Movie, music, and TV executives, I just want you to know that the parent poster doesn't speak for everyone. Please don't stop making crappy music, tv, and movies just because of the original poster. Me and a lot of my friends love your crap, no matter what you put out. So keep putting it out in droves, because the thought of us reading a book or experiencing nature frightens and revolts us.
I long ago quit reading him, because he long ago became worthless.
Predictions about the future don't have to be right all the time, they just have to be consistently true or consistently false. If Dvorak is completely not in tune with progress and the way things can end up, then he's the best fortune teller we have. We just have to listen to him and invest in the opposite.
There's a good documentary about the Dover Evolution Trials online at NOVA. If a conservative judge appointed by Bush can see through the sham that ID is, then it's amazing that anyone's still trying to push it through.
It seems like the motion that's captured remains in place, with the hips not getting the translation data, so if you were o capture a run, the 3d character would stay in the same spot. This might be useful for creating run cycles for games, but it would practically be useless for anything else, since it would take a long time for an animator to go in and make sure the feet placement is correct and the character isn't sliding around everywhere. Motion capture data is very heavy and fairly hard to adjust once you've captured it.
On the other we have a bunch of folk who want to have everything for free and construct elaborate explanations as to how this is great for the artists.
Not everyone just wants stuff for free (although that would be nice). Innovation and art is being stifled in the name of copyright and giving artists and execs more money for no work. It's a broken system when a person can make 1 song and live the rest of their lives without working a single day. I'm sorry, but no song is worth that much wealth, and receiving that much is a large incentive to not produce any more art and music. When an artist is threatened and actually has to keep producing for a living, that's when art is at its best. The talking point about how art will not be produced if an artist can't make "fuck you money" doing it is a flat out lie, as has been proven since the beginning of time before copyright. While 99% of the population has to struggle every day to get their day's worth of pay, artists can put in a few weeks worth of actual work and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. The music industry wants to make you think that they've got a monopoly on good music, but that's just untrue. Prince and the rest of the RIAA's artists are not the only people with good ideas for music. If they were forced to compete fairly with the rest of the musicians in this world who are struggling to get record contracts because the music industry has convinced them that's the only way to do it, then there would be a lot more music out there to listen to, and a lot more innovation and good music being produced.
And I'm saying this as an artist. I work as an animator, something I've dreamed about since I was a little kid. I would be doing this even if I didn't get a paycheck for it.
At 99 cents / song it would cost roughly $5,000 to fill a 20GB iPod... The fact that 160GB iPods exist and are selling implies there is demand for them.
There are more ways to fill a 160gb iPod than buying songs from iTMS. Most people who buy big iPods I assume have at least a few cds. iTunes ripping of CDs to mp3s is well integrated and all of the current iPods play video as well as music. I've filled my iPod up with cds I've ripped from my collection as well as movies I've ripped from my collection, and I've bought less than a dozen songs off iTMS. I also use my iPod as a portable drive, but that's probably not the main priority of most iPod owners. I'm just making the point that there are other legal methods of filling that much space up. Also of note is that the iPod touch is selling very well despite the 16 gig maximum drive space, so obviously, space isn't that much of a selling point for iPods.
most of the time a mediocre gadget will do fine for the situation. Such as in a car accident when you need to take pictures of the damage but didn't bring your awesome $1000 digital SLR. Or you want to check your e-mail on an airplane trip, but don't want to take your laptop out of the case and then pay another 15 - 20 bucks so you could have wireless access at the terminal. I feel sorry for whoever is taking important family photos with a camera phone, but convergence is an overall good thing.
Prison is supposed to be used as a reformation tool. She escaped and has lived a criminal free (ie: reformed) life ever since. So what is the good of locking her up right now going to do? Reform her some more? Murder might not be forgivable (unless you have the money and power) but locking her up won't bring the dead guy back. It will only cause more strife in this world, since her husband will lose his wife, her children will lose their mother, and her grandchildren won't know their grandmother, and she's gonna die in prison. What a solution!
My prediction is that the field is gonna go the way of every artistic field where the barrier to entry sharply dropped - more talented people will enter the industry because they had to the drive to do it with a decent home DV camcorder, and they're gonna push out the people who fell in to the industry and are sailing along just because of their resume. This is currently happening in animation - with the influx of animation training and computer technology decreasing the barrier to entry that traditional pencil and paper methods had.
