Flamebait? I think not. In fact he makes several good points.
The right wing doesn't want to give away free medical health to people who are "too lazy to go out and find a real job". They see Canada as soft and weak for doing that.
Have you ever listened to Rush Limbaugh? He's a troll if there ever was one. The scary thing is people actually listen to the blowhard. I just find him amusing.
What I don't get about your response is that you call his post flamebait, but then turn your own reply into a rant... you just want to be read don't you:)
Humour is almost invariably at the expense of someone or something else, whether the intent is to harm or not.
Ranting about it is hyprocrisy unless you can show that at no point in your life you've ever made a funny or embarassed someone.
I've been in the industry a whole... six months.
I'm still in shock.
Had an IT job. HATED IT. No surprise there. Saved up a few thousand, quit and started a gaming news website which made for a lot of 20 hour days and no traffic cuz I sucked at promoting it:)
But I wrote well enough that when a friend pointed me out to Incite they picked me up as a freelance. (yeah, ignore my "cuz" and "thru" shortcuts, I *can* write, but I'm lazy in posts).
Yes, Incite sucked but it got me resume space.
So while I made a few bucks here and there, and picked up a part time job so I wouldn't starve while working on my failing website, I started hanging out in different IRC channels that game devs frequented, and made a few friends.
One was aware of my writing and one day I got a message that there was an unannounced writing position (if you haven't guessed by now I'm a story geek, not a code geek).
A night of frantic inspiration turned into a half decent Sci-Fi style story about a battle on a freighter hangar deck, and a couple of weeks later I had a job.
What advice would I have? I'm still a newbie to this, even though I've been a gamer since Pong. But the first thing I would say is ask yourself where your talents really lie. Figure out what it is you're magic at, and become the best at it. Make people oooh and ahh. Then collaborate with others, and make things that people enjoy.
Someone will find you. And if they don't, jump in front of them and make them notice you.
If you're familiar with the cases of Extra Y-Chromosone criminals, just think if they were to take a DNA fingerprint of you today, and if you show up positive flag you as a possible violent offender due to the high number of men who carry this extra chromosone and have histories of violent crime.
A concept such as this where the possibility that you MAY commit a crime gets you arrested scares me a lot more than a camera that flags people who resemble criminals for police to double check.
So is this going to lead to a trend of people dressing up as their favorite character from the FBI's 10 Most Wanted page, the way people send out those emails with sigs intended to "trigger" Echelon or Carnivore? Hmmmm.
"Chief we have 4 Richard Specks, and 14 Ted Bundy's in the colusseum at the moment. Uh, do we arrest them or call Ghostbusters?"
It's interesting to see how the legal system is dealing with what occurs on the 'Net with each new issue that arises. You've got the source code that will let you get around DVD encryption now, Napster, and now RomNet... a program explicitly designed for piracy.
Like most people on the net right now I'm focusing on what's going on with Napster. It's true that retail music sales are increasing. It's also true that the recording industry is raping performers and consumers at every turn.
Is Napster increasing the sales of CDs in the retail market? There's probably a good chance of that too, if we're to believe the studies. But anyone can bend statistics around to their whims.
I ran Napster the other night for the first time and took a look around. (I hadn't tried it before, as I don't agree with the consensus of the majority of it's users). It doesn't seem that friendly to people looking for new music to invest in. Sure you can find the bands you already know quickly and easily, but for the hell of it I tried doing a search for "German Industrial" and came up zip. Now I'd love to find some new bands to listen to, and it's hard to find good import cds without knowing what you're looking for. I found Rammstein quickly enough, but I already have their cds. The only thing I could do was search for people listening to Rammstein and hope they listened to other German bands. Some luck, but not much. It still seems very oriented to finding music by bands you already know, and less for sampling new talent.
What concerns me is not the short term effects of Napster, which may be slightly increased/decreased retail sales, but the long term. Right now, most people use a CD player or their computer to listen to music. If they want to leave the house, they'll usually grab their CD case and go (yeah yeah, we're all gizmo junkies here, but I'm talking the general consumer). Most of the 'man on the street' people aren't carrying a digital playback device like a Rio or mp3Man. But what about when they are? I've had people argue that CDs aren't going anywhere, but they said that about 8tracks, vinyl, and cassettes. When *everyone* has an mp3player in their pocket, and can access Napster or it's clones, what incentive is there to buy the music? What incentive will a performer have to create if his income suffers a substantial decrease? Songwriters get an even smaller cut of the pie, and it will hurt them too.
