All the “worth” of diamonds is artificial anyway. A diamond can easily be made and is worth a few cents. Tops. And it’s even of higher quality than anything nature has to offer.
The only people who still go “Ooohhh, diamonds!” are either very uninformed, or ignorant retards.
Actually I would be all for it, to have competing governments in a country. Instead of the monopoly that it is now. Then again, a “free” market never stays free, because freedom includes the freedom to stop it from being free... or not a monopoly. (And because the “free market” is essentially the law of the jungle. As opposed to democracy.)
I always have to laugh when I read things like this. Yeah. Probably. There also probably is sand on a beach. And there is probably hydrogen in a ocean on earth.;)
I’m sure you did not try to hand Hitler that letter in 1939-45, did you?
What do you think his reaction would have been?
Would he have [ ] simply pointed to his army? [ ] bursted out in laughter? [ ] strangled you while everybody stands there, watching? [ ] thanked you for your kind opinion, by offering you a nice holiday on the east front? [ ] __________________________________________________
Pff, a clone of their service is set up in a week. And the costs... to host a project, you’d have to pay, what, a couple of cents? It’s really silly. Ask the project owners for generated traffic. It’s so low, everybody can pay it. Even the poorest of the poorest on the net. Like one cent to download a dozen big projects. A dollar for a yearly subscription to have a project hosted. Silly values.
The law says: If there are evil people in your country, all people in that country must be evil and punished. If a skinhead on the street would say something like that, you’d call him a fucking racist. And that’s exactly what it is.
Also, this thing here shows, why centralization can’t work. Fuck SourceForge! A clone of their services, with all features, is set up in what? A week? Tops.
I think the coolest format is actually Matroska. Cover, a playable album in one file. Alternate versions / remixes, lyrics, and free metadata / attached files of choice. Of course, ID3 & co can already do most of that. But I would love to see more files ending in MKA.:)
There is no such thing as an “illegally downloaded file”. I’s a file goddammit! Not a physical good! And stop “admitting” such bullshit that is never true. It’s like “admitting” you murdered someone you never did, because you got tortured to do so.
The whole base of the design of that format is complete and utter bullshit. And therefore the format is too. Besides: Can you see the music bosses rubbing their hands and making up a new subscription-based model to keep the data updated? Also: What is there to update? Who would even want the files to change? They should stay the same. That they do not change, is kinda the point!
Conclusion: EPIC FAIL Nobody will ever care about that format. We will share MP3. People who know/care, will share OGG/Vorbis, MPC or FLAC. And that’s it.
The waterfall model is horrible for big projects. I thought everybody knew that and had switched to the spiral model a loong time ago. And now they add the only thing to it, that in even more horrible? Agile?? Or in other words: Spaghetti coding with the motto: “If perfect planning is impossible, maybe not planning at all will work.” No, dammit! It’s just as bad. Maybe that’s why they try to mix them both... To get to the actually healthy middle ground.
But still, it’s silly. We have a perfectly good spiral model. Hell, the whole game industry uses it. (As far as I know.) And it works great, even on those huge 5-year projects. (Notable exception that proves the rule: Duke Nukem Forever.)
Sorry, but that will result in a huge epic failure, and probably Firefox’s death. Mark my words.:/
I agree with that amount of money being taken away from the RIAA. But I do not agree in the lawyers getting it. Punitive damage money should go to a government program to prevent such things in the future. Only what the lawers’ work is worth should go to the lawyers. Which should be a normal per-hour pay, like $50. And the rest should to Lenz. (Which in this case would also be next to nothing.)
What you describe, is is physical reality, described like this: You bought a computer in form of a game console, but then noticed that the designer employed some tricks to keep you from doing certain things whit it, despite you having payed and owning the device. Which of course did only hold for so long, until you were able to break it open. Because physical access > root access. Then you would copy some data / ideas (in this case, games), which are NOT physical goods, from someone. Which is a normal thing that is a basis of human civilization. But some fucked up retard asshole douchebag would argue that you did hurt him with it. Which of course is physically impossible. His reasoning would stem from the deliberate misunderstanding of physics of treating data / ideas as physical goods, and the resulting the staight out lie, that this means that you would have taken it away from someone and not even giving something back. On top of that he built his whole fucked up business model, where he tried to sell not the service of creating that data, but the data itself. Which only worked at all, because he noticed that there were a lot of idiots who would actually pay for that, and cave in to his sick delusions. And because he happens to have tricked artists into adhesion contracts to offer this “service” to them, he now thinks he “owns” this “goods” (the games).
The worst thing of that all, is not the delusional idiot with the fucked up business model. It’s that he gets trough with it, because people like you not only let him, but even use his wording and mindset, and therewith actively support him.
I know you are more intelligent that that. I know that after all the daily brainwashing in the media, one gets so used to it, that one starts to think that way oneself. I know that you don’t really believe in that shit, and rather agree with me. I know that one can forget that one is in that mindset, because of being so used to it. So I thought I’d wake you up, so you could become yourself again.
Well, it is well-know, how to appeal to a wide audience.
