Film piracy is never going to cut into box office dollars, period
What I wish the industry would realize is that they are hurting themselves. People are not not going to the movies because of piracy, they aren't going because for 1 things, the experience sucks half the time. What with adolescent teenagers running back and forth in the theatres during the movie to be with their different set of friends who can't all just sit the f*** together, and when they do, they are talking to each other not watching the movie.
Additionally, the concession prices are way to expensive, though they don't seem to really care if you bring a backpack in so I just load up before hand.
And finally, just like pro sports people, Actors do not deserve 10M for a single movie. How about paying the actors less, making the ticket less, and actually end up with more profit?:O There is no reason an actor can't live with making 1M for a movie, and a theatre only charging $4 a ticket, other than WE put up with it.
I'm thinking however, of the model of linux that they do end up supporting. While they may make OSless systems available I'm fairly sure they will also sell preinstalled linux systems too. When this happens though the manufacturers are going to be looking at linux distros that for the most part show the things windows originally showed to become so popular. Not every version of linux is meant to be used by your grandmother...
I know what you mean. I don't use MSDN much, but when I have it wasn't fun.
I think one of MS's problems in general is that it is simply trying to bundle too much together. For instance, Word, Excell, PowerPoint etc.. many years ago were all seperate applications completely. Then MS went and tried to make them all integrated, which was fine, but it seemed like they went beyond that and tried to make them the same program almost, and that didn't work out too well. Additionally, it seems that if MSN were broken down into smaller pieces it might be more usable.
So, when MS's hold on computer makers is released and they start shipping systems with linux installed it seems like we'll simply start hearing people complain that they can't get a system with linux XYZ installed because some other linux is more well known and therefor DELL/COMPAQ/GATEWAY etc... will ship that version over others.
How does one decide which linux is the linux to be shipped?
Just because there is more than one way to do something doesn't mean it should be done that many ways.
I really really hope that they don't pull the whole, Season 6 was just a dream thing. It kind of soured the entire Bob Newhart show when they did that.
What I'd like to know is how much the new season will be like the original story line was supposed to. While not having every detail planned out I'm sure the writters have the story hashed out for the most part, and I wonder how much the viewers loose/gain by the hiatus of one of the pivotal characters.
Bust a Groove. I believe it was one of the first games of this sort, a direct lead in to DDR.
I agree though, I don't see why this is on the front page...
Along the lines of software license registration when your car takes some type of heavy metal loss, i.e. Heavy rust, part removing yet not debilitating car accidents, etc.. you will have to bring your car to a DOT facility so they can resignature your vehicle. Please note that if the DOT facitility is not your imediate next destination your vehicle will simply stop working. It's good for you; we promise
Is the real problem that the public information is being used to the point of discovering trends about a person, or that said information is public to start with? And if you are willing to allow said information to be public then you are allowing for the opportunity that someone might just piece together what you don't want them to know.
So where is the real problem?
The mentallity that the proposed project hopes to use against people is very similar to a way that the government manages it's information at time. Information A, B, and C may not be classified individually, but if say a document mentions A, B, and C it could be classified because putting the three together reveals too much.
a good portion of the moon landing nuts also truly believe the earth is flat. i am serious when i say this.
Then I say let them waste their time trying to sail off the edge of the earth, as long as they aren't causing any real harm, what's the point in trying to rebuke them other than wasting otherwise useful time?
I watched an episode of the Daily Show not too long ago where one guy was calling Neil Armstrong the "Nephew of Lies" due to his spreading of the greatest lie of our life time. Note the "Father of Lies" position was taken by Satan.
I hope that NASA has realized that it really doesn't matter anymore. Even if it was a hoax, who cares. We have a space station orbiting the earth that I think everyone agrees is there, especially since you can see it with a telescope. Let's concentrate on the present and future and not whether something in the past that really doesn't matter now adays actually happened .
The Hurd is not the most advanced kernel known to the planet (yet), but it does have a number of enticing features:
Given all the comments I've been reading it's seems to me like this is nothing more than Vaporware.
I may be the most advance kerenel theory known to the planet, but if an OS runs on a computer in the artic that isn't connected to the internet, does anyone care?
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Sounds like something taken from the book Snow Crash. If only the book or Stephenson had an actual web site.
Any idea what states were particapents to this meeting? I'd like to know if I should start writting my congressperson now or not.
...or tethered with fiber optic cables...
Hey! that would be a great way to keep them from drifting off into space.
Yeah then dnetc could brute force hack the crypto....
Film piracy is never going to cut into box office dollars, period
:O There is no reason an actor can't live with making 1M for a movie, and a theatre only charging $4 a ticket, other than WE put up with it.
What I wish the industry would realize is that they are hurting themselves. People are not not going to the movies because of piracy, they aren't going because for 1 things, the experience sucks half the time. What with adolescent teenagers running back and forth in the theatres during the movie to be with their different set of friends who can't all just sit the f*** together, and when they do, they are talking to each other not watching the movie.
Additionally, the concession prices are way to expensive, though they don't seem to really care if you bring a backpack in so I just load up before hand.