Most people don't "listen" to music. They use it as a soundtrack to their sad pathetic lives as they schlep their bodies to and from work, or put it on as background during dinner, or an ambient enhancement while reading or cruising the web, or as something to hide the sounds of bedsprings while they fuck their paramour du jour.
Remember that Will Smith movie Independence Day? If that movie is a true to life indication (which I believe it is), then super advanced aliens aren't evolved for IT security either.
I'm surprised at the moral outrage 90% of the posts here display. I'd much rather have an alert 30 year old professional driver going 130 past me that knew what he was doing then some 17 year old in her mom's minivan with a cell phone glued to her head. Those people are quite a bit more dangerous. As an aside, Will Wright won the US Express in 1980 - a similar feat but not as fast. Here's an interview with him for the documentary they're doing about this trip.
I am, however, going to enjoy looking back in 39 years and saying "Can you believe they tried to ban Manhunt 2?"
Or looking back and saying "Jeez, it's amazing that Manhunt 2 was even conceived of, let alone RELEASED! Boy were we a bunch of savages in the early 21st century." Those aren't my current opinions, of course, but, as the Barbarella release has shown, it could swing either way.
If some kids discover that these computers could be used for scams and porn, then those are the kids that are gonna be the future tech nerds. When I got my first computer in the early 90s, and discovered that I could flame people from miles away and see dirty pictures that I've never been able to access before, I made it my duty to learn all I could about this new and amazing invention. Now here I am 15 years later and am a tech nerd who works with computers every day and I make a living off of it. If the only thing I had access to on my computer was an encyclopedia, my life would have been very different.
You discover that most of what occurs in the world, or what is reported, has no effect on your happiness or wellbeing. So you discover ignorance is bliss? That was discovered in 1742. I'll take my technology, and news, and politics over aimlessly walking around a forest any day; especially now that I know of the stuff going on out there. Information is a Pandora's box: Once you've opened it, you can't put it all back in.
you discover that most possessions are superfluous, you can be very happy with the items that can be crammed into a few cubic feet. Well, let's see if you're still happy after a year with those few items. Of course you're happy with a few items crammed into a backpack, because you know that in 6 months you're going to be back in your comfy house with all your other toys.
Imagine if it were that way with your old dishwasher, or your car. "You can get a new car, but you have to keep the old one out back. You can't sell it, ever".
Material examples like that don't work for computer software and media. That's why most of the/. crowd gets in an uproar about the "You wouldn't steal a car, so why are you stealing movies" example that the MPAA likes to throw around. Software is not an object, and thus it has to be treated as a separate entity. Usually, when you buy a piece of software, you're not purchasing the equivalent of a microwave. You're purchasing a license to use the software in a specified way. The ability to make as many copies of software is very much unlike the way a microwave is made, which is one of the biggest benefits and drawbacks of it - especially if you're trying to profit from it. Trust me, if you had the ability to just duplicate your stove, Maytag would tape a license on the front saying that you could only use the stove in your own home and you can't resell the one in your backyard because it may or may not be the original you purchased.
How do you know that the news agencies talking about the $10 million campaign isn't part of the $10 million for the campaign, as a sort of meta-campaign? It costs money having people call up news agencies and say "Hey guys, we're spending a ton of money on this campaign! Give us a story and we'll put rent some ad space with it!"
from the article: "The idea of parking meters, besides revenue, is to keep people from parking on the street all day. The borough could do that simply by making the three-car stretch into a No Parking zone. The city is, after all, trying to reduce the number of parking spots downtown."
Sounds like the solution was in the article and the city isn't doing it just because they've never done it before. Sounds lame to me, since, again from the article, "The city would be spared maintenance and collection costs"
How many great inventions came about because someone decided to try something just for the hell of it, without even thinking of the possibilities?
I don't know, but that number surely wasn't behind the saying "necessity is the mother of invention." Also, your statement presumes that creativity will be lacking in an ultra-intelligent machine, but I think it defines an ultra-intelligent machine. If a machine was to build a better machine, it sure as hell needs to have some bit of creativity built in to it.
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Movie, music, and TV executives, I just want you to know that the parent poster doesn't speak for everyone. Please don't stop making crappy music, tv, and movies just because of the original poster. Me and a lot of my friends love your crap, no matter what you put out. So keep putting it out in droves, because the thought of us reading a book or experiencing nature frightens and revolts us.
