What you're saying may appear to be the truth, but only from a great distance.
The Prime Minister wasn't chosen on personal merit, she was chosen because she's from a family that's traditionally held the job of Prime Minister. It's been going on for four generations and it's an embarassment to Indian politics.
Dr. Abdul Kalam is a token Muslim. Perhaps you didn't know that the leading political party in India is a Hindu theological party. They rose to national power largely on feelings risen by anti-Muslim riots & the destruction of an ancient mosque, and many of the worst criminals rose to positions of power. India has a large Muslim minority, so the eccentric-scientist-Muslim was given the powerless position of President, as a form of placation. It's vaguely equivalent to allowing one black guy who doesn't play golf into an all-white country club.
it would make it oh-so-harder to justify their legal pursuit of grannies and pre-teens to the general public
The RIAA doesn't exist for the sole purpose of going after people - obviously they must feel economically threatened by file-swapping, or why would they engage in something which results in so much bad press? The RIAA is acting in its own self-interest, not out of a desire to be cruel.
We're the poor RIAA, we are making so much more money in a week than you poor consumers
Of course the CEO's of the RIAA companies are rich, I don't really see that as relevant.
understand why we are fucking the artists, and giving them pennies for every CD sold
As an indie music fan, I must repeat: there are legitimate alternatives to the RIAA. It's widely understoon that signing to a major label is a Faustian deal, but musicians also know that only record labels have the promotional machine to take marginal & genuine talents and make them into stars. These artists signed contracts, they knew what they were getting into, and why...to claim they shouldn't be held to these contracts after hitting it big is odd logic.
Most music out there isn't RIAA, and is often very good. The way I see it, if you don't support the RIAA system, why not stop listening to the RIAA's music?
The Western notion of God means the being is all-powerful, morally perfect, and the creator of the universe. It's difficult to believe people would start bowing down, like it was C3PO with the Ewoks...
There's already a lot of people who believe in Grey Aliens, but I haven't heard of people interpreting these Greys to be Christian angels or demons.
Nintendo should have realized that the average gamer wants his franchises like they remember them
You realize that this looks absolutely nothing like this , right? The original Zelda, compared to RPGs of the time, had a cartoon look, and there was also a popular cartoon made out of the video game. Wild Walker definitely looks different than the original Zelda, but is more true than the new screenshots.
Wow, 1% of your paid time! Assuming a 40 hour work week (yeah I know, but work with me here), that's a whopping 24 minutes to the community, every week! What a citizen!
The Ansaris are U.S. residents (citizens too, I would guess - the article doesn't say, but as they both are well-established American businesspeople, I find it likely). Saying that their Muslim-nation background makes them automatically suspect is a witch-hunt.
The basic science of missiles is understood - the science of the X-Prize is on developing a re-usable vehicle that can make multiple trips within a couple of weeks. I'm not an expert, but I'd be surprised if X-Prize technology ends up getting used in ICBM's.
Sponsoring the X-Prize doesn't mean the Ansaris have exclusive access to its aerodynamic secrets.
The most popular movie in Iran right now is a satire of religious extremists. Of course they do hold most of the political power, but this isn't a heirarchal society where every person of Persian background (including US citizens) is trying to build a bomb for the religious right.
"Absolutely the only thing stopping them is fear of retribution ala Afghanistan or Iraq"??? I'd love to hear you back that up. It seems to me, that a determined state could make an anonymous terrorist attack of some kind. Anyway, the war on Iraq isn't retribution for anything; even Bush doesn't claim that, I don't know why you would. The war on Afghanistan may be retribution at heart, but the Taliban (or the people of Afghanistan) didn't attack the US.
I agree, anyone of Iranian background is suspect! Why, using this system, Mrs. Ansari (perhaps bitter about not placing #1 in "Working Woman's Top 40 under 40" list) could bomb the US! Then, sometime within the next couple weeks, they could bomb the US again!
Thank you for your well-informed post. I also had better inform the travel agency to cancel their tour groups to Iran.
I've been a MD owner for years, but any more, I think the only reason to own a MD is that you want to make recordings of concerts or other live music. For this, MD isn't a perfect solution, but it's definitely very easy and yields very good results - get a Sharp though.
For this use, computer connectivity isn't relevant - unfortunately, you have to upload the music via an analog link.
Another DVD-by-mail service, Greencine already does this, with WMA and DivX - I've only done the video preview, but it appears to work pretty well. The problem is that movies are apparently hard to license for online viewing - mostly just obscurish indie movies, and porn.
To be honest, I can't see movies being so much quicker to license these rights to Netflix, even if it is larger than Greencine.
