You're like abused wives. You keep coming back for more, even though it hurts.
The parent will probably end up at -1 flamebait pretty soon, but it's actually an appropriate sentiment.
If you don't like what Lucas has done or is going to do (Episode 7 anyone?), just give your money to someone else. Break the cycle. His ego is such that he doesn't care if people hate Jar Jar or any of his other silly CGI insertions. AotC will make him millions and episode 3 will make him millions more, regardless. Just let it be and go focus in on other movies and moviemakers. They'll appreciate your 10$ more than Lucas ever will, I'm sure.
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Everybody knows that it's the fault of subversive artists like Marilyn Manson and Rage Against the Machine, coupled with violent games like Quake and lewd games like The Sims. Hell, if they dig deep enough, they'd probably find a few Al Qaida operatives in the mix.
Except that this is what you have parental controls for. It may seem like this is a question of taking a moral high ground, but the main reason that this guy is getting hit for that money is because a large media corp. is involved.
Maybe it's just common sense to me, but if you mistype a URL, it only makes sense that you're not going to go where you think you're going to go. So some spammer capitalizes on this and puts up porn pop-up ads for mis-typed URLs.
Big whoop. Annoying, but $1.8 million worth of annoying?
How about a company that asks you if you want to receive email spam (eg: Microsoft with Hotmail), and then changes your answer from no to yes later on down the road, without ever telling you about it? To me, that sort of thing is much more sinister. Of course, THEY'LL never get in trouble for it.
If you're so desperate to throw a vote to some foreign guy based on only one of his stances, you might want to look up politicians who have similar agendas at home, like Ralph Nader. He has been keeping up with the issue.
Timothy and michael both showed up monday morning to Slashdot headquarters wearing khaki pants, red golf shirts, brown loafers, and even the same brand of light grey wooley socks. CmdrTaco was overheard saying, "You guys are going to need to start talking to each other before coming in to work..."
I swear to god someday somebody's going to go too far with this. Just wait until they do a 'cyberpunk' version of Everquest with the character class 'office clerk' who needs to 'update databases and spreadsheets' for a 'software institute'.
Next thing you know people will be paying for the privilege of being the office administrator for real-life companies and not knowing it. The upside being that there'll be lots of skrlp7 kldd33 t4Lk on the memos...
Your site is an advertisement for your own products that are sold in retail outlets, etc. Marketing is a key component of business -- by using your website as a marketing agent for another product, you can brand your company, create awareness, etc. It doesn't directly create revenue, but then again, neither does a television ad.
Now, whether or not this can work in publishing situations is another story. Perhaps it's sort of an extension of subscriptions, or maybe the advertising, in the sense that the content is an ad for another asset you can actually buy. However, given the amount of revenue that certain media conglomerates make, they can afford to throw money at websites giving certain things away for free on the internet (cnn.com, espn.com, etc) if only because it helps to promote other aspects of their business.
...when you create an industry out of nothing, you need to justify its existence, right?
Think of it. Everything around us is an illusion. We don't need EULAs, we don't need tax forms, we don't need so many of the inventions around us, we don't need insurance, we don't even really need currency, if you think about it. When people talk about the costs of such and such, how much does it really cost? How much does it really HAVE to cost?
The world's been spinning for untold millions of years, and it's been doing it thus far without EULAs (et al). If everyone around the world had a collective moment of brain synergy, we could do away with so many things that a small, elite few would like us to think we need because in so needing it we must also need IP laws, lawyers to write them up, politicians to pass them, etc. And in order to keep needing them, we need to make them more complicated, so that as they evolve there is always new stuff to have to learn about them, and more and more reason to justify the expense of these maintainers of unnecessary pyramids.
Think of it this way. Up here in Canada, we cannot simplify our tax laws, despite the fact that nobody sane likes our tax forms. If we simplified them, we would horrendously cripple our tax industry and infrastructure, which bobs along based ENTIRELY UPON the fact that the tax laws are complicated, and as such necessitates the cost of accountants and tax lawyers and politicians etc. We have an entire industry that supports these people, and it would collapse if we had a central computer take care of it all for us, which is entirely within the realm of comprehension. As a result, there's this nebulous morphing tax industry which everyone BELIEVES is necessary. You Americans, with your massively entrenched legal system, are feeling the same phenomenon from a different standpoint.
The world is bloat. Sorry if that sounds a little nihilistic.
Flat characters aren't necessarily a drawback in stories that aren't really character-focused. In plot-based novels it's not uncommon for there to be flat roles played by supporting characters. Those characteristics that define them are often used to push plot. What you call a caricature others might call an archetype: po-tay-to po-tah-to. She's a pretty good plotter, too, one of the best I've read since PG Wodehouse. Even LOTR has its fair share of characters that aren't all that deep.
I'll agree with your cliche point, though. Part of her popularity lies in the fact that many readers of Potter aren't hardcore readers of fantasy. This means that what seems like novelty to them is really just rehash to anybody who knows the genre. She's taking many traditional fantasy themes and reclaiming them as her own. That's fine and all, but not exactly imaginative.
