What exactly do you have against the Ronco Grille?
Hehehe, I actually pissed someone off over the RonCo Grille. I'm in fine form this evening.
Its the economy that drives television.
I know, that's what I said. That's why it sucks.
Unless you can think of a better way to generate money via broadcasting, just turn off your tv.
Dude, you're starting to talk like you come from a gene pool that buys the bulk of its products via info-mercial. (I should talk - one of my relatives got sucked into Amway a few years ago...)
Why in the world would I care about generating money via broadcasting? I merely want to receive TV signals from somewhere other than Planet Suck.
Its either that or state run stations (yeah, PBS is fine). If somebody can make a buck doing it, more power to them.
Again, I don't really care who makes money or who doesn't.
I don't think there's much that can be done. TV will suck. I will whine.
If you expect the network news (cable or broadcast) to be some measure of journalism, then you are the retard.
If you don't agree then find/make an alternative, otherwise give up your PRIVILEGE to use the product/service.
I have no problem with that, but maybe you can tell me how I can find an alternative if it's ILLEGAL to sell competing hardware without the on-board copy protection?
And I think a lot of people are sick and jaded by the nature of our news media, but it's hard to say if anyone will ever know how big this problem is because, again, they'd have to hear about it from the news media.
All you have to do is WATCH it to know how horrible TV news has become. Surely Fox has led the way into the slit-trench latrine, but CNN has taken a deep breath and jumped in after it.
News format and content is driven primarily by ratings. More specifically, ratings with the kinds of people who are influenced by TV advertising. It's the fucking retard who actually buys a Ron Popeil Rotissary Grille who drives TV format and content, news included.
I am sure that the Artists that were represented by the mp3 collection got the money! "Not Likely". Tomorrow's Headlines should read RIAA steals 1 million from Artists.
Well, duh. The RIAA isn't in the debt collection business for "artists", they're in the enforcement business. Theoretically, the "artists" get their cut in the form of higher sales figures for their "art".
they'll be sending lawyers to beaches and the countrysides and sue people who illegally share their music by not using headphones...
I wouldn't laugh just yet. That is a shade of "pay-per-use" isn't it?
The sensible thing to do is to resolve never to buy a restricted CD, or a crippled / restricted consumer electronics device or computer. Naturally, the sheep will line up in droves, eager to submit to any humiliation to get their paws on the latest pile of luke-warm shit squeezed out by the mass-media factory.
Is this really a "fair use" case? This goes beyond making a copy for a friend. The guy was taking music and distributing it fairly widely, with unrestricted random-access by a number of people, potentially depriving the copyright holder of sales.
I do think the $1M figure is pretty much insane though.
My beef with RIAA and MPAA is NOT with their opposition to Napster-ish music distribution; It's their repeated attempts to legislate mandatory crippling of consumer electronics (and outlawing of certain kinds of programming) to protect their interests at the expense of my rights.
I would MUCH rather see RIAA taking the kind of action described in the story - going after actual "pirates" - instead of presuming before the fact that every consumer is a thief who cannot be trusted with uncrippled hardware.
In the unlikely event that this does start to threaten TiVo's business, TiVo has plenty of patents on timeshifting video and the like that could probably kill off this product.
When he isn't busy stroking dick on Capitol Hill, Mundie sure throws the phrase "Software Ecosystem" around quite a bit.
It seems as if he wants to entrench in everyone's minds the idea that the current software "environment" - a static food chain with Microsoft as the perpetual gigantic super-predator at the top - is a healthy, naturally-occurring state of being.
OK, so Mr Wizard goes back in time and warns his father not to smoke.
So his father quits smoking.
So he doesn't die.
So Mr Wizard has no incentive to invent a time machine - thus never inventing it, thus never traveling back in time to warn his father, who continues to smoke, and dies of cancer when Mr Wizard is ten years old, motivating him to invent a time machine and go back into time to save his father...
Mr Wizard should forget this craziness and concentrate on his true passion: Dance, Dance, DANCE!
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THOSE timelines will have proof time travel works. But unless that happens I'm not getting into any so called time machine.