And finally, just like pro sports people, Actors do not deserve 10M for a single movie. How about paying the actors less, making the ticket less, and actually end up with more profit?
Well posession is 9/10ths of the law...
Yeah, my mom and brother would do that for me too. How much they loved us :)
That's the one. I remembering playing Crossroads I and II actually. Wonder how hard it would be to get it and a c64 emu....
Now I can finally type in the hex code for CrossRoads all over again. It was only 10 or so pages full of hex codes, should be fun.
Man that game was great.
That is a very valid point.
I'm thinking however, of the model of linux that they do end up supporting. While they may make OSless systems available I'm fairly sure they will also sell preinstalled linux systems too. When this happens though the manufacturers are going to be looking at linux distros that for the most part show the things windows originally showed to become so popular. Not every version of linux is meant to be used by your grandmother...
I know what you mean. I don't use MSDN much, but when I have it wasn't fun.
I think one of MS's problems in general is that it is simply trying to bundle too much together. For instance, Word, Excell, PowerPoint etc.. many years ago were all seperate applications completely. Then MS went and tried to make them all integrated, which was fine, but it seemed like they went beyond that and tried to make them the same program almost, and that didn't work out too well. Additionally, it seems that if MSN were broken down into smaller pieces it might be more usable.
So, when MS's hold on computer makers is released and they start shipping systems with linux installed it seems like we'll simply start hearing people complain that they can't get a system with linux XYZ installed because some other linux is more well known and therefor DELL/COMPAQ/GATEWAY etc... will ship that version over others.
How does one decide which linux is the linux to be shipped?
Just because there is more than one way to do something doesn't mean it should be done that many ways.
Is it just me or did the proxies listed on the site already get /. ed?
I really really hope that they don't pull the whole, Season 6 was just a dream thing. It kind of soured the entire Bob Newhart show when they did that.
What I'd like to know is how much the new season will be like the original story line was supposed to. While not having every detail planned out I'm sure the writters have the story hashed out for the most part, and I wonder how much the viewers loose/gain by the hiatus of one of the pivotal characters.
Bust a Groove. I believe it was one of the first games of this sort, a direct lead in to DDR. I agree though, I don't see why this is on the front page...
Along the lines of software license registration when your car takes some type of heavy metal loss, i.e. Heavy rust, part removing yet not debilitating car accidents, etc.. you will have to bring your car to a DOT facility so they can resignature your vehicle. Please note that if the DOT facitility is not your imediate next destination your vehicle will simply stop working. It's good for you; we promise
Is the real problem that the public information is being used to the point of discovering trends about a person, or that said information is public to start with? And if you are willing to allow said information to be public then you are allowing for the opportunity that someone might just piece together what you don't want them to know.
So where is the real problem?
The mentallity that the proposed project hopes to use against people is very similar to a way that the government manages it's information at time. Information A, B, and C may not be classified individually, but if say a document mentions A, B, and C it could be classified because putting the three together reveals too much.
So just as a test I plopped the URL http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021107. html from the /. story Could Eolas End Microsoft's Browser Dominance? into the search field on the Waypath Project page and well all it ended up giving me was a bunch of Microsoft related hits, nothing to really do with the specifics of the article itself. Maybe the word "Microsoft" is too prevalent and therefor overweighted?
a good portion of the moon landing nuts also truly believe the earth is flat. i am serious when i say this.
Then I say let them waste their time trying to sail off the edge of the earth, as long as they aren't causing any real harm, what's the point in trying to rebuke them other than wasting otherwise useful time?
I watched an episode of the Daily Show not too long ago where one guy was calling Neil Armstrong the "Nephew of Lies" due to his spreading of the greatest lie of our life time. Note the "Father of Lies" position was taken by Satan.
...Russia squandered all of its funds for the ISS on super computers that search the Net for p0rn
Really? Well I guess what's done is done. So, umm how do I get access to this super pr0n computer, just out of curiousity of course?
I hope that NASA has realized that it really doesn't matter anymore. Even if it was a hoax, who cares. We have a space station orbiting the earth that I think everyone agrees is there, especially since you can see it with a telescope. Let's concentrate on the present and future and not whether something in the past that really doesn't matter now adays actually happened .
Not to flame, but never form an opinion on anything important from the opinions expressed in the comments pages of slashdot.
;)
I think I followed your rule pretty well...
just poking fun.
but wouldn't the turbine harm aquatic life, and how would the turbines disrupt normal sediment flow?
Harm? don't think about that, just think how much extra energy is generated when fishies slam into the fan blades that drive the turbine.
I still wonder why we don't stick a bunch of generators in waterfall streams. The force of a water fall is much more than a normal incoming tide.
The Hurd is not the most advanced kernel known to the planet (yet), but it does have a number of enticing features:
Given all the comments I've been reading it's seems to me like this is nothing more than Vaporware.
I may be the most advance kerenel theory known to the planet, but if an OS runs on a computer in the artic that isn't connected to the internet, does anyone care?