To create exactly this reaction. People will always argue over "Best of" lists, no matter how irrelevant and pointless they are. And geeks like us will argue with a vengeance.
Beware of the angry geek, and FEAR the angry Trekkie (they've got l33t letter writing skills)
How about a formula based on the ratio of the mass of the star to the planet?
This would only be marginally useful in our own solar system, but as we discover more and more planets around other star systems we can have a mathematical basis in which to designate an object a planet or just some orbiting crap, plus it instantly give a relationship to our own.
The sun:earth ratio is 333,000:1
Make that the S:E ratio (for arguments sake).
Jupiter (I think) is 33,000:1
You could call that a deci-SE etc (obviously better terminology needs to be used)
We compare the gravity of other planets to Earth's (g) so we can always use the Sun:Earth ratio as a gauge for all other planet discoveries
Watercooler chitchat? Are you an overweight single 30-something female?
At work we talk about old movies all the time from Citizen Kane to Carlitos Way to Apocalypse Now. Some brain dead people only talk about the latest Will Smith oh so hilarious romantic comedy. Why would you want to talk to them by the water cooler? If it was me I wouldn't be drinking from the same tap as them in case their mindless sheeplike behaviour is contagious
This is not ironic or surprising since Soderbergh has long been the champion of Independent cinema. He has always experimented with new and original filmmaking techniques. Big budget tripe like Ocean's Eleven just pays the bills.
For every legal P2P download there are a gazillion illegal downloads. This isn't an attack on the technology, which anyone can see, but on the people who are using it. It's a fine protocol, whether it be Bittorrent or some other system, but it's just not being used for the way in which it's supporters claim it's being used for.
Clicking on any random torrent site and spending some time searching through the categories I had a lot of difficulty finding any legal torrents. There was some abandonware whose legality I'm unsure and I only found legal patches after explicitly searching for it, but then all of those I saw were available at the games companies own website. I know all forms of P2P have their legitimate uses but it's rarely being used for it. The VAST majority of what I see are Movies, Apps, Games, TV shows and Music and increasingly - ebooks.
Now, with the exception of TV shows for foreign viewers I can see no real justification in downloading these. The one I hear a lot is "it's a crap program\movie\song why should I pay for it". Well, if it's a crap program\movie\song why are you even bothering with it? Plus, the various industries have provided plenty of oppurtunity to freely and legally judge if something is worth buying
Movies have a gazillion trailers, previews, reviews. Plus everyone knows someone either in RL or online who's seen a movie and can tell them if it's worth watching or not.
Games in most cases have demos
Apps in many cases have demos or trials, which can show even a moron what it's capability have.
Music has free online samples, and a gazillion radio stations worldwide in which to listen to tracks.
There are no justifications in this day and age for illegal downloads other than "wanting something for nothing". Justifying it any other way is pointless.
Now since, most P2P is used for exactly that purpose, then why are we geeks on/. kicking up a fuss when the governing bodies do what anyone in their position would do and make measures to protect their own.
The RIAA, MPAA, etc are NOT attacking anyone's rights or attacking the technology used... so this has nothing to do with anyone's "right's online", because no-one has the right to break the law anyway. So, they're attacking the people who are breaking it.
If we don't want the RIAA to attack P2P then we, ourselves as a group need to make sure that nobody is abusing the wonderful technology.
Of course, if we could achieve that P2P use would drop to practically nothing. I certainly don't find it very efficient for getting Linux distros, patches, drivers etc. What a pain in the ass that would be, when you can just use the numerous ftp\http servers!
Considering the amount of people that die from Hurricanes every year then it's definitely worth trying.
From my understanding hurricanes only occur when a dozen or so meteorological conditions are "perfect". It should not be impossible to affect enough of these to ensure the hurricane never happens, or it's strength is vastly reduced.
...but maybe stupid people deserve to have their identities stolen. Better to have a smarter version of yourself out there if you're too fucking stupid to look after your money.
Well, because they're still downloading\stealing a product for which they aren't paying for.
