I mean, what was this guy thinking building a prototype! And why, oh why, was he trying to demonstrate it?
God knows if I ever came up with a perpetual motion machine, the last thing I would do is actually build one, much less show it to anyone. Screw that!
I'd march right out and find me some Venture Capital! Yesireee, bob! I'd get the money up front. Then do the talk show circuit.
Patent it, you say? Screw that! Trade-secret, my friend. If I patent it, someone else might go out and build one! Sure, if they tried, I'd sue the bajesus out of them before they could debunk^H^H^H^H^H^H complete it. But why run that risk?
Or maybe he just thinks Deloreans are really, really cool!
I was trying to figure out the stress from the banked turns.
The bank redirects the force downward instead of outward. I don't think that could be it, since that would tend to distribute the force of the turn into all 4 wheels instead of onto just the outer wheels.
More likely, the banked turn allows the car to achieve higher speeds in the turn than it is designed to handle. If a driver attempted a similar but flat turn at the same speed, the car would probably slip and lose control before breaking a bearing. If the bank holds it on a tighter turn, it could reach a speed that generates a force exceeding the capabilities of the car, which I suppose could break something.
But that's not to say I don't think this whole deal is a bunch of crap.;)
Who writes the laws? Politicians write the laws! This "Declaration of Thermodynamics", or whatever you call it, is probably just some government ploy to keep control of "our nation's precious resources."
If I can build a machine that generates more energy than it uses, I should be allowed to do so. I don't need a law (probably written by some oil-state incumbent, with no technical background, getting kickbacks from Saddam Hussein!) standing in my way!
I'm really tired of the government being afraid of new things and making laws to block technology.
When perpetual motion machines are outlawed, only outlaws will have perpetual motion machines!;)
Its not bad. I'm just saying that with most of the shows on TV today, it wouldn't be a viable business model, since no one would sign up for the second week.
I mean, sure you could claim that this would drive producers to make better programming, but i'm skeptical.
I think product placement is probably the most effective way to "hide" ads in the show. Look at any blockbuster movie.
Placement is already pretty heavy on TV. HBO's series such as Sex in the City or Arli$$ are notorious. Arlis always has Diet coke cans laying around. The girls on sex in the city are always spouting off high-end clothing brand names, so any woman aspiring to be as "cool" as them will go out and blow a couple hundred dollars on a pair of shoes they don't need.
And since the products are integrated into the show, there's nothing to skip.
MPEG4 has features to allow insertion of "fields", so advertising space on the scenes can be blocked out, and the product/ad can be inserted by the show itself, by the network, or even the local affiliate. So the Atlanta viewing audience would see Coke cans, while someone in North Carolina might see a Pepsi without having to film the scenes twice.
Not to mention that the first show, or even the first few tend to suck. It takes a little while for the characters to develop, and to mellow out a little. I recently saw a rerun of the first episode of Friends. It was incredibly lame. All of the characters were like charicatures of themselves. It was so trite and, well, just lame. Now it is one of the most anticipated shows on TV.
"The first one is free" only works only if the first one is very compelling or addictive.
I have to agree. Before slashdot I thought a "troll" was a ugly dwarfish thing that collected bridge tolls from goats. And i never knew what "First post!" meant.
Its just a matter of time before the right GUI exists for DJs to do all the beat matching and mixing with mp3s. Right now most programs are geared towards simple sequential play, or maybe cross-fading (or if its an ipod, a slight pause between songs... ugh).
Give it time. They'll be scratching and mixing purely digital before too long.
a honeypot is basically a computer with a "hack me please" sign on it. its more analogous to you leaving your door open with a sign saying "free food", in which case it would appear to be OK to hang out and eat at your place.
He didn't make any outright accusations of theft, but he does imply it by saying that his fans are copying it rather than buying. And the whole "i'm not saying this to state my opinion" is total crap. It is his opinion, or else he wouldn't have posted it.
Maybe he isn't intending to draw conclusions directly from it, but it is something he was thinking about, and it meant enough to him that he wrote it up on his website.
Yes, maybe part of it is that he wants to express to his label that CD sales doesn't accurately represent his popularity. But it can definitely be interpreted in such a way to support the RIAA's "stealing from the artist" theory.
Anyhow, my point to moby is this: quit your bitching and go make some better music.
Funny how when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a cassette copy of an LP, it sounds like total crap.
Funny how if you take an mp3 and copy that file a zillion times, it still sounds the same.
Funny how a computer can copy a CD in under 3 minutes. (i think i saw that on tom's hardware)
But even funnier is how the biggest whiners of the RIAA poster children are former mega-platinum sellers who release shitty-ass lame albums then bitch about how their loyal fans are now screwing them over by not snatching up ever bit of drivel they spit out. See Metallica and Moby as references.
