Which is exactly what it was talking about, you self-important overgrown back of anal-fuck runoff.
Actually THAT is exactly what we're talking about. It's that kind of language that the good Cmdr is bashing in his little peice.
"Within a few months, I'm sure Microsoft will reveal its next attack against the GPL - a license scheme which doesn't require the source code to be distributed with the application, can be distributed on a for-profit basis with modules from other similary-licensed code, but somehow protects MS from developers going out and completely changing around the.NET framework to their own accord, and distributing it however they feel."
So you mean a typical closed source shrink-wrapped license?
Theres a difference between 100% not commiting a crime, and 100% preventing all users of a largely legitimate service from commiting a crime.
Lets take Sony VCRs (which have no copy protection what so ever) can they claim that thier product is used for 100% legitimate reasons (how about gun manufacturers, ISPs?) of course not. but because their product's PRIMARY INTENDED use is legitimate, the percentage of illegal use is not blamed on the company itself. Napster is only a special case because the RIAA threw a whole lot of money at the legal system and appealed until they got an incompetant judge.
Sure, a lot of Napster users use the service for illegal purposes, but what about me? I used it SOLELY for acquiring MP3 copies of things I allready owned on CD and vinyl, and for downloading things from bands/record labels that allowed it (check out the acts on Athens' Kindercore label) a perfectly legitimate use.
Napster provides a service. They are no more at fault than sony is if I copy a movie, than a tobacco paper company is if i use the paper to roll a joint, than a publisher is if I use the information they publish to commit an illegal act. The Napster ruling is entirely inconsistant with American jurisprudence, and is very very scary.
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. Released in 1998, on Merge Records (not RIAA, and not evil)
It's one of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching, and wonderful albums i've ever heard. influences range rock to pop to folk, beautiful poetic (an adjective i reserve basically for this album and the better dylan stuff) and catchy well written songs. A "concept" album not about fame or rock-starrdom. Lyrics about growing up, loving, dying, and Anne Frank.
There should be a government program purchasing it for every man woman and child in the world.
Download "Holland 1945, Oh Comely, and Two Headed Boy" for a preview (but this is really an album you must have, not merely a collection of good songs)
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ahhh yes M:TG, stopped playing after they fucked up 4th edition... that was back in '96, what's been going on since then?
I don't know, aesthetics are pretty important. I've finally begun the switch from CD to vinyl and I think half of the reason is the idea of analog media is just more intellectually appealing. (and accoustic/vocals sound way better... CD is really only ideal for techno etc.)
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no.... it deals with similar themes and exists within the same realm of sci-fi convention, but its hardly a ripoff. The movie certainly owes a lot to Blade Runner, but if you watch it there's some subtle tributes to blade runner. (as well as 2001, a Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Thunderdome, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Close Incounters, and probably others)
Really, catching clever references are half the fun in the movie.
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The ending reminded me of a (sniff sniffle, nostalgia...) SimEarth game I played once, where after I had a civilization evolve to the point of Nanotech and mass exodus of the Earth, a population of ROBOTS overtook the entire world, driving everything else to extinction.
Why should (from IBMs perspective) they have a consistent policy on the matter. It looks like they're selling to both sides of the war, a profitable place to be.
Hey, I think a lot of studies and statistics have shown that a 'not-insignificant portion of society' ingages in recreational drug use and extramarital sex (illegal in many areas.) We should install video cameras inside televisions and monitor what people do.
In your post you seem to regard the computer as a playback device for video and MP3s. When did this happen?
Rampant piracy of MP3s exist because there is no viable alternative. How else does the average consumer acquire digital music? Pay $16 for 12 MP3s? That pricing is ridiculous. Consumers recognize that the music industry saves BIG TIME with direct nearly free distributorship and expects those savings to be reflected in cost. Sure most people would "steal" music as opposed to paying over a dollar per song. But how many would chose to be legal and say pay a jukebox like 25 cents, especially if the source were fast and reliable. I know I would.
MP3s aren't CDs. Sure some people use MP3s to burn CDs, but then again some people make tapes off the radio or from borrowed LPs. I personally use MP3s to preview new music, download digital copies of things I *allready own* on CD or vinyl (about 85% of my Napster use) or -on occasion- listen to some random song that I'm not interested enough in to really buy.
I'll put it this way: When I'm at the waffle house, I'll put 25 cents in the jukebox to get a laugh out of "Meat Lover" but I'd never buy it on CD.
Yes, but it SEEMS easier. It's a lot easier to create something that looks like artwork ("hey I'll just take this photograph and apply three random filters... wow that looks nifty!") with photoshop than it is to do the same with paint.
