Scene 5: Jar Jar is walking in the Jedi Temple along side Obi-Wan when Obi-Wan goes to ask Yoda for advice. Jar Jar trips upon entering the room, and impales himself on ten different young padawan's mini-lightsabers, forming an eloquent pattern forever more in the star room.
Scene 6: Jar Jar comes with Obi-Wan to Tarsis, where he immediately slain using an eloquent star-shaped spinning blade, upon Obi-Wan and his' capture for being confused with the Genosian's mortal natural enemy, the high jumping womprat.
Well, I hate this crap. If the open source community doesn't rise up and crush this, (which I know they are preparing to do) this only opens the door for more corporations to try and say they have a prior claim to open source formats.
Here's what I propose - A massive donation campaign when the patent protestment occurs, and raise more money then anyone has seen (who wouldn't give for JPEG? I mean, come on). Here's the key difference though - Fuck 'em I say, and fuck 'em hard! This should be an example to other corporations who would try such things. No bullies on this playground dammit.
Not to spoil the party but, the ATI Radeons 8500 and 7500 are easily better cards all-around, and better performing speed-wise. Plus they come from one company, rather than shooting out their hardware to 20 different companies like NVidia. Which is a better strategy IMHO, for driver control and development. I know so many friends of mine who have trouble with NVidia drivers, etc.
I also much applaud the fact they've folded DVI and Dual monitor capability into the cards already, and the All in Wonder 8500 includes Firewire. All around, excellent . That's my piece, you may now...
Hey, I get all that crap all the time, Debt Consolidation, University Diplomas, Pr0n, ad infinitum. There isn't really much to be done, except change your e-mail address. You can try and sue spammers, but there will always be more, and they will always get lists of e-mail addresses.
The whole reason Spamming exists is because it's so freakin' easy! I ready the guys story above from Bakersville with the T1 in his house, and the 4,000,000 e-mail addresses always hit. The guy has no clue what he's doing, yet he spams spams spams like there's no tomorrow... Is he making money? I hope not. Spam isn't effective for the most part. That's why you'll now see Spam messages trying to disguise themselves with subjects like "Hey, what's up?" or "Information you requested" Just to get you to open it. Just like the "Hi, how are you" and "I love you" virus. It's praying on human emotions.
There isn't an easy way to deal with Spamming. Laws, lawyers, blah blah hardly ever work cause every would rather hit delete than truly try and pursue the bastards. So they best solution is to try and secured more SMTP servers and keep at least that avenue of Spamming closed.
I bought for 200 dollars back about about two years ago, an IBM z50 Laptop. It only has about 32MB of memory, but the thing does what I need. Notetaking. I use it in my college classes for all my notetaking, and it's a godsend. I never have to bother with paper, and I type faster than I write (plus my handwriting leaves something to be desired) It has a CompactFlash card slot, so you can expand the memory (so you can ensure no loss of documents, as the memory on the thing is all volatile.) or play Mp3's from the card.
The thing syncs up with Microsoft Active Sync to your Windows machine if you want to back up files or sync up with Outlook. The thing has an internal 56K modem, and is very useful.
All in all, I've been very very satisfied. But I want to get an iPaq, and I was thinking of selling it, so if anyone's interested...
I hear you man. The person speaking last night was "Chairman of the Recording Academy". His comments were aimed to brainwash and convince people that all music sharing is "piracy". He used the word often, to criminalize the action in the minds of the viewers. It didn't do much for me except turn me off of the whole idea of being "legal". As for the location of a transcript that the AC requests, I'm sure one can be found online somewhere. Give me a few, and I'll do a search.
Did anyone catch that wonderful preaching speech last night at the Grammy's? The "We are poor, you're killing the artists... we hate consumers" speech on pirating music? It really didn't do any good for them to basically get up there and tell me that I'm a bad person and that I should be ashamed of myself. It doesn't make me want to run out and buy all the albums I have in mp3s.
It made me want to stop buying music althogether.
I was never an avid music consumer before Napster/mp3s. I would buy one album a year if even that. Then when Napster came along, and I was able to listen to different music and figure out what *I* liked, I have bought dozens of albums. I don't know where the Recording Industry, Movie Industry, and Tech Industry think they're going these days. Why is it that they feel like they have to establish this higher moral stance (when actually it's based on profits, not morality) to preserve a copyright system that clearly doesn't work anymore, and needs to be redesigned?