I think the point is that these days you can get a bootleg that is a digital copy of the CD (or in some cases its gone through mp3, so slightly degraded, but still pretty damn good), so there isn't the loss of quality that there was in the "old days" when you were getting a 10th generation cassette copy.
Still, Moby should stop his whining. He sells plenty of copies. He gets plenty of money. As someone said above, the music industry is on crack. Their formulaic britney-sync-boys crap make plenty of money for them and their "artists" (i won't buy a britney spears CD, and i'm surely not going to waste my bandwidth downloading her crap either). The laws now limits accessibility by making it prohibitively expensive for internet radio stations to play non-mainstream music. Artists that haven't yet made it to the Top 40 can't get the exposure needed to make a CD sell. Surely no one will a CD of music they've never heard. So if I can't hear the "starving artists", they won't get my money and they're continue to starve.
So tell me again, who is stealing money from the artists?
Dude... Your own voice sounds different to you than to others because you're hearing it directly inside your head (from your throat, through your sinuses to the "backdoor" of your ear). Other people hear the sounds coming out of your mouth, hitting a change of atmosphere (pressure )
One possibility could be that each projector has some sort of key, and each instance of the movie beamed to a particular theater is encrypted (or otherwise coded) to only display on that projector. You know, so screen 2 doesn't "pirate" screen 1's movies.
I suspect the studios will want to have some way to keep track of how many copies each theater has, and maintain control of when and where they (can) show it.
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Yeah! You're so darn right!
I mean, what was this guy thinking building a prototype! And why, oh why, was he trying to demonstrate it?
God knows if I ever came up with a perpetual motion machine, the last thing I would do is actually build one, much less show it to anyone. Screw that!
I'd march right out and find me some Venture Capital! Yesireee, bob! I'd get the money up front. Then do the talk show circuit.
Patent it, you say? Screw that! Trade-secret, my friend. If I patent it, someone else might go out and build one! Sure, if they tried, I'd sue the bajesus out of them before they could debunk^H^H^H^H^H^H complete it. But why run that risk?
Or maybe he just thinks Deloreans are really, really cool!
I was trying to figure out the stress from the banked turns.
;)
The bank redirects the force downward instead of outward. I don't think that could be it, since that would tend to distribute the force of the turn into all 4 wheels instead of onto just the outer wheels.
More likely, the banked turn allows the car to achieve higher speeds in the turn than it is designed to handle. If a driver attempted a similar but flat turn at the same speed, the car would probably slip and lose control before breaking a bearing. If the bank holds it on a tighter turn, it could reach a speed that generates a force exceeding the capabilities of the car, which I suppose could break something.
But that's not to say I don't think this whole deal is a bunch of crap.
Are there really this manu people who have not seen Back to the Future??? http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088763
/. audience who weren't born when it was out. Wow.
I suppose there's a good part of the
Who writes the laws? Politicians write the laws! This "Declaration of Thermodynamics", or whatever you call it, is probably just some government ploy to keep control of "our nation's precious resources."
;)
If I can build a machine that generates more energy than it uses, I should be allowed to do so. I don't need a law (probably written by some oil-state incumbent, with no technical background, getting kickbacks from Saddam Hussein!) standing in my way!
I'm really tired of the government being afraid of new things and making laws to block technology.
When perpetual motion machines are outlawed, only outlaws will have perpetual motion machines!
I thought figure skating was judged based on bribes and kickbacks?
;)
You know, such things that have no place in the business world
Its not bad. I'm just saying that with most of the shows on TV today, it wouldn't be a viable business model, since no one would sign up for the second week.
I mean, sure you could claim that this would drive producers to make better programming, but i'm skeptical.
I think product placement is probably the most effective way to "hide" ads in the show. Look at any blockbuster movie.
Placement is already pretty heavy on TV. HBO's series such as Sex in the City or Arli$$ are notorious. Arlis always has Diet coke cans laying around. The girls on sex in the city are always spouting off high-end clothing brand names, so any woman aspiring to be as "cool" as them will go out and blow a couple hundred dollars on a pair of shoes they don't need.
And since the products are integrated into the show, there's nothing to skip.
MPEG4 has features to allow insertion of "fields", so advertising space on the scenes can be blocked out, and the product/ad can be inserted by the show itself, by the network, or even the local affiliate. So the Atlanta viewing audience would see Coke cans, while someone in North Carolina might see a Pepsi without having to film the scenes twice.
