Was going to moderate this thread, but I can't help but comment.
I have a feeling that if a bill allowing something like this goes through, it will be open season on the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc. Given how the RIAA's website was hit after the lawsuits, I'm pretty sure it'd be down permanently. And I would think that RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc members would be hit hard as well. And I'm not talking just online. I could foresee real world action being taken: vandalism, theft, perhaps even arson or bombings. It'd be anarchy.
Something like this must not...um...hrm...destroying the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc...okay, I have no objections. Bring it on.
Perhaps out of environmental concerns, this won't work out for mass produced DVD rentals. But I believe that more and more professional movie critics will be receiving DVDs of this type for review. Just a thought.
I think part of the problem nowadays is that kids shows are too 'kiddy.' With a renewed emphasis on parental involvement, there seems to be a bit more time spent together as a family. And since parents control the remote and are actively watching with their kids, are they going to want to watch mindless garbage like Hamtaro or Pokemon? I think not. In my mind, the best cartoons are the ones that can appeal to everyone. And I'm not just talking the classic classics: Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, et al. I'm also talking Animaniacs (loaded with political satire for adults and slapstick for everyone) and Batman (violence for the kiddies, anti-hero engaging plots for the adults).
Just my two cents. Gods bless the Cartoon Network for saving a lot of these shows.
Here at the beautiful University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, we have a rate-limiting system in place for bandwidth in the dorms (since zrosener lives in a dorm, I'm guessing he hosted it in his room). At 600 MB of traffic (last time I checked) one's bandwidth gets slightly smaller. At 750 MB, bandwidth shrinks considerably. After a few gigs of traffic, one gets removed from the network and needs to call in to some office to get back on. I'm really curious as to how much traffic zrosener had...I'm guessing he's been cut off though. Now hopefully he won't get our EWS servers/.ed. I imagine it'd be hard, but not impossible...
The RIAA is horribly misguided. Those networks are used to share movies, not music. Yeesh.
In all seriousness, I'm wondering one thing: why didn't the students block outside IP addresses (the way the article reads, it sounds like they didn't)?
Oh, I concur that there is some grade inflation in the engineering program here (yeah, I also go to UIUC) and in the CS program, it doesn't surprise me. From stories and personal experiences, quite a few of the profs have their heads up their asses and have unreal expectations of students' abilities. When the average on a test is below 50%, it begins to make you wonder what the hell is going on. And in cases like that, I'd assume it's very hard to get a decent distribution for grading. Best to err on the side of caution and give a few people higher grades than they deserve, I suppose. But the prof really needs to have expectations that make sense. I don't mean to say they shouldn't try to challenge students, they should, but they shouldn't work the class so that a 40% will get an A.
The judge is right! The X-men are not dolls. Boys don't play with dolls. They're action figures! Dolls are wussy, action figures are manly! And don't you forget that.
You think student council's should decide this?!? They're probably the only people on campus less capable of good decisions then the admin. Jeez...student gov't is just something hippie Liberal Arts majors do to put on their resumes. They're a joke. Literally. Last year a gnome and snail won the presidential/vice presidential elections at my school with a clear plurality but because said hippies wish to retain power for their hippie brethren, said gnome and snail were disqualified.
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Not really a bad time. The guest artist is Phil Foglio. You might remember this artist from such games as Magic: The Gathering and XXXenophile.
First, I don't think you want to be stealing from the mafia.
Second, piracy is not stealing. Stealing entails depriving a party of use. Piracy is just unauthorized copying. Not stealing.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Was going to moderate this thread, but I can't help but comment.
I have a feeling that if a bill allowing something like this goes through, it will be open season on the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc. Given how the RIAA's website was hit after the lawsuits, I'm pretty sure it'd be down permanently. And I would think that RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc members would be hit hard as well. And I'm not talking just online. I could foresee real world action being taken: vandalism, theft, perhaps even arson or bombings. It'd be anarchy.