A young shoplifter who steals the odd DVD from a store isn't a major threat to the business but that doesn't mean they're not going to call the police and prosecute. I worked for a store once that prosecuted any shoplifter whether they stole goods worth 99p or £99.
If anyone steals from a company they have every right to sue, both legally and morally. Music and films are available for cheap legal download these days. There's no excuse for stealing them now, except to get "something for nothing". It's not about free speech or any of that crap. Nor has it anything to do with the fact that "if hollywood made better movies we wouldn't steal them". More nonsense. Sue the lot of them
This just sounds like yet another lame excuse to justify piracy.
For every positive outcome of piracy\theft there are far more negative outcomes. It's so completely obvious, so it still amazes me that people are happy to support piracy and intellectual property theft and try to justify it to themselves that they are doing something good for the industry.
They're not. They just want something for nothing, like all thieves.
David Benioff is a fantastic writer. Sure, Troy wasn't the Orgasmotron you were conditioned by the hype to believe it would be, but it was a thoroughly decent flick.
However, Benioff earned his credits with THE 25th HOUR, a perfect screenplay adapted from his own book. It became Spike Lee's greatest movie in years. Judging by that book and script I have the utmost confidence in whatever he writes. He's a writer to look out for.
There's a blatant flaw in your logic which you missed because of your narrowmindedness.. According to your twisted mind video surveillance won't identify bank robbers but it will identify people in political protest demonstrations? Is this the new Sony filtering camera system? We've got Xray cameras, infra red, now we've got a camera that can detect your political leanings!
So if a police officer is attracted to someone and uses the cameras to stalk them, to harass and scare off anyone else that person dates, that's not a problem. That person chose not to date the cop, so clearly that person was asking for it. It's such a good day!
They're only cameras.. they're in public places.. What do you expect? Why do you care? Are you planning on doing something you shouldn't? If so, that's why the cameras are there. And FYI, by law, you're entitled to access any CCTV footage that contains your image, so exercise your right.
There should be a poll to rate the stupidity of these people
Further proof that biggest security risk to the internet is not Microsoft, Mac, Virii etc. It's the stupidity of the majority of internet users that will bring us all crashing down.
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Beware of the angry geek, and FEAR the angry Trekkie (they've got l33t letter writing skills)
Batman, Wonderwoman and Xena Warrior Princes in a sci fi list? They're fantasy, not sci-fi.
Funny how one geek's trash is another geeks treasure..
This would only be marginally useful in our own solar system, but as we discover more and more planets around other star systems we can have a mathematical basis in which to designate an object a planet or just some orbiting crap, plus it instantly give a relationship to our own.
The sun:earth ratio is 333,000:1
Make that the S:E ratio (for arguments sake).
Jupiter (I think) is 33,000:1
You could call that a deci-SE etc (obviously better terminology needs to be used) We compare the gravity of other planets to Earth's (g) so we can always use the Sun:Earth ratio as a gauge for all other planet discoveries
Watercooler chitchat? Are you an overweight single 30-something female? At work we talk about old movies all the time from Citizen Kane to Carlitos Way to Apocalypse Now. Some brain dead people only talk about the latest Will Smith oh so hilarious romantic comedy. Why would you want to talk to them by the water cooler? If it was me I wouldn't be drinking from the same tap as them in case their mindless sheeplike behaviour is contagious
This is not ironic or surprising since Soderbergh has long been the champion of Independent cinema. He has always experimented with new and original filmmaking techniques. Big budget tripe like Ocean's Eleven just pays the bills.
Who's forcing you to pay $12 for food at the cinema? Eat your dinner at home.
That explains why they're so dull.
That explains why blogs are so dull.
Would it work on speed cameras?