I rent videos. I listen to the radio. $10/month for a subscription where I can hear any song I want to (which I doubt is the case, but I haven't looked around on Napster or the other fee-based downloading services) sounds like a very good deal to me.
People pay much more for their monthly cable TV bill, and for me, music is better than cable TV any day of the week. Or, satellite radio is a more exotic & inconvenient technology than playing.wma's, but Sirius and X-Radio are both still going, with people paying $10/month.
At some (perhaps future) point where this technology has evolved, why even bother to own the music, when you can conveniently access a music subscription? The reason I own isn't because I'm collecting plastic, it's because the sound quality and convenience is so much higher. If these issues can be addressed, there's no reason to be categorically opposed to the idea of subscription-based music.
It's shallow to be so close-minded about Christianity, and blame everything you disagree with on religious fundamentalists.
While some Christians may oppose gambling, Christianity doesn't forbid gambling - as a 5 second Googling would show you. You might note, a lot of Christian churches (from what I hear) run Bingo nights, and a lot of non-Christians are also opposed to gambling. Sure Western moral codes are all derived from Christianity, so by extension you can blame Christianity for almost anything if you're of the mind-set. But it's also Western moral codes that lead you to believe the philosophical (obviously not factual) opinion that the indivisual can act separately from a group, or that people must indivisually come to their own sense of right and wrong.
And the worst part of it is, the RIAA forced the artists into signing those contracts! Oh wait, they didn't. Well then, the artists could have no idea that these contracts would be absurdly weighted in the favor of the record label. Oh wait, that's common knowledge, but the artists still view it as their way to get a jump-start in the music industry...
Cry me a fucking river, they knew it was a Faustian deal and they still signed up for it. Probably most of the RIAA star artist's wouldn't have ever become star artists, if they didn't have the RIAA's promotional machine behind them - I can't imagine Courtney Love getting so big without Geffen Records, for instance. And there's plenty of non-RIAA alternatives for artists who think they can make it big without the RIAA label's promotional machines.
OK you can keep it to yourself, buddy! Perhaps you can enjoy rubbing twigs together to make fire, or walking up a hill and then back down, or whatever else there is to do out there.
Nature is boring, there's nothing to do. There are no concerts, no pubs, almost no scoping, you can't find a newspaper, it isn't convenient to meet up with friends, no good food, and so on. You just walk around. Small cities are more boring than big cities, and nature is even more boring than that. Yuck!
There is definitely a call for such a product. Right now, you can buy miniature TVs, portable DVD players, not to mention RCA and Archos HD-based video players.
They're not all that common, but they're not a niche product, either.
And personally, such a product sounds like it might be fun, for the inevitable downtime while travelling. If it has a TV-out, that would also be convenient.
On the other hand, portable DVD players have just begun to be cheap & usable enough to buy, and it'll probably be years before HD video players are ready for a mass audience.
why should we realistically expect an end to famine, disease, war?
Alternatively, why should we realistically expect an asteroid to hit the Earth and destroy 90% of the population? How many millions upon millions or years will it take before this happens? And yet, Slashdot can't go a month without posting another "asteroids are about to hit us all." Is there anything more obscure that slashdot can be afraid about?
There's real things out there that people should be concerned about, and a 1/50,000,000 chance of a catastophic asteroid collision isn't one of them.
It's no longer the technology itself that needs to improve. It's the story telling. Why are movies still popular? Because the stories are compelling.
It's not like this is a new idea to video games - 20+ years ago, Infocom adventures, or Sierra games, would have players make their way through a story.
And it's not like the technology isn't there - I've played "Rogue Leader", and the look is comparable to the original Star Wars movies. As the article points out, the nature of video games (repetetive gameplay with the chance of death) makes the use of common storytelling technique problematic.
So if people have been trying at it this long, and have had the technology to do it, and still haven't done it, probably it's because it simply can't be done.
It's not as if cinema took several decades to become watchable, after already becoming mainstream - Metropolis, Nosferatu, and other films of the silent era still have their fans, despite their primitive technique.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing this mentioned repeatedly, but for copying commercial DVD's, DVD Shrink (Windows Only) is a great program, quick, easy to use, and powerful, that always works. I use it in conjuction with Burnatonce, although it's more designed toward being used with Nero. You can get rid of the menus, or highly compress them, or whatever you want to do.
dvdrhelp.com also has info and good tutorials on these (and other) programs, although you probably won't need them.
Please understand that this is a transcript made directly from a live radio interview. It may not conform to exeplary standards of grammar.
