While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks.
"Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."
Oh come on, now. When you consider the fact that a blog is nothing more than someone's diary, posted online, it seems a bit puerile to suggest that it's been around for thousands of years. Well of COURSE it has. It just wasn't called a blog then.
And as he mentioned in the second sentence of the FA, blog is short for WEBlog. Shouldn't he then need to say how the WEB was invented during the last 20 years?
I know, I know, blah blah creative license blah blah, but this just seems like a really cheap writing trick. [/style nazi]
Steve from Hexus is the same bloke that posted the pictures of the car heater attached to the side of an Xbox and said it was a water cooling unit.
Come on, guys. Is this news, or advertising?
I believe knowledge or information overload is a very real phenomenon. Basically it's just sensory overload of a different kind, right?
I live in Tokyo these days, and one of the more striking differences between the cityscape here and the one in my home city in Australia is the sheer number of advertising signs, shills, lights, boards, posters, flags and projections. Oh, and ten times as many are illuminated as I'm used to.
Now while the point of all this advertising is supposed to be that it catches your eye, in this case it's having the opposite effect -- I just tune out. Not just the advertising either -- I mean literally what's going on around me.
When I first arrived in Tokyo I played well the part of the wide-eyed tourist. Little escaped my attention. But these days I'm more likely to just pop in the headphones of my MD player and scuttle along to work while trying hard to see as little as possible.
I'm not the only one. One of my co-workers, a lady from the U.S., and I were discussing this recently. She mentioned that these days, she notices much less of what she used to. "I stopped on the footpath yesterday and just looked around, and was surpised to see all this stuff that I've just been walking past everyday!"
Same thing applies to information on the internet or wherever it's located. Eventually you have to start filtering out the chaff. Problem is that often a lot of wheat goes with it.
Sure, you may think that music is really crapastic, but the reallity is that those artists are the ones that get the into the billboard 10 and get the platinium, titanium, uranium etc prizes for disc selling.
Of course, one could argue that, people which know how to actually copy CD's are the ones that do not listen to that music (i.e. the not average J6Pack). But, some of them use their knowledge to pirate & sell the illegal copies. I presume (*I hope*) those are the persons which sony was aiming when applying this (or any other) kind of DRM security.
While I do think most of that music is pretty sad (and the rest is by artists that I don't know), I was thinking more of those discs' desirability to people who would usually be downloading them.
You raise a good point regarding people ripping those CDs and then selling the copies. However, if they have the volition and ability to mass produce them like that, they're very likely to be able to bypass whatever "protection" scheme is in place, right?
So if the "protection" is in place because of the ability of people to copy and then sell them, it's still useless -- those people will just get around it anyway, and Joe Sixpack still isn't affected as such.
I mean, come on, Sony! Celine Dion? Neil Diamond? Ricky Martin??
If you were really serious about XCP as a means to prevent illicit copying, in order to protect your revenue, how about applying it to music that people would want to download?
I bet some 14 year old will crack the password, and the world will find the archive replaced with a black page and blinking text saying "YoU'V3 b33n 0wn3d by da 1337 kr3w!"
Slashdot Mirror
I considered the iPod Touch and the Nokia N800 as "very potable, quick and dirty internet access tools" to ssh into the machines I work on
You know, you're not supposed to drink the iPod after it's been blended.
While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks.
"Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."
Oh come on, now. When you consider the fact that a blog is nothing more than someone's diary, posted online, it seems a bit puerile to suggest that it's been around for thousands of years. Well of COURSE it has. It just wasn't called a blog then.
And as he mentioned in the second sentence of the FA, blog is short for WEBlog. Shouldn't he then need to say how the WEB was invented during the last 20 years?
I know, I know, blah blah creative license blah blah, but this just seems like a really cheap writing trick. [/style nazi]
Fewer people know what shoe size you wear.
Unless you buy your shoes using a customer loyalty card. Then just as many people know!
Incidentally we now have more pictures of the XBox cooler
Now you do, but at the time there were two pictures that didn't give any real information at all.
I would think that the time to submit that kind of story to Slashdot is after you have the more relevant pictures.
Steve from Hexus is the same bloke that posted the pictures of the car heater attached to the side of an Xbox and said it was a water cooling unit. Come on, guys. Is this news, or advertising?
I believe knowledge or information overload is a very real phenomenon. Basically it's just sensory overload of a different kind, right?
I live in Tokyo these days, and one of the more striking differences between the cityscape here and the one in my home city in Australia is the sheer number of advertising signs, shills, lights, boards, posters, flags and projections. Oh, and ten times as many are illuminated as I'm used to.
Now while the point of all this advertising is supposed to be that it catches your eye, in this case it's having the opposite effect -- I just tune out. Not just the advertising either -- I mean literally what's going on around me.
When I first arrived in Tokyo I played well the part of the wide-eyed tourist. Little escaped my attention. But these days I'm more likely to just pop in the headphones of my MD player and scuttle along to work while trying hard to see as little as possible.
I'm not the only one. One of my co-workers, a lady from the U.S., and I were discussing this recently. She mentioned that these days, she notices much less of what she used to. "I stopped on the footpath yesterday and just looked around, and was surpised to see all this stuff that I've just been walking past everyday!"
Same thing applies to information on the internet or wherever it's located. Eventually you have to start filtering out the chaff. Problem is that often a lot of wheat goes with it.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/18/ 227225&tid=113&tid=3
Unfortunately I didn't get my mail client open in the five seconds between seeing the preview story and it going live!
Sure, you may think that music is really crapastic, but the reallity is that those artists are the ones that get the into the billboard 10 and get the platinium, titanium, uranium etc prizes for disc selling.
Of course, one could argue that, people which know how to actually copy CD's are the ones that do not listen to that music (i.e. the not average J6Pack). But, some of them use their knowledge to pirate & sell the illegal copies. I presume (*I hope*) those are the persons which sony was aiming when applying this (or any other) kind of DRM security.
While I do think most of that music is pretty sad (and the rest is by artists that I don't know), I was thinking more of those discs' desirability to people who would usually be downloading them.
You raise a good point regarding people ripping those CDs and then selling the copies. However, if they have the volition and ability to mass produce them like that, they're very likely to be able to bypass whatever "protection" scheme is in place, right?
So if the "protection" is in place because of the ability of people to copy and then sell them, it's still useless -- those people will just get around it anyway, and Joe Sixpack still isn't affected as such.
I mean, come on, Sony! Celine Dion? Neil Diamond? Ricky Martin??
If you were really serious about XCP as a means to prevent illicit copying, in order to protect your revenue, how about applying it to music that people would want to download?
You mean the "Internet Driver's Licence" isn't a real licence for that there Interweb? Bugger, now I have to take it off my resume.
Me (to RIAA): How about I give you the finger, and you give away this stupid windmill-tilting exercise?
I bet some 14 year old will crack the password, and the world will find the archive replaced with a black page and blinking text saying "YoU'V3 b33n 0wn3d by da 1337 kr3w!"
It's being published by Dreamwave Studios and has turned out to be very popular in the direct market (comic stores etc.)
;) but they are getting some good reviews.
I haven't read any as Transformers don't do it for me
Distributing malicious code is illegal? Brilliant! Microsoft may no longer ship Windows ME!