I'm not saying we should jail the founders of Napster and throw away the key, nor am I saying we should let them keep doing what they're doing. But we need to examine the best ways to keep the artists paid. I don't want anyone taking what I've worked for and giving it away.. why should they?
Well, if they use the serial number of the Palm to seed the password, then I wonder what effect not filling it in has. I didn't put in a serial number and still received the info. Then again, serial number wasn't one of the _required_ options... i think it's just for market tracking more than security (the form I mean, not the application:) ) Now I must go hide from the grammar police, my participle is dangling.
For those of us using the older models, eg. Palm Professional, we're SOL to run this software... *Unless* you've got one of the upgrades that effectively makes your Palmpilot Pro a Palm III. I'm using the Pager upgrade, which lets me run PalmOS3.x so it looks like it's not going to be a problem. Before someone smacks me for stating the obvious, new users come here too... why, I remember when I was a new user... that innocent smile, that gleam in my eye... Oh wait, that was the day they dropped Ecstasy into my morning Coke. Nevermind.:)
Has anyone seen another Hong Kong movie called "Women on the Run"? We saw it at the Asian film festival here in toronto in August... at the climax of the movie, the corrupt cop is shot in the genitals, to which his counterpart declares (in subtitles): "Detective Chang! Your penis is over!"
Also, their portrayal of Victoria BC as a city of sex crazed French lumberjacks was great. As was the Fat woman RCMP officer who brutalized the heroines. Culture shock in the movies is always great for a laugh. Now pardon me while I go chop down some trees and molest a beaver, Eh!
I listened to the MP3 yesterday afternoon at work... while not quite my style, I enjoyed a taste of what is to come. It's nice to be able to hear different kinds of music so easily over the net. Which is why the RIAA grates on my nerves. They claim MP3's are cutting into record sales. Fine. Less kids are buying CDs becase they can listen to them on their computers. What about working professionals who buy CDs regularly. I bought 8 cds over the weekend. If it wasn't for MP3's floating around the net letting me hear things I never would pick up in a record store, I doubt I would have purchased that many. Hell, I may even get that Madonna tribute CD after hearing a couple of the songs... and I *despise* that pop/top40 junk:) So the RIAA can kiss my ass.
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Flamebait? I think not. In fact he makes several good points. :)
The right wing doesn't want to give away free medical health to people who are "too lazy to go out and find a real job". They see Canada as soft and weak for doing that.
Have you ever listened to Rush Limbaugh? He's a troll if there ever was one. The scary thing is people actually listen to the blowhard. I just find him amusing.
What I don't get about your response is that you call his post flamebait, but then turn your own reply into a rant... you just want to be read don't you
Humour is almost invariably at the expense of someone or something else, whether the intent is to harm or not.
Ranting about it is hyprocrisy unless you can show that at no point in your life you've ever made a funny or embarassed someone.
If it was, then I might get a chance to read it :)
I've been in the industry a whole... six months. :)
I'm still in shock.
Had an IT job. HATED IT. No surprise there. Saved up a few thousand, quit and started a gaming news website which made for a lot of 20 hour days and no traffic cuz I sucked at promoting it
But I wrote well enough that when a friend pointed me out to Incite they picked me up as a freelance. (yeah, ignore my "cuz" and "thru" shortcuts, I *can* write, but I'm lazy in posts).
Yes, Incite sucked but it got me resume space.
So while I made a few bucks here and there, and picked up a part time job so I wouldn't starve while working on my failing website, I started hanging out in different IRC channels that game devs frequented, and made a few friends.
One was aware of my writing and one day I got a message that there was an unannounced writing position (if you haven't guessed by now I'm a story geek, not a code geek).
A night of frantic inspiration turned into a half decent Sci-Fi style story about a battle on a freighter hangar deck, and a couple of weeks later I had a job.
What advice would I have? I'm still a newbie to this, even though I've been a gamer since Pong. But the first thing I would say is ask yourself where your talents really lie. Figure out what it is you're magic at, and become the best at it. Make people oooh and ahh. Then collaborate with others, and make things that people enjoy.
Someone will find you. And if they don't, jump in front of them and make them notice you.
but after all that "searching"?
hmmm...
doubtful.
Wrong show :P
If you're familiar with the cases of Extra Y-Chromosone criminals, just think if they were to take a DNA fingerprint of you today, and if you show up positive flag you as a possible violent offender due to the high number of men who carry this extra chromosone and have histories of violent crime.
