So now can we just go to the next logical step and just stick the mini hd from the ipod into the pocketpc/pda? whats the point of having two devices? we seem to want to integrate stupid things like cameras and mp3 players so why not something useful like this?
Not knowing much economics i have no idea if im talking crap or whatever but maybe there just inherently arn't enough jobs for everyone? What happens if/when we get to the stage where robotics and automation (some very small shell scripts) remove the need for most people to lift a finger? I know some jobs will always be around (unless we get AI!) But sooner or later we will get to the stage where we can all either go tan and have our robot servents do everything or have some serious economic crisis. What do the people who have no useful (in a money making way) purpose in life do if they make up 90% of the population?
There was a scene where a security guard was checking a passenger at an airport and the passenger put some matches and a lighter into the tray and asked if she could take them on. The security guard said "oh wait" and took out one of the boxes of matches and said "you can only have upto 4 boxes of matches" the audience just laughed.
Another scene showed an anti war group who had been infiltrated by an under-cover cop (photographic evidence and an interview by the sherif was given).
Then there was the "we don't actually read bills" interview and also a man who was visited by the FBI because he was heard saying that bush was an asshole.
I think the divx could have been an early cut or from the festival, it was also missing a couple of songs, but it was worth seeing the film on the big screen.
I just got back from watching Fahrenheit 9/11 where the congressman says to the effect of "Do you seriously think we read all the bills? Can you imagine how much work that would be?" we discover that most politicians haven't actually read the PATRIOT Act (so Moore goes around in an ice-cream van reading it to them) even though they voted on it. I know thats just one politicians' opinion chosen out of hundreds but it really seems to explain allot about government and makes allot of sense - with all these stupid bills flying around, who actually has time to read them all and even if you read an abridged version, can you really be expected to understand what it means on both sides of the debate within the time given? It doesn't take an expert to conclude (unless someone cares to give some evidence of congress being a super-efficient organised system) that the government has a crappy environment to work in and coupled with dick-head corrupt politicians nothing useful or meaningful beyond utter bureaucracy can ever get done there, people just sit, look bored and vote the way they're told.
Oddly there were many extra things in the film I saw (in the uk) that i didn't see in the cam-divx version from the us - anyone?
The one on hampstead high st used to be a pizza-hut maybe that balances it out? But even worse - drinking in every pub would have actually been cheaper!
in the rest of the world if someone swears or gets naked people laugh instead of holding big investigations and creating a big deal out of it. If your kids cant handle seeing a naked body or hearing the word fuck then really they're going to have issues in the real world, and if you want to keep it from them then just don't let them watch that stuff its perfectly simple. If i was running the FCC the most i would do is demand that stations stick a delay in and if they swear they have to press a button that sends a signal to the listeners radio/tv that generates a beep/blanks the screen (like the v-chip?) its up to the listener to enable that function though.
I think the right to bare arms also applies to DRM in a round-about way. 'Arms' isnt actually defined as "guns, knives and other physical weapons" so technically it could be interpreted to mean general weapons, or even more generally it could mean "things that could easily be used to break the law but that are required for maintaining the security of the free state" - thats what the right to bare arms is all about right? Tools which may be used to break DRM or copyright can also be used to maintain security where security means the freedom of the people.
On a side note, school kids should be reciting the bill of rights and other important laws each day instead of some brainwashing sentimental crap, if the entire population knows what a law is all about, its harder for politicians to trample on it.
I have a better idea, find and raid half a dozen spammers (or the companies that hired them) and get from there computers the details of everyone who ever bought something from a spam email. Then just quietly have everyone you know redirect all their spam on to these people. Without spam being effective, they will just give up.
How much longer before hollywood totally runs out of ideas? At the moment they're getting an average of about 0.2 original ideas per year from the mainstream industry but experts are predicting that the worlds supply of film ideas could run out as soon as 2006. Remakes have helped stretch the supply but already an IP crisis is looming. Movie studios however are confident that they have the reserves to meet consumer demand for the time being: they're using sequals, prequals, adaptations, book-to-films, comic-to-films, even old saturday morning cartoon-to-films to keep supply levels up. Recent writing-pool technology has even allowed combinations of comic-to-films and sequels as seen by Spiderman 2 and ofcourse the less environmentally friendly 'trillogy' which generally closes the door to additional sequals later on. Some say we already reached the point of no-ideas between 2000 and 2003 with the releases of Scooby-Do and Scary Movie 3 but others are more optimistic, suggesting that we can recylce remakes in another 20 years - remaking The Italian Job or Titanic for example could go on indefinately.