This is what I see happening if this bill gets passed:
-Widespread civil disobeience to the degree that somehow, sometime, they finally take notice.
-A wide and growing division of artists from the mainstream, where the Net finally becomes a mainstream place to purchase music or a secondary "rogue" recording industry develops that is more sympathetic to consumers rights and wants.
Now, I know I don't have all the answers. But all I can say is that Recording Industry, MPAA, and Tech Companies had better wake up and decide whether they like making money off their "precious" consumers.
We need PHYSICAL ADDRESSES people! No one listens to online petitions or e-mail! Snail mail letters is the way! Someone find addresses of actual PEOPLE that we can mail at FOX. Quickly, Quickly.
This is one of the best shows on television, I have no idea what FOX is smoking.
Man this thing got submitted a lot. I've never actually seen Morpheus, but apparently a lot of readers have! - CmdrTaco
Now I finally understand. Taco has never seen Morpheus? How can you run a site like this seemingly be disconnected from the main issues and problems that the bulk of the readers deal with on a daily basis? Maybe he's never seen it because he doesn't run Windows and there isn't a Linux version. Fine, Linux is a great operating system, oh yes. But the fact that so many people use Windows to do their work, play and whatever else everyday, and somehow manage to survive and even *gasp* be productive most of the time.
This is an important issue. I read this site everyday, I don't know where I'd go or what I'd do if I didn't have my slashdot. But there has to be a little bit of understanding reached between the editiors of this site and their readers that not all nerds are anti-Microsoft OS users, because there is just the simple fact that they need to use the programs that most other people are using, they need to be able to access every website on the Internet, and they like to play games that just are plain not put out on Linux. (and not have the time Mac either) So let's have a summary. Yes Rob, people use Morpheus. In fact, a lot of people. This story has significance. Please try to be more connected to the community that you are serving on a daily basis, and don't be surprised when you get a "bunch of sumissions" about issues that will effect a large number of us.
Just let them dig their own graves. The other record companies are wise to let Universal be the guinea pigs. Another point - the article calls Napster a "Phenomenon" which is quite funny. A more appopriate choice of terms would have been "commonplace occurance". Napster was merely the first. There are so many sharing services out there right now, it's almost innummerable - with the Kazaa and Gnutella networks, and all their different clients. Best part? They can't shut down any of it.
This is will probably be quite the PR snafu for Universal, as they are screwing the hand that feeds them. Just my opinion anyways.
I have gotten the same remarks as trying to be a Graphic Artist (not designer, even though that's what I work as, and religated at as.)
People believe that the computer does the work for you, and that it doesn't take much effort at all. I have always met this with contempt, the computer doesn't do much for me except what I tell it to do. Nothing would be on the screen if I hadn't sat down and crafted something. Every element I put into my works were put there for a reason, and the effects I run are for a purpose. The computer is a tool, a brush fo the new artists, for I believe that computer art takes not only artistic skill, but also, technical skill. Most anyone can pick up a brush and paint. Their result might not turn out to be anything good or remotely artistic, but far fewer people can sit down in front of a computer and create anything artistic.
The airwaves have been used for close to 80 years for dissemination of news, entertainment, and information. Being a Radio/Television major, we study trends and media convergence all the time. The growing trend if one looks at the big picture, is that we are less dependent on those airwaves more and more everyday.
I can give three important examples: Cable, Satellite, and most importantly, Internet. Cable came first, and let some of our content be off of the air. Then came satellite, which took our content, and made it possible to send just about anywhere. Finally came the Internet, which is toplling the old line structure altogether.
The only reason the government licensed the airwaves was because of scarcity of spectrum space. However, it is quite obvious that with the Internet, there is no scarcity. Any Joe can make a website. (or even start a website company) THe Internet is still, realistically, in its infancy compared with other media. THe unique thing about the Internet however, is that it IS all media. Print, video, film, audio, music, art, and everything else come together to form the MULTImedia experience that is the Internet.
The Airwaves just might not be needed anymore.
