That would explain the recommendation if it were to come up on Amazon.com, but Walmart.com used a less intelligent linking system. From AFA (another f'ing article), Wal-Mart manually assigns DVDs to categories, and then will pass on the recommendation if you're browsing from the same category. So it has nothing to do with user habits.
Another possibility is found in the old saw "If you've run into five assholes this morning, look in the mirror to see the sixth".
Calling me names, for disagreeing with you in a civil manner. Excellent. It would seem you're the asshole, and don't understand why other people have a problem with Wikipedia.
Back in '97 the cheapest DVD player was over $1000. This isn't like consoles where they sell the hardware at a loss.
It is speculated that both Toshiba and Sony will sell their players at a loss at the beginning. They have more to lose from supporting a dead format, than from the cost of losing money on their first generation of players.
If you really think the "a-hole" will only revert changes from anonymous users, you don't understand the nature of Wikipedia a-holes. If everybody was reasonable, disagreed-upon point would be put on the talk section and discussed intelligently. In reality, these "talk" sections are ofteb bully pulpits for the people with axes to grind, and don't really accomplish anything. I'm sure there are exceptions but I've seen in time and time again.
The problem with this idea is it's just a magnet for people to tamper with his page - Wiki had to block edits of Bush and Kerry during the 2004 election. There isn't the mechanisms to revert changes and viewers can get a bad impression. Just now, for instance, I noticed that somebody defaced his website by posting a picture of a really geeky-looking white guy.
IP laws were first developed in agrarian slave economies, before IP content was worth much, and before IP content was so easy to copy. The original idea of IP has been abandoned because it so scarcely relates to our current situation. In an era where the production of IP is big business, a big-business slant to IP laws makes perfect sense.
Do derivative works really lead to significant new ideas? Most people would say the opposite. There were ten thousand Nirvana-imitating bands, and all of them were shit. There's been 8,000 fanfics where Riker gets command of the Enterprise, and nobody with sense wants to read any of them. Most of all, the IP furor is caused by people who want to download "King Kong" or Britney Spears off the Internet without paying anyone, I'd love to hear about the great new ideas this is encouraging.
I heard of it, because Something awful posted a short paragraphstating that it sounded really generic, and Mourning responded with legal threats. Pretty cool! I wonder if Slashdot will get a C&D in the mail?
I'm sorry but Oasis (#1) blows. The gameplay is too simple and not deep at all. It would be OK if they got it working on a cell phone or PDA, where you have lowered expectations and just want to kill time for five minutes, but as a computer game it's not even as fun as Solitaire or Minesweeper. And they want something like $30 for it? A fucking joke. If it wasn't that people want to root for the underdog, it wouldn't be getting any attention.
And I could have sworn it was winning Independent Game of the Year awards in 2004 - I must admit it gets me a little negative on the scene.
What are you talking about? You don't need an old DVD drive to play different-region DVDs. I thought everybody knew that. Microsoft's not supplying drivers for these is of no practical effect to watching foreign DVDs. Maybe you should think for a minute before getting all self-righteous.
Huh, you seem to be reading things into people's postings that aren't really there. The main points made in favor of domestics isn't the excellent social interaction and the chance to make new friends, but that they're cheaper and better than robots could ever hope to be - suggesting that Japan's robot-care program is an unnecessary expense driven by xenophobia. Maybe you could argue that domestic help is actually very problematic, but "liberal guilt"??? That's way too convoluted, clearly you're on some anti-Liberal kick and start reading discussions hoping to find some.
And for what it's worth, my 100-year-old Grand Auntie does have some domestic help, some ladies from Tonga. The idea wasn't to make friends, but they do chat. It helps her out, so why not?
I've been to the Nuclear Sadness Spots in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in Japan (where they used paper doors) people literally would have half their body destroyed - the part protected by the paper would survive, the rest would be killed by the gamma radiation. Perhaps shielding your body with newspaper isn't totally useless advice - obviously it would be useless for a ground zero, but for the outskirts, sure.
1. They probably understand what robots are better than the general populace of America. People are less afraid of what they understand.
And alternatively, Japanese people are scared of minorities and foreigners, to the extent that police will arrest and check for the papers of people just for looking foreign, or speaking in a foreign language. Literally any crime is blamed on foreigners. The real story is, why is Japan more willing to spend billions of dollars for absurd pie-in-the-sky visions of robots becoming your friend, and unwilling to grant citizenship to other ethnicities, to increase the labor force and make up for a shrinking population?
Anyway everybody loves R2D2 & wanted the cool "Rocky 3" robot, I think Slashdot posters exaggerate the fear.
