I thought maybe you were replying to someone's post saying that because these people were black, they were dumb. But no. Looks like you just put that out there yourself, and then refuted your own statement.
I see where he is coming from. There is a definite racist attidute in most replies on this topic, and I reckon your parent post was refering to that in general.
So far I've seen most posts hint to them all being stupid and thugs. Are the KKK active on Slashdot now? Ironic, given that the USA has some of the highest illeracy rates in the west, as well as being full of very dangerous people. Pot. Kettle. Black.
America is a racist country. It was built on racism. Get over it. Americans have been conditioned to hate the (in a roughly cronological order) Native Americans, Africans, Mexicans, Germans, Japanesse, French, Russians, Cuban's, Vietnamese, Arabs. In fact, anyone that isn't a white capitalist. Most of you aren't aware of this.
Appologies if this comes off as a troll, it's not. I just hate how most Americans are completely unaware of their racist tendancies. It's conditioned into you from an early age from many different sources.
they're thugs too. And hard core in Africa, even a (relatively) stable place like Nigeria does not equal to hard core in the US, believe me.
You make me laugh! Visiting the USA is far more dangerous. Or have you never seen the murder rates for the USA, one of the few western countries to make it into the top 25 most dangerous countries in the world?
I'm surprised that eye-fatigue wasn't an issue. I would imagine scanning over a 100" display, having your eyes move from one corner to the other, would be rather tiring.
I've always thought that moving your eyes around is a good and natural thing, and intently staring at a small area (e.g. television) is bad.
When we were at war in Iraq there was nothing on but sad music and pictures of wounded children...
Your world view is pretty fucked up. On our TV we had joyous orchestral, almost movie like soundtracks, with fancy computer graphics overlaid over a sanitized view of the war.
And you slate their "propaganda"?
Throughout school they have a class they call Propaganda(well, not really, but an equivelant word in Chinese) that is just that, all about how bad the west is and how wonderful China is.
And you were oblivious of the "God Bless the USA" teachings you learned in school? All the sanitized history, focusing only on the good things?
They argue that you must first improve the social situation, then set off in search of better science. This isn't how things developed in the West.
No shit! Thing is, we still haven't gotten much of an improvement to the social situation either. Turn of your TV false-world and go for a drive. You are never more than 10 minutes away from people living below the poverty line.
As if the Chinese secret police would ever let the tourists see the 'real' China.
Hmm, that's strange. I don't seem to remember having a minder or being tailed while there. I was free to drive where ever I wanted. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been in the world.
Exactly what I thought. It's nothing more than a RC helicopter with some bells and whistles. Maybe sat-nav, night/day/ir imaging and a self-destruct mechansism (if it has military uses).
Gimmie 10 or 20 grand and I'd build you one. The only thing that might be complex is if it can navigate itself, but on a heli that's much easier than a plane. You could do it on Logo if you were perverted enough.
A gyroscope isn't used to provide a dampening force in these applications!! It's used to feed sensors that adjust the control surfaces/motors to keep the object at the right attidute/bearing.
The only place I can think of a gyroscope actually providing a stabilising force itself is in a childs spinning top. The Playstation generation might not have heard of them though...
Would someone please explain to me why I would want a game system, phone, answering machine, mp3 player, pda, web brwoser, toaster, ftp server, IceCast streaming server, microwave, linux ssh client, alarmclock radio, dvd player, and cell phone portable, buggy monstrosity that seem to be the norm these days?
Eh? Because you only need to carry one device with you? I love being able to kill time by just doing daft things on my mobile, such as games, writing, eBooks, internet/e-mail.
I can think of worse ways to pass time when you are away from home and need to wait for something, e.g. a bus.
You can do all that stuff on other phones already, and it's been that way for a while. I've got homebrew SNES/NES/GBC emulators and many games on my smartphone, which I got almost a year ago.
Technologically, Nokia are usually behind the curve, with the obvious exception of the cool Communicator they brought out years ago. On the other hand, they have a very good marketing department.
There was also a Stargate episode with connections to 1984 that I caught on TV a few weeks back. Missed the ending due to a phone call, but the premise was that each person had a neural connection to a database, that was continually changing without them being any the wiser. People would loose family, move home etc without realising it, and it was only the precense of the non-connected humans was this apparent.
I'm not happy about missing the end of it...was an interesting episode!!
I'm not the guy who then goes and puts it on Kazaa. And if I was, a little thing like DRM isn't going to stop me.
Shudder. I point this out everytime there is an article about DRM on audio CDs. Yet people just don't get it!!
This system is completely counter-productive. Yes, I feel bold type is neccessary. Now, as the parent post points out, DRM is not going to stop someone determined enough, if they want it, they'll find a way to rip it.
This is where the industries lack of understanding about p2p is really showing through. Right now, getting a whole album can be difficult. Because so many different people make rips, there are lots of different files to choose from, and if you are not lucky enough to find an archive of the whole disk, you have a task on your hands building the album up.
Now we are in a situation where making the rips is more difficult, so there will be less of them. In the p2p world, this is actually an advantage, as less varieties means more sources. More sources means faster and more reliable downloads.