(Although I'm opposed to broadcasters selling off what they LICENSE, since the airwaves are PUBLIC DOMAIN) -Digitizer
What about those damn Wireless Webcams from x10.com? Lord knows I've seen enough of those ads! I don't know what the range is on them, but, hey, it's worth a try to try and relay to something set up on shore.
I work WSIU on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. WSIU is in the 72nd market (for those of you not in TV, this means it's down near the bottom of viewship). Our people have been struggling to meet the PBS and FCC mandated deadlines to convert to digital. Most of our funding must come from the commmunity in donations or state of Illinois, which is difficult because the legislature hardly cares for things going on down-sate. (Southern Illinois).
This story of the Digital Divide in television is completely true. Our station manager is about to pull his hair out with the impossible task of squeezing more blood out of dead turnips, to meet these mandates. The money just isn't there.
We have enough trouble keeping our standard old analog transmitters going. Last month, high winds kept us from repairing our sister station antenna for a month, leaving half our viewership without service. Congress needed to allocate some funding to PBS stations like us because, the FCC did mandate us to go to digital, but didn't take into account that small PBS affiliates in not-so rich areas wouldn't be able to do it.
We're not sure what the consequences are if we don't reach the FCC deadline. PBS is working on securing funding from across many hundreds of sources, and then distributing it down to the small affiliates, but it may be too little too late.
Don't change your name! Your project is unrelated to SGI's business plan. Corporations don't own the English language. SGI has a trademark on "OpenGL" not "OpenIL". You have been pursuing this project for some time I'm guessing, and my recommendation is to trademark your OpenIL name and be done with it. They can't touch you. Your project may have been in existance longer than their "OpenGL" trademark. You'll be fine, really. SGI is just trying to bully people out of their names. Ignore them. If they truly think tha they have a case, let them bring it. I, and/. are behind you.
I wanted the theme song to PBS's NOVA series. Try as I might, it's not there. I've looked in Napster, Gnutella, IMesh, and others and of course google. The funniest thing I found was on some website that had theme songs for download, was a guestbook entry asking if the admin could add the Nova theme.:)
Oh please, China has no sense of shared history? China has never been a nation state? Do you know your history? Obviously, you don't. Let me enlighten you.
China is probably the world's oldest nation-state, with Japan coming in a close second. China's history spans more than 4,000 years, from one of the world's first civilizations, to being one of the world's first large empires, it's status unchanging until the 1800s. China has great pride in it's national heritage and history, and even though was set back by colonial ambitions of the West, China has a wonderful and colorful national history.
I also do not agree with your 1984 reference. You must be referencing the three nation states that are constantly in a state of war with one another in 1984. However, I cannot see why growing economic power means "challenges" to America and more space races. The basis of the world's economy today is through that fact that it is global. Having India and China become more powerful economic forces can only help to make life better for everyone there and incidentally, here, in the U.S.
I say that the world is changing for the better economic good for all, and not degrading into "outmoded ideas" as you say. And I welcome India as a modern space power.
Everyone is talking about how we would forget abou how to make things or lack the infrastructure to build compliers. However this article fails to remember that we still have books, and in fact a great deal of them. It also forgets that a *lot* of people that could rebuild manufacturing equipment from these *gasp* paper models/and or memory.
The world would have its computers and Internet back up in a few years, and perhaps it might be better, but somehow I think the real tragedy is the lost information. Billions of gigabytes of lost information. It would be sad.
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that is so old, it's all fake. Purdue University for one, is purdue.edu not pu.edu.
I already have tons of music ripped. Screw em all.
Scene 5: Jar Jar is walking in the Jedi Temple along side Obi-Wan when Obi-Wan goes to ask Yoda for advice. Jar Jar trips upon entering the room, and impales himself on ten different young padawan's mini-lightsabers, forming an eloquent pattern forever more in the star room.
Scene 6: Jar Jar comes with Obi-Wan to Tarsis, where he immediately slain using an eloquent star-shaped spinning blade, upon Obi-Wan and his' capture for being confused with the Genosian's mortal natural enemy, the high jumping womprat.
Well, I hate this crap. If the open source community doesn't rise up and crush this, (which I know they are preparing to do) this only opens the door for more corporations to try and say they have a prior claim to open source formats.
