Funny, because there was a time before video, cable TV, PPV, etc. when pretty much the entirety of a movie's profits were its box office receipts, and yet big budget movies still got made.
In fact, I'd say the average quality of the movies being produced back then was a lot higher as well. Maybe they should just go back to making movies that way, and then release them on video at slightly over the cost of duplication once they go public domain (after we change the lifespan of copyrights back to 7-14 years, of course)
If a truly self-driving car ever does come around, it would not only revolutionize our lives in terms of commuting, but also in the movement of goods. Why even have stores when you could let customers select what they want online and then immediately dispatch a cartload of goods to their house? If this comes around the time of some sort of renewable electric car, we may find ourselves living in ever more sprawling low-density cities. What trouble is it to live 50 miles outside of town when you can get into town in no time while reading the paper in your own private vehicle?
So, if this is the case, should my friends and I not be allowed to create, say, a large distributed database of all the music we've purchased over the years and share that music using a system designed to ensure that only one person can be listening to any one copy of an album at any given time?
While one wants to have access to hear the music on demand, most don't care so much about physically possessing the album. At any given moment the demand is probably pretty low- If there were a system like this set up, I'd imagine you could satisfy a lot of users' demand for even a very popular album with only a couple copies of it.
is that if apple buys up 40% of their production, they're likely to seriously increase their production in the next year, and the market will likely be flooded in a couple years. it has been a long time coming, but flash ram is about to undergo a serious price drop. combined with continual improvements in scaling and capacity, perhaps this means we'll have 40GB flash drives by 2007. that ought to shake things up a bit...
I think it's safe to say that no amount of evidence can convince some people that the God they worship is not real. They'll just come up with some new twist of logic to fit their God into the facts they now know. You may think I'm talking about you and your religion, and maybe I am, but then your people typically say the same thing about followers of other religions. Funny how the twists of logic are foolish for everyone but one's self.
i doubt it would go upwards. my prior post was actually based on a classic anti-drug commercial from the 80's- "i do coke so i can work longer, so i can earn more money, so i can buy more coke..."
i didn't say i didn't know how to read it. i said i hadn't read it. honestly, there's no point in me reading it, because i'm powerless to do anything about it besides voting. i think it's safe to say that writing your congressman or petitioning him with anything other than $$ is a waste of time. considering that i don't have the money to buy a voice, there's no point in reading the bill.
there's a great documentary on the life of Leon Theremin called Theremin - an electronic odyssey, in which Bob Moog is featured prominently. It also has a hilarious interview with Brian Wilson, who appears to be stoned out of his gourd. A definite must-see...
...and I havent RTFB (bill), but it wouldn't surprise me if this did the exact opposite of whatever it claims to do. It probably gives several major corporations further right to completely own yur azz...
obvious, eh? it's obvious that you don't know me, cowardly anonymous troll. There is a fair subsection of CSS, XHTML, etc that you can use and be assured of it working properly under both IE and Firefox, as well as the others. I'd venture that there is little outside this area of overlap that is absolutely ESSENTIAL to a website, and that there aren't workarounds, including HTML. It's not elegant, but it is typical of most things in reality that there have to be things which are not elegant, and often even jury-rigged.
Any web designer worth his salt (which a large organization like the US Copyright Office should certainly be hiring) is going to take the time to do it right so that it works well regardless of the browser, instead of being lazy and making an IE-only site or just insisting that these standards should work, and that it's IE's fault. To borrow from Rummy, you design for the internet we have, not the internet we wish we had.
Shame about losing 85% of your viewers/cutomers/income.
I don't buy that. There's nothing about well-written HTML that excludes IE people. Besides, I somehow don't think the US Copyright Office is worried about losing "viewers/customers/income" as they sort of have a local monopoly on their given subject...
Couldn't Apple just create a hardware certification program where they only promise to work with software that has their seal and the only give their seal to vendors who have drivers and hardware that work properly? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to solve this problem, and believe it or not, 99% of users aren't trying to use ancient devices on their computers, and certainly wouldn't be surprised if a new OS didn't support some ancient device...