A)wrinkled shirt never read any and is trying to be cool, or B)Did read it, but is in such need of attention that going againse popular things is his equivelant of waving his arms in the air and going "look at me".
Hilarious. You get all this from one word?
Maybe it's "C) entitled to his own opinion".
I've read three of the four books. They're are good but not great; accessible yet very formulaic. She's capitalizing on several novelties combined together (fantasy + children's book + mystery) with some pretty good writing, but whether or not she's award-worthy is up for debate.
I'm actually surprised that AMD came out with a lower-end chip at all, when its high-end chips are cheaper than their competitors low-end chips. It's weird, it came into a market where people were expecting to pay a few hundred bucks for a decent chip and offered decent chips for under $100.
Reminds me of a story: A woman wanted to sell jewelry in a kiosk. The jewelry was cheap to make so she priced it accordingly. She could conceivably sell her earrings for 5$ and make a profit. She was doing lousy. One day someone with a little business sense told her to arbitrarily mark it up to 25$ for the cheapest-looking ones, and even more expensive for the others. After doing this, she sold out her stock like lightning and had to take more orders.
Funny how the human mind works, isn't it? The Duron chip is cheap, gets little negative press that I know of, and is being produced by a company held in high esteem in the home PC market. So, naturally, it must fail.
I think the Duron should have been held as an ace in the hole -- although there's nothing stopping them from keeping it in mind, I guess. IBM's major response to AMD was to lower the cost of their high-end chips. If they'd responded instead with a bigger push for the Celerons, maybe the Duron would have had a better chance...
It's so cute it's almost adorable. He can put any kind of license on it that he wants as much as I care. All the good secrets are hidden in the BSD source anyways...
If you need Flash, students or teachers can usually get a copy for a reduced amount (under $200 US). Just make sure that this isn't commercial development you're doing.
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You're like abused wives. You keep coming back for more, even though it hurts.
The parent will probably end up at -1 flamebait pretty soon, but it's actually an appropriate sentiment.
If you don't like what Lucas has done or is going to do (Episode 7 anyone?), just give your money to someone else. Break the cycle. His ego is such that he doesn't care if people hate Jar Jar or any of his other silly CGI insertions. AotC will make him millions and episode 3 will make him millions more, regardless. Just let it be and go focus in on other movies and moviemakers. They'll appreciate your 10$ more than Lucas ever will, I'm sure.
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Everybody knows that it's the fault of subversive artists like Marilyn Manson and Rage Against the Machine, coupled with violent games like Quake and lewd games like The Sims. Hell, if they dig deep enough, they'd probably find a few Al Qaida operatives in the mix.
Dirty pinko communist.
Except that this is what you have parental controls for. It may seem like this is a question of taking a moral high ground, but the main reason that this guy is getting hit for that money is because a large media corp. is involved.
Maybe it's just common sense to me, but if you mistype a URL, it only makes sense that you're not going to go where you think you're going to go. So some spammer capitalizes on this and puts up porn pop-up ads for mis-typed URLs.
Big whoop. Annoying, but $1.8 million worth of annoying?
How about a company that asks you if you want to receive email spam (eg: Microsoft with Hotmail), and then changes your answer from no to yes later on down the road, without ever telling you about it? To me, that sort of thing is much more sinister. Of course, THEY'LL never get in trouble for it.
I thought the game was slow enough already, but now they want to introduce the concept of lag to it...
That should rank it right up there with such action-packed pastimes as Watching Erosion or Monitoring Continental Drift.
Sheesh, Carmack sure is slipping. Things are looking a little foggy here. And these monsters aren't looking very frightening. Okay, well, maybe if I was a girl...
If you're so desperate to throw a vote to some foreign guy based on only one of his stances, you might want to look up politicians who have similar agendas at home, like Ralph Nader. He has been keeping up with the issue.
Yeah, it was pretty bad, wasn't it...
Jon: Hi everybody. My name is Jon and I use AOL.
Everybody: Hi Jon!
I'll do you one better.
Mozilla users can't access Options->Personal Profile to opt out.
Lucas has been over in the UK promoting Episode 2, and in the middle of defending Episode 1 in a press conference, let slip that an episode 7 might be in the works... It's near the bottom.
Also, there's an interview with Lucas here.
If only the same could be said for Stephen King.
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Timothy and michael both showed up monday morning to Slashdot headquarters wearing khaki pants, red golf shirts, brown loafers, and even the same brand of light grey wooley socks. CmdrTaco was overheard saying, "You guys are going to need to start talking to each other before coming in to work..."
"Fire Extinguishing Balls"
And the jokes just write themselves...
I swear to god someday somebody's going to go too far with this. Just wait until they do a 'cyberpunk' version of Everquest with the character class 'office clerk' who needs to 'update databases and spreadsheets' for a 'software institute'.
Next thing you know people will be paying for the privilege of being the office administrator for real-life companies and not knowing it. The upside being that there'll be lots of skrlp7 kldd33 t4Lk on the memos...