Here's what I propose - A massive donation campaign when the patent protestment occurs, and raise more money then anyone has seen (who wouldn't give for JPEG? I mean, come on). Here's the key difference though - Fuck 'em I say, and fuck 'em hard! This should be an example to other corporations who would try such things. No bullies on this playground dammit.
I also much applaud the fact they've folded DVI and Dual monitor capability into the cards already, and the All in Wonder 8500 includes Firewire. All around, excellent . That's my piece, you may now...
Flame away!
Hey, I get all that crap all the time, Debt Consolidation, University Diplomas, Pr0n, ad infinitum. There isn't really much to be done, except change your e-mail address. You can try and sue spammers, but there will always be more, and they will always get lists of e-mail addresses.
The whole reason Spamming exists is because it's so freakin' easy! I ready the guys story above from Bakersville with the T1 in his house, and the 4,000,000 e-mail addresses always hit. The guy has no clue what he's doing, yet he spams spams spams like there's no tomorrow... Is he making money? I hope not. Spam isn't effective for the most part. That's why you'll now see Spam messages trying to disguise themselves with subjects like "Hey, what's up?" or "Information you requested" Just to get you to open it. Just like the "Hi, how are you" and "I love you" virus. It's praying on human emotions.
There isn't an easy way to deal with Spamming. Laws, lawyers, blah blah hardly ever work cause every would rather hit delete than truly try and pursue the bastards. So they best solution is to try and secured more SMTP servers and keep at least that avenue of Spamming closed.
The thing syncs up with Microsoft Active Sync to your Windows machine if you want to back up files or sync up with Outlook. The thing has an internal 56K modem, and is very useful.
All in all, I've been very very satisfied. But I want to get an iPaq, and I was thinking of selling it, so if anyone's interested...
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yeah, I just found the link, but that's the speech alright
I hear you man. The person speaking last night was "Chairman of the Recording Academy". His comments were aimed to brainwash and convince people that all music sharing is "piracy". He used the word often, to criminalize the action in the minds of the viewers. It didn't do much for me except turn me off of the whole idea of being "legal". As for the location of a transcript that the AC requests, I'm sure one can be found online somewhere. Give me a few, and I'll do a search.
It made me want to stop buying music althogether.
I was never an avid music consumer before Napster/mp3s. I would buy one album a year if even that. Then when Napster came along, and I was able to listen to different music and figure out what *I* liked, I have bought dozens of albums. I don't know where the Recording Industry, Movie Industry, and Tech Industry think they're going these days. Why is it that they feel like they have to establish this higher moral stance (when actually it's based on profits, not morality) to preserve a copyright system that clearly doesn't work anymore, and needs to be redesigned?
This is what I see happening if this bill gets passed:
-A wide and growing division of artists from the mainstream, where the Net finally becomes a mainstream place to purchase music or a secondary "rogue" recording industry develops that is more sympathetic to consumers rights and wants.
Now, I know I don't have all the answers. But all I can say is that Recording Industry, MPAA, and Tech Companies had better wake up and decide whether they like making money off their "precious" consumers.
Congrats, Taco :)
(and I have to hand it to you, that was a classy geek way of asking, all of us wish we could ask our potentials over /.)
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Send those letters! Snail mail is the only thing they listen to. Not online petitions or e-mail!
We need PHYSICAL ADDRESSES people! No one listens to online petitions or e-mail! Snail mail letters is the way! Someone find addresses of actual PEOPLE that we can mail at FOX. Quickly, Quickly. This is one of the best shows on television, I have no idea what FOX is smoking.
Man this thing got submitted a lot. I've never actually seen Morpheus, but apparently a lot of readers have!
- CmdrTaco Now I finally understand. Taco has never seen Morpheus? How can you run a site like this seemingly be disconnected from the main issues and problems that the bulk of the readers deal with on a daily basis? Maybe he's never seen it because he doesn't run Windows and there isn't a Linux version. Fine, Linux is a great operating system, oh yes. But the fact that so many people use Windows to do their work, play and whatever else everyday, and somehow manage to survive and even *gasp* be productive most of the time.
This is an important issue.