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The Public
I long ago quit reading him, because he long ago became worthless.
Predictions about the future don't have to be right all the time, they just have to be consistently true or consistently false. If Dvorak is completely not in tune with progress and the way things can end up, then he's the best fortune teller we have. We just have to listen to him and invest in the opposite.
There's a good documentary about the Dover Evolution Trials online at NOVA. If a conservative judge appointed by Bush can see through the sham that ID is, then it's amazing that anyone's still trying to push it through.
It seems like the motion that's captured remains in place, with the hips not getting the translation data, so if you were o capture a run, the 3d character would stay in the same spot. This might be useful for creating run cycles for games, but it would practically be useless for anything else, since it would take a long time for an animator to go in and make sure the feet placement is correct and the character isn't sliding around everywhere. Motion capture data is very heavy and fairly hard to adjust once you've captured it.
Of course, it's much cooler to be a sheep and follow the herd, isn't it?
It's much more satisfying being a jackass than just finishing your insightful post without a derogatory statement, isn't it?
On the other we have a bunch of folk who want to have everything for free and construct elaborate explanations as to how this is great for the artists.
Not everyone just wants stuff for free (although that would be nice). Innovation and art is being stifled in the name of copyright and giving artists and execs more money for no work. It's a broken system when a person can make 1 song and live the rest of their lives without working a single day. I'm sorry, but no song is worth that much wealth, and receiving that much is a large incentive to not produce any more art and music. When an artist is threatened and actually has to keep producing for a living, that's when art is at its best. The talking point about how art will not be produced if an artist can't make "fuck you money" doing it is a flat out lie, as has been proven since the beginning of time before copyright. While 99% of the population has to struggle every day to get their day's worth of pay, artists can put in a few weeks worth of actual work and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. The music industry wants to make you think that they've got a monopoly on good music, but that's just untrue. Prince and the rest of the RIAA's artists are not the only people with good ideas for music. If they were forced to compete fairly with the rest of the musicians in this world who are struggling to get record contracts because the music industry has convinced them that's the only way to do it, then there would be a lot more music out there to listen to, and a lot more innovation and good music being produced.
And I'm saying this as an artist. I work as an animator, something I've dreamed about since I was a little kid. I would be doing this even if I didn't get a paycheck for it.
At 99 cents / song it would cost roughly $5,000 to fill a 20GB iPod... The fact that 160GB iPods exist and are selling implies there is demand for them.
There are more ways to fill a 160gb iPod than buying songs from iTMS. Most people who buy big iPods I assume have at least a few cds. iTunes ripping of CDs to mp3s is well integrated and all of the current iPods play video as well as music. I've filled my iPod up with cds I've ripped from my collection as well as movies I've ripped from my collection, and I've bought less than a dozen songs off iTMS. I also use my iPod as a portable drive, but that's probably not the main priority of most iPod owners. I'm just making the point that there are other legal methods of filling that much space up. Also of note is that the iPod touch is selling very well despite the 16 gig maximum drive space, so obviously, space isn't that much of a selling point for iPods.
most of the time a mediocre gadget will do fine for the situation. Such as in a car accident when you need to take pictures of the damage but didn't bring your awesome $1000 digital SLR. Or you want to check your e-mail on an airplane trip, but don't want to take your laptop out of the case and then pay another 15 - 20 bucks so you could have wireless access at the terminal. I feel sorry for whoever is taking important family photos with a camera phone, but convergence is an overall good thing.
wouldn't a hole where Mac files come out be named after Apple? Ie: The A-hole?
Prison is supposed to be used as a reformation tool. She escaped and has lived a criminal free (ie: reformed) life ever since. So what is the good of locking her up right now going to do? Reform her some more? Murder might not be forgivable (unless you have the money and power) but locking her up won't bring the dead guy back. It will only cause more strife in this world, since her husband will lose his wife, her children will lose their mother, and her grandchildren won't know their grandmother, and she's gonna die in prison. What a solution!
My prediction is that the field is gonna go the way of every artistic field where the barrier to entry sharply dropped - more talented people will enter the industry because they had to the drive to do it with a decent home DV camcorder, and they're gonna push out the people who fell in to the industry and are sailing along just because of their resume. This is currently happening in animation - with the influx of animation training and computer technology decreasing the barrier to entry that traditional pencil and paper methods had.
