"The Indian distributers can flood Kazaa with as many Bollywood movies as they want, and they can expend that extra 8% of effort, but very few people in the west will spend money on this."
Higher cost != better movie. We're not talking about first class seating or luxury cars here.
If anything, the limitation in budget can be their deciding advantage. Through limitation comes creativity. There have been a number of instances where restraints have caused movies to go in a different (cheaper) direction, and were better off for it.
Budget limitations are not a reason to dismiss Bollywood.
"De Vaucanson's duck swam, quacked, flapped its wings, and swallowed its food. People were tricked to believe that it really digested its food and produced excrements from it."
I've finally traced back the origin of the term 'core dump'!
"The idea of actually paying for music online is still regarded as satirical by some? "
People pay for service. My coworkers can get coffee for free at work, but they still frequent Java Man. Why would they pay when it's free? Better coffe.
Despite 'free' alternatives, the on-line music stores are doing fine. Imagine how much better they would have done if they didn't push millions of people towards Napster and the like. If your aim is to make me feel fore the RIAA, it isn't working.
"WMA - depends on the Music Store, for example, WalMart... if you format your hard disc / change your PC, you cannot play your music on your box. The music file is tied to a license which is downloaded the first time you play the music IIRC."
Windows Media Player has a neat little feature called "License Manager" which lets you backup/restore the license.
"Hypocrisy sucks, pick a stance and stick with it."
It's not about taking down the RIAA, it's about them providing the services we want. They're starting to do that. If they make money on these services, we'll all end up okay.
"Since the prevailing attitude of most of the technologically elite is one that condones INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT"
That isn't true. Piracy is not something that the 'technologically elite' is trying to accomplish. We've paid for software/content, if we have the means, we should be able to explore the capabilities of what we have spent money for. If you have a specific situation in mind about what sparked this rant, I'd be happy to explain to you what the real intent is.
"The Dreamcast and Sega were destoyed by mass counterfeiting and filetrading,"
Very untrue. The Dreamcast died because of competition with Sony. Piracy wasn't a huge factor, if at all. Sega simply couldn't get enough consoles out in order to sell enough games to make a profit.
"FACE IT PEOPLE...IF YOU DOWNLOAD GAMES AND INSTALL MOD CHIPS, YOU ARE MAKING GAMES AND GAMING CULTURE WORSE NOT BETTER...."
If that is directed solely at the people here who download games to avoid paying for them, then you are not speaking to a wide number of people. Most of the pro-modding comments I've seen here aren't related to pirating games, but rather to remove region restrictions.
Why is it that the harshest opinions come from the least informed? Is it because information reveals shades of gray?
Bash bash, Microsoft sucks, Linux = automatically better yadda yadda yadda. What I'd really like to see the Linux community issue one of these surveys, and then address the issues that the users bring up.
"How, exactly does this apply to technology? Am I mistaken by assuming this is a "news for nerds" website? Oh well..."
Hmmm... I can't find the word technology in the phrase "news for nerds, stuff that matters." I even tried CTRL + F. No luck. I'm having serious trouble finding the source of your complaint here. Help?
"Yes but we all know VI is far superior to EMACS !!"
Okay guys, I'm really sorry for asking such a dumb question, but I'm not very deep in the Linux world. What is EMACS, and why are jokes like these commonly made about it?
"We need some open source movie making (perhaps with Blender and cheap clusters such is just around the corner)."
Why would 'Open Source Movie Making' automatically be better than Hollywood's current trend of designing by committe? Sorry to be pessimistic, but I imagine something very sterile coming out of a project like this.
Now, if you were to talk about letting one guy have the idea and having a group of people work to achieve it, I'd stand behind it. Individual creativity is far more interesting than watching decisions made because "people named Theo might be offended at the title beginning with The".
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"The Indian distributers can flood Kazaa with as many Bollywood movies as they want, and they can expend that extra 8% of effort, but very few people in the west will spend money on this."
Higher cost != better movie. We're not talking about first class seating or luxury cars here.
If anything, the limitation in budget can be their deciding advantage. Through limitation comes creativity. There have been a number of instances where restraints have caused movies to go in a different (cheaper) direction, and were better off for it.
Budget limitations are not a reason to dismiss Bollywood.
"Never has a spacecraft been built so quickly, on so little money, and been sent on such a long journey fraught with so many dangers."
I thought they were talking about Starbug.
"With all those bounces, why didn't they call it Britney?"
Because when it docks with the mothership, they don't want the media to run wild with stories about the kiss.
"Dehydrated British food! Ack!"
The worst part is that the vehicle isn't well insulated. Their lager was cold!
Macs will run at 3 ghz? WOOHOO! That means AMD and Intel will have 6gig chips!
"Like many, it completely ignores the contributions of France, especially Lafayette, to the American Revolutionary war. "
That would have made the joke less funny.
