If only Marge had tried to sell MP3 enc/dec-oders, I can see it now...
Tony: Sorry we're late. Could we have the money now? Marge: The answer -- is no. Tony: I'm afraid I must insist. You see, my wife, she has been most vocal on the subject of the pretzel [MP3] monies. "Where's the money?" "When are you going to get the money?" "Why aren't you getting the money now?" And so on.
Quite an interesting read for those of you interested in this topic. It's a little lighter than Brian Greene or Stephen Hawking, but thorough none-the-less.
homer [as he is being sucked into a blackhole]: there's so much i don't know about astrophysics. i really wish i read that book by that wheelchair guy...
And another you might have missed!
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Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud.
Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun.
And now Monty can add free surgery to the list of services provided by his nemesis!
Ubiquitous Simpsons quote
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Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud.
Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun.
Brings to mind a Jimmy Cliff song...
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I can cut cleanly now the rain is gone I can laze allll the tu-umers in my way Gone are the dark clouds that stole my sun It's going to be a bright, RICH sunshiny day...
"If you don't accept testimonials as proofs, you won't accept any proof as proof. - the one, and only Alex Chiu
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/0 6/07/1421238&mode=thread&tid=95
while your idea does have plenty of merit, you should also put a lower target rate alarm as well (supposing she goes into something like cardiac arrest). set it to something like her resting heart rate minus x (x doesn't really matter because you aren't really going to ever get that far below your resting heart rate unless your heart stops, or you are a zen master and can approach a deathlike state, but i digress...)
no one else in any non-commercial environment is going to have this kind of bandwidth to push content, so there should be a massive bottleneck, right? so where exactly is the good of this. you have a ton more bandwidth, but everyone else's bandwidth is the same so you still can't really get content any faster... where is broadband for the masses when you need it?!?
perhaps the masses will take what they are given, but consider that by the time Palladium rolls out, people will have been stealing movies and songs for probably 10 years. do you really think the masses are going to enjoy being told they can't steal as they have been doing for so long? personally, i don't think so. the genie is out of the bottle and ms can try to put the top back on. but it doesn't matter, the genie is out:)
according to my studies on fair use and copyright, media can be used legally under fair use if it recontexturalizes something or uses it as a commentary (koons vs. art rogers)
http://www.pdnonline.com/pix/isay/0800.html
however, since silence is the absence of sound (no sound), it's hard to see how you can recontexturalize nothing. but at the same time it's hard to claim nothing as your own...
"There's advertising everywhere you look. I don't care if you open a book or a magazine or walk down the street, it's everywhere," he says.
While this is true, it isn't a valid reason for spamming. Billboards, magazine ads, etc are a passive medium which I can ignore. Spam is an active medium because I have to actively deal with it (open it, skim it, delete it) rather than just ignore it.
A further problem is that spam costs the targeted viewers money (bandwidth, time) while billboards and mag ads do not. Billboard/mag ads bring revenue to companies which publish them and at least provide the magazine with revenue with which to continue publishing material which you enjoy purchasing and reading. Spam does not provide money to keep the internet running or provide revenue to companies which you enjoy receiving survices from (ie - it is unsolicited).
If you've seen Minority Report you will realize how bad spam could potentially get. Billboard and mag ads are shown in Report as active mediums, spam!
Everyone seems to be concerned with rounding up or down, and that's all well and good if we were to phase out the penny and thus we'd have to round while it was being phased out. However, once the penny is gone every price should end in 0 or 5 (to do otherwise makes no sense as the lowest monetary denomination would be 5). So a company has no incentive to round down then, and everything will technically be rounded up - anything currently ending in 1, 2, 3, 4 would go to 5 and everything 6, 7, 8, 9 would go to 0 (10). Therefore the consumer never wins, and I personally do see that as problematic. FWIW.
Particularly of interest were these paragraphs:
To phase out the penny, Kolbe said, cash transactions would be rounded up or down a nickel over a transition period before removing it from circulation. But Americans for Common Cents (ACC), a group dedicated to keeping the penny, said Kolbe's rounding proposal would hurt Americans, particularly the poor, because companies would round in their favor.
"Corporations have a profit margin and will have a tendency to round up," said Mark Weller, ACC's executive director and senior vice president of the Sagamore Group lobby shop. "There will be a disproportionate effect on those who can afford it least."
Since businesses run this country anyways this is probably inevitable, but it would really hurt the consumer in the long run. A penny isn't much by itself, but over a lifetime that is a huge loss...
"If 2002MN had hit the Earth, it would have caused
local devastation similar to that which occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908, when 2,000 square
kilometres of forest were flattened."
in case you haven't done the math yourself (and you likely haven't), 2,000 sq km is something like 1200 sq. mi., which is about a radius of 20 miles from the point of impact.
considering MTV is just a puppet of the RIAA and the MPAA, and we *all* know about the geniuses that work for them. sheesh. let me guess, "crossroads" (britney spears) won for best film?
if you really want to fuck with someone's head, tell them that line has 2 dimensions (which it does). then draw them a square and tell them it has 3 dimensions. that is, unless you can draw an infinitely thin line, but then you wouldn't be able to see any of the aforementioned.
you sure can have a lot of fun with dumb people. sad thing is, they are so dumb you can't get far enough to make fun of their stupidity!
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If only Marge had tried to sell MP3 enc/dec-oders, I can see it now...
Tony: Sorry we're late. Could we have the money now?
Marge: The answer -- is no.