Dude, I just want to point out that you're seriously considering under what circumstances you'd get into A FUCKING TIME MACHINE.
Even if you believe that wars and military power can improve the world, you must concede that the United States already has by far the most technologically advanced military in the world
Heeeeeeeeere's - CHINA!
Military capability is not static. Think 20-30 years from now.
is it just me or do some others feel that game/movie conversions (whichever way) are most of the time pretty lame.
It seems the movies are always targeted toward little kids.
When you play a computer game, there's more "mental interpolation" going on by the player to fill in the conceptual blanks. When someone makes a movie, they have to adopt *someone's* point of view - and most often, for game conversions, that's a kid's point of view.
Case in point: I think an adult sci-fi movie (or even series) based on MechWarrior or Heavy Gear would be great - could be a futuristic, post-apocalyptic "code of the warrior" kind of film that tries to imagine what such a world would actually be like. Instead, it would almost surely be a "i like when robots fight!" kid's movie.
HTML, for example, is an evolving standard. It NEEDS for somebody to define it as a de facto standard in order to evolve.
Yeah, but what we don't need is patented extensions accepted as "standards". We don't need a single mega-corp brewing up "standards" in secret and then foisting them upon the rest of the computing community. We don't need the future direction of "standards" decided by the whims and desires of the same mega-corp that forced them upon us in the first place. We don't need "standards" that change unpredictably when a competing implementation becomes popular. We don't need "standards" laced with legal gill-hooks like convoluted licensing restrictions and software patents.
The purpose of real standards is to allow heterogenous systems to interoperate. Real standards are established to benefit all players edqually, NOT to lay the foundation for dominance of an entire industry by a single voracious mega-corp.
There seems to be no reason to switch from the time-honored index.html to default.htm, except MS having their way.
As much as I despise Microsoft, I have to admit that "default" makes a lot more sense than "index". When I access a website without supplying a specific page, I expect the default page in that directory. "index" seems to carry with it some meanings that don't really apply.
Make sure to check out the opening movie. Its ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, and 10-times better than any FMV from FFX,
Yeah, I especially like the scene where the Seven Dwarves dance around the rotting corpse of Fair Use, gleefully kicking at mouldering bits of flesh, singing:
Ding Dong, consumers are sheep,
Their rights are dead,
They'll eat what they're fed...
It's so life-like it's practically photo-realistic.
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They could do that by coding to W3C standards and letting browser makers do their job - conforming to standards.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Will we have a true competitor to Exchange before it's too late? I guess we'll see.
Hehehe, I actually pissed someone off over the RonCo Grille. I'm in fine form this evening.
Its the economy that drives television.
I know, that's what I said. That's why it sucks.
Unless you can think of a better way to generate money via broadcasting, just turn off your tv.
Dude, you're starting to talk like you come from a gene pool that buys the bulk of its products via info-mercial. (I should talk - one of my relatives got sucked into Amway a few years ago...)
Why in the world would I care about generating money via broadcasting? I merely want to receive TV signals from somewhere other than Planet Suck.
Its either that or state run stations (yeah, PBS is fine). If somebody can make a buck doing it, more power to them.
Again, I don't really care who makes money or who doesn't.
I don't think there's much that can be done. TV will suck. I will whine.
If you expect the network news (cable or broadcast) to be some measure of journalism, then you are the retard.
Touche. So I see we're actually agreed.
I have no problem with that, but maybe you can tell me how I can find an alternative if it's ILLEGAL to sell competing hardware without the on-board copy protection?
All you have to do is WATCH it to know how horrible TV news has become. Surely Fox has led the way into the slit-trench latrine, but CNN has taken a deep breath and jumped in after it.
News format and content is driven primarily by ratings. More specifically, ratings with the kinds of people who are influenced by TV advertising. It's the fucking retard who actually buys a Ron Popeil Rotissary Grille who drives TV format and content, news included.
Hey, don't kill it! Keep it alive in a footlocker in the basement so we can take it out and torture it every now and then!
Well, duh. The RIAA isn't in the debt collection business for "artists", they're in the enforcement business. Theoretically, the "artists" get their cut in the form of higher sales figures for their "art".