Chill.
From the hoax page...
"Boilerplate works," Hayden told me, "because of people's gullibility rather than Guinan's guile."
Anybody wanna go spelunking in San Fransisco?
"grr, that ugly looking robot has got a GF, hell, I wish I looked like a robot... "
You can try strapping a laser pointer to your head. Do a couple of test runs, though. You'll get in trouble if that dot lands on her chest.
"De Vaucanson's duck swam, quacked, flapped its wings, and swallowed its food. People were tricked to believe that it really digested its food and produced excrements from it."
I've finally traced back the origin of the term 'core dump'!
"The idea of actually paying for music online is still regarded as satirical by some? "
People pay for service. My coworkers can get coffee for free at work, but they still frequent Java Man. Why would they pay when it's free? Better coffe.
Despite 'free' alternatives, the on-line music stores are doing fine. Imagine how much better they would have done if they didn't push millions of people towards Napster and the like. If your aim is to make me feel fore the RIAA, it isn't working.
"That's backing up the DRM license, not backing up your music. "
You can re-download the music. Music CDs, though...
DRM isn't automatically evil, it's concern over what could happen that's spooky.
"WMA - depends on the Music Store, for example, WalMart... if you format your hard disc / change your PC, you cannot play your music on your box. The music file is tied to a license which is downloaded the first time you play the music IIRC."
Windows Media Player has a neat little feature called "License Manager" which lets you backup/restore the license.
"Hypocrisy sucks, pick a stance and stick with it."
It's not about taking down the RIAA, it's about them providing the services we want. They're starting to do that. If they make money on these services, we'll all end up okay.
Lighten up.
Interesting? I'm starting to think that moderator points shouldn't be alloted unless you've passed a pop-culture test.
"i've had my ipod for a year. no battery problems. this is FUD."
Oh crap, somebody's on to us! We better come clean!
"An excellent beer to namesake your chip with, though. Smooth, reliable, and makes you dizzy."
Crap, mine was served warm.
"Since the prevailing attitude of most of the technologically elite is one that condones INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT"
That isn't true. Piracy is not something that the 'technologically elite' is trying to accomplish. We've paid for software/content, if we have the means, we should be able to explore the capabilities of what we have spent money for. If you have a specific situation in mind about what sparked this rant, I'd be happy to explain to you what the real intent is.
"The Dreamcast and Sega were destoyed by mass counterfeiting and filetrading,"
Very untrue. The Dreamcast died because of competition with Sony. Piracy wasn't a huge factor, if at all. Sega simply couldn't get enough consoles out in order to sell enough games to make a profit.
"FACE IT PEOPLE...IF YOU DOWNLOAD GAMES AND INSTALL MOD CHIPS, YOU ARE MAKING GAMES AND GAMING CULTURE WORSE NOT BETTER...."
If that is directed solely at the people here who download games to avoid paying for them, then you are not speaking to a wide number of people. Most of the pro-modding comments I've seen here aren't related to pirating games, but rather to remove region restrictions.
Why is it that the harshest opinions come from the least informed? Is it because information reveals shades of gray?
"Shall we now have a version of Godwin's Law, where every time the McDonald's coffee case is brought up, the thread is automatically over?"
We need one of those for "You must work for Microsoft!" as well.
"Just use a Mac. Their email client pretty much does this already."
Well I wasn't going to spend 3k on a Mac until I noticed your post was moderated interesting.
Bash bash, Microsoft sucks, Linux = automatically better yadda yadda yadda. What I'd really like to see the Linux community issue one of these surveys, and then address the issues that the users bring up.
"How, exactly does this apply to technology? Am I mistaken by assuming this is a "news for nerds" website? Oh well..."
Hmmm... I can't find the word technology in the phrase "news for nerds, stuff that matters." I even tried CTRL + F. No luck. I'm having serious trouble finding the source of your complaint here. Help?
"Go buy a shredder and port Linux to it today!"
Linux is still a little behind Windows in the document destruction department.
"Yes but we all know VI is far superior to EMACS !!"
Okay guys, I'm really sorry for asking such a dumb question, but I'm not very deep in the Linux world. What is EMACS, and why are jokes like these commonly made about it?
"We need some open source movie making (perhaps with Blender and cheap clusters such is just around the corner)."
Why would 'Open Source Movie Making' automatically be better than Hollywood's current trend of designing by committe? Sorry to be pessimistic, but I imagine something very sterile coming out of a project like this.
Now, if you were to talk about letting one guy have the idea and having a group of people work to achieve it, I'd stand behind it. Individual creativity is far more interesting than watching decisions made because "people named Theo might be offended at the title beginning with The".
"Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
One scientist flatly denied emitting greenhouse gasses, suggesting that maybe the dog did it.