Most people don't "listen" to music. They use it as a soundtrack to their sad pathetic lives as they schlep their bodies to and from work, or put it on as background during dinner, or an ambient enhancement while reading or cruising the web, or as something to hide the sounds of bedsprings while they fuck their paramour du jour.
bitter much?
Remember that Will Smith movie Independence Day? If that movie is a true to life indication (which I believe it is), then super advanced aliens aren't evolved for IT security either.
I'm surprised at the moral outrage 90% of the posts here display. I'd much rather have an alert 30 year old professional driver going 130 past me that knew what he was doing then some 17 year old in her mom's minivan with a cell phone glued to her head. Those people are quite a bit more dangerous. As an aside, Will Wright won the US Express in 1980 - a similar feat but not as fast. Here's an interview with him for the documentary they're doing about this trip.
I am, however, going to enjoy looking back in 39 years and saying "Can you believe they tried to ban Manhunt 2?"
Or looking back and saying "Jeez, it's amazing that Manhunt 2 was even conceived of, let alone RELEASED! Boy were we a bunch of savages in the early 21st century." Those aren't my current opinions, of course, but, as the Barbarella release has shown, it could swing either way.
If some kids discover that these computers could be used for scams and porn, then those are the kids that are gonna be the future tech nerds. When I got my first computer in the early 90s, and discovered that I could flame people from miles away and see dirty pictures that I've never been able to access before, I made it my duty to learn all I could about this new and amazing invention. Now here I am 15 years later and am a tech nerd who works with computers every day and I make a living off of it. If the only thing I had access to on my computer was an encyclopedia, my life would have been very different.
I thought it was the jury that decided the verdict but the judge decided the penalty. At least that's what the movies told me.
couldn't be held liable for libel (law student joke).
*groan* No wonder everyone hates lawyers.
You discover that most of what occurs in the world, or what is reported, has no effect on your happiness or wellbeing.
So you discover ignorance is bliss? That was discovered in 1742. I'll take my technology, and news, and politics over aimlessly walking around a forest any day; especially now that I know of the stuff going on out there. Information is a Pandora's box: Once you've opened it, you can't put it all back in.
you discover that most possessions are superfluous, you can be very happy with the items that can be crammed into a few cubic feet.
Well, let's see if you're still happy after a year with those few items. Of course you're happy with a few items crammed into a backpack, because you know that in 6 months you're going to be back in your comfy house with all your other toys.
Imagine if it were that way with your old dishwasher, or your car. "You can get a new car, but you have to keep the old one out back. You can't sell it, ever".
/. crowd gets in an uproar about the "You wouldn't steal a car, so why are you stealing movies" example that the MPAA likes to throw around. Software is not an object, and thus it has to be treated as a separate entity. Usually, when you buy a piece of software, you're not purchasing the equivalent of a microwave. You're purchasing a license to use the software in a specified way. The ability to make as many copies of software is very much unlike the way a microwave is made, which is one of the biggest benefits and drawbacks of it - especially if you're trying to profit from it. Trust me, if you had the ability to just duplicate your stove, Maytag would tape a license on the front saying that you could only use the stove in your own home and you can't resell the one in your backyard because it may or may not be the original you purchased.
Material examples like that don't work for computer software and media. That's why most of the
How do you know that the news agencies talking about the $10 million campaign isn't part of the $10 million for the campaign, as a sort of meta-campaign? It costs money having people call up news agencies and say "Hey guys, we're spending a ton of money on this campaign! Give us a story and we'll put rent some ad space with it!"
from the article:
"The idea of parking meters, besides revenue, is to keep people from parking on the street all day. The borough could do that simply by making the three-car stretch into a No Parking zone. The city is, after all, trying to reduce the number of parking spots downtown."
Sounds like the solution was in the article and the city isn't doing it just because they've never done it before. Sounds lame to me, since, again from the article, "The city would be spared maintenance and collection costs"
well.... aren't you?
How many great inventions came about because someone decided to try something just for the hell of it, without even thinking of the possibilities?
I don't know, but that number surely wasn't behind the saying "necessity is the mother of invention." Also, your statement presumes that creativity will be lacking in an ultra-intelligent machine, but I think it defines an ultra-intelligent machine. If a machine was to build a better machine, it sure as hell needs to have some bit of creativity built in to it.
They have neither the expertise nor the authority to even contribute to the debate.
Yeah! I'll take my expertise and authority from a bunch of armchair economists on Slashdot, thank you very much!