Let's imagine you made a perl script that would send a mail with my song as attachment to every email addresses ever created on the net. By doing so, you reduced the marketable value of my song dramatically, as demand will have certainly dropped quite a bit.
For application software, you also have a certain credibility attached to price alone. A certain price instantly reassures the high-quality or professional status of certain types of software. (Imagine, the amateurs could afford them!)
Domain specifications, requirements and design methodologies are not computer science, but software engineering. Which is separate from the real science in computer science, which is what I would shorthand as the Art of Algorithms.
I'd like to second that. I've read it very quickly (a lot quicker than cryptonomicon, which I actually had to force myself to continue reading) and found the variety of its topics very entertaining.
As a matter of fact, no I didn't read the article. (and was just answering to the thread in isolation)
I was also talking about a different context than live, but still human controlled, performance. My focus was more along the lines of autonomous performances. (algorithmically determined performances, possibly influenced by external stimuli carried by a global network)
Additionally, considering the topic was about machinima using their own assets, wouldn't it be possible to free yourself from most of the dependencies and provide (at the very least) standalone executables?
Don't you think you're missing on some really interesting aspect of machinima, being that it is realtime, and thus could expand on the whole frozen-video/movie concept back into a new hybrid of cinema and theatre, with actual realtime performances?
No. The term "third world" comes from history. What history you ask? The history of the so despised France. Mind you, just before the revolution, the king Louis XVI convoked representants of the 3 orders of society in an assembly. (Assemblee des Etats generaux)
Those 3 orders were:
- Clergy
- Nobility and finally, the "Third-state" or Tiers-etat, which represented the poor, the bourgeois and the otherwise unprivileged.
As such, in this assembly were the privileged far more represented than the third-state, even though the third-state counted by far the majority of the population of France at that time.
Parallels are left as an exercise to the reader.
All in all that's why talking about a first, second or forth world doesn't make any sense.
My first mp3 was a legal one. This artist had just released a 45min live act as an mp3... He followed shortly by releasing the first ever mp3 lp I've know of, Kobn-Tich-Ey
took me a while to download (t'was the biggest file I've ever downloaded) from the university's connection, then even longer to play, as my 486 would not be powerful enough to play the mp3 in realtime..
I basically had to render it as a wave file to play it properly, filling my harddrive in the process with a 500M file.
This was under dos.
Then I tried playing it under linux via mpg123 and it somehow worked realtime if I lowered the proper quality settings.
At work I hardly noticed the ventilation noise. Then one day it stopped (for a few minutes).. It was like *heaven*.. we all just realized how noisy our environment was, and it felt like a huge weight was removed from us. We basically felt just a lot better and more relaxed.
I'm thus postulating that even if you are not noticing the noise, it doesn't mean it doesn't have any effect on you. (Regarding stress)
Vi satanic's roots are clearer once you realize that VI VI VI, the incantation you often hear in the reptilian mouths of its worshippers, is actually the number of the beast.
Whose is the idiot in a totalitatian state: The man standing up and rebelling, possibly getting himself killed or the man living his daily life as good as possible? If you don't have the means to fight, you have to be irrational to make society move.
Trying to make the most out of the environment you are in is a form of intelligence.
I wonder if you'd be willing to say that your ancestors were stupid when they let their "freedom" to wander, use and live on any land be restricted by physical property concepts..
I'd say it's more complicated than that.
To stay on topic, I don't see the RIAA taking away any freedom.. widely redistributing copyrighted works has never been authorized under the copyright system. It just now became available to anybody.
And I don't think only stupid people suppport this restriction of freedom.
(For the record, I dislike the copyright and author's right systems)
That's the typical geek line. Guess getting picked on in highschool ended up with you building an elitist shell?
It's more about 80% of people not having the same perspective as you. You're likely to be someone else moron, if that someone else is picking the proper perspective to look at your actions or puts you in the proper setting.
Maybe 80% of people are just being their normal human selves trying just to live their own little happy lives. Who's the moron if the only addition to the issue between you and them is the fact that you bitch and moan?
Maybe 80% don't care about copyright issues they consider as totally irrelevant to their lives. Maybe they see music as a total commodity and don't see any loss in the great scheme of things with the hoarding of works and creativity that the record companies are investing in?
[ DavidParnas has written about ProfessionalResponsibility, which for him, includes SocialResponsibility?. A vocal opponent of the SDI (Star Wars) project, believes that ethical people should work on projects they think have unethical aspects. This way they might be able to have some influence on keeping things ethical and they have an obligation to inform themselves and the public of the risks and benefits of such projects. For his words and actions, he was given the first Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility. See http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/Ethics/pa rnas.html, which references Parnas, David L. "Software Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems", Comm. ACM, Vol. 28, No. 12, Dec. 1985, pp. 1326-1335. ]
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I wonder why this expression exists litterally in french.
Putting my captain obvious cap:
Let's imagine you made a perl script that would send a mail with my song as attachment to every email addresses ever created on the net. By doing so, you reduced the marketable value of my song dramatically, as demand will have certainly dropped quite a bit.
But you can plug rez to any vga monitor through the great vga-compatible output of the dc. Which makes for great graphical quality results.