If you read the article more carefully, you'll notice he was referring to the guest's grammar, not his own, as the guest was a native German speaker. In addition, the content of the article (implying that the FBI, CIA, some private corporation, and likely others, have together have plotted major terrorist activities against the US) is what I was referring to, not merely the grammar. It isn't indicative of a news source worth paying attention to.
I hate to question the facts based on the source, but this is like linking to an Omni article about the discovery of alien civilizations on Mars - it's such an unrelible source, that it's not really worth paying attention to their outlandish claims.
Looking around the website, one can find this choice quote by Alex Jones:
AJ: And that also happened- where you aware the New York Times and Chicago Tribune reported this in '93, the FBI cooked the bomb and trained the driver[s] and had an Egyptian security agent doing it for them, had two retarded Muslims, literally retarded, drive the truck and park it, let the bombing go forward. At Oklahoma City, the same company that destroyed the remnants of the World Trade Center, blew up the remnants of Oklahoma City [and] had that buried under machine gun guard at a private landfill to this day. And they hauled the rubble away from the W T C to China! They wouldn't let you take photographs. Yes, exactly.
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The Prime Minister wasn't chosen on personal merit, she was chosen because she's from a family that's traditionally held the job of Prime Minister. It's been going on for four generations and it's an embarassment to Indian politics.
Dr. Abdul Kalam is a token Muslim. Perhaps you didn't know that the leading political party in India is a Hindu theological party. They rose to national power largely on feelings risen by anti-Muslim riots & the destruction of an ancient mosque, and many of the worst criminals rose to positions of power. India has a large Muslim minority, so the eccentric-scientist-Muslim was given the powerless position of President, as a form of placation. It's vaguely equivalent to allowing one black guy who doesn't play golf into an all-white country club.
The RIAA doesn't exist for the sole purpose of going after people - obviously they must feel economically threatened by file-swapping, or why would they engage in something which results in so much bad press? The RIAA is acting in its own self-interest, not out of a desire to be cruel.
We're the poor RIAA, we are making so much more money in a week than you poor consumers
Of course the CEO's of the RIAA companies are rich, I don't really see that as relevant.
understand why we are fucking the artists, and giving them pennies for every CD sold
As an indie music fan, I must repeat: there are legitimate alternatives to the RIAA. It's widely understoon that signing to a major label is a Faustian deal, but musicians also know that only record labels have the promotional machine to take marginal & genuine talents and make them into stars. These artists signed contracts, they knew what they were getting into, and why...to claim they shouldn't be held to these contracts after hitting it big is odd logic.
Most music out there isn't RIAA, and is often very good. The way I see it, if you don't support the RIAA system, why not stop listening to the RIAA's music?
There's already a lot of people who believe in Grey Aliens, but I haven't heard of people interpreting these Greys to be Christian angels or demons.
A Google Search for the phrase "I am evil" yields 13,600 hits.
You realize that this looks absolutely nothing like this , right? The original Zelda, compared to RPGs of the time, had a cartoon look, and there was also a popular cartoon made out of the video game. Wild Walker definitely looks different than the original Zelda, but is more true than the new screenshots.
Wow, 1% of your paid time! Assuming a 40 hour work week (yeah I know, but work with me here), that's a whopping 24 minutes to the community, every week! What a citizen!
The Ansaris are U.S. residents (citizens too, I would guess - the article doesn't say, but as they both are well-established American businesspeople, I find it likely). Saying that their Muslim-nation background makes them automatically suspect is a witch-hunt.
The basic science of missiles is understood - the science of the X-Prize is on developing a re-usable vehicle that can make multiple trips within a couple of weeks. I'm not an expert, but I'd be surprised if X-Prize technology ends up getting used in ICBM's.
Sponsoring the X-Prize doesn't mean the Ansaris have exclusive access to its aerodynamic secrets.
The most popular movie in Iran right now is a satire of religious extremists. Of course they do hold most of the political power, but this isn't a heirarchal society where every person of Persian background (including US citizens) is trying to build a bomb for the religious right.
"Absolutely the only thing stopping them is fear of retribution ala Afghanistan or Iraq"??? I'd love to hear you back that up. It seems to me, that a determined state could make an anonymous terrorist attack of some kind. Anyway, the war on Iraq isn't retribution for anything; even Bush doesn't claim that, I don't know why you would. The war on Afghanistan may be retribution at heart, but the Taliban (or the people of Afghanistan) didn't attack the US.
Thank you for your well-informed post. I also had better inform the travel agency to cancel their tour groups to Iran.
For this use, computer connectivity isn't relevant - unfortunately, you have to upload the music via an analog link.
The long battery life of MD is also pretty cool.
