I concur. I'm not sure what planet some folks are on that think making movies is free. It's a business, and if you love the artform, pay for it.
But films that aren't that good should be free so that people can learn where things go wrong without having to step on a landmine.
As for the cinematic experience, it has declined dramatically. Extra mandatory expense for 3d versions of films that do not benefit from 3d technology, overpriced food, unmaintained cinema... etc. The reasons not to pay into Hollywood long have outweighed the benefits in most cases.
What would be a better solution would be if we could pay for a subscription to cinemas like an amusement park and then go see whatever we want without paying extra.
Then everyone could see everything made without having to feel the need to shell out for garbage.
But once again, Hollywood is too greedy to consider the big picture, ironically.
I bet dollars to doughnuts that when net neutrality passes, buried deep in the legislation's text will be stronger measures than what we're seeing today.
The art corporations flog is not really art. It's production. Art captures something outside of the capitalist formula; something that is always edited out by corporations. Artists have a choice; sell your soul to the corporations, sell your soul to the devil, or paint flower pots (although it could be argued that painting flower pots is mark one for the devil). There hasn't been an artist to walk the Earth that chose to suffer in stride for his creation without personal sacrifice.
>More like it succeeded because it was the first tablet that wasn't just a laptop with the keyboard hacked off.
Tablets also were not very sturdy or functional, or even marketed. Companies would say LOOK YOU CAN WRITE WITH A PEN ON THE SCREEN.
I can upgrade my laptop to be like a pad of paper for only 500% more money?
Apple marketed the iPad and conceptualized it to fit a niche that was viable. We all scoffed at them when it was first introduced... but it caught on because they did it right. Newer versions will get a bit smaller and slimmer. It will improve until we all can't live without them. Neural interfaces will become an eventual direction and they will replace the iPad. Oh I'm getting ahead of myself again.
It's not written for you, so they simply do not care. It's written for Google and other search engines to help push whatever their advertisers are selling.
The age of internet search is dead. We need something more intuitive and something decidedly human.
The pilot for Caprica was good. I could tell you where they went wrong with it... after the first episode.
What was missing:
Robot rampage.
She could have pwnd everyone for fun and horror, hacked into New Cap City and transported all the people's minds into other robots.
This could have all started on epsisode 2.
I'm not sure who to blame... probably controlling creative.
From there she could have waged war, built the cylon army and destroyed human civilization on all the colonies. The war between humans and cylons could have started almost immediately.
But instead... we get a long boring plot filled with trite about terrorism.
LIKE WE HAVE NOT HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT TERRORISM???
I am disappointed with Caprica... because it could have been amazing and it didn't live up to its predecessor.
Many don't understand that Sci-fi is big and expensive to make. If the show doesn't break into the kind of audience that Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek, it gets canceled at the earliest opportunity.
Battlestar Galactica was getting tired and old by the time they canceled it. The episodes on New Caprica is when the show really lost its way. The writers became tired and the plot became stale.
I absolutely love science fiction but if people aren't watching, the networks find something that will attract more people.
There is always the problem of human politics in these types of productions as well. Petty differences often get in the way.
In the case of any of these shows the fanbase helps promote through word of mouth, but the shows can't get stale or people lose interest fast.
As an example of a show that is getting better with time is Dexter. You can thank the writers for that, and the cast and the crew. Everyone does their job and everyone GETS IT.
Season Five is the BEST season yet.
You can't say that about sci-fi franchises. More often than not, the second season is the best and it goes downhill from there.
The ignorance is normal. People have been punished for making mistakes so many times before on computers, so it probably extends to their consoles. More and more technologically illiterate people are getting game systems for their children and grandchildren, it's sometimes considered beneficial if the system is all patched ahead of time. The time it takes to patch one of these new systems is pretty long, and you have to know which options to put in. That stuff scares some people.
Best Buy is in business to make profit. Would you rather that company start asking for handouts from the government instead of their customers? Come on! They need the extra profit for... something.
I'll explain. The reason they would cold call is so they can get inside information. You don't hire directly from a competitor without expecting to get an advantage for doing so. The agreement was to also prevent bidding wars that could cost the companies money but it put an artificial freeze on wages. It's evil.
To answer your question: either you're not working at a company any of them hate or are interested in, or a few of your fellow employees already took the calls.
It probably has something to do with the fact that your paychecks are probably half the size of mine, regardless of the fact that you probably have a better skillset. Google employees are seriously underpaid for what they do, and agreements like this between companies help make that possible.
Well stated. This is evidence that some evil has infiltrated Google's upper echelon. The fact Google stopped out of self interest, has little to do with it. They are bad now.
How bad? Pledging not to cold call is a bad thing?