For application software, you also have a certain credibility attached to price alone. A certain price instantly reassures the high-quality or professional status of certain types of software. (Imagine, the amateurs could afford them!)
Why is it bullshit? Isn't iTunes some sort of success of the buy-only-the-tracks-you-like idea?
Domain specifications, requirements and design methodologies are not computer science, but software engineering. Which is separate from the real science in computer science, which is what I would shorthand as the Art of Algorithms.
I'd like to second that. I've read it very quickly (a lot quicker than cryptonomicon, which I actually had to force myself to continue reading) and found the variety of its topics very entertaining.
As a matter of fact, no I didn't read the article. (and was just answering to the thread in isolation)
I was also talking about a different context than live, but still human controlled, performance. My focus was more along the lines of autonomous performances. (algorithmically determined performances, possibly influenced by external stimuli carried by a global network)
Additionally, considering the topic was about machinima using their own assets, wouldn't it be possible to free yourself from most of the dependencies and provide (at the very least) standalone executables?
Don't you think you're missing on some really interesting aspect of machinima, being that it is realtime, and thus could expand on the whole frozen-video/movie concept back into a new hybrid of cinema and theatre, with actual realtime performances?
No. The term "third world" comes from history. What history you ask? The history of the so despised France. Mind you, just before the revolution, the king Louis XVI convoked representants of the 3 orders of society in an assembly. (Assemblee des Etats generaux)
Those 3 orders were:
- Clergy
- Nobility
and finally, the "Third-state" or Tiers-etat, which represented the poor, the bourgeois and the otherwise unprivileged.
As such, in this assembly were the privileged far more represented than the third-state, even though the third-state counted by far the majority of the population of France at that time.
Parallels are left as an exercise to the reader.
All in all that's why talking about a first, second or forth world doesn't make any sense.
Which rogue weapons?
godel dammit. GODEL.
Not some mispellation of some random nazi please.
My first mp3 was a legal one. This artist had just released a 45min live act as an mp3 ... He followed shortly by releasing the first ever mp3 lp I've know of, Kobn-Tich-Ey
took me a while to download (t'was the biggest file I've ever downloaded) from the university's connection, then even longer to play, as my 486 would not be powerful enough to play the mp3 in realtime..
I basically had to render it as a wave file to play it properly, filling my harddrive in the process with a 500M file.
This was under dos.
Then I tried playing it under linux via mpg123 and it somehow worked realtime if I lowered the proper quality settings.
and I can still find those mp3s...
Because that intrinsic value you are talking about is just some magical, romantic concept.
At work I hardly noticed the ventilation noise. Then one day it stopped (for a few minutes) .. It was like *heaven* .. we all just realized how noisy our environment was, and it felt like a huge weight was removed from us. We basically felt just a lot better and more relaxed.
I'm thus postulating that even if you are not noticing the noise, it doesn't mean it doesn't have any effect on you. (Regarding stress)
Vi satanic's roots are clearer once you realize that VI VI VI, the incantation you often hear in the reptilian mouths of its worshippers, is actually the number of the beast.
Another version can be downloaded for PC from here:
;)
http://mfx.scene.org/
Together with Deepness in the Sky.
I wonder if that one is street legal in the us:
:)
http://www.962lm.com/index-h.htm
(It is a clone of the porsche 962 that raced at le mans 24 hours race)
Now that's a real sportscar
Whose is the idiot in a totalitatian state: The man standing up and rebelling, possibly getting himself killed or the man living his daily life as good as possible? If you don't have the means to fight, you have to be irrational to make society move.
Trying to make the most out of the environment you are in is a form of intelligence.
I wonder if you'd be willing to say that your ancestors were stupid when they let their "freedom" to wander, use and live on any land be restricted by physical property concepts..
I'd say it's more complicated than that.
To stay on topic, I don't see the RIAA taking away any freedom.. widely redistributing copyrighted works has never been authorized under the copyright system. It just now became available to anybody.
And I don't think only stupid people suppport this restriction of freedom.
(For the record, I dislike the copyright and author's right systems)
That's the typical geek line. Guess getting picked on in highschool ended up with you building an elitist shell?
It's more about 80% of people not having the same perspective as you. You're likely to be someone else moron, if that someone else is picking the proper perspective to look at your actions or puts you in the proper setting.
Maybe 80% of people are just being their normal human selves trying just to live their own little happy lives. Who's the moron if the only addition to the issue between you and them is the fact that you bitch and moan?
Maybe 80% don't care about copyright issues they consider as totally irrelevant to their lives. Maybe they see music as a total commodity and don't see any loss in the great scheme of things with the hoarding of works and creativity that the record companies are investing in?
SoundOnSound is indeed prestigious. no need for cynic quotes.
Have you ever heard of ASN.1 ?
They can't.
.. And this happens to be
The vst sdk comes with an include file that needs to be modified for gcc/linux
forbidden by the vst license.
what? demo parties are dead?
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?ProfessionalResponsibil ity
a rnas.html, which references Parnas, David L. "Software Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems", Comm. ACM, Vol. 28, No. 12, Dec. 1985, pp. 1326-1335.
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