For every legal P2P download there are a gazillion illegal downloads. This isn't an attack on the technology, which anyone can see, but on the people who are using it. It's a fine protocol, whether it be Bittorrent or some other system, but it's just not being used for the way in which it's supporters claim it's being used for. Clicking on any random torrent site and spending some time searching through the categories I had a lot of difficulty finding any legal torrents. There was some abandonware whose legality I'm unsure and I only found legal patches after explicitly searching for it, but then all of those I saw were available at the games companies own website. I know all forms of P2P have their legitimate uses but it's rarely being used for it. The VAST majority of what I see are Movies, Apps, Games, TV shows and Music and increasingly - ebooks. Now, with the exception of TV shows for foreign viewers I can see no real justification in downloading these. The one I hear a lot is "it's a crap program\movie\song why should I pay for it". Well, if it's a crap program\movie\song why are you even bothering with it? Plus, the various industries have provided plenty of oppurtunity to freely and legally judge if something is worth buying Movies have a gazillion trailers, previews, reviews. Plus everyone knows someone either in RL or online who's seen a movie and can tell them if it's worth watching or not. Games in most cases have demos Apps in many cases have demos or trials, which can show even a moron what it's capability have. Music has free online samples, and a gazillion radio stations worldwide in which to listen to tracks. There are no justifications in this day and age for illegal downloads other than "wanting something for nothing". Justifying it any other way is pointless. Now since, most P2P is used for exactly that purpose, then why are we geeks on /. kicking up a fuss when the governing bodies do what anyone in their position would do and make measures to protect their own.
The RIAA, MPAA, etc are NOT attacking anyone's rights or attacking the technology used... so this has nothing to do with anyone's "right's online", because no-one has the right to break the law anyway. So, they're attacking the people who are breaking it.
If we don't want the RIAA to attack P2P then we, ourselves as a group need to make sure that nobody is abusing the wonderful technology.
Of course, if we could achieve that P2P use would drop to practically nothing. I certainly don't find it very efficient for getting Linux distros, patches, drivers etc. What a pain in the ass that would be, when you can just use the numerous ftp\http servers!
Considering the amount of people that die from Hurricanes every year then it's definitely worth trying.
From my understanding hurricanes only occur when a dozen or so meteorological conditions are "perfect". It should not be impossible to affect enough of these to ensure the hurricane never happens, or it's strength is vastly reduced.
and there always will be
...but maybe stupid people deserve to have their identities stolen. Better to have a smarter version of yourself out there if you're too fucking stupid to look after your money.
"Why are they suing bitorrent users then?"
Well, because they're still downloading\stealing a product for which they aren't paying for.
A young shoplifter who steals the odd DVD from a store isn't a major threat to the business but that doesn't mean they're not going to call the police and prosecute. I worked for a store once that prosecuted any shoplifter whether they stole goods worth 99p or £99.
If anyone steals from a company they have every right to sue, both legally and morally. Music and films are available for cheap legal download these days. There's no excuse for stealing them now, except to get "something for nothing". It's not about free speech or any of that crap. Nor has it anything to do with the fact that "if hollywood made better movies we wouldn't steal them". More nonsense. Sue the lot of them
And rightly so.
This just sounds like yet another lame excuse to justify piracy. For every positive outcome of piracy\theft there are far more negative outcomes. It's so completely obvious, so it still amazes me that people are happy to support piracy and intellectual property theft and try to justify it to themselves that they are doing something good for the industry. They're not. They just want something for nothing, like all thieves.
David Benioff is a fantastic writer. Sure, Troy wasn't the Orgasmotron you were conditioned by the hype to believe it would be, but it was a thoroughly decent flick.
However, Benioff earned his credits with THE 25th HOUR, a perfect screenplay adapted from his own book. It became Spike Lee's greatest movie in years. Judging by that book and script I have the utmost confidence in whatever he writes. He's a writer to look out for.
sigh...
You watch WAY too many weird movies...
They're only cameras.. they're in public places.. What do you expect? Why do you care? Are you planning on doing something you shouldn't? If so, that's why the cameras are there. And FYI, by law, you're entitled to access any CCTV footage that contains your image, so exercise your right.
*sigh* Because they're big and rich it's okay to steal...
What's next? People looking for doodling software?
There should be a poll to rate the stupidity of these people Further proof that biggest security risk to the internet is not Microsoft, Mac, Virii etc. It's the stupidity of the majority of internet users that will bring us all crashing down.
The lesson is clear.... don't steal movies and you won't get arrested.
Aren't people just throwing that word around too much these days?