And given the fact that to break the DRM, the person is likely to be technically knowledgable, it follows that there is a good chance that these fewer varieties will all be of good or very good quality. They are making the music easier to get from p2p!!
The only advantage of audio CD DRM is that it stops causual copying by friends. However, these people will then turn to p2p instead, if their current system of getting media fails to work. They aren't just going to stop!!
Nice shot in the foot, Sony!! Combined with annoying users, incompatibility problems (my car mp3 player won't work with them), it's your own funeral.
Recall that Australia was Great Britain's prison state, during the heydey of the Empire.
Far more convicts were sent to North America than Australia. Of course, we'll forget about that for now, but it does go some way to explain Bush & co.;-)
I'm sorry, but the parent hit the nail right on the head. But hey, don't shoot the messenger.
I sense hidden motives here. Many countries are now becoming fearful and paranoid to the US, especially with Bush at the helm. This looks to me to be a response to that. We aren't talking port or domain blocking here, I think they are looking towards the administration of the net itself, and the replacement of ICANN.
I'm not saying this is a good thing (I don't know enough about it), just what it looks like to me.
The few times I have tried a no-name brand product, I'm usually quite dissappointed and decide it's worth the extra 50 cents to get the name brand i like.
Sure, sometimes that's the case, especially with food. Let's face it, there is some really crap food out there! But many products are the exact same thing, produced in the exact same way at the same place as others of different brands. Personally, I worked in one factory that made frozen pizza for three different brand names! This sort of thing is incredibly common, especially with the supermarket's own name brands.
No one makes shit these days. It's all sub-contracted.
Must believe advertising. They wouldn't lie to me.
Sure, we all realise that they don't tell the whole truth. The problem is that advertising also works on the subconsious level. Your brain uses a vast database to determine your response to any stimulus. Unfortunatly, that database is polluted with "information" from adverts. We find it next-to-impossible to differentiate between real knowledge and implanted knowledge.
Don't believe me? Take a look at your shopping trolley next time you go grocery shopping. Most people go for brand names without even thinking about it, as they automatically assume they are "better".
What they are doing is provide people with a cheaper alternative, providing them with services. You can get the movie for free from eDonkey2000, or you can get it for 3$ from a pirate
You've got your order mixed up there. eDonkey has been around for about two years. Bootlegging has been around for nearer 30. The donkey is the new alternative.
The money is a compensation for pirate's time and efforts, not something stolen from the movie producers.
And, of course, compensation for the risk that they are taking.
It's one thing (very bad) to sell a pirated copy of the retail DVD for 15$ in a box almost identical to retail package and it is another (not so bad) to sell this copy for 3$ in a simple DVD-case.
The movie studios would like us to believe they were all in the former category. Their consistent use of the term "counterfeit goods" implies that people are being tricked into buying these.
"Emmm, that's right officer, I was tricked into buying them, I wasn't aware that they were illegal copies!!";-)
Either you are trolling or aren't up on current technology.;-) You can generally download DVD quality versions from peer-to-peer applications shortly after release, which is what they are up in arms about.
For some reason however, the studios seem to focus far more attention on these average home users rather than the criminal syndicates that produce the disks you describe, who are profiting from violating their copyright.
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I see where he is coming from. There is a definite racist attidute in most replies on this topic, and I reckon your parent post was refering to that in general.
So far I've seen most posts hint to them all being stupid and thugs. Are the KKK active on Slashdot now? Ironic, given that the USA has some of the highest illeracy rates in the west, as well as being full of very dangerous people. Pot. Kettle. Black.
America is a racist country. It was built on racism. Get over it. Americans have been conditioned to hate the (in a roughly cronological order) Native Americans, Africans, Mexicans, Germans, Japanesse, French, Russians, Cuban's, Vietnamese, Arabs. In fact, anyone that isn't a white capitalist. Most of you aren't aware of this.
Appologies if this comes off as a troll, it's not. I just hate how most Americans are completely unaware of their racist tendancies. It's conditioned into you from an early age from many different sources.
You make me laugh! Visiting the USA is far more dangerous. Or have you never seen the murder rates for the USA, one of the few western countries to make it into the top 25 most dangerous countries in the world?
I've always thought that moving your eyes around is a good and natural thing, and intently staring at a small area (e.g. television) is bad.
Been there have you? I can assure you, it's not quite that bad.
Yup. This is your basic protection racket scam.
Your world view is pretty fucked up. On our TV we had joyous orchestral, almost movie like soundtracks, with fancy computer graphics overlaid over a sanitized view of the war.
And you slate their "propaganda"?
Throughout school they have a class they call Propaganda(well, not really, but an equivelant word in Chinese) that is just that, all about how bad the west is and how wonderful China is.
And you were oblivious of the "God Bless the USA" teachings you learned in school? All the sanitized history, focusing only on the good things?
Hmm. Do you remember why the space race occured in the first place? It wasn't men they were learning to send into balistic orbits, it was nukes.
