I have two Athlons and three P3s in my home workpit. The Athlons were cheaper by far initially, but thanks to crappy chipsets, I spend more time making the Athlons work than the Pentiums. At work, I don't even bother risking help-desk issues by buying AMD. Sorry guys, but as long as I still need to let users load personal apps on their boxes, AMD is still a 2nd class citizen to me. Besides, Windows is evil, when did we decide Intel was evil? Intel makes a good product for the price, and based on what AMD is putting out, I think the pricing is justifiable.
I didn't realize the righteous flock was out and about on the internet.
Regardless of the soapbox bro, the music industry has been making record profits for 10 years. They have no problems with free distribution...just the distributor they have no control over...Napster. The RIAA backers are already creating their own answer to Napster. This is about controlling profits , not stealing anything.
Everyone already knows that Napster has created a spike in overall record sales, the industry KNOWS this. They simply don't want Napster controlling the free medium without a strategic commercial inserted here...and here...and here.
See the real issue , don't run around condemning folks. As far as gracenote, I am shocked that no one saw this coming. This is the exact type of function Gracenote's DB seems built for.
Top to bottom Solaris is what I'm seeing. Linux on anything is preferrable to this. I don't need to spend an extra 300 bucks just to have a purple case.
Gee, I know it's just swell and all, but most of us dont wasnt to sign up for a username/login/spamlist, to see a NTY article.
Please reference another source, or don't post articles.
I think you are partially right. RIAA willbe gone soon.The idea that an artist can not create without having a limo, gold chains, and a 4 million dollar house is wrong. Art should never be a business. Art will expand, not contract in an open universe. The curent system rewards a few artists that market great, but have marginal talent. Imagine a world where the song is more important than the image. Coming to a world near you!
Whenever a kid does ANYTHING not socially streamlined in this country, there are a few idiots that point to this as an excuse to BLAME/BAN/PROTEST something. The real culprit of lost children is parental indifference, abandonment, and ignorance. Of course the ones who usually want to BAN anything are usually the most hypocritical and irresponsible. Protect your kids by raising them you dickhead, dont limit my freedom, and my kids because you are too stinkin lazy to take charge of your life.
Great comments, and the correlation of the events you speak of is quite true. In America, personal freedom has been limited more in the last 30 years than the previous 200. Like a bell curve, I hope we have reached the top of this madness. Of course if you look ahead, banning abortion, banning handguns, broadening search and seizure laws, and finally, desensitizing our children to violations of their personal privacy, I think we may just be at the beginning of America the Despot.
Why does every fool out there submit stories that I have to jump through a hoop to get to. Give me YOUR stinkin password or stop advertising for the Times. Do your own legwork and find the same story at the another newspaper.. Attach THAT URL, and stop working for the NYT you huckster.
Good god folks, think before you post info-demanding URLs.
I agree with this post. Card is a wonderful writer, BUT he has made me feel uncomfortable since The Lost Boys. I am not anti-mormon, but I do not appreciate ANY writer throwing religious recruitment into his subtext. This is more true when it becomes a distraction to an otherwise good story.
I wouldn't mind so much if it was subtle, and I had the challenge of finding it in the story, but when it is SO overt, it's just plain ol'preachy.
This does not mean that the Ender series is bad..I love those books warts and all, and the religious commentary is kept mainly to marriage and relationship.
I will comment though, OSC can write whatever he wants, but he can't expect anyone to buy it but "Cheese and Rice and Rattling Chains" types. Market demand will fall. As long as he is kewl with that...so be it.
I dig big dreams as much as the next guy, but this guy doesn't even make sense. Trust me on this. You may have a great idea, but don't go down in flames defending this whacko. Only TWO countries and NO corporations have ever successfully launched manned spacecraft. Why? Because space is HARD! We aren't on Mars,or driving buggies around the moon because it takes the best of every technology, and a thousand people to keep a ship in orbit in the right place. There is no easy way in to space, andthis guy is just crowing for dollars. He'll bilk some VC for money, and remain employed for another few years. He might even get ONE bird in the air. Unfortunately, it will lose gyros and everything the first time the Mac crashes.