I read this site everyday, I don't know where I'd go or what I'd do if I didn't have my slashdot. But there has to be a little bit of understanding reached between the editiors of this site and their readers that not all nerds are anti-Microsoft OS users, because there is just the simple fact that they need to use the programs that most other people are using, they need to be able to access every website on the Internet, and they like to play games that just are plain not put out on Linux. (and not have the time Mac either)
So let's have a summary. Yes Rob, people use Morpheus. In fact, a lot of people. This story has significance. Please try to be more connected to the community that you are serving on a daily basis, and don't be surprised when you get a "bunch of sumissions" about issues that will effect a large number of us.
Oh wait...
Just let them dig their own graves. The other record companies are wise to let Universal be the guinea pigs.
Another point - the article calls Napster a "Phenomenon" which is quite funny. A more appopriate choice of terms would have been "commonplace occurance". Napster was merely the first. There are so many sharing services out there right now, it's almost innummerable - with the Kazaa and Gnutella networks, and all their different clients. Best part? They can't shut down any of it.
This is will probably be quite the PR snafu for Universal, as they are screwing the hand that feeds them. Just my opinion anyways.
People believe that the computer does the work for you, and that it doesn't take much effort at all. I have always met this with contempt, the computer doesn't do much for me except what I tell it to do. Nothing would be on the screen if I hadn't sat down and crafted something. Every element I put into my works were put there for a reason, and the effects I run are for a purpose. The computer is a tool, a brush fo the new artists, for I believe that computer art takes not only artistic skill, but also, technical skill. Most anyone can pick up a brush and paint. Their result might not turn out to be anything good or remotely artistic, but far fewer people can sit down in front of a computer and create anything artistic.
Be your own judge, view my homepage here.
I can give three important examples: Cable, Satellite, and most importantly, Internet. Cable came first, and let some of our content be off of the air. Then came satellite, which took our content, and made it possible to send just about anywhere. Finally came the Internet, which is toplling the old line structure altogether.
The only reason the government licensed the airwaves was because of scarcity of spectrum space. However, it is quite obvious that with the Internet, there is no scarcity. Any Joe can make a website. (or even start a website company) THe Internet is still, realistically, in its infancy compared with other media. THe unique thing about the Internet however, is that it IS all media. Print, video, film, audio, music, art, and everything else come together to form the MULTImedia experience that is the Internet.
The Airwaves just might not be needed anymore.
(Although I'm opposed to broadcasters selling off what they LICENSE, since the airwaves are PUBLIC DOMAIN)
-Digitizer
What about those damn Wireless Webcams from x10.com? Lord knows I've seen enough of those ads! I don't know what the range is on them, but, hey, it's worth a try to try and relay to something set up on shore.
This story of the Digital Divide in television is completely true. Our station manager is about to pull his hair out with the impossible task of squeezing more blood out of dead turnips, to meet these mandates. The money just isn't there.
We have enough trouble keeping our standard old analog transmitters going. Last month, high winds kept us from repairing our sister station antenna for a month, leaving half our viewership without service. Congress needed to allocate some funding to PBS stations like us because, the FCC did mandate us to go to digital, but didn't take into account that small PBS affiliates in not-so rich areas wouldn't be able to do it.
We're not sure what the consequences are if we don't reach the FCC deadline. PBS is working on securing funding from across many hundreds of sources, and then distributing it down to the small affiliates, but it may be too little too late.
The funniest thing I found was on some website that had theme songs for download, was a guestbook entry asking if the admin could add the Nova theme.
China is probably the world's oldest nation-state, with Japan coming in a close second. China's history spans more than 4,000 years, from one of the world's first civilizations, to being one of the world's first large empires, it's status unchanging until the 1800s. China has great pride in it's national heritage and history, and even though was set back by colonial ambitions of the West, China has a wonderful and colorful national history.
I also do not agree with your 1984 reference. You must be referencing the three nation states that are constantly in a state of war with one another in 1984. However, I cannot see why growing economic power means "challenges" to America and more space races. The basis of the world's economy today is through that fact that it is global. Having India and China become more powerful economic forces can only help to make life better for everyone there and incidentally, here, in the U.S.
I say that the world is changing for the better economic good for all, and not degrading into "outmoded ideas" as you say. And I welcome India as a modern space power.
The world would have its computers and Internet back up in a few years, and perhaps it might be better, but somehow I think the real tragedy is the lost information. Billions of gigabytes of lost information. It would be sad.