Smart tags is actually a really great idea. The visitor to a site will not be "locked" to that site regardless of what evil intents the sites editors wants.
The main problem is not the opt-out for webmasters (although it does suck on a principal basis). The problem is: What content will I be linked to? I guess that a set of links will be provided by MS when installing. And most pepole won't bother to update those links to some better ones. And that is what bothers me. The MS links will be the default stuff, and everything else is optional.
Let's hope is as simple to obtain a new set of Smart Tag list as it is to install a plugin in IE. Load a page, klick OK, and you're done. Here I should also have the option to replace earlier links in my list, or add the new ones to my current list.
I would want the Google smart tag myself. Any keywords founds will result in a websearch on an independent powerful search engine. That way, a keword like "abortion" will give me both kinds of fanatics.
Just wondering. It is said that JRR is the father of modern fantasy literature. That I asgree with. He made the first real "hit" book in the genre, and together with CS Lewis' more child-oriented Narnia tales they more or less covered the field, and inspired hoards of authors that tops the NYT's paperback lists of today.
But does this mean that he is the best author ever in the genre? Or do some of his most obvious followers (Eddings, Jordan etcetra into infinity) actually write a better tale? I find that LOTR is a little bit too story-driven, and could had focused more on the characters.
And the opínion commonly spewed that every Fantasy book is nothing but a bleak carbon copy of LOTR is simply laughable. Check out Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Not much Tolkien in there.
The "Music Consumers of America Association" or an international dito and sue the pants off the RIAA for cartel-(now how the hell is that spelled?)building and monolopolizing.
We, the cd buyers are the ones who pay their salarys in the end. If we could organise enough pepole we could become an economic force to be reckoned with, and it might actually work.
What I would like to see is that it would be illegal for one record company to have the exclusive right to one recording. That way real competition could get going. You license the recording from the artist (a recording isnt the expensive part, and can be made in independent studios). The artist gets a fixed royality deal with each label that wants to sell their music, and they get to compete by selling the same cd, but with different packing, and an opportunity to compete with pricing.
This is done today too, small labels takes on new artists and tries to sell the distribution to a bigger company. As in the gaming industry where we have small development companies and large distributors. The difference would be to prohibiting exclusive deals.
Would this work? I dunno. But it might give more power to the artists and lower the cd prices.
Only an idiot would belive this is an honest review of the game and say dumbass things like "Uuh, how can you give it 0 in gameplay when you havent played the game?"
The 0-ratings is just rethorics, and quite effective rethorics too.
I for one really thought the article was interresting, because I read it for what it was - a debate opinion saying: a) That games in general (and Myst III in particular) shold be programmed more solidly. b) That the specs on the box in this case are false (in this case the Safeguard thing is omitted). And c) that game publications should put more pressure on game companies by ranting more about this.
"Though I don't think any painters are shivering in their boots. Though maybe a few comic strip artists are."
Well, I can buy that it is creating pictures with a nice composition and in a rather cool style. Art is in the eye of the beholder, so if the pictures appeal to me, I call it art.
If a computer on the other hand learns how to generate humor, and makes me laugh, then its time to be scared.:)
-M
Basically were talking about the Burglar and the Neighbourhood Watch here, are'nt we? The equivalent of patroling the streets looking for burglars is actually so snoop around systems looking for security holes. We cant of course compare a home and a computer.
Or are White-Hats perhaps to be compared to peeping-Toms?:)
Boss: Install Windows on those 20 new Laptops for the boys in sales.
IT Dept: Uh, boss? The authentication server at Microsoft is not responding...
Well, this will be a common scenario for many years ahead anyway, regardless if Microsoft kicks the bucket or not. Software renting requires a flawless net access and a flawless authernication server. And there is no such things. Will we have the option of obtaining keys the old fashioned way? And what will that cost?
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Smart tags is actually a really great idea. The visitor to a site will not be "locked" to that site regardless of what evil intents the sites editors wants.