A concept such as this where the possibility that you MAY commit a crime gets you arrested scares me a lot more than a camera that flags people who resemble criminals for police to double check.
How much money do we get if we're the last ones left?
So is this going to lead to a trend of people dressing up as their favorite character from the FBI's 10 Most Wanted page, the way people send out those emails with sigs intended to "trigger" Echelon or Carnivore? Hmmmm. "Chief we have 4 Richard Specks, and 14 Ted Bundy's in the colusseum at the moment. Uh, do we arrest them or call Ghostbusters?"
It's interesting to see how the legal system is dealing with what occurs on the 'Net with each new issue that arises.
You've got the source code that will let you get around DVD encryption now, Napster, and now RomNet... a program explicitly designed for piracy.
Like most people on the net right now I'm focusing on what's going on with Napster. It's true that retail music sales are increasing. It's also true that the recording industry is raping performers and consumers at every turn.
Is Napster increasing the sales of CDs in the retail market? There's probably a good chance of that too, if we're to believe the studies. But anyone can bend statistics around to their whims.
I ran Napster the other night for the first time and took a look around. (I hadn't tried it before, as I don't agree with the consensus of the majority of it's users). It doesn't seem that friendly to people looking for new music to invest in. Sure you can find the bands you already know quickly and easily, but for the hell of it I tried doing a search for "German Industrial" and came up zip. Now I'd love to find some new bands to listen to, and it's hard to find good import cds without knowing what you're looking for. I found Rammstein quickly enough, but I already have their cds. The only thing I could do was search for people listening to Rammstein and hope they listened to other German bands. Some luck, but not much. It still seems very oriented to finding music by bands you already know, and less for sampling new talent.
What concerns me is not the short term effects of Napster, which may be slightly increased/decreased retail sales, but the long term. Right now, most people use a CD player or their computer to listen to music. If they want to leave the house, they'll usually grab their CD case and go (yeah yeah, we're all gizmo junkies here, but I'm talking the general consumer). Most of the 'man on the street' people aren't carrying a digital playback device like a Rio or mp3Man. But what about when they are? I've had people argue that CDs aren't going anywhere, but they said that about 8tracks, vinyl, and cassettes. When *everyone* has an mp3player in their pocket, and can access Napster or it's clones, what incentive is there to buy the music? What incentive will a performer have to create if his income suffers a substantial decrease? Songwriters get an even smaller cut of the pie, and it will hurt them too.
I'm not saying we should jail the founders of Napster and throw away the key, nor am I saying we should let them keep doing what they're doing. But we need to examine the best ways to keep the artists paid. I don't want anyone taking what I've worked for and giving it away.. why should they?
Well, if they use the serial number of the Palm to seed the password, then I wonder what effect not filling it in has. :) )
I didn't put in a serial number and still received the info.
Then again, serial number wasn't one of the _required_ options... i think it's just for market tracking more than security (the form I mean, not the application
Now I must go hide from the grammar police, my participle is dangling.
For those of us using the older models, eg. Palm Professional, we're SOL to run this software... *Unless* you've got one of the upgrades that effectively makes your Palmpilot Pro a Palm III. I'm using the Pager upgrade, which lets me run PalmOS3.x so it looks like it's not going to be a problem. Before someone smacks me for stating the obvious, new users come here too... why, I remember when I was a new user... that innocent smile, that gleam in my eye... Oh wait, that was the day they dropped Ecstasy into my morning Coke. Nevermind. :)
at the climax of the movie, the corrupt cop is shot in the genitals, to which his counterpart declares (in subtitles):
"Detective Chang! Your penis is over!"
Also, their portrayal of Victoria BC as a city of sex crazed French lumberjacks was great. As was the Fat woman RCMP officer who brutalized the heroines.
Culture shock in the movies is always great for a laugh. Now pardon me while I go chop down some trees and molest a beaver, Eh!
I listened to the MP3 yesterday afternoon at work... while not quite my style, I enjoyed a taste of what is to come. It's nice to be able to hear different kinds of music so easily over the net. :)
Which is why the RIAA grates on my nerves. They claim MP3's are cutting into record sales. Fine. Less kids are buying CDs becase they can listen to them on their computers.
What about working professionals who buy CDs regularly. I bought 8 cds over the weekend. If it wasn't for MP3's floating around the net letting me hear things I never would pick up in a record store, I doubt I would have purchased that many.
Hell, I may even get that Madonna tribute CD after hearing a couple of the songs... and I *despise* that pop/top40 junk
So the RIAA can kiss my ass.