While public institutions thrive on archiac technology, we have movie theatres where people can basically computer in the dark. Why should you go to a movie theatre just to IM people and send e-mails? Might as well download the movie at home and save yourself the ticket and gas to leave the house.
Not like you didn't know this, but the way the message boards are moderated here is flat out stupid. Let people say what they want, when they want. No need to hide perfectly good conversations under a million stupid comments simply because people posted before them.
Stop modding down good posts and start deleting useless ones like "FIRST POST CMDTACO SUXXXX IM GAY GOATSECX".
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Jesus, some of these opinions on Resident Evil are flat out pathetic. "Milla is hot, so I'll go see it". People who say things like that are the reasons bad movies get made. Hollywood thinks they can sell the same garbage repackaged 10 ways to Sunday to the public, and the public is DUMB ENOUGH to let them.
If you love Milla so much, download some pictures of her. Don't go spent $7 on a bad movie which does nothing but re-iterate "I'm an idiot, please keep making crap because I don't know any better" to Hollywood.
You can put as many rules into place as you like, but an employee that just doesn't feel like working at the moment simply won't work.
Right now he might be checking the news and sport scores on the internet, and if you remove that, he'll go to his buddy in sales and talk about the game last night instead for a few minutes. Then you can put in rules to prohibit conversation off of break times, and then he'll just space out at his desk. Most people slack at their job for some part of their day. It's human nature, but unfortunately, these spin doctors make it sound like 7.5 hours a day employees are browsing monster.com looking for a new job and downloading virii.
You don't need to have some sort of special outlet to slack off, you simply have to not want to work.
I feel about Star Wars the same way I feel about bands like Tool.
I respect their contribution to their art, but I don't like them I feel they're both overhyped to Hell.
Star Wars was a break through sci-fi film, but what the Hell was so special about it? The mediocre acting? The cheesy story? The laughable concept of it all? The predictability of everything?
And it just keeps getting progressively worse. I don't see how anyone who was a fan of the first three movies after seeing Episode 1 could still wet his pants at the sheer mention of "Attack of the Clones".
The only thing I love that Lucas did was create the THX standard. Nothing like the quality sound and picture you get with that.
I've come to one overwhelming conclusion. Star Wars is the most overhyped, mediocre movie series ever made that only people who have no outlet for creativity like.
How many Goddamn people need to dress up like Boba Fett during a sci fi convention, like a thousand? Contact me when you get a shred of creativity in your persona.
I agree entirely that there needs to be a regulatory branch to standardize software security, simply based on the fact the major software players really don't care.
I hope this standardization branches off into a wider array of issues and not just security, but product stability. Such rules that could be forcefully enacted are:
- Required testing of a product on a designated amount/type of test beds
- A required amount of man hours put into product testing
- Governmental bodies to beta test all products to deem if they are fit to go into the market place
Wouldn't it be nice to buy a piece of software that doesn't crash on installation or execution? Or software that doesn't have completely retarded default values to make no sense whatsoever?
I don't know. Maybe I'm just pipe dreaming.
Software that has a 90+% success rate upon first release.
Yeah. Right.
There simply wasn't enough venture capital to keep something like this alive.
To be honest, I'm surprised MS didn't buy them out 3 days after they announced they planned on making an OS to compete.
Unfortunately the people in charge don't see it this way, even though most people agree with you.
They focus on the exception to the rule, as always. They don't look that 9 out of 10 people who download a few tracks from a CD buy it, they look at the one kid who either downloaded it and didn't like it or was too cheap, poor, whatever and didn't buy it. Que serra.
What I'd really like to see is a case study on downloading, like what was downloaded and when. Was Creed downloaded 10x more than usual when their new single dropped? Was that single download 100x more than their other work?
The saddest thing about this whole situation is I think if a million songs are downloaded, most of them are singles people heard on the radio they want to listen to when they feel like it, not that they heard a song and want the whole album. I'm sure singles at the time are the most downloaded, not full albums. Even so, people don't pay to listen to a single on the radio. If I want to listen to Linkin Park and it's on the radio, I listen and turn it off when it's done. What's so bad about downloading something for free you get for free any way?
You're right when it comes to piracy, but the simple fact is there are a lot more LEGITMATE uses for hardware that can be used to pirate than visa versa.
What the RIAA wants is you to buy the same thing over, and over, and over again. They want you to have a CD for your stereo, and if you want to listen to it on your computer you need to use their online service, which in turn only allows you to listen a select few times.