Actually, that's not entirely correct. There are some people out there who just throw paint randomly on a canvas to hide their lack of skill and put some label on top of it. I'm not critisizing abstract or modern art here: there are some truly great artists who have worked in the field of non-representational images in the past 70 years or so, but more snotty art school kids who think that they can get around learning how to draw.
Anyway, I'm afraid CGI art is somewhat burdened by those who think discovering a new combination of filters qualifies as art. Real works of skill will emerge and prove the critics wrong.
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Which is exactly what it was talking about, you self-important overgrown back of anal-fuck runoff. Actually THAT is exactly what we're talking about. It's that kind of language that the good Cmdr is bashing in his little peice.
There's a bit in "1984" about how it works... can't remember how it goes though.
"Within a few months, I'm sure Microsoft will reveal its next attack against the GPL - a license scheme which doesn't require the source code to be distributed with the application, can be distributed on a for-profit basis with modules from other similary-licensed code, but somehow protects MS from developers going out and completely changing around the .NET framework to their own accord, and distributing it however they feel."
So you mean a typical closed source shrink-wrapped license?
SNES was better than PS1 Much better games.
Theres a difference between 100% not commiting a crime, and 100% preventing all users of a largely legitimate service from commiting a crime.
Lets take Sony VCRs (which have no copy protection what so ever) can they claim that thier product is used for 100% legitimate reasons (how about gun manufacturers, ISPs?) of course not. but because their product's PRIMARY INTENDED use is legitimate, the percentage of illegal use is not blamed on the company itself. Napster is only a special case because the RIAA threw a whole lot of money at the legal system and appealed until they got an incompetant judge.
Sure, a lot of Napster users use the service for illegal purposes, but what about me? I used it SOLELY for acquiring MP3 copies of things I allready owned on CD and vinyl, and for downloading things from bands/record labels that allowed it (check out the acts on Athens' Kindercore label) a perfectly legitimate use.
Napster provides a service. They are no more at fault than sony is if I copy a movie, than a tobacco paper company is if i use the paper to roll a joint, than a publisher is if I use the information they publish to commit an illegal act. The Napster ruling is entirely inconsistant with American jurisprudence, and is very very scary.
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. Released in 1998, on Merge Records (not RIAA, and not evil) It's one of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching, and wonderful albums i've ever heard. influences range rock to pop to folk, beautiful poetic (an adjective i reserve basically for this album and the better dylan stuff) and catchy well written songs. A "concept" album not about fame or rock-starrdom. Lyrics about growing up, loving, dying, and Anne Frank. There should be a government program purchasing it for every man woman and child in the world. Download "Holland 1945, Oh Comely, and Two Headed Boy" for a preview (but this is really an album you must have, not merely a collection of good songs)
ahhh yes M:TG, stopped playing after they fucked up 4th edition... that was back in '96, what's been going on since then?
I don't know, aesthetics are pretty important. I've finally begun the switch from CD to vinyl and I think half of the reason is the idea of analog media is just more intellectually appealing. (and accoustic/vocals sound way better... CD is really only ideal for techno etc.)
Of course the *reason* that people are so scared of nuclear disaster is the fear implanted in their brains by the government back in the day so we would all be good and hate the russians and put up with anything our government did as long as it was to "win" the cold war©
Conservatives now lament how uninformed and liberal the public is about this issue, but it really is a result of conservative forces from thirty years ago having such a huge affect on the western psyche©
the big difference between the stock market and casinos is that the house ¥the fed, the market, the man, whoever earns big when the players ¥funds, politicians, you earn big© It's non-zero sum©
If it could have been better orchestrated, the tech bubble, which grew huge for no real reason, could have kept on going© Everyone involved was making money on IPOs and all that jazz, all they had to do was ignore the failure of advertising and the failure to actually move products and turn a profit©
"Computers playing games are always much better than humans if their AI is done correctly© I realized that I had ruined the game for everyone else©"
Interestingly, despite some rather serious attempts, nobody has yet made a good Nethack playing program© And if someone did, I would imagine that it would just be a mess of switches and ifs designed to mimick some good human player's specific style, rather than an algorithmic approach like good chess programs use©
Nethack is probably the closest thing in a non-network computer game to approximating the complexities of AI existing in real world situations, where everything is a special case, and regular patterns and strategies are only minimally useful©
What, I'm going to reverse-engineer a gateway box and somehow threaten an ISP?