Don't deliberately try to misunderstand me. I said that Google has lost its way. I just found out that they were phoning competitors and poaching. Now that they agreed not to do it is too little, too late for me. The fact they were doing it to begin with I take issue with.
That's not a valid argument. It's an implied ad hominem at best. You can do better. Do so, or shut your FUD spreading mouth.
He works at Google and he's saying he is oblivious to the wayward track they have taken. My position is that he's turned his head to it, like many others there, and that is why I said I rested my case. Now obviously that's not enough for everyone. Okay fair enough -- I'll respond.
Google was forged by the fact Yahoo had lost its way. If Yahoo wasn't a profiteering, cantankerous example of a company that had lost its focus around the time Google was gaining momentum, then Google could not have gained momentum.
Google is an example of how a company like Yahoo was begging to be replaced. The irony is that now we find Google in the same position because of many examples of how they are not following their motto of "Do No Evil".
Phoning someone up to see if they want a job, out of the blue -- cold calling your competitors... well that's the kind of thing Mr. Burns would do. It's fucking evil. Now I expect companies like Apple to do it. I expect the other corporations to be that shady. That's their way.
But Google? No.
Now I keep reading examples in the media -- often little stories presented of how Google has lost its way. They add up.
Now you can ignore the examples, but it seems that every day or every other day there are comments about Google harpooning Net Neutrality, presenting examples about how Net Neutrality is bad or a thing of the past, and we hear tales now of how Google is poaching employees directly by phoning competitors... it adds to prove they are NO DIFFERENT now than other companies their size.
Anyone against the Net being free and neutral supports evil. Google has taken this position.
Okay back up a second. Think of how Google started out. Google was like an oasis among other websites when it first launched. That didn't last. They introduced advertising and a model to create adds. They sank a lot of other email providers and then targeted the users with advertisements.
The kinds of people who pay to use adsense/adwords are the kind of get-rich-quick fucks that caused the first internet bubble to burst (well they formed the bubble and it popped because of financial physics...)
I can't be the only one who is wondering what the fuck this guy is doing at a comic book gathering. Are comic books becoming circus acts and carnivals now?
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I concur. I'm not sure what planet some folks are on that think making movies is free. It's a business, and if you love the artform, pay for it.
But films that aren't that good should be free so that people can learn where things go wrong without having to step on a landmine.
As for the cinematic experience, it has declined dramatically. Extra mandatory expense for 3d versions of films that do not benefit from 3d technology, overpriced food, unmaintained cinema... etc. The reasons not to pay into Hollywood long have outweighed the benefits in most cases.
What would be a better solution would be if we could pay for a subscription to cinemas like an amusement park and then go see whatever we want without paying extra.
Then everyone could see everything made without having to feel the need to shell out for garbage.
But once again, Hollywood is too greedy to consider the big picture, ironically.
It'd be nice to see a cure for the requirement of sleep in human beings. This is a bad flaw. Not to mention it cuts back on my WoW time.
The terrorists win.
The art corporations flog is not really art. It's production. Art captures something outside of the capitalist formula; something that is always edited out by corporations. Artists have a choice; sell your soul to the corporations, sell your soul to the devil, or paint flower pots (although it could be argued that painting flower pots is mark one for the devil). There hasn't been an artist to walk the Earth that chose to suffer in stride for his creation without personal sacrifice.
>More like it succeeded because it was the first tablet that wasn't just a laptop with the keyboard hacked off.
Tablets also were not very sturdy or functional, or even marketed. Companies would say LOOK YOU CAN WRITE WITH A PEN ON THE SCREEN.
I can upgrade my laptop to be like a pad of paper for only 500% more money?
Apple marketed the iPad and conceptualized it to fit a niche that was viable. We all scoffed at them when it was first introduced... but it caught on because they did it right. Newer versions will get a bit smaller and slimmer. It will improve until we all can't live without them. Neural interfaces will become an eventual direction and they will replace the iPad. Oh I'm getting ahead of myself again.
It's not written for you, so they simply do not care. It's written for Google and other search engines to help push whatever their advertisers are selling.
The age of internet search is dead. We need something more intuitive and something decidedly human.
The pilot for Caprica was good. I could tell you where they went wrong with it... after the first episode.
What was missing:
Robot rampage.
She could have pwnd everyone for fun and horror, hacked into New Cap City and transported all the people's minds into other robots.
This could have all started on epsisode 2.
I'm not sure who to blame... probably controlling creative.
From there she could have waged war, built the cylon army and destroyed human civilization on all the colonies. The war between humans and cylons could have started almost immediately.
But instead... we get a long boring plot filled with trite about terrorism.
LIKE WE HAVE NOT HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT TERRORISM???