Tony: I'm afraid I must insist. You see, my wife, she has been most vocal on the subject of the pretzel [MP3] monies. "Where's the money?" "When are you going to get the money?" "Why aren't you getting the money now?" And so on.
entitled "How to build a time machine"
Quite an interesting read for those of you interested in this topic. It's a little lighter than Brian Greene or Stephen Hawking, but thorough none-the-less.
homer [as he is being sucked into a blackhole]: there's so much i don't know about astrophysics. i really wish i read that book by that wheelchair guy...
Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud.
Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun.
And now Monty can add free surgery to the list of services provided by his nemesis!
Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud.
Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun.
I can cut cleanly now the rain is gone
I can laze allll the tu-umers in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that stole my sun
It's going to be a bright, RICH sunshiny day...
you know what they say, diamonds are forever. i can think of no better ticket to immortality...
"If you don't accept testimonials as proofs, you won't accept any proof as proof. - the one, and only Alex Chiu http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/0 6/07/1421238&mode=thread&tid=95
while your idea does have plenty of merit, you should also put a lower target rate alarm as well (supposing she goes into something like cardiac arrest). set it to something like her resting heart rate minus x (x doesn't really matter because you aren't really going to ever get that far below your resting heart rate unless your heart stops, or you are a zen master and can approach a deathlike state, but i digress...)
no one else in any non-commercial environment is going to have this kind of bandwidth to push content, so there should be a massive bottleneck, right? so where exactly is the good of this. you have a ton more bandwidth, but everyone else's bandwidth is the same so you still can't really get content any faster... where is broadband for the masses when you need it?!?
perhaps the masses will take what they are given, but consider that by the time Palladium rolls out, people will have been stealing movies and songs for probably 10 years. do you really think the masses are going to enjoy being told they can't steal as they have been doing for so long? personally, i don't think so. the genie is out of the bottle and ms can try to put the top back on. but it doesn't matter, the genie is out :)
according to my studies on fair use and copyright, media can be used legally under fair use if it recontexturalizes something or uses it as a commentary (koons vs. art rogers)
http://www.pdnonline.com/pix/isay/0800.html
however, since silence is the absence of sound (no sound), it's hard to see how you can recontexturalize nothing. but at the same time it's hard to claim nothing as your own...
"There's advertising everywhere you look. I don't care if you open a book or a magazine or walk down the street, it's everywhere," he says.
While this is true, it isn't a valid reason for spamming. Billboards, magazine ads, etc are a passive medium which I can ignore. Spam is an active medium because I have to actively deal with it (open it, skim it, delete it) rather than just ignore it.
A further problem is that spam costs the targeted viewers money (bandwidth, time) while billboards and mag ads do not. Billboard/mag ads bring revenue to companies which publish them and at least provide the magazine with revenue with which to continue publishing material which you enjoy purchasing and reading. Spam does not provide money to keep the internet running or provide revenue to companies which you enjoy receiving survices from (ie - it is unsolicited).
If you've seen Minority Report you will realize how bad spam could potentially get. Billboard and mag ads are shown in Report as active mediums, spam!
Everyone seems to be concerned with rounding up or down, and that's all well and good if we were to phase out the penny and thus we'd have to round while it was being phased out. However, once the penny is gone every price should end in 0 or 5 (to do otherwise makes no sense as the lowest monetary denomination would be 5). So a company has no incentive to round down then, and everything will technically be rounded up - anything currently ending in 1, 2, 3, 4 would go to 5 and everything 6, 7, 8, 9 would go to 0 (10). Therefore the consumer never wins, and I personally do see that as problematic. FWIW.
If Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) has his way
Particularly of interest were these paragraphs:
To phase out the penny, Kolbe said, cash transactions would be rounded up or down a nickel over a transition period before removing it from circulation. But Americans for Common Cents (ACC), a group dedicated to keeping the penny, said Kolbe's rounding proposal would hurt Americans, particularly the poor, because companies would round in their favor.
"Corporations have a profit margin and will have a tendency to round up," said Mark Weller, ACC's executive director and senior vice president of the Sagamore Group lobby shop. "There will be a disproportionate effect on those who can afford it least."
Since businesses run this country anyways this is probably inevitable, but it would really hurt the consumer in the long run. A penny isn't much by itself, but over a lifetime that is a huge loss...
"If 2002MN had hit the Earth, it would have caused local devastation similar to that which occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908, when 2,000 square kilometres of forest were flattened."
r e&AD2=&AD3=new+york%2C+ny&AD4=U.S.&x=0&y=0
in case you haven't done the math yourself (and you likely haven't), 2,000 sq km is something like 1200 sq. mi., which is about a radius of 20 miles from the point of impact.
http://pbs.vicinity.com/pbs/blast.hm?SEC=25pressu
just to draw a(n) (in)comprehensible comparison, check out this map of a 25 megaon bomb being detonated over ny (or any other city)...
considering MTV is just a puppet of the RIAA and the MPAA, and we *all* know about the geniuses that work for them. sheesh. let me guess, "crossroads" (britney spears) won for best film?
"Secure" box, an empty ATX case? Please. I've got your security right here.
and already 4 comments about a beowolf cluster of these things. cmon slashdot, you can do better than that
took me five minutes to get into this discussion! slashdot wes slashdotted by slashdot...
now i can add to my collection of alphabet books on html, xml, dhtml, uml, php, esp and add! woohoo!
if you really want to fuck with someone's head, tell them that line has 2 dimensions (which it does). then draw them a square and tell them it has 3 dimensions. that is, unless you can draw an infinitely thin line, but then you wouldn't be able to see any of the aforementioned. you sure can have a lot of fun with dumb people. sad thing is, they are so dumb you can't get far enough to make fun of their stupidity!
broadband porn will make the transatlantic flight so much quicker :)
Make sure it has a red dot and says things like "Dave, what are you doing Dave?" Can't wait for mine!
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