at least he's showing no sense at all by sueing his fans. There will be only one winner in all of this, see if you can pick his name from this quote...
"If it turns out that there are people who have huge hard drives and actually are downloading copyrighted materials and transmitting (them) on the Internet, we may very well go after them because they are engaged in theft," said Dr. Dre attorney Howard King.
The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, follows a similar suit by heavy-metal group Metallica. Both suits were filed by King.
Didn't they just get a bunch of funding from M$ (before they lost their imaginary wealth, teehee). Or are the NDA's with hardware companies? I'm just barely curious enough to post, anybody know offhand?
and since I just thought of the other parellel... "You can have my root pswd when you pry it from my cold dead brain" (i.e. my computer). Anybody need a.sig?:-)
Well, I think I interpreted the.sig right, so I guess you meant this part
Unfortunately, like the other French quote we all know and love.."He'z already got one"."(hehe,
I told zem I've already got one)"
Which is a slight mangling of the lines that John Cleese's French knight from this says from atop the castle wall. 'Twas an obscure play on how most Americans say you will be able to get their guns away from them, i.e. "Pry it from my cold dead hands." --
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/. is starting to scare me. I had a conversation about this last night. And I spent this last weekend with my sister's kids. She doesn't let them watch TV. They are the nicest kids (of course I'm totally unbiased..) and the best part was when I took them to Toys 'R Us and they ran by all the Pokeman crap without a second thought.:-)
But anyway, my conversation last night was about the changes of society and the grief that we are forced to deal with. Like you said, when there were only 500-1000 people in your social realm it was relatively easy, because it just doesn't happen that often. Each case is presented and you can offer empathic support and share the paid. But our LCD (lowest common denominator) focused media finds the most horrific, challenging, attention grabbing stories that happen to 250,000,000 people (if I may be U.S centric for a moment) and beams them straight to the dinner table. The natural result is an emotional retreat and the erection of an inpenetrable wall which we create to keep us from a continuous emotional breakdown. This coupled with Americans tendency to isolate themselves while traveling (in self propelles steel and pastic bubbles) has led to the society we have today in the U.S., which is to say a sad, sick one, IMHO, that looks to new cars, plastic surgery, and little yellow pills for happiness. Instead of the one thing that has provided it since we crawled out of the ooze, each other. Anyway this is part of a larger rant that I'll eventually turn into a paper.
Some of this is covered in the Cluetrain Manifesto, albeit from a more businesslike angle. To cut a long story short, the 'Net is once again allowing conversations between like minded people, seperated by the closer-to-irrelevant problem of distance.
I don't really see the need (perhaps for a higher volume) for high tech gadgets to let us see, feel, and share each other's thoughts. All you have to do is read them, like you just did. Blah, blah, this post took 5 hours to write (dang job interfering with/. again), so if it's a bit disjointed, that's why.
No he's saying no sane person gives idiots guns. Unfortunately, like the other French quote we all know and love.."He'z already got one". "(hehe, I told zem I've already got one)"
I should have clarified. I meant that the barrier to entry for media has been almost totally obliterated (i.e. the breaking wave). It's hard to see where we can go from here, since "here" is a whole different animal. Not hard to see as in there's no place left to go. I don't even think the real interesting stuff has been invented yet. Where are my telescopic contact lenses dangit!:)
Ahh, you're talking about the next wave (and not the one where you get a free t-shirt for ratting on your friends), which is tough to decipher from the foam of the last.
I try not to wax prophetic on what the Net will do, but prefer to do it. That being said, I agree with most of what you said, but it will be a generation other than mine that wishes to borgify itself (i'll stick with piercing for the time being). I'm happy just sharing text. Although (to wax for a moment) a/.-like messaging system where we record voices versus type can't be too far away. The shouting matches would be great!:)
Oh, and I think we should work on natural empathy before we try to artificially enhance it. We can do pretty good without shiny gadgets.
think what it must have been like living in Renaissance Italy, for example.
Aah, but the joy of the Internet is that it is now featured on a computer near you, not some bootlike penninsula on the other side of the world. Space, what's space?
They probably said many of the same things about how the world is changing.
But who could they say them to? Now we can reach a critical mass of attention overnight. Anybody heard about Mahir?
Katz tries to make the whole thing a bit too melodramatic for my tastes (and seems to like to focus on the negative), but there are some mighty changes afoot. And some extremely mighty forces trying to stop them. --
This is just the latest of waves in the whole media revolution, starting with the invention of writing through the printing press, movies, radio, television and now the internet.
I disagree. I think the Internet is the breaking of the wave. Everything might have been leading up to this, but it's hard to see where else we can go from here (in a media sense). When one person can easily provide content to the entire world out of their home, that's something special. And profoundly different than any communication medium that preceded it. --
Personally I think that's the best reason to support a company. Of course, that "rep" should not be based on their commercials, but on your personal experience and first hand accounts of others about their products.