Something like this must not...um...hrm...destroying the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/etc...okay, I have no objections. Bring it on.
The Star Wars example is a moot point. The original three episodes have not been released to DVD.
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Happy to help, have a nice day.
Yes, this lab is still being used. It is nifty. Good to see other schools adding freshman lab courses.
global warming (yes it does exist, America)
As I post, it is 41 degrees Fahrenheit in Chicago. In June. 41 DEGREES IN FREAKING JUNE! Yes, this just reeks of global warming, doesn't it?
Rapists deserve it. An eye for an eye and all that.
Perhaps out of environmental concerns, this won't work out for mass produced DVD rentals. But I believe that more and more professional movie critics will be receiving DVDs of this type for review. Just a thought.
Why doesn't Mozilla just codename it Project Trogdor? Yeah, it's more dragon-y than phoenix-y, but it's also hella cool.
And I'm doubting that the Brothers Chaps would say no if the Mozilla people asked them nicely. More publicity both ways.
"And all was laid to burnination..."
I think part of the problem nowadays is that kids shows are too 'kiddy.' With a renewed emphasis on parental involvement, there seems to be a bit more time spent together as a family. And since parents control the remote and are actively watching with their kids, are they going to want to watch mindless garbage like Hamtaro or Pokemon? I think not. In my mind, the best cartoons are the ones that can appeal to everyone. And I'm not just talking the classic classics: Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, et al. I'm also talking Animaniacs (loaded with political satire for adults and slapstick for everyone) and Batman (violence for the kiddies, anti-hero engaging plots for the adults).
Just my two cents. Gods bless the Cartoon Network for saving a lot of these shows.
Tag it and bag it boys; looks like another victim of Slashdot.
Here at the beautiful University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, we have a rate-limiting system in place for bandwidth in the dorms (since zrosener lives in a dorm, I'm guessing he hosted it in his room). At 600 MB of traffic (last time I checked) one's bandwidth gets slightly smaller. At 750 MB, bandwidth shrinks considerably. After a few gigs of traffic, one gets removed from the network and needs to call in to some office to get back on. I'm really curious as to how much traffic zrosener had...I'm guessing he's been cut off though. Now hopefully he won't get our EWS servers /.ed. I imagine it'd be hard, but not impossible...
The RIAA is horribly misguided. Those networks are used to share movies, not music. Yeesh.
In all seriousness, I'm wondering one thing: why didn't the students block outside IP addresses (the way the article reads, it sounds like they didn't)?
Live and learn I guess.
Grr...I had five modpoints. Why, why was I not allowed to spend them to give Michael's comments a '-1 Flamebait'? WHY?!?
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Oh, I concur that there is some grade inflation in the engineering program here (yeah, I also go to UIUC) and in the CS program, it doesn't surprise me. From stories and personal experiences, quite a few of the profs have their heads up their asses and have unreal expectations of students' abilities. When the average on a test is below 50%, it begins to make you wonder what the hell is going on. And in cases like that, I'd assume it's very hard to get a decent distribution for grading. Best to err on the side of caution and give a few people higher grades than they deserve, I suppose. But the prof really needs to have expectations that make sense. I don't mean to say they shouldn't try to challenge students, they should, but they shouldn't work the class so that a 40% will get an A.
The judge is right! The X-men are not dolls. Boys don't play with dolls. They're action figures! Dolls are wussy, action figures are manly! And don't you forget that.
Well, at least they died smiling...
You think student council's should decide this?!? They're probably the only people on campus less capable of good decisions then the admin. Jeez...student gov't is just something hippie Liberal Arts majors do to put on their resumes. They're a joke. Literally. Last year a gnome and snail won the presidential/vice presidential elections at my school with a clear plurality but because said hippies wish to retain power for their hippie brethren, said gnome and snail were disqualified.
Damn hippies.
The fact that Sinbad is on that page completely negates everyone else.