The more generic you make something, the more people can fit it into their reality. The more specific you make it, the more can it resonate with people, but the more people will you lose. But real artists, as opposed to money monkeys, don’t care for a wide appeal. They follow their own lead. The goal of a wide audience has no place in the head of an artist.
One way to get both, is to allow people to customize e.g. the characters. And/or the world. Think of RPGs. But you can’t customize a story. Because a story and freedom (e.g. in a game) are natural opposites. This is why you rather follow your own lead, than that of a potential wide audience that you might not understand at all.
What you see as a good piece of art, is what resonated with you. Meaning the artist did hit something that gave you some insight into yourself and make you feel good. Just as you described it. What society sees as a good piece of art, is something that hit that resonating spot with a big part of society. This happens, when the artist and those people have a common thing, and the artist achieves to express it in a way that they couldn't. It can even be just a feeling. The atmosphere on their streets and in their homes. Something that you rankled with for a long time. But if you explicitly try to find such a common point, you are pretty much guaranteed to not hit it in that proper way that allows it to resonate. And it will feel as fake and lame, as a old white politician trying to rap in front of a young black audience. ^^ They will know that you are not yourself. Which is very unattractive.
So in short: Do whatever resonates with you, lead people to your new insights. And your audience/fans will find you! You will get a whole community of people who feel that same weird quirk that you thought would be so rare. Which makes it more worth being an artist in the first place, than any load of money ever can.:)
(Warning: For everything that is here said, Electronic Arts and most of the Hollywood industry does not count as “artists”, is not included in what is here said, and follows what is said to be the opposite of those ideals. Which explains why their stuff is so generic, plastic fantastic, and without inspiration.)
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I think you live in the DeBeers reality distortion bubble.
The biggest diamond on earth can be made industrially for a few cents.
All the “worth” of diamonds is artificial anyway.
A diamond can easily be made and is worth a few cents. Tops. And it’s even of higher quality than anything nature has to offer.
The only people who still go “Ooohhh, diamonds!” are either very uninformed, or ignorant retards.
Actually I would be all for it, to have competing governments in a country. Instead of the monopoly that it is now.
Then again, a “free” market never stays free, because freedom includes the freedom to stop it from being free... or not a monopoly. (And because the “free market” is essentially the law of the jungle. As opposed to democracy.)
There probably is intelligent life out there,
I always have to laugh when I read things like this. ;)
Yeah. Probably. There also probably is sand on a beach. And there is probably hydrogen in a ocean on earth.
Aren’t they part of the USA?
Like Europe?
A proud American.
I’m sure you did not try to hand Hitler that letter in 1939-45, did you?
What do you think his reaction would have been?
Would he have
[ ] simply pointed to his army?
[ ] bursted out in laughter?
[ ] strangled you while everybody stands there, watching?
[ ] thanked you for your kind opinion, by offering you a nice holiday on the east front?
[ ] __________________________________________________
But.. but I wanted to!
*stomps food on floor*
*starts crying and runs away*
Hitler
Pff, a clone of their service is set up in a week. And the costs... to host a project, you’d have to pay, what, a couple of cents?
It’s really silly. Ask the project owners for generated traffic. It’s so low, everybody can pay it. Even the poorest of the poorest on the net. Like one cent to download a dozen big projects. A dollar for a yearly subscription to have a project hosted. Silly values.
You know what this law essentially is?
The law says: If there are evil people in your country, all people in that country must be evil and punished.
If a skinhead on the street would say something like that, you’d call him a fucking racist.
And that’s exactly what it is.
Also, this thing here shows, why centralization can’t work.
Fuck SourceForge! A clone of their services, with all features, is set up in what? A week? Tops.
More like <0.99 per album. Cause if the artist gets 2/3 of that, that would still be more than he gets today, for a album CD!!
IF you can truly restrict access.
Which is by definition physically impossible.
Otherwise you're just giving more reason to pirate the format.
Stop drinking their kool-aid. This has nothing to do with stealing shit on the high seas.
I think the coolest format is actually Matroska. Cover, a playable album in one file. Alternate versions / remixes, lyrics, and free metadata / attached files of choice. :)
Of course, ID3 & co can already do most of that.
But I would love to see more files ending in MKA.
There is no such thing as an “illegally downloaded file”. I’s a file goddammit! Not a physical good!
And stop “admitting” such bullshit that is never true. It’s like “admitting” you murdered someone you never did, because you got tortured to do so.
The whole base of the design of that format is complete and utter bullshit. And therefore the format is too.
Besides: Can you see the music bosses rubbing their hands and making up a new subscription-based model to keep the data updated?
Also: What is there to update? Who would even want the files to change? They should stay the same. That they do not change, is kinda the point!
Conclusion: EPIC FAIL
Nobody will ever care about that format. We will share MP3. People who know/care, will share OGG/Vorbis, MPC or FLAC. And that’s it.
Ha. Seems an agent got mod points. Or someone fell in the repression kettle.
The waterfall model is horrible for big projects. I thought everybody knew that and had switched to the spiral model a loong time ago.
