Gee, I thought paying for what you get and getting what you pay for were good rules.
The problem is that the rate $/MB is set to high.
Of course, you have more than one variable in the equation here. It's not just how many bits your getting, but also how fast you're getting them. So it'd end up like : $ = $/MB * $/(MB/S) * MB. That way, providers would have an incentive to increase both capacity and speed.
I'd pay $30/month for 3GB of data at 768Kb/s. Of course, I have no idea what my current usage pattern is like, I could be in for a nasty surprise.
"The work was _finished_ and the art entered our minds and conciousness in that form, reinforced by over twenty years of repeated viewing by millions of people."
Crap, next thing you know, you'll be arguing that copyright shouldn't be giving his great-great-great-great-great grandchildren a free ride! Are you an anti-American Terrorist? Is your name Fidel?!!!
It's pretty obvious that alot of what Georgie boy did in episode I was pandering to the pre teen audience in order to maximize the toy market.
So how do the sales figures stack up for episode I toys vs the earlier movies for the same range of years since release? Has it paid off? Was it worth it?
It looks like Harry Knowles has gotten his mitts on a leaked copy of Star Wars Episode III. And whoo boy, it looks like Georgie boy is writing most of the script himself again!
"Maybe you don't like NSync--but they rose from nothing based on only their hard work and dedication."
Whooooooweeee, that MUST be a TROLL, you can't be that ignorant about how the entertainment industry works!!!
N'Sync is a manufactured band, these boys never met each other until they were assembled by the record company. It's not like they slaved away in a garage for ten years while working at McDonald's.
The whole reason N'Sync/Britney/etc/etc ad nausem got to be such mega stars is that they had some corporation pushing them. The industry controls access to the airwaves. They control access to TV. They control access to distribution of your CD.
If you have been slaving away in your garage for the last ten years, good luck getting on the radio unless you get a recording contract -- and that's just selling yourself into indentured servitude to the recording company.
Now, with modern, cheap, digital electronics and networks, any schlub with a few thousand dollars in equiptment can get his work heard. Of course, with a sea of other wannabes out there, good luck raising your head above the crowd to the extent of one of these mega-"artists"!
So we're balancing the rights of 10,000,000 little guys against Capital records or Sony.... I don't think the wealthy corporations are the ones who need legislative protection here. Let the entertainment companies find a way to protect their interests without perverting our body laws to do so. If they can't, then maybe they should go out of business.
A (smart) highschool kid could easily build the necessary equipment.
The video game industry is already bigger than Hollywood. (Overlooking such minor allied industries as computers and electronics!)
This is all about the individual getting the tools to control their own fate, rather than blindly consuming whatever is shoved down their throats. The way the broadcast system has been handled for the last eighty years is a prime example of how badly things have been done in the past. If I lose the tools or the rights to make my own armature goat porn and share it with 50,000 of my closest friends, then these economic terrorists have already one. (Although I couched that in humorous terms, the point is 100% valid.)
It's time the Entertainment industry stopped whining about keeping its monopoly on buggy whips and got with the times. And while they're at it, they can stop bothering their betters, shut the fuck up, and go sit in the back of the bus where they belong.
Our leaders ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H legislators need to look at the whole picture and weigh the benefit to the whole of society vs propping up the revenue streams of a handful of wealthy media conglomerates. A naieve thought, yes, but sometimes right does win.
The fact of the matter is that just about any two idiots of appropriate sex can bear children.
There's always room for Eris to hand out random death. How many PhDs die in car wrecks each year?
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Gee, I thought paying for what you get and getting what you pay for were good rules.
The problem is that the rate $/MB is set to high.
Of course, you have more than one variable in the equation here. It's not just how many bits your getting, but also how fast you're getting them. So it'd end up like : $ = $/MB * $/(MB/S) * MB. That way, providers would have an incentive to increase both capacity and speed.
I'd pay $30/month for 3GB of data at 768Kb/s. Of course, I have no idea what my current usage pattern is like, I could be in for a nasty surprise.
He's over qualified. There are no misspellings or grammatical errors in his post.
It's pretty sad that J Random Troll has more '133t grammar skills than the alledged editors of this cesspool.
You still listen to music?
sheesh!
Thank you, FCC, for looking out for the interests of the public!
sheesh!
As in beating a dead GNU/horse.
Note that at least one third of Lucas' oeuvre is CRAP.
And that doesn't even include the indescribable horror of the "Star Wars Christmas Special"!
"The Ewok Adventure" my ASS!
The Hitchhiker's guide trilogy was intentionally inconsistant. With Lucas, it's just incompetence.
"The work was _finished_ and the art entered our minds and conciousness in that form, reinforced by over twenty years of repeated viewing by millions of people."