Hmmm...that was true years ago, but now the most popular cell phones in Japan are the same ones being sold in the US, China, Europe, etc., all at the same time - right now the most popular Japanese cell phone is the Sony Ericsson model, although granted the previous entry of the line (the 800) isn't available in the US.
I think it's more or less true with every technology. There's little reason not to release the product world-wide, as there's world-wide demand for tech gadgets. Sure some countries have some gadgets that are more popular than elsewhere - in the US, for instance, PDAs and PDA-phones are much more popular than in other countries. But overall it's a world market for international companies, not something that operates on a nation-by-nation basis.
You're comparing Apples and Oranges - Britian has had an easier time of it specifically because they were given less volatile cities. Obviously if the US and the UK were equally willing to occupy cities, but the UK was better at it, the UK would have been the ones to occupy contested cities such as Baghdad. Instead, they chose to occupy Shi'ite and Kurdish majority cities that were less ethnically divided and less hostile to the Occupation
I seriously doubt the UK's experience in running a colonial empire 70+ years ago is a major asset in the current struggles in Iraq. How does that make any sense. UK Naval Officers aren't especially proficient in anal sex or hording their rum rations, which went along with their empire experience.
How does this get rated +5? It makes no sense These clothes aren't for what to wear around town, it's for what to wear while in an armored running tank with poor ventilation. Iraqi clothing wasn't developed for such cases and wouldn't be appropriate - it doesn't matter what clothes you wear or don't wear, they won't keep you cool at 130 degrees without ventilation.
And the idea that American soldiers are going to start blending in with native populations is of course completely ludicrous. Not so say it couldn't happen in the far future, but it's certainly not happening now, give me a break.
Funny how they missed bin Laden in 2001, who turned the world upside down, in favour of Giuliani, who for all his virtues, was just a mayor.
Actually, they were going to give it to Bin Laden, but they realize the title is confused as an award, and they wanted to avoid the controversy.
Every two-wit fuck knows Giuliani didn't alter world events the way Bin Laden did, and his selection was a way to acknowledge the attack and still have a positive American spin on the cover. Who's a better person, I'll leave as an exercise to the reader.
What he was actually saying (translating Bullshit to English) was "whine whine whine my pet project doesn't get enough respect whine whine whine here's some generic if valid criticisms of Wikipedia that don't really apply here whine whine whine."
The related comic was actually pretty funny - Skeletor updates He-Man's Wikipedia entry. However I think the timeline has no place on Wikipedia. It's of no interest to anybody but fans, who could just as easily go straight to the Epic Legends of the Hierarchs page. And hiding the whining behind a slew of fifty-cent words is just ridiculous. Wikipedia isn't the place for every single minor Internet phenomenon to get an encyclopedic entry, and its guidelines make that pretty clear.
Obviously you are suiting history to fit your propoganda. The idea that Joe Six-Pack started filesharing copywrited files after the RIAA made news by suing these people is, well, not at all the truth. You know it, and everybody here knows it.
More than that, the RIAA started suing in different countries at different times. It hasn't happened at all in China, where filesharing is extremely popular. Face it, free easily-available music and movies is a model with no viable competition. The threat of legal problems or ramping up the difficulty of bootlegging is the only way to compete.
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Planet Of The Apes - Social Commentary.
Martin Luther King - Import changer of society.
That would explain the recommendation if it were to come up on Amazon.com, but Walmart.com used a less intelligent linking system. From AFA (another f'ing article), Wal-Mart manually assigns DVDs to categories, and then will pass on the recommendation if you're browsing from the same category. So it has nothing to do with user habits.
YEah, and Japan likes Minidisc a lot as well. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate Japan's reputation as being technology-forward.
Huh? There must be some mistake. From reading Slashdot I know that bittorrent is just used for Linux distributions and self-produced rock albums.
I wish there was a "-1 Self-Righteous Bullshit" mod.
Calling me names, for disagreeing with you in a civil manner. Excellent. It would seem you're the asshole, and don't understand why other people have a problem with Wikipedia.
It is speculated that both Toshiba and Sony will sell their players at a loss at the beginning. They have more to lose from supporting a dead format, than from the cost of losing money on their first generation of players.
If you really think the "a-hole" will only revert changes from anonymous users, you don't understand the nature of Wikipedia a-holes. If everybody was reasonable, disagreed-upon point would be put on the talk section and discussed intelligently. In reality, these "talk" sections are ofteb bully pulpits for the people with axes to grind, and don't really accomplish anything. I'm sure there are exceptions but I've seen in time and time again.