Hey, I've got a serial trackball from 1989 that doesn't seem to work with Windows 2000... WTF!? Damned Microsoft!!!
going to a coffee shop is not just about drinking coffee (although their professional grade espresso machine makes much better coffee than anything i could afford) it's about getting out of the house and being in a comfortable environment with your friends...
If you care, start by learning about honne and tatamae
What is it with you Japs and your riddles? I'm American, so obviously I'm too lazy to look it up... Did I ask for a zen koan? Would you mind illuminating us?
For instance, as it seeps into public consciousness, it creates a new awareness of the transience of life. It forces people to live with the constant fear that, one day, a sudden war or accident might kill not only them, but also their children and grandchildren, and everybody they love. This awareness gradually creates a sense of the hollowness of life. For many, life is denuded of substantive meaning. The psychological numbing I have mentioned completes the picture.
You know, I think nuclear weapons suck and all, but this is a lousy complaint about them. We all are possibly an instant a way from death at any given moment. That was true long before nuclear weapons were a reality. If one was only happy because they had deluded themselves into forgetting that their life and everyone else's life is a transient event, then their happiness was rather ill-founded anyway.
I'd venture to say that people contemplating the impermanence of their lives more often may be one of the positive effects of nuclearism. If I can't go on living my stupid selfish life of collecting shiny, noisy crap, thinking that I'm going to live forever with all my things around me, if I'm forced to live every day as though it were my last, I'm better off. Don't you think?
I'm thinking reggae would do the trick personally...
Yes! Certain varieties of cannabis are very hardy. We could crash a satellite full of genetically-modified extremophile marijuana seeds on Mars. Then, when we finally get people there, paradise will surely await them! Brilliant! Sign me up!
I say it's tacky, and that only a tacky person would blow so much money on something that is so inefficient just because they think it looks cool and shows off their money (see hummers, 22" rims, bling, etc), but as they say de gustibus non disputandum est...
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Funny, because there was a time before video, cable TV, PPV, etc. when pretty much the entirety of a movie's profits were its box office receipts, and yet big budget movies still got made.
In fact, I'd say the average quality of the movies being produced back then was a lot higher as well. Maybe they should just go back to making movies that way, and then release them on video at slightly over the cost of duplication once they go public domain (after we change the lifespan of copyrights back to 7-14 years, of course)
If a truly self-driving car ever does come around, it would not only revolutionize our lives in terms of commuting, but also in the movement of goods. Why even have stores when you could let customers select what they want online and then immediately dispatch a cartload of goods to their house? If this comes around the time of some sort of renewable electric car, we may find ourselves living in ever more sprawling low-density cities. What trouble is it to live 50 miles outside of town when you can get into town in no time while reading the paper in your own private vehicle?
So, if this is the case, should my friends and I not be allowed to create, say, a large distributed database of all the music we've purchased over the years and share that music using a system designed to ensure that only one person can be listening to any one copy of an album at any given time?
While one wants to have access to hear the music on demand, most don't care so much about physically possessing the album. At any given moment the demand is probably pretty low- If there were a system like this set up, I'd imagine you could satisfy a lot of users' demand for even a very popular album with only a couple copies of it.
They're so creative! First they invented shipping with styrofoam peanuts and now worms?! What'll they think of next?...
is that if apple buys up 40% of their production, they're likely to seriously increase their production in the next year, and the market will likely be flooded in a couple years. it has been a long time coming, but flash ram is about to undergo a serious price drop. combined with continual improvements in scaling and capacity, perhaps this means we'll have 40GB flash drives by 2007. that ought to shake things up a bit...
I think it's safe to say that no amount of evidence can convince some people that the God they worship is not real. They'll just come up with some new twist of logic to fit their God into the facts they now know. You may think I'm talking about you and your religion, and maybe I am, but then your people typically say the same thing about followers of other religions. Funny how the twists of logic are foolish for everyone but one's self.
that will be used for their new predictive news service
i doubt it would go upwards. my prior post was actually based on a classic anti-drug commercial from the 80's- "i do coke so i can work longer, so i can earn more money, so i can buy more coke..."