If China ramp up their space program, you can pretty much guarantee that the Paranoid States of America will do the same.
By the way, what ever happened to Star Wars II or the US Missle Shield? Not heard anything about them lately.
No shit! Thing is, we still haven't gotten much of an improvement to the social situation either. Turn of your TV false-world and go for a drive. You are never more than 10 minutes away from people living below the poverty line.
Hmm, that's strange. I don't seem to remember having a minder or being tailed while there. I was free to drive where ever I wanted. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been in the world.
Sorry to upset your anti-Chinese conditioning.
Gimmie 10 or 20 grand and I'd build you one. The only thing that might be complex is if it can navigate itself, but on a heli that's much easier than a plane. You could do it on Logo if you were perverted enough.
The only place I can think of a gyroscope actually providing a stabilising force itself is in a childs spinning top. The Playstation generation might not have heard of them though...
Indeed. That's one of the favourite things about my phone. Playing the GBC version of tetris is where it's at!!
Eh? Because you only need to carry one device with you? I love being able to kill time by just doing daft things on my mobile, such as games, writing, eBooks, internet/e-mail.
I can think of worse ways to pass time when you are away from home and need to wait for something, e.g. a bus.
Technologically, Nokia are usually behind the curve, with the obvious exception of the cool Communicator they brought out years ago. On the other hand, they have a very good marketing department.
I'm not happy about missing the end of it...was an interesting episode!!
Shudder. I point this out everytime there is an article about DRM on audio CDs. Yet people just don't get it!!
This system is completely counter-productive. Yes, I feel bold type is neccessary. Now, as the parent post points out, DRM is not going to stop someone determined enough, if they want it, they'll find a way to rip it.
This is where the industries lack of understanding about p2p is really showing through. Right now, getting a whole album can be difficult. Because so many different people make rips, there are lots of different files to choose from, and if you are not lucky enough to find an archive of the whole disk, you have a task on your hands building the album up.
Now we are in a situation where making the rips is more difficult, so there will be less of them. In the p2p world, this is actually an advantage, as less varieties means more sources. More sources means faster and more reliable downloads.
And given the fact that to break the DRM, the person is likely to be technically knowledgable, it follows that there is a good chance that these fewer varieties will all be of good or very good quality. They are making the music easier to get from p2p!!
The only advantage of audio CD DRM is that it stops causual copying by friends. However, these people will then turn to p2p instead, if their current system of getting media fails to work. They aren't just going to stop!!
Nice shot in the foot, Sony!! Combined with annoying users, incompatibility problems (my car mp3 player won't work with them), it's your own funeral.
This reminds me of the following IRC transcript that I read on a web page. Kind of sums up this simplistic mentality:
Far more convicts were sent to North America than Australia. Of course, we'll forget about that for now, but it does go some way to explain Bush & co. ;-)
It was only after the American Revolutionary war that we started shipping them to the land down under.
I sense hidden motives here. Many countries are now becoming fearful and paranoid to the US, especially with Bush at the helm. This looks to me to be a response to that. We aren't talking port or domain blocking here, I think they are looking towards the administration of the net itself, and the replacement of ICANN.
I'm not saying this is a good thing (I don't know enough about it), just what it looks like to me.
Sure, sometimes that's the case, especially with food. Let's face it, there is some really crap food out there! But many products are the exact same thing, produced in the exact same way at the same place as others of different brands. Personally, I worked in one factory that made frozen pizza for three different brand names! This sort of thing is incredibly common, especially with the supermarket's own name brands.
No one makes shit these days. It's all sub-contracted.
Sure, we all realise that they don't tell the whole truth. The problem is that advertising also works on the subconsious level. Your brain uses a vast database to determine your response to any stimulus. Unfortunatly, that database is polluted with "information" from adverts. We find it next-to-impossible to differentiate between real knowledge and implanted knowledge.
Don't believe me? Take a look at your shopping trolley next time you go grocery shopping. Most people go for brand names without even thinking about it, as they automatically assume they are "better".
That probably explains why Carlsberg advertise as "Probably the best lager in the world".
Of course, it would leave Budweisser open to attack with their "king of beers" claim. Clearly wrong!!
Nokia's are shite, both technologically and style. The only thing they have going for them is a fantastic marketing department.
You've got your order mixed up there. eDonkey has been around for about two years. Bootlegging has been around for nearer 30. The donkey is the new alternative.
The money is a compensation for pirate's time and efforts, not something stolen from the movie producers.
And, of course, compensation for the risk that they are taking.
It's one thing (very bad) to sell a pirated copy of the retail DVD for 15$ in a box almost identical to retail package and it is another (not so bad) to sell this copy for 3$ in a simple DVD-case.
The movie studios would like us to believe they were all in the former category. Their consistent use of the term "counterfeit goods" implies that people are being tricked into buying these.
"Emmm, that's right officer, I was tricked into buying them, I wasn't aware that they were illegal copies!!" ;-)
For some reason however, the studios seem to focus far more attention on these average home users rather than the criminal syndicates that produce the disks you describe, who are profiting from violating their copyright.