This is what they have always bought
is a bad reason, unless of course they have delivered exactly what you wanted. Case in point for me, 3dfx. I've now bought two of their cards, the original voodoo and the v3000. They gave me what I wanted, compatibility and good speed at a good price (relatively). Does anyone do FP$ comparisons?
Of course last night (isn't that how it seems to work) my v3 blew up, so maybe it's time to switch teams --
just this morning I received two pieces of spam, one from AT&T, hawking more gaddam 1-800-crap, and the other from BellSouth, selling (drum roll please....) e-mails addresses for dot.coms.
I think these are good reasons to FLAME THE SHIT out of companies. At least that's what I did. If you give me your unsolicited, commercial message, I'll give you my uncensored opinion where exactly and how far up, you can stick it.
I've been watching GW too. I thought I had it figured out and then everybody changed sides, now (like the pilots) "I'm not sure who I'm fighting for anymore." Regardless I have added a Gundam F-91 model to my toy shelf at work. For a plastic snap-together model the thing is pretty cool, and way more poseable than my dinosour Megatron and QuakeII action figures...
I'll disagree with DBZ being any sort of "deep" though, the action is fun, but the characters are pretty shallow. --
I know that labeling isn't a real popular thing around here, but I was thinking of some type of community guided rating system for web pages. As opposed to the absurb idea of 3 or four levels (like MPAA rating, or ever/. moderation..) something like 26 levels, A-Z. Sites would be rated by each person willing to do so. A company or agency would track the ratings and then have software that blocked IPs by a user-set rating limit. Keep everything above board and open and I wouldn't have a problem with it. Having a larger options of ratings would help to smooth out the curve and lead to a more useful system.
Times are 11:00 Eastern and 10:00 Central and Pacific."
Dangit, I live in the "Mountain" time zone. Nobody ever tells us when stuff is on. It's discrimination and it needs to stop now. (Either that or do the obvious thing and just post it on the Net and I'll watch it when I dang well please)
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Waiting for you to help.
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*Why Linux*
Really portable web servers.
'Cause rooting somebody while knocking on their front door is just funny.
vi was built for handhelds.
emacs, emacs, emacs. (how exactly do you do ctrl-x-v-q-m with a stylus?)
everyone *knows* handhelds should be multi-user friendly.
and finally...Penguins are funny looking!
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Welcome back Wah (30840)
Stick around, don't be an idiot (too often), and you too can have people belittle your attempts at humor.
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at least he's showing no sense at all by sueing his fans. There will be only one winner in all of this, see if you can pick his name from this quote...
"If it turns out that there are people who have huge hard drives and actually are downloading copyrighted materials and transmitting (them) on the Internet, we may very well go after them because they are engaged in theft," said Dr. Dre attorney Howard King.
The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, follows a similar suit by heavy-metal group Metallica. Both suits were filed by King.
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The Universe ate my balls.
At least that was his response to me trying to explain this story. I thought it appropriate.
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Didn't they just get a bunch of funding from M$ (before they lost their imaginary wealth, teehee). Or are the NDA's with hardware companies? I'm just barely curious enough to post, anybody know offhand?
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and since I just thought of the other parellel... "You can have my root pswd when you pry it from my cold dead brain" (i.e. my computer). Anybody need a .sig? :-)
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Well, I think I interpreted the .sig right, so I guess you meant this part
Unfortunately, like the other French quote we all know and love.."He'z already got one"."(hehe,
I told zem I've already got one)"
Which is a slight mangling of the lines that John Cleese's French knight from this says from atop the castle wall. 'Twas an obscure play on how most Americans say you will be able to get their guns away from them, i.e. "Pry it from my cold dead hands."
--
I hereby open the bidding for YaHoO.coM and eBAy.Com
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Homeschool.
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/. is starting to scare me. I had a conversation about this last night. And I spent this last weekend with my sister's kids. She doesn't let them watch TV. They are the nicest kids (of course I'm totally unbiased..) and the best part was when I took them to Toys 'R Us and they ran by all the Pokeman crap without a second thought. :-)
/. again), so if it's a bit disjointed, that's why.
But anyway, my conversation last night was about the changes of society and the grief that we are forced to deal with. Like you said, when there were only 500-1000 people in your social realm it was relatively easy, because it just doesn't happen that often. Each case is presented and you can offer empathic support and share the paid. But our LCD (lowest common denominator) focused media finds the most horrific, challenging, attention grabbing stories that happen to 250,000,000 people (if I may be U.S centric for a moment) and beams them straight to the dinner table. The natural result is an emotional retreat and the erection of an inpenetrable wall which we create to keep us from a continuous emotional breakdown. This coupled with Americans tendency to isolate themselves while traveling (in self propelles steel and pastic bubbles) has led to the society we have today in the U.S., which is to say a sad, sick one, IMHO, that looks to new cars, plastic surgery, and little yellow pills for happiness. Instead of the one thing that has provided it since we crawled out of the ooze, each other. Anyway this is part of a larger rant that I'll eventually turn into a paper.
