McCloud: "I will not allow commercial interests to dictate my art. I thumb my nose at shallow pop culture. My art is not for you, it is for me, but if you like it I am ecstatic. Pay me enough to support my family."
Public: "Stop begging. Do what artists have done for centuries. Suffer for your art, clown."
Micropayments are an outgrowth of the push for creator's rights. Having full control over one's work is really what McCloud is asking for, isn't he? He wants to cut out the middleman and deliver artistic content over the web, but he's complaining that he doesn't make enough money doing it.
McCloud steps right on the main issue with the Napster reference. The value of something is tied directly to its availability. Just as I wouldn't join any Porn-o-the-Month clubs because I can get the crusty scrapings of those sites for free at their affiliates' sites, I seriously doubt that people will pay even miniscule amounts for what can be had for free. Why buy e-music when you can get it from Napster or Gnutella for free? Why pay for porn when sites like Persian Kitty list hundreds of free sites? Why pay a quarter to read something that I've already read?
The argument can be made, of course, that people do in fact sign up for porn site memberships, and it is perhaps the most profitable industry on the web. The response to this is that porn is PORN. It is an anomolous industry that thrives on personal privacy, whereas comic books or e-books (e.g. The Plant) are not things that people are reluctant to buy in person.
Only the 'you' in this universe is experiencing the QC hanging. Just be happy for the infinite other 'you's in the multiverse happily computing away in their own universe. Maybe weep a little for the poor suckers trying to port MIX to their QC.
It costs so much because of the same reason nuclear power plants are not prevalent in the U.S. but widely deployed in Canada and France -- lack of a standardized design.
Isn't the junk mail (including AOL CDs) that comes to my real life mailbox just as annoying and using more resources than Spam? Why the double standard? Where is the clamor for ridding ourselves of *all* junk mail?
Maybe it's because I saw it in Japanese, but I didn't get it at all. If you want to see something interesting, go watch My Neighbor Totoro.
There's another movie that I liked too, about a boy and his sister who lost their parents in the Hiroshima blast and ran away to live in a small cave. It's a real tear-jerker.
Lauren
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2000.356 = the 356th day of 2000
You have an off-by-one error in two places there.
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McCloud: "I will not allow commercial interests to dictate my art. I thumb my nose at shallow pop culture. My art is not for you, it is for me, but if you like it I am ecstatic. Pay me enough to support my family."
Public: "Stop begging. Do what artists have done for centuries. Suffer for your art, clown."
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Micropayments are an outgrowth of the push for creator's rights. Having full control over one's work is really what McCloud is asking for, isn't he? He wants to cut out the middleman and deliver artistic content over the web, but he's complaining that he doesn't make enough money doing it.
McCloud steps right on the main issue with the Napster reference. The value of something is tied directly to its availability. Just as I wouldn't join any Porn-o-the-Month clubs because I can get the crusty scrapings of those sites for free at their affiliates' sites, I seriously doubt that people will pay even miniscule amounts for what can be had for free. Why buy e-music when you can get it from Napster or Gnutella for free? Why pay for porn when sites like Persian Kitty list hundreds of free sites? Why pay a quarter to read something that I've already read?
The argument can be made, of course, that people do in fact sign up for porn site memberships, and it is perhaps the most profitable industry on the web. The response to this is that porn is PORN . It is an anomolous industry that thrives on personal privacy, whereas comic books or e-books (e.g. The Plant) are not things that people are reluctant to buy in person.
McCloud is dreaming if he thinks users will pay for content. Even a micropayment is a micro too much. I'll be glad to be proven wrong, though
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Todd MacFarlane hit on this idea way back when with Image Comics. The creator of any particular comic owns all rights to it. Image
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England is west of Ireland
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It's 350-odd degrees west of Ireland. What's your beef?
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Only the 'you' in this universe is experiencing the QC hanging. Just be happy for the infinite other 'you's in the multiverse happily computing away in their own universe. Maybe weep a little for the poor suckers trying to port MIX to their QC.
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eigenstate (any (all qw'Perl Python C C++ Lisp Modula Eiffel Java^WC\#'));
All you could ever want is already in front of you.
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Damian Conway threw together a brilliant application for this new breed of computers. QSP
Imagine not having to wait Log N for anything!
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The scariest part of that movie is when I realized that I *am* Michael Bolton.
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It costs so much because of the same reason nuclear power plants are not prevalent in the U.S. but widely deployed in Canada and France -- lack of a standardized design.
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Case #1
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he wants an astronaut to hurl a specially modified G4 MacIntosh Cube computer into orbit
Will his pockets be deep enough when one of these things careens into one of AT&T's satellites?
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Will all that worry over stray cosmic rays finally be vindicated?
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I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
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If these spammers go out of business, will I still be allowed to opt-in to their helpful pr0n newsletters?
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Isn't the junk mail (including AOL CDs) that comes to my real life mailbox just as annoying and using more resources than Spam? Why the double standard? Where is the clamor for ridding ourselves of *all* junk mail?
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Japanese
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I know Unix!
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Hire the damned developers. What's so difficult about that?
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I think that any NDA that uses the term 'talk smack' is questionable.
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The Atari 800 home computer now has 48K RAM.
Who's ever going to need more than 48K?
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Nihongo no wakarimasu s/\bno\b/ga/; Regex Santa
Watashi-wa nihongo no gakuse desu, yo?
nande '?' tsuketa, no? Are wa shitsumon ja nai, deshoo.
Odoroiteru Santa-san
Grave of the Fireflies
Thanks, that's exactly the movie I was thinking of. I (again) saw it in Japanese and couldn't remember the translated name.
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Maybe it's because I saw it in Japanese, but I didn't get it at all. If you want to see something interesting, go watch My Neighbor Totoro.
There's another movie that I liked too, about a boy and his sister who lost their parents in the Hiroshima blast and ran away to live in a small cave. It's a real tear-jerker.
Lauren
2000.356 = the 356th day of 2000
You have an off-by-one error in two places there. Dancin' Santa