There's no reason. Just be one of the first people to post something semi-relevant and you get an automatic +5 ranking.
The problem with this idea is it's just a magnet for people to tamper with his page - Wiki had to block edits of Bush and Kerry during the 2004 election. There isn't the mechanisms to revert changes and viewers can get a bad impression. Just now, for instance, I noticed that somebody defaced his website by posting a picture of a really geeky-looking white guy.
Do derivative works really lead to significant new ideas? Most people would say the opposite. There were ten thousand Nirvana-imitating bands, and all of them were shit. There's been 8,000 fanfics where Riker gets command of the Enterprise, and nobody with sense wants to read any of them. Most of all, the IP furor is caused by people who want to download "King Kong" or Britney Spears off the Internet without paying anyone, I'd love to hear about the great new ideas this is encouraging.
I heard of it, because Something awful posted a short paragraphstating that it sounded really generic, and Mourning responded with legal threats. Pretty cool! I wonder if Slashdot will get a C&D in the mail?
Zing! Maybe it's just me, but that "Jerry Lewis is popular in France" joke just never gets old. Keep the chuckles coming, bigman2003.
He sticks his head in the sand, in the most hilarious of fashions!
And I could have sworn it was winning Independent Game of the Year awards in 2004 - I must admit it gets me a little negative on the scene.
What are you talking about? You don't need an old DVD drive to play different-region DVDs. I thought everybody knew that. Microsoft's not supplying drivers for these is of no practical effect to watching foreign DVDs. Maybe you should think for a minute before getting all self-righteous.
And for what it's worth, my 100-year-old Grand Auntie does have some domestic help, some ladies from Tonga. The idea wasn't to make friends, but they do chat. It helps her out, so why not?
I've been to the Nuclear Sadness Spots in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in Japan (where they used paper doors) people literally would have half their body destroyed - the part protected by the paper would survive, the rest would be killed by the gamma radiation. Perhaps shielding your body with newspaper isn't totally useless advice - obviously it would be useless for a ground zero, but for the outskirts, sure.
And alternatively, Japanese people are scared of minorities and foreigners, to the extent that police will arrest and check for the papers of people just for looking foreign, or speaking in a foreign language. Literally any crime is blamed on foreigners. The real story is, why is Japan more willing to spend billions of dollars for absurd pie-in-the-sky visions of robots becoming your friend, and unwilling to grant citizenship to other ethnicities, to increase the labor force and make up for a shrinking population?
Anyway everybody loves R2D2 & wanted the cool "Rocky 3" robot, I think Slashdot posters exaggerate the fear.
I think it's more or less true with every technology. There's little reason not to release the product world-wide, as there's world-wide demand for tech gadgets. Sure some countries have some gadgets that are more popular than elsewhere - in the US, for instance, PDAs and PDA-phones are much more popular than in other countries. But overall it's a world market for international companies, not something that operates on a nation-by-nation basis.
I seriously doubt the UK's experience in running a colonial empire 70+ years ago is a major asset in the current struggles in Iraq. How does that make any sense. UK Naval Officers aren't especially proficient in anal sex or hording their rum rations, which went along with their empire experience.
And the idea that American soldiers are going to start blending in with native populations is of course completely ludicrous. Not so say it couldn't happen in the far future, but it's certainly not happening now, give me a break.
Actually, they were going to give it to Bin Laden, but they realize the title is confused as an award, and they wanted to avoid the controversy.
Every two-wit fuck knows Giuliani didn't alter world events the way Bin Laden did, and his selection was a way to acknowledge the attack and still have a positive American spin on the cover. Who's a better person, I'll leave as an exercise to the reader.
What he was actually saying (translating Bullshit to English) was "whine whine whine my pet project doesn't get enough respect whine whine whine here's some generic if valid criticisms of Wikipedia that don't really apply here whine whine whine."
The related comic was actually pretty funny - Skeletor updates He-Man's Wikipedia entry. However I think the timeline has no place on Wikipedia. It's of no interest to anybody but fans, who could just as easily go straight to the Epic Legends of the Hierarchs page. And hiding the whining behind a slew of fifty-cent words is just ridiculous. Wikipedia isn't the place for every single minor Internet phenomenon to get an encyclopedic entry, and its guidelines make that pretty clear.
More than that, the RIAA started suing in different countries at different times. It hasn't happened at all in China, where filesharing is extremely popular. Face it, free easily-available music and movies is a model with no viable competition. The threat of legal problems or ramping up the difficulty of bootlegging is the only way to compete.