Macellites?!?, this "Geek" has no clue what he is
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doing! He is just a Pro Mac goon trying to place his little biased reality in space. Neither Mac or Wintel are viable for this from a reliability standpoint. Also, at 150lbs, this is not a little satellite at all. 20lbs or less is the target for getting a free lift into space. This guy thinks NASA is going to piggyback him for 10mill?! 150lbs almost equals another astronaut.
I pity the poor clueless VC who just lost half his trust on hairbrained dotcoms, only to step smack into Mr. Wizard here with his radiation proof, thermal proof, magic "Macellites".
Dark City was an excellent movie, but it was far too cerebral and moody to be a commercial success.The Matrix will never win an oscar for screenplay, but it was good entertainment that had MASS appeal up the ying-yang. I liked it, I cheered for it, I can't wait for a sequel.
Anything that helps make John Q Public think more about the future and how he impacts it is a good thing in my mind. SciFi can TEACH as well as entertain.
Fanboy my a%s
This is meant as figurative, not literal.
Do you really think for a second I would want to shoot Lucas over a movie?
Perspective? Mirror?
in modern culture.
A writer lives to be read, not profitable. These ninnys don't know how to write decent prose anymore, but they damn well want that extra penny for the &$*@ they actually get published.
Amazon is finding a way to reach a wider and decidedly cheaper segment of the reading world. If I was a novelist, and 500 additional people read my book cause they got a cheap, used copy, I'd be thrilled!
"lucas is probably one of the few people who cares about the product he makes, and has the clout to satrt changeing it at this point."
Dude...Lucas doesn't care, episode onewas evidence of that. He had all the action figures ready to ship on time, but the storyline got lost in the marketing. He is SO the sellout now. Go buy the matrix on DVD, hope the LotR is good, and forget about new Star Wars flix. Keep the old ones and fond memories. Lucas deserves to be shot.
Based on the fact that little is known about it, and it's not 100% open. Real opinions based on a beta would be more helpful. Has anyone tried that yet?
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I have two Athlons and three P3s in my home workpit. The Athlons were cheaper by far initially, but thanks to crappy chipsets, I spend more time making the Athlons work than the Pentiums. At work, I don't even bother risking help-desk issues by buying AMD. Sorry guys, but as long as I still need to let users load personal apps on their boxes, AMD is still a 2nd class citizen to me. Besides, Windows is evil, when did we decide Intel was evil? Intel makes a good product for the price, and based on what AMD is putting out, I think the pricing is justifiable.
I didn't realize the righteous flock was out and about on the internet. Regardless of the soapbox bro, the music industry has been making record profits for 10 years. They have no problems with free distribution...just the distributor they have no control over...Napster. The RIAA backers are already creating their own answer to Napster. This is about controlling profits , not stealing anything. Everyone already knows that Napster has created a spike in overall record sales, the industry KNOWS this. They simply don't want Napster controlling the free medium without a strategic commercial inserted here...and here...and here. See the real issue , don't run around condemning folks. As far as gracenote, I am shocked that no one saw this coming. This is the exact type of function Gracenote's DB seems built for.
Top to bottom Solaris is what I'm seeing. Linux on anything is preferrable to this. I don't need to spend an extra 300 bucks just to have a purple case.
Gee, I know it's just swell and all, but most of us dont wasnt to sign up for a username/login/spamlist, to see a NTY article. Please reference another source, or don't post articles.
I think you are partially right. RIAA willbe gone soon.The idea that an artist can not create without having a limo, gold chains, and a 4 million dollar house is wrong. Art should never be a business. Art will expand, not contract in an open universe. The curent system rewards a few artists that market great, but have marginal talent. Imagine a world where the song is more important than the image. Coming to a world near you!
Whenever a kid does ANYTHING not socially streamlined in this country, there are a few idiots that point to this as an excuse to BLAME/BAN/PROTEST something. The real culprit of lost children is parental indifference, abandonment, and ignorance. Of course the ones who usually want to BAN anything are usually the most hypocritical and irresponsible. Protect your kids by raising them you dickhead, dont limit my freedom, and my kids because you are too stinkin lazy to take charge of your life.