Not to mention that the first show, or even the first few tend to suck. It takes a little while for the characters to develop, and to mellow out a little. I recently saw a rerun of the first episode of Friends. It was incredibly lame. All of the characters were like charicatures of themselves. It was so trite and, well, just lame. Now it is one of the most anticipated shows on TV.
"The first one is free" only works only if the first one is very compelling or addictive.
Maybe Cartman's "You can't watch" strategy?
I have to agree. Before slashdot I thought a "troll" was a ugly dwarfish thing that collected bridge tolls from goats. And i never knew what "First post!" meant.
Thank you, Slashdot!
crap. I need a good defense against my own misspelling. That red-underlining that OSX does for me isn't (apparently) enough...
ugh.
maybe i should drink more.
Is there a defence against drunk slashdot posters? ;)
Exactly!
I mean, SOMEONE has to open the fridge and hand the beer to R2D2...
Actually, there's those machines at the grocery store that turn your change into "real money".
I guess they take a 1% cut or something... hell, they could probably just round to the floor in dollars, then keep the, uh, change.
Its just a matter of time before the right GUI exists for DJs to do all the beat matching and mixing with mp3s. Right now most programs are geared towards simple sequential play, or maybe cross-fading (or if its an ipod, a slight pause between songs... ugh).
Give it time. They'll be scratching and mixing purely digital before too long.
no, dipshit.
a honeypot is basically a computer with a "hack me please" sign on it. its more analogous to you leaving your door open with a sign saying "free food", in which case it would appear to be OK to hang out and eat at your place.
Seriously. Why is it that every time 'michael' posts a story, he adds the comment "we've written about it before" (sometimes with multiple old links)?
:)
I mean, dude, if you're already run the story, and the best add-on you can come up with is "we already did this", why run it again?
Who do you think you are? CmdrTaco?
He didn't make any outright accusations of theft, but he does imply it by saying that his fans are copying it rather than buying. And the whole "i'm not saying this to state my opinion" is total crap. It is his opinion, or else he wouldn't have posted it.
Maybe he isn't intending to draw conclusions directly from it, but it is something he was thinking about, and it meant enough to him that he wrote it up on his website.
Yes, maybe part of it is that he wants to express to his label that CD sales doesn't accurately represent his popularity. But it can definitely be interpreted in such a way to support the RIAA's "stealing from the artist" theory.
Anyhow, my point to moby is this: quit your bitching and go make some better music.
Funny how when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a cassette copy of an LP, it sounds like total crap.
Funny how if you take an mp3 and copy that file a zillion times, it still sounds the same.
Funny how a computer can copy a CD in under 3 minutes. (i think i saw that on tom's hardware)
But even funnier is how the biggest whiners of the RIAA poster children are former mega-platinum sellers who release shitty-ass lame albums then bitch about how their loyal fans are now screwing them over by not snatching up ever bit of drivel they spit out. See Metallica and Moby as references.
Losers.
Heh. Insert gripe about how you're listening to Rush. Bwahahahahaha...
I think the point is that these days you can get a bootleg that is a digital copy of the CD (or in some cases its gone through mp3, so slightly degraded, but still pretty damn good), so there isn't the loss of quality that there was in the "old days" when you were getting a 10th generation cassette copy.
Still, Moby should stop his whining. He sells plenty of copies. He gets plenty of money. As someone said above, the music industry is on crack. Their formulaic britney-sync-boys crap make plenty of money for them and their "artists" (i won't buy a britney spears CD, and i'm surely not going to waste my bandwidth downloading her crap either). The laws now limits accessibility by making it prohibitively expensive for internet radio stations to play non-mainstream music. Artists that haven't yet made it to the Top 40 can't get the exposure needed to make a CD sell. Surely no one will a CD of music they've never heard. So if I can't hear the "starving artists", they won't get my money and they're continue to starve.
So tell me again, who is stealing money from the artists?
Exactly. In the future when we have thousands of TV channels, we'll need that bandwidth to surf through them. IR can only "press buttons" so fast...
Jaguar is supposed to be more in sync with the current state of BSD. Maybe this "problem" goes away in september...
Dude... Your own voice sounds different to you than to others because you're hearing it directly inside your head (from your throat, through your sinuses to the "backdoor" of your ear). Other people hear the sounds coming out of your mouth, hitting a change of atmosphere (pressure )
One possibility could be that each projector has some sort of key, and each instance of the movie beamed to a particular theater is encrypted (or otherwise coded) to only display on that projector. You know, so screen 2 doesn't "pirate" screen 1's movies.
I suspect the studios will want to have some way to keep track of how many copies each theater has, and maintain control of when and where they (can) show it.
you skipped the attribution on your quote, nimrod.