one New York Times article about worms recently needed two slashdot articles by the time it was posted.
Hey, you've been around Slashdot for a while... you should know by now that whether or not an issue needs more than one article, there will invariably be a dupe anyway.:)
I understand what you're saying -- I did some English at Uni, after all -- but the material itself is not funny. The act of doing it might be, but I'm a bit over comedy of the "look how easy it is to trash something beautiful" variety.
Having said that last, I should probably make this my last post on Slashdot... my inner child seems to have finally given up.:)
Absurdism works on a level that defies analysis, and does so in a way that still manages to create.
I'd like to write (prose, that is, not software:), but I lack the focus and energy. It would be hard work, and I'd hate it. Maybe in 20 years time... and it will probably suck anyway.
The whole work can be sampled -- as long as what is created contains something that was not already there.
I'm trying to think of the name... Plunderphonics, was it? I support stuff like that...
In this case, there's no art in the works produced -- the art is instead in his actions (a performance piece, I guess). I'm not sickened by the works produced, but by his crassness and stupidity in actually doing so.:)
You should see Shakespeare in Love*, then. A very funny Tom Stoppard script, for everyone who didn't particularly enjoy being taught it in high school. Or maybe Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead.
However, if you find what "Customised Classics" does amusing, I guess there's not much hope that you'd enjoy anything more sophisticated.
* (Crappy Hollywood in its basic premises, but the script is a fun riff on Shakespeare.)
Just think of the splash Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet made in the popular media
Yeah, but at least that had some original thought put into it, as did Shakespeare's original work. They weren't just straight rip-offs with the names changed -- they stand alone as different works than their source material.
Shouldn't publishing these "interpreted" classics -- a quick search and replace on the names, or an abridgement and appalling re-write (or both) -- be considered fraud?
Indeed -- and they corrupt and completely trash their source materials. Milne's Pooh stories are a good example of this, comparing the originals to the Disney-fied versions.
Culturally they are vandalising our heritage just like this "customised classics" moron -- just on a much larger scale.
I'm sure RMS would love it if you went through the Emacs source, emasculated it, changed the way it worked (badly), and then claimed that the resulting work was all produced by him.
Stallman's not completely anti-IP -- why else does he try to extend the GNU/naming of everything? Mindshare is (a sort of) IP as well. He wants to own the concept of "free software".
Just what do you think art is anyway? EVERYONE builds on each others art. Rock built off of blues and jazz, and those off of earlier forms still. There is no 'original artform'. We are products of an environment of prior art.
There's creative re-interpretation -- some music falls into this category -- and then there's ripping people off and doing no original work of your own, like this idiot is doing.
I'm all for sampling and re-use of copyrighted works, but I just find this insulting. Instead of doing anything interesting with the works, he's just pissing in the pool.
Your "business" is a travesty of every artistic intention the authors of those works had. I don't believe that they (or their descendants) should be allowed to use the law to stop it happening, but you'd think that common courtesy and respect for their efforts would. Obviously not.
Why not use your own creative energies to do something original, rather than ripping off and defacing the work of those more talented than yourself?
Another thing that adds to the confusion is that the Amiga also had a great 3D package called Lightwave, which enabled it to do 3D rendering for film output.
I'm pretty sure that Newtek shipped a Toaster/Lightwave bundle for a number of years, so people may have used the term "Toaster" when referring to the 3D graphics the whole package produced as well.
Regarding Jurassic Park, I think Amigas running Lightwave may have been used for some rendered storyboards, but definitely not for anything you see in the film.
(Going by my memories of old Amiga magazines here...)
The addition of the authentication system was a huge step back from an engineering standpoint, but a huge jump forward from a business one -- it make Kazaa very lucrative.
It could also have given them a legal liability they didn't previously possess, though... something which might not have been quite so cut-and-dried if they'd just kept re-engineering the protocol occasionally.
Actually, Mike Bouma has a Slashdot account already.
I know this is just a stupid troll... just wondering why the AC picked this user in particular. Are those bitter, twisted post-Amiga politics coming into the picture?
Would you say that a place like Japan or India needs to be improved with diversity?
Given Japan's extremely racist immigration laws, hell yeah. (There are Korean families who have been there for generations who still don't qualify for Japanese citizenship.)
Dunno about India though... it's already pretty diverse, and doesn't seem to have as xenophobic a culture as Japan.
Have you seen "Heavenly Creatures"? Peter Jackson directing, Kate Winslet starring? Very good film, and a real departure from the shlock horror he'd started with.:)
It almost reminds me a little bit of the furour surrounding the Pope and Mel Gibson's film. On one level, the Pope is a guy watching a movie, and he probably said something after he saw it.
Are you sure the Pope can comprehend anything these days? All he seems to do is drool like an idiot and stare into the middle distance.
He's an evil man, and I for one will be celebrating his death.
To close a tab you have to pull down a menu and select close.
You must have missed the screenshot with the close-button on the tab.
You're right, TE is overkill, but I wanted to refute that particular point. For me, the Adblock extension is the reason I wouldn't give up Firebird, but Galeon is a very usable browser nonetheless.
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one New York Times article about worms recently needed two slashdot articles by the time it was posted.
:)
Hey, you've been around Slashdot for a while... you should know by now that whether or not an issue needs more than one article, there will invariably be a dupe anyway.
You should see R+G.. it's very funny performed.
:)
:), but I lack the focus and energy. It would be hard work, and I'd hate it. Maybe in 20 years time... and it will probably suck anyway.