Great comments, and the correlation of the events you speak of is quite true. In America, personal freedom has been limited more in the last 30 years than the previous 200. Like a bell curve, I hope we have reached the top of this madness. Of course if you look ahead, banning abortion, banning handguns, broadening search and seizure laws, and finally, desensitizing our children to violations of their personal privacy, I think we may just be at the beginning of America the Despot.
Brazil's new tourism slogan: Visit Brazil, you can't breath...but you can surf at 56 baud!
Why does every fool out there submit stories that I have to jump through a hoop to get to. Give me YOUR stinkin password or stop advertising for the Times. Do your own legwork and find the same story at the another newspaper.. Attach THAT URL, and stop working for the NYT you huckster. Good god folks, think before you post info-demanding URLs.
I agree with this post. Card is a wonderful writer, BUT he has made me feel uncomfortable since The Lost Boys. I am not anti-mormon, but I do not appreciate ANY writer throwing religious recruitment into his subtext. This is more true when it becomes a distraction to an otherwise good story. I wouldn't mind so much if it was subtle, and I had the challenge of finding it in the story, but when it is SO overt, it's just plain ol'preachy. This does not mean that the Ender series is bad..I love those books warts and all, and the religious commentary is kept mainly to marriage and relationship. I will comment though, OSC can write whatever he wants, but he can't expect anyone to buy it but "Cheese and Rice and Rattling Chains" types. Market demand will fall. As long as he is kewl with that...so be it.
I dig big dreams as much as the next guy, but this guy doesn't even make sense. Trust me on this. You may have a great idea, but don't go down in flames defending this whacko. Only TWO countries and NO corporations have ever successfully launched manned spacecraft. Why? Because space is HARD! We aren't on Mars,or driving buggies around the moon because it takes the best of every technology, and a thousand people to keep a ship in orbit in the right place. There is no easy way in to space, andthis guy is just crowing for dollars. He'll bilk some VC for money, and remain employed for another few years. He might even get ONE bird in the air. Unfortunately, it will lose gyros and everything the first time the Mac crashes.
doing! He is just a Pro Mac goon trying to place his little biased reality in space. Neither Mac or Wintel are viable for this from a reliability standpoint. Also, at 150lbs, this is not a little satellite at all. 20lbs or less is the target for getting a free lift into space. This guy thinks NASA is going to piggyback him for 10mill?! 150lbs almost equals another astronaut. I pity the poor clueless VC who just lost half his trust on hairbrained dotcoms, only to step smack into Mr. Wizard here with his radiation proof, thermal proof, magic "Macellites".
Dark City was an excellent movie, but it was far too cerebral and moody to be a commercial success.The Matrix will never win an oscar for screenplay, but it was good entertainment that had MASS appeal up the ying-yang. I liked it, I cheered for it, I can't wait for a sequel. Anything that helps make John Q Public think more about the future and how he impacts it is a good thing in my mind. SciFi can TEACH as well as entertain.
Fanboy my a%s This is meant as figurative, not literal. Do you really think for a second I would want to shoot Lucas over a movie? Perspective? Mirror?
in modern culture. A writer lives to be read, not profitable. These ninnys don't know how to write decent prose anymore, but they damn well want that extra penny for the &$*@ they actually get published. Amazon is finding a way to reach a wider and decidedly cheaper segment of the reading world. If I was a novelist, and 500 additional people read my book cause they got a cheap, used copy, I'd be thrilled!
"lucas is probably one of the few people who cares about the product he makes, and has the clout to satrt changeing it at this point." Dude...Lucas doesn't care, episode onewas evidence of that. He had all the action figures ready to ship on time, but the storyline got lost in the marketing. He is SO the sellout now. Go buy the matrix on DVD, hope the LotR is good, and forget about new Star Wars flix. Keep the old ones and fond memories. Lucas deserves to be shot.
Based on the fact that little is known about it, and it's not 100% open. Real opinions based on a beta would be more helpful. Has anyone tried that yet?