Some of this is covered in the Cluetrain Manifesto, albeit from a more businesslike angle. To cut a long story short, the 'Net is once again allowing conversations between like minded people, seperated by the closer-to-irrelevant problem of distance.
I don't really see the need (perhaps for a higher volume) for high tech gadgets to let us see, feel, and share each other's thoughts. All you have to do is read them, like you just did. Blah, blah, this post took 5 hours to write (dang job interfering with
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No he's saying no sane person gives idiots guns. Unfortunately, like the other French quote we all know and love.."He'z already got one". "(hehe, I told zem I've already got one)"
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I should have clarified. I meant that the barrier to entry for media has been almost totally obliterated (i.e. the breaking wave). It's hard to see where we can go from here, since "here" is a whole different animal. Not hard to see as in there's no place left to go. I don't even think the real interesting stuff has been invented yet. Where are my telescopic contact lenses dangit! :)
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Ahh, you're talking about the next wave (and not the one where you get a free t-shirt for ratting on your friends), which is tough to decipher from the foam of the last.
/.-like messaging system where we record voices versus type can't be too far away. The shouting matches would be great! :)
I try not to wax prophetic on what the Net will do, but prefer to do it. That being said, I agree with most of what you said, but it will be a generation other than mine that wishes to borgify itself (i'll stick with piercing for the time being). I'm happy just sharing text. Although (to wax for a moment) a
Oh, and I think we should work on natural empathy before we try to artificially enhance it. We can do pretty good without shiny gadgets.
One thing to remember "It's All About Bandwidth."
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think what it must have been like living in Renaissance Italy, for example.
Aah, but the joy of the Internet is that it is now featured on a computer near you, not some bootlike penninsula on the other side of the world. Space, what's space?
They probably said many of the same things about how the world is changing.
But who could they say them to? Now we can reach a critical mass of attention overnight. Anybody heard about Mahir?
Katz tries to make the whole thing a bit too melodramatic for my tastes (and seems to like to focus on the negative), but there are some mighty changes afoot. And some extremely mighty forces trying to stop them.
--
This is just the latest of waves in the whole media revolution, starting with the invention of writing through the printing press, movies, radio, television and now the internet.
I disagree. I think the Internet is the breaking of the wave. Everything might have been leading up to this, but it's hard to see where else we can go from here (in a media sense). When one person can easily provide content to the entire world out of their home, that's something special. And profoundly different than any communication medium that preceded it.
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The company has a good rep.*
Personally I think that's the best reason to support a company. Of course, that "rep" should not be based on their commercials, but on your personal experience and first hand accounts of others about their products.
This is what they have always bought
is a bad reason, unless of course they have delivered exactly what you wanted. Case in point for me, 3dfx. I've now bought two of their cards, the original voodoo and the v3000. They gave me what I wanted, compatibility and good speed at a good price (relatively). Does anyone do FP$ comparisons?
Of course last night (isn't that how it seems to work) my v3 blew up, so maybe it's time to switch teams
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just this morning I received two pieces of spam, one from AT&T, hawking more gaddam 1-800-crap, and the other from BellSouth, selling (drum roll please....) e-mails addresses for dot.coms.
I think these are good reasons to FLAME THE SHIT out of companies. At least that's what I did. If you give me your unsolicited, commercial message, I'll give you my uncensored opinion where exactly and how far up, you can stick it.
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I've been watching GW too. I thought I had it figured out and then everybody changed sides, now (like the pilots) "I'm not sure who I'm fighting for anymore." Regardless I have added a Gundam F-91 model to my toy shelf at work. For a plastic snap-together model the thing is pretty cool, and way more poseable than my dinosour Megatron and QuakeII action figures...
I'll disagree with DBZ being any sort of "deep" though, the action is fun, but the characters are pretty shallow.
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I know that labeling isn't a real popular thing around here, but I was thinking of some type of community guided rating system for web pages. As opposed to the absurb idea of 3 or four levels (like MPAA rating, or ever /. moderation..) something like 26 levels, A-Z. Sites would be rated by each person willing to do so. A company or agency would track the ratings and then have software that blocked IPs by a user-set rating limit. Keep everything above board and open and I wouldn't have a problem with it. Having a larger options of ratings would help to smooth out the curve and lead to a more useful system.
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Washington Post is citing "people familiar with the discussions."
/. discussions. Hmmm...anybody know what color Elian's shirt is today? :)
Oh great, now we're having a slashdot discussion about quotes from
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Now how hard was that?
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You want the really simple answer?
Try here
Of course this only makes sense if you know that TSR was bought by WOTC a while back.
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Times are 11:00 Eastern and 10:00 Central and Pacific."
Dangit, I live in the "Mountain" time zone. Nobody ever tells us when stuff is on. It's discrimination and it needs to stop now. (Either that or do the obvious thing and just post it on the Net and I'll watch it when I dang well please)
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