The main problem is not the opt-out for webmasters (although it does suck on a principal basis). The problem is: What content will I be linked to? I guess that a set of links will be provided by MS when installing. And most pepole won't bother to update those links to some better ones. And that is what bothers me. The MS links will be the default stuff, and everything else is optional.
Let's hope is as simple to obtain a new set of Smart Tag list as it is to install a plugin in IE. Load a page, klick OK, and you're done. Here I should also have the option to replace earlier links in my list, or add the new ones to my current list.
I would want the Google smart tag myself. Any keywords founds will result in a websearch on an independent powerful search engine. That way, a keword like "abortion" will give me both kinds of fanatics.
Just wondering. It is said that JRR is the father of modern fantasy literature. That I asgree with. He made the first real "hit" book in the genre, and together with CS Lewis' more child-oriented Narnia tales they more or less covered the field, and inspired hoards of authors that tops the NYT's paperback lists of today.
But does this mean that he is the best author ever in the genre? Or do some of his most obvious followers (Eddings, Jordan etcetra into infinity) actually write a better tale? I find that LOTR is a little bit too story-driven, and could had focused more on the characters.
And the opínion commonly spewed that every Fantasy book is nothing but a bleak carbon copy of LOTR is simply laughable. Check out Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Not much Tolkien in there.
"In a working day (9-5), one station would play the same songs four times during the course of the day."
Dont know where you live, but here in Stockholm, Sweden the ratio can be up to 10, 15 times / day.
The "Music Consumers of America Association" or an international dito and sue the pants off the RIAA for cartel-(now how the hell is that spelled?)building and monolopolizing.
We, the cd buyers are the ones who pay their salarys in the end. If we could organise enough pepole we could become an economic force to be reckoned with, and it might actually work.
What I would like to see is that it would be illegal for one record company to have the exclusive right to one recording. That way real competition could get going. You license the recording from the artist (a recording isnt the expensive part, and can be made in independent studios). The artist gets a fixed royality deal with each label that wants to sell their music, and they get to compete by selling the same cd, but with different packing, and an opportunity to compete with pricing.
This is done today too, small labels takes on new artists and tries to sell the distribution to a bigger company. As in the gaming industry where we have small development companies and large distributors. The difference would be to prohibiting exclusive deals.
Would this work? I dunno. But it might give more power to the artists and lower the cd prices.
Pepole, don't be idiots.
Only an idiot would belive this is an honest review of the game and say dumbass things like "Uuh, how can you give it 0 in gameplay when you havent played the game?"
The 0-ratings is just rethorics, and quite effective rethorics too.
I for one really thought the article was interresting, because I read it for what it was - a debate opinion saying: a) That games in general (and Myst III in particular) shold be programmed more solidly. b) That the specs on the box in this case are false (in this case the Safeguard thing is omitted). And c) that game publications should put more pressure on game companies by ranting more about this.
cheers! -M
I say the pictures the program produces aint art.
The program itself is the piece of art. Put up a screen and hang it in a gallery.
-M
"Though I don't think any painters are shivering in their boots. Though maybe a few comic strip artists are." Well, I can buy that it is creating pictures with a nice composition and in a rather cool style. Art is in the eye of the beholder, so if the pictures appeal to me, I call it art. If a computer on the other hand learns how to generate humor, and makes me laugh, then its time to be scared. :)
-M
"White-Hat and Black-Hat"
:)
Basically were talking about the Burglar and the Neighbourhood Watch here, are'nt we? The equivalent of patroling the streets looking for burglars is actually so snoop around systems looking for security holes. We cant of course compare a home and a computer.
Or are White-Hats perhaps to be compared to peeping-Toms?
Boss: Install Windows on those 20 new Laptops for the boys in sales. IT Dept: Uh, boss? The authentication server at Microsoft is not responding...
Well, this will be a common scenario for many years ahead anyway, regardless if Microsoft kicks the bucket or not. Software renting requires a flawless net access and a flawless authernication server. And there is no such things. Will we have the option of obtaining keys the old fashioned way? And what will that cost?
So, every chocolate plantation is also a potentional coke industry? Whee.