If you could really reverse-engineer the old cable modem to compete with the provider, then they'd probably be sticking you with waaaaay more than $300©
My guess is so they scare people into returning it© They probably don't want to waste time providing tech support for people who didn't read the notice about upgrading©
No no no!!! you don't hava javascript pop up your own page, you pop up 12 other pages, all of whom (for some reason) pay you $.10 per pop-up. That way even if no one is dumb enough to join your shitty site or some shitty AVS, you stell get a few bucks off of them. And since google puts your site up when someone searches for "asian anal bestiality teens" or whatever, you're getting hundreds of very very irritated viewers a day!
Also women with the physical requirements for porn are fairly common, whereas those men are super-human.
Porn may or may not degrade the people who make it. It certainly has the ability to degrade the people who view it...
it took you months to get it up?
...must not be very good porn...
no.... it deals with similar themes and exists within the same realm of sci-fi convention, but its hardly a ripoff. The movie certainly owes a lot to Blade Runner, but if you watch it there's some subtle tributes to blade runner. (as well as 2001, a Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Thunderdome, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Close Incounters, and probably others)
Really, catching clever references are half the fun in the movie.
The ending reminded me of a (sniff sniffle, nostalgia...) SimEarth game I played once, where after I had a civilization evolve to the point of Nanotech and mass exodus of the Earth, a population of ROBOTS overtook the entire world, driving everything else to extinction.
It only happened once.
Yeah, i think they were future robots, but man they sure looked like that dumb thing from Mission to Mars.
P.S. I love how the Slashdot Anti-Troll technology punishes you for reading and typing quickly.
I agree, I think the movie diverged from standard 3-act stucture, and as allways, that's not the best of ideas.
better ending: as soon as the voice starts talking about ice and a fairy, leave. I'm pretty sure that's where Kubrick would have ended the movie.
Yes, but its rather like worrying about the scale of a flat map of your neighborhood being off because of the curvature of the Earth© I would imagine that the effects of such curvature are only observable on inter-stellar or inter-galactic spaces©
Of course curved space on a universal scale is one of those things I can't really wrap my head around© Imagining a 3D space ¥not even counting the effects on time and microdimentions twisted in 4D so that every point in the space follows hyperbolic curvature isn't too easy of a task without resorting to analogies©
Cosmology is not the subject for you if your requirement for proof is "no contrairy evidence" our abilities to observe the universe are strictly limited© "evidence" for odd events and the inexplicable is rather common, and many of the most well respected theories are really just gross extrapolation, they're very good educated guesses, but could easily be wrong©
It's an interesting theory, but in all science, I'd say Cosmology and Particle Physics have got to be the areas where we are most likely to be proven very wrong within 50 years©
Why should (from IBMs perspective) they have a consistent policy on the matter. It looks like they're selling to both sides of the war, a profitable place to be.
Hey, I think a lot of studies and statistics have shown that a 'not-insignificant portion of society' ingages in recreational drug use and extramarital sex (illegal in many areas.) We should install video cameras inside televisions and monitor what people do.
In your post you seem to regard the computer as a playback device for video and MP3s. When did this happen?
Rampant piracy of MP3s exist because there is no viable alternative. How else does the average consumer acquire digital music? Pay $16 for 12 MP3s? That pricing is ridiculous. Consumers recognize that the music industry saves BIG TIME with direct nearly free distributorship and expects those savings to be reflected in cost. Sure most people would "steal" music as opposed to paying over a dollar per song. But how many would chose to be legal and say pay a jukebox like 25 cents, especially if the source were fast and reliable. I know I would.
MP3s aren't CDs. Sure some people use MP3s to burn CDs, but then again some people make tapes off the radio or from borrowed LPs. I personally use MP3s to preview new music, download digital copies of things I *allready own* on CD or vinyl (about 85% of my Napster use) or -on occasion- listen to some random song that I'm not interested enough in to really buy.
I'll put it this way: When I'm at the waffle house, I'll put 25 cents in the jukebox to get a laugh out of "Meat Lover" but I'd never buy it on CD.
Yes, but it SEEMS easier. It's a lot easier to create something that looks like artwork ("hey I'll just take this photograph and apply three random filters... wow that looks nifty!") with photoshop than it is to do the same with paint.
Actually, that's not entirely correct. There are some people out there who just throw paint randomly on a canvas to hide their lack of skill and put some label on top of it. I'm not critisizing abstract or modern art here: there are some truly great artists who have worked in the field of non-representational images in the past 70 years or so, but more snotty art school kids who think that they can get around learning how to draw.
Anyway, I'm afraid CGI art is somewhat burdened by those who think discovering a new combination of filters qualifies as art. Real works of skill will emerge and prove the critics wrong.