I am disappointed with Caprica... because it could have been amazing and it didn't live up to its predecessor.
Many don't understand that Sci-fi is big and expensive to make. If the show doesn't break into the kind of audience that Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek, it gets canceled at the earliest opportunity.
Battlestar Galactica was getting tired and old by the time they canceled it. The episodes on New Caprica is when the show really lost its way. The writers became tired and the plot became stale.
I absolutely love science fiction but if people aren't watching, the networks find something that will attract more people.
There is always the problem of human politics in these types of productions as well. Petty differences often get in the way.
In the case of any of these shows the fanbase helps promote through word of mouth, but the shows can't get stale or people lose interest fast.
As an example of a show that is getting better with time is Dexter. You can thank the writers for that, and the cast and the crew. Everyone does their job and everyone GETS IT.
Season Five is the BEST season yet.
You can't say that about sci-fi franchises. More often than not, the second season is the best and it goes downhill from there.
The ignorance is normal. People have been punished for making mistakes so many times before on computers, so it probably extends to their consoles. More and more technologically illiterate people are getting game systems for their children and grandchildren, it's sometimes considered beneficial if the system is all patched ahead of time. The time it takes to patch one of these new systems is pretty long, and you have to know which options to put in. That stuff scares some people.
Best Buy is in business to make profit. Would you rather that company start asking for handouts from the government instead of their customers? Come on! They need the extra profit for ... something.
Is contagious, it seems.
I'll explain. The reason they would cold call is so they can get inside information. You don't hire directly from a competitor without expecting to get an advantage for doing so. The agreement was to also prevent bidding wars that could cost the companies money but it put an artificial freeze on wages. It's evil.
To answer your question: either you're not working at a company any of them hate or are interested in, or a few of your fellow employees already took the calls.
So I'm a moron? How is this not evil?
Well stated. This is evidence that some evil has infiltrated Google's upper echelon. The fact Google stopped out of self interest, has little to do with it. They are bad now.
Good trolling!
Don't deliberately try to misunderstand me. I said that Google has lost its way. I just found out that they were phoning competitors and poaching. Now that they agreed not to do it is too little, too late for me. The fact they were doing it to begin with I take issue with.
Geeks cannot be trained. We are all hatched.
He works at Google and he's saying he is oblivious to the wayward track they have taken. My position is that he's turned his head to it, like many others there, and that is why I said I rested my case. Now obviously that's not enough for everyone. Okay fair enough -- I'll respond.
Google was forged by the fact Yahoo had lost its way. If Yahoo wasn't a profiteering, cantankerous example of a company that had lost its focus around the time Google was gaining momentum, then Google could not have gained momentum.
Google is an example of how a company like Yahoo was begging to be replaced. The irony is that now we find Google in the same position because of many examples of how they are not following their motto of "Do No Evil".
Phoning someone up to see if they want a job, out of the blue -- cold calling your competitors... well that's the kind of thing Mr. Burns would do. It's fucking evil. Now I expect companies like Apple to do it. I expect the other corporations to be that shady. That's their way.
But Google? No.
Now I keep reading examples in the media -- often little stories presented of how Google has lost its way. They add up.
Now you can ignore the examples, but it seems that every day or every other day there are comments about Google harpooning Net Neutrality, presenting examples about how Net Neutrality is bad or a thing of the past, and we hear tales now of how Google is poaching employees directly by phoning competitors... it adds to prove they are NO DIFFERENT now than other companies their size.
Anyone against the Net being free and neutral supports evil. Google has taken this position.
Okay back up a second. Think of how Google started out. Google was like an oasis among other websites when it first launched. That didn't last. They introduced advertising and a model to create adds. They sank a lot of other email providers and then targeted the users with advertisements.
The kinds of people who pay to use adsense/adwords are the kind of get-rich-quick fucks that caused the first internet bubble to burst (well they formed the bubble and it popped because of financial physics...)
But now recently we hear stories about how they send a paralegal to try and prevent some poor schmuck from claiming his $721 adsense revenue. That's not an isolated case.
My position is that Google is evil now.
I rest my case.
Google is probably in the worst position for this to come out because it's yet another example of how bad that company has become.
Does anyone have a good suggestion for an email provider and a search engine now?
It's like Google has become what Yahoo was back in the day.
You guys will definitely be missed. I really respect what you tried to do there.
To Alaska? You can see Russia from your house there.
I can't be the only one who is wondering what the fuck this guy is doing at a comic book gathering. Are comic books becoming circus acts and carnivals now?
My childhood is at risk here, fellas.
Shit just got real.
I don't have an opinion on what you just said. I just am happy to be discussing porn on Slashdot.