Crap, next thing you know, you'll be arguing that copyright shouldn't be giving his great-great-great-great-great grandchildren a free ride! Are you an anti-American Terrorist? Is your name Fidel?!!!
Well, there was a (not naked) and petrified Han Solo in episodes V & VI !!!
And as all interweb nerds know, where Groening and reality disagree, it is obviously reality that is in error!
Regarding the "Jar Jar issue":
It's pretty obvious that alot of what Georgie boy did in episode I was pandering to the pre teen audience in order to maximize the toy market.
So how do the sales figures stack up for episode I toys vs the earlier movies for the same range of years since release? Has it paid off? Was it worth it?
hee hee.
So, it'd be more like hot, lesbian german BSDM with Kournikova!
Aaaaaaah!
Idiot moderators! That may have been puerile, but it was most definately on topic! (And it was funny, too).
Sheesh, what do they teach you guys in journalism school these days?
Oh, that's right, slashdot is run by amatures.
I thought the RMS troll was one of the monsters in GNU/Doom!
I just can't keep up with all these kids' fads these days.
It looks like Harry Knowles has gotten his mitts on a leaked copy of Star Wars Episode III. And whoo boy, it looks like Georgie boy is writing most of the script himself again!
(score : 3, funny) !!!!
You moderators are clearly some sick motherfuckers!
Pakistan & India are this --><-- far from going to war, and you think it's funny!
You notice that most of the Trolls are silent on this matter. Even they're smart enough to know that this is serious.
You (un)fucking fourteen-year-olds make me sick. I hope you're downwind when the time comes.
If you're a member on fark, someone has set up a pool. Sick bastards.
We all know it's inevitable. Quit jerking us around and get busy with it guys.
"Slashdot : news for self-absorbed nerds, the real world doesn't matter"
Nice try. Very erudite, too.
So I just make a 4'32" watermarked recording of silence to play in a loop.
HA! I bet you didn't see that coming, Mr. avant-gard composer!
(Hell, technicnally, there's no reason why you need a recording longer than the watermark you use.)
Other than simple assualt, is it illegal to punch a senator in the face?
(That's probably terrorism, these days...)
What if you were a constituent?
(What if we just dig up Sonny Bono & drag him through the streets?)
"Maybe you don't like NSync--but they rose from nothing based on only their hard work and dedication."
Whooooooweeee, that MUST be a TROLL, you can't be that ignorant about how the entertainment industry works!!!
N'Sync is a manufactured band, these boys never met each other until they were assembled by the record company. It's not like they slaved away in a garage for ten years while working at McDonald's.
The whole reason N'Sync/Britney/etc/etc ad nausem got to be such mega stars is that they had some corporation pushing them. The industry controls access to the airwaves. They control access to TV. They control access to distribution of your CD.
If you have been slaving away in your garage for the last ten years, good luck getting on the radio unless you get a recording contract -- and that's just selling yourself into indentured servitude to the recording company.
Now, with modern, cheap, digital electronics and networks, any schlub with a few thousand dollars in equiptment can get his work heard. Of course, with a sea of other wannabes out there, good luck raising your head above the crowd to the extent of one of these mega-"artists"!
So we're balancing the rights of 10,000,000 little guys against Capital records or Sony.... I don't think the wealthy corporations are the ones who need legislative protection here. Let the entertainment companies find a way to protect their interests without perverting our body laws to do so. If they can't, then maybe they should go out of business.
- The horse is already out of the barn
- A (smart) highschool kid could easily build the necessary equipment.
- The video game industry is already bigger than Hollywood. (Overlooking such minor allied industries as computers and electronics!)
This is all about the individual getting the tools to control their own fate, rather than blindly consuming whatever is shoved down their throats. The way the broadcast system has been handled for the last eighty years is a prime example of how badly things have been done in the past. If I lose the tools or the rights to make my own armature goat porn and share it with 50,000 of my closest friends, then these economic terrorists have already one. (Although I couched that in humorous terms, the point is 100% valid.)It's time the Entertainment industry stopped whining about keeping its monopoly on buggy whips and got with the times. And while they're at it, they can stop bothering their betters, shut the fuck up, and go sit in the back of the bus where they belong.
Our leaders ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H legislators need to look at the whole picture and weigh the benefit to the whole of society vs propping up the revenue streams of a handful of wealthy media conglomerates. A naieve thought, yes, but sometimes right does win.
Unfortunately (?), you are sadly mistaken.
The fact of the matter is that just about any two idiots of appropriate sex can bear children.
There's always room for Eris to hand out random death. How many PhDs die in car wrecks each year?
Well, you can kiss that goodby in 3... 2... 1...
(Incidentally, is this an emulator or a port? What processor does the Zaurus run?)