I dont want to troll, but I personally would just remove any idea that called itself a technology made up of two words StuckTogether(tm) people just need to be slapped and told no.
incrementing by 1 is easy.. stoping anyone tampering with it is much harder. With computers you can essentially do something to a needle in a haystack and leave no evidence you were ever there which is why they just arnt the best thing for the job. Diebold didnt come to that conclusion and by that logic their logic is flawed therefore most things they do are flawed.
I just buy a cheap keyboard once or twice a year - even have a favourite make, not sure exactly what that is (generic) but i know it when i see it. Keyboards are gonna get dirty and have things stuck in them i figure its disposable, that way i don't worry too much and sometimes pick it up and smash it against the desk if i get pissed off with windows (its good stress relief). It might add up but in the end you would go through a good keyboard in 5 years and 5 cheap keyboards can easily be the same price.
I dont see how its a big deal, 'legal paid for downloads' (well the ones where the record label gets a cut) isnt exactly going against the industry, and whats this about the BPS allowing them to show this? is it their property or something? What would be a big deal would be an accurate chart of illigal downloads (or even just unpaid).
D'oh looks like thats what mine is, there were rumours of a DVD screener from the film festival? even so, id rather download a 300mb crappy cam in divx than a 1000mb crappy cam in mpeg, and if slashdotters download the same file it will give it a massive boost!
Anyone know any decent torrents? im currently downloading this which looks like it has 2 500mb mpeg files in it i havnt checked the quaility yet. Anyone know of a decent xvid/divx 700mb job from a DVD? lets avoid those cams and use our powerful slashdot effect to boost a good torrent!
Fury as Fahrenheit 9/11 director backs illegal not-for-profit downloads
So hes giving people permission to download _his_ film and this is illegal how? I havnt seen it yet its either out already or comming soon to the UK but im definately gonna grab a copy, being a student and spending my entire 1st year supporting the MPAA i have to watch the budget so im probably not going to see it in the cinema unless i really really like it, but i bought his book so there! People have argued some of his facts and im sure those gun-death figures were wrong but he still gets a +point for this.
Outside hardware manufacturers are less likely to be controlled by hollywood so hopefully we can get cheap hardware that also ignores drm right? - broadcast flags, fast-forward flags etc. If the market can be flooded with these things then people will be less likely to take the MPAAs bullshit on broadcast flags. Technically they wouldnt be able to use the DVD logo but its not like the music industry cares about messing with formats (RIAA and MPAA are pretty much the same thing).
I think they will be pleasently surprised at how many people go and buy their music. But i couldnt find low-quality/30sec previews of their songs, people who dont know them would probably get them off p2p to hear and then just keep the mp3s.
Its a good thing for bands to start doing this tho and thats basically the story of the internet - people making sites out of their basement that become big. CDs are just going to become secondry items to downloading, the record labels hopefully will loose out and go under (all the execs have big crack problems). New bands will start off with a website distribution model and make a bit more money - thats going to make them think twice about signing a contract unless they get a better deal and the end result will be cheaper and better music and less boy-bands which is good for everyone except cookie-cutter wannabes and crack sniffing execs and lets face it - who gives a shit about them?
Ok I actually really totally don't understand this, can someone please tell me that US politicians are not being bribed and that everyone who has the power to make laws is competent and not corrupt? It seems to me plainly obvious that something is so so wrong with the government that it needs everyone in the entire country to stop what they are doing right now and work on fixing it. Its the sort of wrong that should be on the bottom of the screen of CNN with the words "breaking news" this isnt a case of "oh poor poor people not being allowed to break the law" its a case of there actually being totally corrupt people *criminals* in the government and running very big corporations - you know when there's helicopter video of police about to find that murderer that's been at large and 20 cars are surrounding the house and guns are going off and dogs are running through fields getting a trail, well there's actually major criminals sitting right there in congress! forget the president getting sucked off by his intern and lying about it - this is here and now, real people, taking money, making laws that affect almost everyone - surely that's slightly more important than pretty much anything in the news you can imagine that doesn't involve 100s of people dying? i really expect to see fbi cars pulling up outside and carting off people, and i challenge anyone to present even a shred of evidence that im wrong! in fact it would actually make me feel good to know that the american government wasn't a land of total farse. All i can really say is good luck to the EFF!
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So now can we just go to the next logical step and just stick the mini hd from the ipod into the pocketpc/pda? whats the point of having two devices? we seem to want to integrate stupid things like cameras and mp3 players so why not something useful like this?