I wouldn't laugh just yet. That is a shade of "pay-per-use" isn't it?
The sensible thing to do is to resolve never to buy a restricted CD, or a crippled / restricted consumer electronics device or computer. Naturally, the sheep will line up in droves, eager to submit to any humiliation to get their paws on the latest pile of luke-warm shit squeezed out by the mass-media factory.
I do think the $1M figure is pretty much insane though.
My beef with RIAA and MPAA is NOT with their opposition to Napster-ish music distribution; It's their repeated attempts to legislate mandatory crippling of consumer electronics (and outlawing of certain kinds of programming) to protect their interests at the expense of my rights.
I would MUCH rather see RIAA taking the kind of action described in the story - going after actual "pirates" - instead of presuming before the fact that every consumer is a thief who cannot be trusted with uncrippled hardware.
God, I love the patent system.
It seems as if he wants to entrench in everyone's minds the idea that the current software "environment" - a static food chain with Microsoft as the perpetual gigantic super-predator at the top - is a healthy, naturally-occurring state of being.
Does Napster have any (puke) software patents that Vivendi might want to get its fingers on?
Well, yeah, there is the risk of that.
Jeez, no subtlety at all. Much better: a game that allows you to prematurely age Britney into a forgotten forty-something trailor-trash has-been.
I mean, sure, we'll get to see it some day, but that's what technology is for, isn't it?
So his father quits smoking.
So he doesn't die.
So Mr Wizard has no incentive to invent a time machine - thus never inventing it, thus never traveling back in time to warn his father, who continues to smoke, and dies of cancer when Mr Wizard is ten years old, motivating him to invent a time machine and go back into time to save his father...
Mr Wizard should forget this craziness and concentrate on his true passion: Dance, Dance, DANCE!
Dude, I just want to point out that you're seriously considering under what circumstances you'd get into A FUCKING TIME MACHINE.
I think military technical capabilities will converge over time; the issue will be who has the economic power to implement the technology.
China's economy is growing pretty fast.
Heeeeeeeeere's - CHINA!
Military capability is not static. Think 20-30 years from now.
Why? Is her severed head on a stick?
CIFS sounds like network Ill Communication. Some day all the SAMBA admins are going to Get Thier Root Down and pull some Sabotage.
Figures they'd use an irrelevant emaciated hag's music to float this trial balloon.
It seems the movies are always targeted toward little kids.
When you play a computer game, there's more "mental interpolation" going on by the player to fill in the conceptual blanks. When someone makes a movie, they have to adopt *someone's* point of view - and most often, for game conversions, that's a kid's point of view.
Case in point: I think an adult sci-fi movie (or even series) based on MechWarrior or Heavy Gear would be great - could be a futuristic, post-apocalyptic "code of the warrior" kind of film that tries to imagine what such a world would actually be like. Instead, it would almost surely be a "i like when robots fight!" kid's movie.
Yeah, but what we don't need is patented extensions accepted as "standards". We don't need a single mega-corp brewing up "standards" in secret and then foisting them upon the rest of the computing community. We don't need the future direction of "standards" decided by the whims and desires of the same mega-corp that forced them upon us in the first place. We don't need "standards" that change unpredictably when a competing implementation becomes popular. We don't need "standards" laced with legal gill-hooks like convoluted licensing restrictions and software patents.
The purpose of real standards is to allow heterogenous systems to interoperate. Real standards are established to benefit all players edqually, NOT to lay the foundation for dominance of an entire industry by a single voracious mega-corp.
As much as I despise Microsoft, I have to admit that "default" makes a lot more sense than "index". When I access a website without supplying a specific page, I expect the default page in that directory. "index" seems to carry with it some meanings that don't really apply.
Yeah, I especially like the scene where the Seven Dwarves dance around the rotting corpse of Fair Use, gleefully kicking at mouldering bits of flesh, singing:
Ding Dong, consumers are sheep,
Their rights are dead,
They'll eat what they're fed...
It's so life-like it's practically photo-realistic.