...so i can make more money. ...so i can buy more cx717 ...so i can work longer. ...so i can make more money ...so i can buy more cx717 ...so i can...
i didn't say i didn't know how to read it. i said i hadn't read it. honestly, there's no point in me reading it, because i'm powerless to do anything about it besides voting. i think it's safe to say that writing your congressman or petitioning him with anything other than $$ is a waste of time. considering that i don't have the money to buy a voice, there's no point in reading the bill.
there's a great documentary on the life of Leon Theremin called Theremin - an electronic odyssey, in which Bob Moog is featured prominently. It also has a hilarious interview with Brian Wilson, who appears to be stoned out of his gourd. A definite must-see...
...and I havent RTFB (bill), but it wouldn't surprise me if this did the exact opposite of whatever it claims to do. It probably gives several major corporations further right to completely own yur azz...
the USPTO might just be dumb enough to give you a patent on that, too... :)
maybe if/when the much hyped OLED Keyboard comes out, and someday it made its way onto laptops, that would solve that problem...
obvious, eh? it's obvious that you don't know me, cowardly anonymous troll. There is a fair subsection of CSS, XHTML, etc that you can use and be assured of it working properly under both IE and Firefox, as well as the others. I'd venture that there is little outside this area of overlap that is absolutely ESSENTIAL to a website, and that there aren't workarounds, including HTML. It's not elegant, but it is typical of most things in reality that there have to be things which are not elegant, and often even jury-rigged.
Any web designer worth his salt (which a large organization like the US Copyright Office should certainly be hiring) is going to take the time to do it right so that it works well regardless of the browser, instead of being lazy and making an IE-only site or just insisting that these standards should work, and that it's IE's fault. To borrow from Rummy, you design for the internet we have, not the internet we wish we had.
Shame about losing 85% of your viewers/cutomers/income.
I don't buy that. There's nothing about well-written HTML that excludes IE people. Besides, I somehow don't think the US Copyright Office is worried about losing "viewers/customers/income" as they sort of have a local monopoly on their given subject...
Couldn't Apple just create a hardware certification program where they only promise to work with software that has their seal and the only give their seal to vendors who have drivers and hardware that work properly? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to solve this problem, and believe it or not, 99% of users aren't trying to use ancient devices on their computers, and certainly wouldn't be surprised if a new OS didn't support some ancient device...
Hey, I've got a serial trackball from 1989 that doesn't seem to work with Windows 2000... WTF!? Damned Microsoft!!!
Question is, are we going to be stupid enough to continue down this wreckless path?
What's stupid about continuing down a path which resuts in no wrecks?
going to a coffee shop is not just about drinking coffee (although their professional grade espresso machine makes much better coffee than anything i could afford) it's about getting out of the house and being in a comfortable environment with your friends...
no, 110 film is still too widely available. it must be a Disc camera...
If you care, start by learning about honne and tatamae
What is it with you Japs and your riddles? I'm American, so obviously I'm too lazy to look it up... Did I ask for a zen koan? Would you mind illuminating us?
J/K!
For instance, as it seeps into public consciousness, it creates a new awareness of the transience of life. It forces people to live with the constant fear that, one day, a sudden war or accident might kill not only them, but also their children and grandchildren, and everybody they love. This awareness gradually creates a sense of the hollowness of life. For many, life is denuded of substantive meaning. The psychological numbing I have mentioned completes the picture.
You know, I think nuclear weapons suck and all, but this is a lousy complaint about them. We all are possibly an instant a way from death at any given moment. That was true long before nuclear weapons were a reality. If one was only happy because they had deluded themselves into forgetting that their life and everyone else's life is a transient event, then their happiness was rather ill-founded anyway.
I'd venture to say that people contemplating the impermanence of their lives more often may be one of the positive effects of nuclearism. If I can't go on living my stupid selfish life of collecting shiny, noisy crap, thinking that I'm going to live forever with all my things around me, if I'm forced to live every day as though it were my last, I'm better off. Don't you think?
lol... all excellent points!
I'm thinking reggae would do the trick personally...
Yes! Certain varieties of cannabis are very hardy. We could crash a satellite full of genetically-modified extremophile marijuana seeds on Mars. Then, when we finally get people there, paradise will surely await them! Brilliant! Sign me up!
I say it's tacky, and that only a tacky person would blow so much money on something that is so inefficient just because they think it looks cool and shows off their money (see hummers, 22" rims, bling, etc), but as they say de gustibus non disputandum est...