Are you claiming India has a model democracy that other nations should strive to imitate?
No offense to Mr. Eric_Cartman_South_P, but by any chance are you a teenager?
And I'd like to know as little as possible, thank you.
To be honest, I can't see movies being so much quicker to license these rights to Netflix, even if it is larger than Greencine.
People pay much more for their monthly cable TV bill, and for me, music is better than cable TV any day of the week. Or, satellite radio is a more exotic & inconvenient technology than playing .wma's, but Sirius and X-Radio are both still going, with people paying $10/month.
At some (perhaps future) point where this technology has evolved, why even bother to own the music, when you can conveniently access a music subscription? The reason I own isn't because I'm collecting plastic, it's because the sound quality and convenience is so much higher. If these issues can be addressed, there's no reason to be categorically opposed to the idea of subscription-based music.
While some Christians may oppose gambling, Christianity doesn't forbid gambling - as a 5 second Googling would show you. You might note, a lot of Christian churches (from what I hear) run Bingo nights, and a lot of non-Christians are also opposed to gambling. Sure Western moral codes are all derived from Christianity, so by extension you can blame Christianity for almost anything if you're of the mind-set. But it's also Western moral codes that lead you to believe the philosophical (obviously not factual) opinion that the indivisual can act separately from a group, or that people must indivisually come to their own sense of right and wrong.
Cry me a fucking river, they knew it was a Faustian deal and they still signed up for it. Probably most of the RIAA star artist's wouldn't have ever become star artists, if they didn't have the RIAA's promotional machine behind them - I can't imagine Courtney Love getting so big without Geffen Records, for instance. And there's plenty of non-RIAA alternatives for artists who think they can make it big without the RIAA label's promotional machines.
OK you can keep it to yourself, buddy! Perhaps you can enjoy rubbing twigs together to make fire, or walking up a hill and then back down, or whatever else there is to do out there.
Nature is boring, there's nothing to do. There are no concerts, no pubs, almost no scoping, you can't find a newspaper, it isn't convenient to meet up with friends, no good food, and so on. You just walk around. Small cities are more boring than big cities, and nature is even more boring than that. Yuck!
They're not all that common, but they're not a niche product, either.
And personally, such a product sounds like it might be fun, for the inevitable downtime while travelling. If it has a TV-out, that would also be convenient.
On the other hand, portable DVD players have just begun to be cheap & usable enough to buy, and it'll probably be years before HD video players are ready for a mass audience.
Alternatively, why should we realistically expect an asteroid to hit the Earth and destroy 90% of the population? How many millions upon millions or years will it take before this happens? And yet, Slashdot can't go a month without posting another "asteroids are about to hit us all." Is there anything more obscure that slashdot can be afraid about?
There's real things out there that people should be concerned about, and a 1/50,000,000 chance of a catastophic asteroid collision isn't one of them.
It's not like this is a new idea to video games - 20+ years ago, Infocom adventures, or Sierra games, would have players make their way through a story.
And it's not like the technology isn't there - I've played "Rogue Leader", and the look is comparable to the original Star Wars movies. As the article points out, the nature of video games (repetetive gameplay with the chance of death) makes the use of common storytelling technique problematic.
So if people have been trying at it this long, and have had the technology to do it, and still haven't done it, probably it's because it simply can't be done.
It's not as if cinema took several decades to become watchable, after already becoming mainstream - Metropolis, Nosferatu, and other films of the silent era still have their fans, despite their primitive technique.
dvdrhelp.com also has info and good tutorials on these (and other) programs, although you probably won't need them.
Please understand that this is a transcript made directly from a live radio interview. It may not conform to exeplary standards of grammar.
If you read the article more carefully, you'll notice he was referring to the guest's grammar, not his own, as the guest was a native German speaker. In addition, the content of the article (implying that the FBI, CIA, some private corporation, and likely others, have together have plotted major terrorist activities against the US) is what I was referring to, not merely the grammar. It isn't indicative of a news source worth paying attention to.
Looking around the website, one can find this choice quote by Alex Jones:
AJ: And that also happened- where you aware the New York Times and Chicago Tribune reported this in '93, the FBI cooked the bomb and trained the driver[s] and had an Egyptian security agent doing it for them, had two retarded Muslims, literally retarded, drive the truck and park it, let the bombing go forward. At Oklahoma City, the same company that destroyed the remnants of the World Trade Center, blew up the remnants of Oklahoma City [and] had that buried under machine gun guard at a private landfill to this day. And they hauled the rubble away from the W T C to China! They wouldn't let you take photographs. Yes, exactly.
Really? Stories like these are the reason I'm not a subscriber.