Then want a copy for your car stereo, and another copy for your portable CD player. They want you to spend $60 on a $15 disc, because CD-Rs can be used to pirate.
If it comes down to having almost no control over what technology I own, I'll be a luddite.
Well, I know it's a given for people who *GASP* have common sense, I.E the populous of most of this board, but it just goes to show how these labels want to blame everyone else but themselves. If they have 50 advance releases of a CD floating around the office and one of them leaks out, you can't blame some 14 year old in Michigan on it, which is what they always do.
It's always the kid with the cable modem that causes the problems, never the person who's complaining in the first place.
Is that much of the piracy that happens is actually by EMPLOYEES of these companies.
A lot of piracy is coming from HQ. Anyone who knows "the scene" will agree. All it takes is an employee who doesn't care or wants to hook up a friend with a copy of an album 3 months early to start up a huge piracy spread of the work.
With all the school shootings, domestic violence, and how messed up society as a whole is, I'm shocked some disgruntled musician or similar person hasn't assassinated Hillary Rossen, Jack Valenti, or any of these other idiots backing these power tripping idiots.
It's just unfortunate that reasonable critism of these laws and ideas these greedy bastards purvey are immediately brushed off as endorcing theft. "I feel that it's a bit extreme to send a bouncer to someone's house to beat up anyone who has an mp3." "SHUT UP YOU CRIMINAL LOVING KLEPTOMANIAC!"
These groups are 2 minutes away from requesting government sanctioned executions of anyone who ever had a song on their computer.
Yawn. More blame transference from people who are looking at everyone but themselves as the reason piracy exists.
"CDs are a rip off and we're putting out more and more mediocre artists not worth the plastic they're printed on. I wonder why people pirate?"
Hell, I don't even go to the movies anymore because I refuse to cough up one dollar, let alone seven, to endorce the creation of such visual atrocities like "Dude, Where's My Car", "Jeepers Creepers", whatever war drama that's horribly inaccurate to make the U.S feel good about itself or whatever teen comedy movie with the most dick and fart jokes are out.
I'm seriously waiting for the RIAA and MPAA to blame artists for creating music and films, which can in turn be recorded and distributed illegally.
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That you need to encrypt, hide, and government level wipe your work or else someone will steal it legally with a big $hit eating grin on his face.
Not exactly new news though. I guess that's what you get for signing 30 pages without reading it over with a lawyer.
It's hard to read previsions, especially when the dollar amounts for your work is in bold, underlined, and italic.
What a waste of technology.
While public institutions thrive on archiac technology, we have movie theatres where people can basically computer in the dark. Why should you go to a movie theatre just to IM people and send e-mails? Might as well download the movie at home and save yourself the ticket and gas to leave the house.
Not like you didn't know this, but the way the message boards are moderated here is flat out stupid. Let people say what they want, when they want. No need to hide perfectly good conversations under a million stupid comments simply because people posted before them.
Stop modding down good posts and start deleting useless ones like "FIRST POST CMDTACO SUXXXX IM GAY GOATSECX".
Jesus, some of these opinions on Resident Evil are flat out pathetic. "Milla is hot, so I'll go see it". People who say things like that are the reasons bad movies get made. Hollywood thinks they can sell the same garbage repackaged 10 ways to Sunday to the public, and the public is DUMB ENOUGH to let them.
If you love Milla so much, download some pictures of her. Don't go spent $7 on a bad movie which does nothing but re-iterate "I'm an idiot, please keep making crap because I don't know any better" to Hollywood.
You can put as many rules into place as you like, but an employee that just doesn't feel like working at the moment simply won't work.
Right now he might be checking the news and sport scores on the internet, and if you remove that, he'll go to his buddy in sales and talk about the game last night instead for a few minutes. Then you can put in rules to prohibit conversation off of break times, and then he'll just space out at his desk. Most people slack at their job for some part of their day. It's human nature, but unfortunately, these spin doctors make it sound like 7.5 hours a day employees are browsing monster.com looking for a new job and downloading virii.
You don't need to have some sort of special outlet to slack off, you simply have to not want to work.
Who honestly cares anymore?
I feel about Star Wars the same way I feel about bands like Tool.
I respect their contribution to their art, but I don't like them I feel they're both overhyped to Hell.
Star Wars was a break through sci-fi film, but what the Hell was so special about it? The mediocre acting? The cheesy story? The laughable concept of it all? The predictability of everything?
And it just keeps getting progressively worse. I don't see how anyone who was a fan of the first three movies after seeing Episode 1 could still wet his pants at the sheer mention of "Attack of the Clones".