Not knowing much economics i have no idea if im talking crap or whatever but maybe there just inherently arn't enough jobs for everyone? What happens if/when we get to the stage where robotics and automation (some very small shell scripts) remove the need for most people to lift a finger? I know some jobs will always be around (unless we get AI!) But sooner or later we will get to the stage where we can all either go tan and have our robot servents do everything or have some serious economic crisis. What do the people who have no useful (in a money making way) purpose in life do if they make up 90% of the population?
Most programs and sites happily take -@-.- which isnt even valid.
There was a scene where a security guard was checking a passenger at an airport and the passenger put some matches and a lighter into the tray and asked if she could take them on. The security guard said "oh wait" and took out one of the boxes of matches and said "you can only have upto 4 boxes of matches" the audience just laughed.
Another scene showed an anti war group who had been infiltrated by an under-cover cop (photographic evidence and an interview by the sherif was given).
Then there was the "we don't actually read bills" interview and also a man who was visited by the FBI because he was heard saying that bush was an asshole.
I think the divx could have been an early cut or from the festival, it was also missing a couple of songs, but it was worth seeing the film on the big screen.
I just got back from watching Fahrenheit 9/11 where the congressman says to the effect of "Do you seriously think we read all the bills? Can you imagine how much work that would be?" we discover that most politicians haven't actually read the PATRIOT Act (so Moore goes around in an ice-cream van reading it to them) even though they voted on it. I know thats just one politicians' opinion chosen out of hundreds but it really seems to explain allot about government and makes allot of sense - with all these stupid bills flying around, who actually has time to read them all and even if you read an abridged version, can you really be expected to understand what it means on both sides of the debate within the time given? It doesn't take an expert to conclude (unless someone cares to give some evidence of congress being a super-efficient organised system) that the government has a crappy environment to work in and coupled with dick-head corrupt politicians nothing useful or meaningful beyond utter bureaucracy can ever get done there, people just sit, look bored and vote the way they're told.
Oddly there were many extra things in the film I saw (in the uk) that i didn't see in the cam-divx version from the us - anyone?
The one on hampstead high st used to be a pizza-hut maybe that balances it out? But even worse - drinking in every pub would have actually been cheaper!
in the rest of the world if someone swears or gets naked people laugh instead of holding big investigations and creating a big deal out of it. If your kids cant handle seeing a naked body or hearing the word fuck then really they're going to have issues in the real world, and if you want to keep it from them then just don't let them watch that stuff its perfectly simple. If i was running the FCC the most i would do is demand that stations stick a delay in and if they swear they have to press a button that sends a signal to the listeners radio/tv that generates a beep/blanks the screen (like the v-chip?) its up to the listener to enable that function though.
I think the right to bare arms also applies to DRM in a round-about way. 'Arms' isnt actually defined as "guns, knives and other physical weapons" so technically it could be interpreted to mean general weapons, or even more generally it could mean "things that could easily be used to break the law but that are required for maintaining the security of the free state" - thats what the right to bare arms is all about right? Tools which may be used to break DRM or copyright can also be used to maintain security where security means the freedom of the people.
On a side note, school kids should be reciting the bill of rights and other important laws each day instead of some brainwashing sentimental crap, if the entire population knows what a law is all about, its harder for politicians to trample on it.
I have a better idea, find and raid half a dozen spammers (or the companies that hired them) and get from there computers the details of everyone who ever bought something from a spam email. Then just quietly have everyone you know redirect all their spam on to these people. Without spam being effective, they will just give up.
How much longer before hollywood totally runs out of ideas? At the moment they're getting an average of about 0.2 original ideas per year from the mainstream industry but experts are predicting that the worlds supply of film ideas could run out as soon as 2006. Remakes have helped stretch the supply but already an IP crisis is looming. Movie studios however are confident that they have the reserves to meet consumer demand for the time being: they're using sequals, prequals, adaptations, book-to-films, comic-to-films, even old saturday morning cartoon-to-films to keep supply levels up. Recent writing-pool technology has even allowed combinations of comic-to-films and sequels as seen by Spiderman 2 and ofcourse the less environmentally friendly 'trillogy' which generally closes the door to additional sequals later on. Some say we already reached the point of no-ideas between 2000 and 2003 with the releases of Scooby-Do and Scary Movie 3 but others are more optimistic, suggesting that we can recylce remakes in another 20 years - remaking The Italian Job or Titanic for example could go on indefinately.