I understand what you're saying -- I did some English at Uni, after all -- but the material itself is not funny. The act of doing it might be, but I'm a bit over comedy of the "look how easy it is to trash something beautiful" variety.
Having said that last, I should probably make this my last post on Slashdot... my inner child seems to have finally given up.
Absurdism works on a level that defies analysis, and does so in a way that still manages to create.
I'd like to write (prose, that is, not software
(and as you see elsewhere in the thread, I think Disney is guilty of this too, only on a much wider scale.)
The whole work can be sampled -- as long as what is created contains something that was not already there.
:)
I'm trying to think of the name... Plunderphonics, was it? I support stuff like that...
In this case, there's no art in the works produced -- the art is instead in his actions (a performance piece, I guess). I'm not sickened by the works produced, but by his crassness and stupidity in actually doing so.
I actually find that quite hilarious as a spoof.
You should see Shakespeare in Love*, then. A very funny Tom Stoppard script, for everyone who didn't particularly enjoy being taught it in high school. Or maybe Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead.
However, if you find what "Customised Classics" does amusing, I guess there's not much hope that you'd enjoy anything more sophisticated.
* (Crappy Hollywood in its basic premises, but the script is a fun riff on Shakespeare.)
Just think of the splash Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet made in the popular media
Yeah, but at least that had some original thought put into it, as did Shakespeare's original work. They weren't just straight rip-offs with the names changed -- they stand alone as different works than their source material.
Shouldn't publishing these "interpreted" classics -- a quick search and replace on the names, or an abridgement and appalling re-write (or both) -- be considered fraud?
Indeed -- and they corrupt and completely trash their source materials. Milne's Pooh stories are a good example of this, comparing the originals to the Disney-fied versions.
Culturally they are vandalising our heritage just like this "customised classics" moron -- just on a much larger scale.
I'm sure RMS would love it if you went through the Emacs source, emasculated it, changed the way it worked (badly), and then claimed that the resulting work was all produced by him.
Stallman's not completely anti-IP -- why else does he try to extend the GNU/naming of everything? Mindshare is (a sort of) IP as well. He wants to own the concept of "free software".
Just what do you think art is anyway? EVERYONE builds on each others art. Rock built off of blues and jazz, and those off of earlier forms still. There is no 'original artform'. We are products of an environment of prior art.
There's creative re-interpretation -- some music falls into this category -- and then there's ripping people off and doing no original work of your own, like this idiot is doing.
I'm all for sampling and re-use of copyrighted works, but I just find this insulting. Instead of doing anything interesting with the works, he's just pissing in the pool.
Hey! Here in South Australia, we were free settlers.
Your "business" is a travesty of every artistic intention the authors of those works had. I don't believe that they (or their descendants) should be allowed to use the law to stop it happening, but you'd think that common courtesy and respect for their efforts would. Obviously not.
Why not use your own creative energies to do something original, rather than ripping off and defacing the work of those more talented than yourself?
Another thing that adds to the confusion is that the Amiga also had a great 3D package called Lightwave, which enabled it to do 3D rendering for film output.
I'm pretty sure that Newtek shipped a Toaster/Lightwave bundle for a number of years, so people may have used the term "Toaster" when referring to the 3D graphics the whole package produced as well.
Regarding Jurassic Park, I think Amigas running Lightwave may have been used for some rendered storyboards, but definitely not for anything you see in the film.
(Going by my memories of old Amiga magazines here...)
This is not flamebait... it's God's honest truth.
Trillionaires with Mafia support?
What does Silvio Berlusconi have to do with this?
Oh, and someone (me of course) who's a regular Slashdot poster....
/. id than I do. :)
As an Australian, if I were to vote for someone because of their 'net savvy, they'd need to have a lower
The addition of the authentication system was a huge step back from an engineering standpoint, but a huge jump forward from a business one -- it make Kazaa very lucrative.
It could also have given them a legal liability they didn't previously possess, though... something which might not have been quite so cut-and-dried if they'd just kept re-engineering the protocol occasionally.
Actually, Mike Bouma has a Slashdot account already.
I know this is just a stupid troll... just wondering why the AC picked this user in particular. Are those bitter, twisted post-Amiga politics coming into the picture?
Would you say that a place like Japan or India needs to be improved with diversity?
Given Japan's extremely racist immigration laws, hell yeah. (There are Korean families who have been there for generations who still don't qualify for Japanese citizenship.)
Dunno about India though... it's already pretty diverse, and doesn't seem to have as xenophobic a culture as Japan.
Unfortunately, it had the codename "Windows 94" at least through 1992 and 1993.
Have you seen "Heavenly Creatures"? Peter Jackson directing, Kate Winslet starring? Very good film, and a real departure from the shlock horror he'd started with. :)
It almost reminds me a little bit of the furour surrounding the Pope and Mel Gibson's film. On one level, the Pope is a guy watching a movie, and he probably said something after he saw it.
Are you sure the Pope can comprehend anything these days? All he seems to do is drool like an idiot and stare into the middle distance.
He's an evil man, and I for one will be celebrating his death.
(note: this is pure speculation)
:)
No more so than any investment in SCO these days.
... or maybe Princess Anne will be bringing her dogs along.
Given the demise of Ansett (thanks, Air New Zealand!)
Thanks, News Limited, wasn't it, if I remember my corporate history correctly?
To close a tab you have to pull down a menu and select close.
You must have missed the screenshot with the close-button on the tab.
You're right, TE is overkill, but I wanted to refute that particular point. For me, the Adblock extension is the reason I wouldn't give up Firebird, but Galeon is a very usable browser nonetheless.