assistance of saving endangered species etc.
I am not sure if this is already happening or not but, imagine if you could track panda populations in the wild just by tracking the chips that were implanted in them as babies instead of having to have humans go in the wild, tranquilize the animal and then check to see what it's been upto.
This in fact could open up an whole new era of humans being able to track animals in their natural habitat and find out animal behavioural patterns etc without having to physically enter/disturb the habitat.
But picture this also.
30 or so years after this technology is in place with animals and is seen as safe and solid, they could start to trial this technology on prisoners for example to see how they go in society at first and slowly introduce it to every baby born.
I think all technology can be used for good. It's just a matter of doing so.
Graphics are not always there just to fill in gaps
Yes a lot of websites use graphics carelessly and without thinking about them and it may seem that way at times, but visual representation of any information wether its a companys corporate history or wether it is specs for a motherboard is very important.
Majority of our sensory information is gathered by our eyes. This is a fact. A designers job is to make a connection between the information and the user. The way that is done is by tailoring that information to be gathered in a manner the designer wants.
Oh and someone who codes HTML is NOT a web DESIGNER.
The problem is that people constantly bitch about how they are sick of graphics on the web. Well If your brains sensors can only pick up information when it is isolated from any other elements, well, that is a problem with your brain. The problem should not be that there are graphics on the web. I mean what is a font on a web page it itself is a graphic. Yes little pixels being drawn on a screen are actually graphics. You shouldnt be complaining about design existing. You should be complaining that the design isnt right.
Why ?
Because design is needed. Even in a plain text page design would be needed. I know people who can work wonders with just using a single font type on a black and white screen.
I don't care about your ego.
Sounds like you're the one with the ego problem because you seem to be such a dull person that you seem as if you cannot handle the fact that some people have artistic ability. You say you have a problem with graphics which really means you have a problem with "designed" sites, but its really the technology that which you seem to be winging about.
Get your issues right buddy.
I don't care about your fancy layout.
Okay, so next time I make a site, I will just put the menu to the left, top, bottom and right of pages I make and I'll split the content up to be in 6 areas within the one page for you because you do not care for layout. I don't care about your animated GIFs.
Why because your brain cannot absorb non static visual information?
I don't care about your eye candy.
Nor do I, it's an old photoshop plugin and the effects can be created without the plugin anyday
I don't care about your exact positioning "needs".
That's like car engineers putting the steering wheel in the back seat because things can be positioned wherever and according to you will work wherever they are put
I don't care about your midi sound effects.
Either you are deaf or biased against MIDI, would you like an embedded mp3 stream in a Flash file if thats the only way you can handle your sound?
Anyhow, get a proper MIDI implementation then complain about MIDI.
I don't care about your Java "enhancements".
The concept of Java in a website is not for added interactivity or to make it media rich, but as to add functionality to a website which will work on any platform on the clients side. The issue here is that when Java started getting used on the web at first, traditional programmers jumped at it and used it for all sorts of interactive abilities that were available to them in desktop programming for GUIs.
I don't care about your Flash animation.
What kind of animation WOULD you care about?
Flash is a great way of delivering vector based animation and interactivity on the web. If you cannot process more than just text scrolling on a screen, it is not my fault. Flash is great for interactivity, but what I do hate are sites with useless flash intros and one of those "skip intro" links. I mean, how many of those are there with frames which just speed up as it gets closer to the end of the animation.
I finished working on a web site for a famous film director a few months ago, and the site is pretty much not accessible unless you have shockwave, flash and DHTML. There has been nothing but praise for the site (Mystery Clock Cinema). People like yourself who are against multimedia online have said things such as "I normally hate flash and extra graphics on the web, but this has made me think twice" etc...
The director chose that to be his limiting factor because he didn't want to compromise his artistic freedom.
This clearly to me is a case of people encountering bad uses of technology and theories and counting it as a permanent strike against it just because of the form theyre used to encountering it in.
One thing I would like to know however.
What about entertainment? Seriously, not every website is there to inform. The web is also used to entertain and engage. If you think you and your non design is enough to entertain for good then so be it. The web is converging with TV in front of your own eyes. There will be a day soon where if you don't look good enough to go on the screen, you simply won't!
If/when all this crazy mess with digital rights and music industry gets sorted out, will anyone remember to take off the tax on those products or will it be an income source for some greedy bastards for the rest of their lives....
YEah I've got thousands of mp3's.
Yes I've got a hard drive to store them on.
Yes I have a CD Burner.
I even have blank CD's to burn onto aswell.
But I also have 200+ purchased audio CD's which is what I've ripped. I believe that this does not count as pirating music.
So why then do I have to pay much more for all the components in my computer just because I "might" do something whereas there is no proof nor intention of having done so.
Oh hey guess what, my computer can also be used to bring down a million websites and do cyberterrorism. Will you put me in prison too just because the computer I am using can do these things? Or will you just tax me?
Silk took a dramatic drop. And also, spiders are no longer useful to us, so we shall kill em all!
Not just once with one asteroid.
we have an Aussie in the house
Those calibrated shots can be taken outside of the Police station too you know.
I personally do not see being hassled by police at times as big a deal as oh let's say getitng shot in the back by a known criminal?
Thats a hell of a lot of pr0n per square inch.
He's the guy with the people tryin to grab the diamond out of the dog.
They allow me to search for contract, part time, full time or casual work contracts. They always have heaps of all types.
I've personally gotten a contract and a fulltime job out of them.
Oh yeah and I have to tell them of what I do outside just out of courtesy.
I have been doing loads of freelance work on the side and they are cool with it.
You're a Counter Strike student?
Which school!?!?!
This is from the producers themselves.
Getting the world hooked on computers and your chips = $billions
Making billions around the world depend on computers and computer chips only to tell them that they cannot advance it any further on April fools day 2001...priceless....
Unless you paid for Bcentral (theres a freebie plan and a payment plan), you have no right to complain about wether or not they keep their databases intact!
It's free...
Damn you Ebay!
why should there be!