I dont want to troll, but I personally would just remove any idea that called itself a technology made up of two words StuckTogether(tm) people just need to be slapped and told no.
incrementing by 1 is easy.. stoping anyone tampering with it is much harder. With computers you can essentially do something to a needle in a haystack and leave no evidence you were ever there which is why they just arnt the best thing for the job. Diebold didnt come to that conclusion and by that logic their logic is flawed therefore most things they do are flawed.
This sounds like some-sort of new theoretical physics paradox like shrodingers cat (if anyone can come up with a pussy joke?)
Not according to these guys. And they wont question your patriotism either!
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Because you cant stick an 'e' on the end! what use is product that cant be 'e'd in todays fast-paced world? and anyway, retro was sooo pre-9/11.
I just buy a cheap keyboard once or twice a year - even have a favourite make, not sure exactly what that is (generic) but i know it when i see it. Keyboards are gonna get dirty and have things stuck in them i figure its disposable, that way i don't worry too much and sometimes pick it up and smash it against the desk if i get pissed off with windows (its good stress relief). It might add up but in the end you would go through a good keyboard in 5 years and 5 cheap keyboards can easily be the same price.
I dont see how its a big deal, 'legal paid for downloads' (well the ones where the record label gets a cut) isnt exactly going against the industry, and whats this about the BPS allowing them to show this? is it their property or something? What would be a big deal would be an accurate chart of illigal downloads (or even just unpaid).
D'oh looks like thats what mine is, there were rumours of a DVD screener from the film festival? even so, id rather download a 300mb crappy cam in divx than a 1000mb crappy cam in mpeg, and if slashdotters download the same file it will give it a massive boost!
Anyone know any decent torrents? im currently downloading this which looks like it has 2 500mb mpeg files in it i havnt checked the quaility yet. Anyone know of a decent xvid/divx 700mb job from a DVD? lets avoid those cams and use our powerful slashdot effect to boost a good torrent!
Fury as Fahrenheit 9/11 director backs illegal not-for-profit downloads
So hes giving people permission to download _his_ film and this is illegal how? I havnt seen it yet its either out already or comming soon to the UK but im definately gonna grab a copy, being a student and spending my entire 1st year supporting the MPAA i have to watch the budget so im probably not going to see it in the cinema unless i really really like it, but i bought his book so there! People have argued some of his facts and im sure those gun-death figures were wrong but he still gets a +point for this.
Outside hardware manufacturers are less likely to be controlled by hollywood so hopefully we can get cheap hardware that also ignores drm right? - broadcast flags, fast-forward flags etc. If the market can be flooded with these things then people will be less likely to take the MPAAs bullshit on broadcast flags. Technically they wouldnt be able to use the DVD logo but its not like the music industry cares about messing with formats (RIAA and MPAA are pretty much the same thing).
I think they will be pleasently surprised at how many people go and buy their music. But i couldnt find low-quality/30sec previews of their songs, people who dont know them would probably get them off p2p to hear and then just keep the mp3s.
Its a good thing for bands to start doing this tho and thats basically the story of the internet - people making sites out of their basement that become big. CDs are just going to become secondry items to downloading, the record labels hopefully will loose out and go under (all the execs have big crack problems). New bands will start off with a website distribution model and make a bit more money - thats going to make them think twice about signing a contract unless they get a better deal and the end result will be cheaper and better music and less boy-bands which is good for everyone except cookie-cutter wannabes and crack sniffing execs and lets face it - who gives a shit about them?
flamebait?? suck dick flamebait you bitch, who the fuck modded me down??
Ok I actually really totally don't understand this, can someone please tell me that US politicians are not being bribed and that everyone who has the power to make laws is competent and not corrupt? It seems to me plainly obvious that something is so so wrong with the government that it needs everyone in the entire country to stop what they are doing right now and work on fixing it. Its the sort of wrong that should be on the bottom of the screen of CNN with the words "breaking news" this isnt a case of "oh poor poor people not being allowed to break the law" its a case of there actually being totally corrupt people *criminals* in the government and running very big corporations - you know when there's helicopter video of police about to find that murderer that's been at large and 20 cars are surrounding the house and guns are going off and dogs are running through fields getting a trail, well there's actually major criminals sitting right there in congress! forget the president getting sucked off by his intern and lying about it - this is here and now, real people, taking money, making laws that affect almost everyone - surely that's slightly more important than pretty much anything in the news you can imagine that doesn't involve 100s of people dying? i really expect to see fbi cars pulling up outside and carting off people, and i challenge anyone to present even a shred of evidence that im wrong! in fact it would actually make me feel good to know that the american government wasn't a land of total farse. All i can really say is good luck to the EFF!