The only thing I love that Lucas did was create the THX standard. Nothing like the quality sound and picture you get with that.
I've come to one overwhelming conclusion. Star Wars is the most overhyped, mediocre movie series ever made that only people who have no outlet for creativity like.
How many Goddamn people need to dress up like Boba Fett during a sci fi convention, like a thousand? Contact me when you get a shred of creativity in your persona.
I agree entirely that there needs to be a regulatory branch to standardize software security, simply based on the fact the major software players really don't care. I hope this standardization branches off into a wider array of issues and not just security, but product stability. Such rules that could be forcefully enacted are: - Required testing of a product on a designated amount/type of test beds - A required amount of man hours put into product testing - Governmental bodies to beta test all products to deem if they are fit to go into the market place Wouldn't it be nice to buy a piece of software that doesn't crash on installation or execution? Or software that doesn't have completely retarded default values to make no sense whatsoever? I don't know. Maybe I'm just pipe dreaming. Software that has a 90+% success rate upon first release. Yeah. Right.
There simply wasn't enough venture capital to keep something like this alive. To be honest, I'm surprised MS didn't buy them out 3 days after they announced they planned on making an OS to compete.
Unfortunately the people in charge don't see it this way, even though most people agree with you.
They focus on the exception to the rule, as always. They don't look that 9 out of 10 people who download a few tracks from a CD buy it, they look at the one kid who either downloaded it and didn't like it or was too cheap, poor, whatever and didn't buy it. Que serra.
What I'd really like to see is a case study on downloading, like what was downloaded and when. Was Creed downloaded 10x more than usual when their new single dropped? Was that single download 100x more than their other work?
The saddest thing about this whole situation is I think if a million songs are downloaded, most of them are singles people heard on the radio they want to listen to when they feel like it, not that they heard a song and want the whole album. I'm sure singles at the time are the most downloaded, not full albums. Even so, people don't pay to listen to a single on the radio. If I want to listen to Linkin Park and it's on the radio, I listen and turn it off when it's done. What's so bad about downloading something for free you get for free any way?
You're right when it comes to piracy, but the simple fact is there are a lot more LEGITMATE uses for hardware that can be used to pirate than visa versa.
What the RIAA wants is you to buy the same thing over, and over, and over again. They want you to have a CD for your stereo, and if you want to listen to it on your computer you need to use their online service, which in turn only allows you to listen a select few times.
Then want a copy for your car stereo, and another copy for your portable CD player. They want you to spend $60 on a $15 disc, because CD-Rs can be used to pirate.
If it comes down to having almost no control over what technology I own, I'll be a luddite.
Well, I know it's a given for people who *GASP* have common sense, I.E the populous of most of this board, but it just goes to show how these labels want to blame everyone else but themselves. If they have 50 advance releases of a CD floating around the office and one of them leaks out, you can't blame some 14 year old in Michigan on it, which is what they always do.
It's always the kid with the cable modem that causes the problems, never the person who's complaining in the first place.
Is that much of the piracy that happens is actually by EMPLOYEES of these companies.
A lot of piracy is coming from HQ. Anyone who knows "the scene" will agree. All it takes is an employee who doesn't care or wants to hook up a friend with a copy of an album 3 months early to start up a huge piracy spread of the work.
With all the school shootings, domestic violence, and how messed up society as a whole is, I'm shocked some disgruntled musician or similar person hasn't assassinated Hillary Rossen, Jack Valenti, or any of these other idiots backing these power tripping idiots.
It's just unfortunate that reasonable critism of these laws and ideas these greedy bastards purvey are immediately brushed off as endorcing theft. "I feel that it's a bit extreme to send a bouncer to someone's house to beat up anyone who has an mp3." "SHUT UP YOU CRIMINAL LOVING KLEPTOMANIAC!"
These groups are 2 minutes away from requesting government sanctioned executions of anyone who ever had a song on their computer.
Yawn. More blame transference from people who are looking at everyone but themselves as the reason piracy exists. "CDs are a rip off and we're putting out more and more mediocre artists not worth the plastic they're printed on. I wonder why people pirate?" Hell, I don't even go to the movies anymore because I refuse to cough up one dollar, let alone seven, to endorce the creation of such visual atrocities like "Dude, Where's My Car", "Jeepers Creepers", whatever war drama that's horribly inaccurate to make the U.S feel good about itself or whatever teen comedy movie with the most dick and fart jokes are out. I'm seriously waiting for the RIAA and MPAA to blame artists for creating music and films, which can in turn be recorded and distributed illegally.