And now they add the only thing to it, that in even more horrible? Agile?? Or in other words: Spaghetti coding with the motto: “If perfect planning is impossible, maybe not planning at all will work.”
No, dammit! It’s just as bad.
Maybe that’s why they try to mix them both... To get to the actually healthy middle ground.
But still, it’s silly. We have a perfectly good spiral model. Hell, the whole game industry uses it. (As far as I know.) And it works great, even on those huge 5-year projects. (Notable exception that proves the rule: Duke Nukem Forever.)
Sorry, but that will result in a huge epic failure, and probably Firefox’s death. :/
Mark my words.
I agree with that amount of money being taken away from the RIAA. But I do not agree in the lawyers getting it.
Punitive damage money should go to a government program to prevent such things in the future. Only what the lawers’ work is worth should go to the lawyers. Which should be a normal per-hour pay, like $50. And the rest should to Lenz. (Which in this case would also be next to nothing.)
It’s called “natural selection”. It’s supposed to work that way.
Either you wise up, or you die. Simple as that. Look it up.
And after that, we would have to tell them about the sun. ^^
Well, our content boss at Lycos Germany also ran AOL (including the incompetence that comes with it). So...
(Company defunct now. *actualLOL*)
TV? Who still has a TV?
I thought the Internet solved that one...
The question is: Was it, right before they landed, or right after?
You know how this ended when Columbus came to America...
OK, let me try emphasizing a different word in that sentence: "You mostly get that from people who don't read enough SF".
Ok, then let me try emphasizing even another word in that sentence: "You mostly get that from people who don't read enough SF"
Bender
Do you even realize how fucked up that mindset is, that you bought into?
Their system? You fuckin’ bought it! You own it!
Pirating? Do I have to explain this again? http://7.media.tumblr.com/4nZBASoSAd79pgh9yEG2ZCPi_500.png
What you describe, is is physical reality, described like this:
You bought a computer in form of a game console, but then noticed that the designer employed some tricks to keep you from doing certain things whit it, despite you having payed and owning the device. Which of course did only hold for so long, until you were able to break it open. Because physical access > root access.
Then you would copy some data / ideas (in this case, games), which are NOT physical goods, from someone. Which is a normal thing that is a basis of human civilization.
But some fucked up retard asshole douchebag would argue that you did hurt him with it. Which of course is physically impossible. His reasoning would stem from the deliberate misunderstanding of physics of treating data / ideas as physical goods, and the resulting the staight out lie, that this means that you would have taken it away from someone and not even giving something back.
On top of that he built his whole fucked up business model, where he tried to sell not the service of creating that data, but the data itself. Which only worked at all, because he noticed that there were a lot of idiots who would actually pay for that, and cave in to his sick delusions.
And because he happens to have tricked artists into adhesion contracts to offer this “service” to them, he now thinks he “owns” this “goods” (the games).
The worst thing of that all, is not the delusional idiot with the fucked up business model. It’s that he gets trough with it, because people like you not only let him, but even use his wording and mindset, and therewith actively support him.
I know you are more intelligent that that.
I know that after all the daily brainwashing in the media, one gets so used to it, that one starts to think that way oneself.
I know that you don’t really believe in that shit, and rather agree with me.
I know that one can forget that one is in that mindset, because of being so used to it.
So I thought I’d wake you up, so you could become yourself again.
Well, it is well-know, how to appeal to a wide audience.
The more generic you make something, the more people can fit it into their reality.
The more specific you make it, the more can it resonate with people, but the more people will you lose.
But real artists, as opposed to money monkeys, don’t care for a wide appeal. They follow their own lead. The goal of a wide audience has no place in the head of an artist.
One way to get both, is to allow people to customize e.g. the characters. And/or the world. Think of RPGs.
But you can’t customize a story. Because a story and freedom (e.g. in a game) are natural opposites.
This is why you rather follow your own lead, than that of a potential wide audience that you might not understand at all.
What you see as a good piece of art, is what resonated with you. Meaning the artist did hit something that gave you some insight into yourself and make you feel good. Just as you described it.
What society sees as a good piece of art, is something that hit that resonating spot with a big part of society.
This happens, when the artist and those people have a common thing, and the artist achieves to express it in a way that they couldn't.
It can even be just a feeling. The atmosphere on their streets and in their homes. Something that you rankled with for a long time.
But if you explicitly try to find such a common point, you are pretty much guaranteed to not hit it in that proper way that allows it to resonate. And it will feel as fake and lame, as a old white politician trying to rap in front of a young black audience. ^^
They will know that you are not yourself. Which is very unattractive.
So in short: Do whatever resonates with you, lead people to your new insights. And your audience/fans will find you! :)
You will get a whole community of people who feel that same weird quirk that you thought would be so rare. Which makes it more worth being an artist in the first place, than any load of money ever can.
(Warning: For everything that is here said, Electronic Arts and most of the Hollywood industry does not count as “artists”, is not included in what is here said, and follows what is said to be the opposite of those ideals. Which explains why their stuff is so generic, plastic fantastic, and without inspiration.)