4. Branding
Your site is an advertisement for your own products that are sold in retail outlets, etc. Marketing is a key component of business -- by using your website as a marketing agent for another product, you can brand your company, create awareness, etc. It doesn't directly create revenue, but then again, neither does a television ad.
Now, whether or not this can work in publishing situations is another story. Perhaps it's sort of an extension of subscriptions, or maybe the advertising, in the sense that the content is an ad for another asset you can actually buy. However, given the amount of revenue that certain media conglomerates make, they can afford to throw money at websites giving certain things away for free on the internet (cnn.com, espn.com, etc) if only because it helps to promote other aspects of their business.
...when you create an industry out of nothing, you need to justify its existence, right?
Think of it. Everything around us is an illusion. We don't need EULAs, we don't need tax forms, we don't need so many of the inventions around us, we don't need insurance, we don't even really need currency, if you think about it. When people talk about the costs of such and such, how much does it really cost? How much does it really HAVE to cost?
The world's been spinning for untold millions of years, and it's been doing it thus far without EULAs (et al). If everyone around the world had a collective moment of brain synergy, we could do away with so many things that a small, elite few would like us to think we need because in so needing it we must also need IP laws, lawyers to write them up, politicians to pass them, etc. And in order to keep needing them, we need to make them more complicated, so that as they evolve there is always new stuff to have to learn about them, and more and more reason to justify the expense of these maintainers of unnecessary pyramids.
Think of it this way. Up here in Canada, we cannot simplify our tax laws, despite the fact that nobody sane likes our tax forms. If we simplified them, we would horrendously cripple our tax industry and infrastructure, which bobs along based ENTIRELY UPON the fact that the tax laws are complicated, and as such necessitates the cost of accountants and tax lawyers and politicians etc. We have an entire industry that supports these people, and it would collapse if we had a central computer take care of it all for us, which is entirely within the realm of comprehension. As a result, there's this nebulous morphing tax industry which everyone BELIEVES is necessary. You Americans, with your massively entrenched legal system, are feeling the same phenomenon from a different standpoint.
The world is bloat. Sorry if that sounds a little nihilistic.
Flat characters aren't necessarily a drawback in stories that aren't really character-focused. In plot-based novels it's not uncommon for there to be flat roles played by supporting characters. Those characteristics that define them are often used to push plot. What you call a caricature others might call an archetype: po-tay-to po-tah-to. She's a pretty good plotter, too, one of the best I've read since PG Wodehouse. Even LOTR has its fair share of characters that aren't all that deep.
I'll agree with your cliche point, though. Part of her popularity lies in the fact that many readers of Potter aren't hardcore readers of fantasy. This means that what seems like novelty to them is really just rehash to anybody who knows the genre. She's taking many traditional fantasy themes and reclaiming them as her own. That's fine and all, but not exactly imaginative.
Reminds me of a great Aislin cartoon. There's a couple on the beach having a picnic. He brought some gear with him.
He: Lovely! Our CD & stereo system, portable television, cell phone and portable fax, personal stock ticker and thou. What more could one want?
She: A power failure.
A)wrinkled shirt never read any and is trying to be cool, or
B)Did read it, but is in such need of attention that going againse popular things is his equivelant of waving his arms in the air and going "look at me".
Hilarious. You get all this from one word?
Maybe it's "C) entitled to his own opinion".
I've read three of the four books. They're are good but not great; accessible yet very formulaic. She's capitalizing on several novelties combined together (fantasy + children's book + mystery) with some pretty good writing, but whether or not she's award-worthy is up for debate.
Sorry, Intel, not IBM.
I'm actually surprised that AMD came out with a lower-end chip at all, when its high-end chips are cheaper than their competitors low-end chips. It's weird, it came into a market where people were expecting to pay a few hundred bucks for a decent chip and offered decent chips for under $100.
Reminds me of a story: A woman wanted to sell jewelry in a kiosk. The jewelry was cheap to make so she priced it accordingly. She could conceivably sell her earrings for 5$ and make a profit. She was doing lousy. One day someone with a little business sense told her to arbitrarily mark it up to 25$ for the cheapest-looking ones, and even more expensive for the others. After doing this, she sold out her stock like lightning and had to take more orders.
Funny how the human mind works, isn't it? The Duron chip is cheap, gets little negative press that I know of, and is being produced by a company held in high esteem in the home PC market. So, naturally, it must fail.
I think the Duron should have been held as an ace in the hole -- although there's nothing stopping them from keeping it in mind, I guess. IBM's major response to AMD was to lower the cost of their high-end chips. If they'd responded instead with a bigger push for the Celerons, maybe the Duron would have had a better chance...
It's so cute it's almost adorable. He can put any kind of license on it that he wants as much as I care. All the good secrets are hidden in the BSD source anyways...
If you need Flash, students or teachers can usually get a copy for a reduced amount (under $200 US). Just make sure that this isn't commercial development you're doing.