The "masses" don't read comic books, anyway. The "masses" of comic book readers, IMHO, don't walk into a store and walk out with a bunch of unknowns. They walk in knowing their favorites and looking for specific issues. The only way to attract the "masses" to an unknown is to get it known.
Sci-fi mags half a century ago had the right idea. They had a well-known author write a short story that could have sold the mag entirely on its own merit. The rest of the mag could be a number of shorts by unknown authors. Each reader then found the authors that appealed to them.
One good way of introducing indy comics is to include a short sample at the back of a popular comic at no extra cost to the reader. Including several would be an optimal way to expose the "masses" to a variety of indy comics they may find interesting.
Online comics is another good way of exposing indy comics to the "masses", though the crowd is a little different, so this must be nurtured carefully. (Too many people get used to their free online content and won't pay for the same content.)
why would anyone buy a compilation of ads? In other words, what content on the CD are the songs advertising? Not the actual CD-Rom sans content, obviously.
Hmmmmmm, I wonder if that argument will work when i test-drive that gorgeous new car. "Sir, this test-drive vehicle is just an ad for the other cars on your lot, so it should be free."
Every single time one of these articles comes out, there are a bunch of complaints that this will affect those who use the system legitimately. What a bunch of baloney. Does anyone really think the RIAA would be going to all this trouble if the majority of P2P users were using the systems to share legitimately obtained material?
Okay, so granted it is not cool to put down hard-earned money on a crappy CD. But, how many of those yelling about that would be happy with 15-second samples?
Granted, MTV, radio, and other mediums tend to promote whatever the industry wants to sell - rather than new unknown styles. But how do you search a P2P network for an "unknown"? That is something easier done through word-of-mouth, local jigs, and unaffiliated local radio stations. (BTW - how many of these complainers are willing to support their local college station in any way to ensure it isn't taken over by a big corp?)
Flash is the second most evil application that adverstisers have discovered (second only to pop-unders).
I am not averse to all Flash usages, but being unable to choose which run and which don't, my choice is to not run any. When the day comes that I can selectively turn on or off Flash options (without the maker deciding to limit my control), I may lose my stubbornness. Until then I'd rather avoid sites that think it is the be-all, end-all of web graphics.
The issue is not whether or not the original photos or resulting photo create different impressions. Some people don't see a difference and others think it is major, but that isn't the point of why he got canned.
The issue is not even as simple as whether he (the photojournalist) should have made any alteration at all.
The real issue is that he submitted that photo to the editors without advising THEM of the alteration(s) made. Printing a photo on the front page of a news journal which can be easily proven to have been altered is serious egg-in-the-face for an organization that needs to keep reader faith. Terminating his employment and loudly announcing that his behavior violated photojournalistic ethics and his employment contract shifts all blame for the use of an altered photo to him and shows them to be conscientious about responding to such incidents - if not careful to avoid them beforehand.
The reason it is unattributed is that it truly hasn't been observed any time recently. It is true that 15-20 years ago the quality of games in the arcade far exceeded what a home gaming console could manage. For that matter, computers weren't in every home, so pc gaming graphics wasn't big either. In those days, games you saw in the arcade were pushing the evelope in graphics (as well as controls and genre). Those that did the best were "ported" to consoles in order to continue the earnings after newer games hit the arcades. Most important, an arcade was the after-school / after-work hangout place of choice.
Nowadays, the graphics level on arcade games is barely a baby step ahead of home consoles (and is probably matched by many pc games). Controls have moved to realism - motorcycle racing in which you sit on a simplistic "bike" and move it side to side - something that isn't easily translated to the home. Arcades are not the hangout place of choice in most areas. In fact, many gamers don't bother with arcade games except for fighting games (ah, the Tekken empire).
Microsoft keeps making mistakes because they are trying to follow a well-worn path that was left by others while claiming it as their own innovative new path.
There've already been a number of Microsoft OS-based games in the arcade. It's very wrong to walk into the theater and see the blue screen with a completely obscure error message -- and not have Ctrl-Alt-Del at your command.
Do you have any technology described in any of your books that has not yet been developed (or proven impossible) which you would like to see more research on?
If you really aren't sure if the problem is the CD or the player, try playing older CDs that you have lying around. Sony's players seem to be having the most trouble from the reading I've been doing.
I tried this myself, but found I didn't have the patience or determination to get everything working smoothly. Shockwave just doesn't jive well with some web browsers on Linux. WINE is a work in progress and not sure to work. (Though, admittedly, even running games on WinXP that were designed for Win98 is iffy.) End result, a dual-boot system using LILO. Office-type software in Linux, games in Windows 2000, messenger in Linux, browser in Windows 2000. This works much better. I keep checking new stuff out -- so eventually more will move to Linux, but I refuse to spend weeks trying to get shockwave to move.
Being a game tester does not mean just sitting around having fund playing a game. It means going through some sections repeatedly trying to find bugs. It means playing the game through beginning to end more than once -- even knowing where every item and enemy will be and the tricks to all the puzzles. It means burning out on the game before it even makes it to market.
As to gaming tastes, games "made for girls" or "made for women" assume that gossip and shopping are all women care about. Female gamers are unusual, so why expect their tastes to be usual?
Generation X is just one of many labels created by marketing minds to try to group individuals for the purpose of selling them things. Because those marketers called Generation X-ers refused to buy product based on their X-treme ads, they must be poor failures. Nice attempt to cover their own failure.
The "Baby Boom generation" didn't consist entirely of hippies and yuppies. Neither does "Generation X" only consist of wanna-be millionaires who will never do more than struggle. Too much generalization.
For many of us, Windows 98SE and Office 97 are still quite acceptable packages that accomplish what we need. Why is the life span so short, besides to allow new profit on the same ideas with bugs fixed, security holes patched, and a few bells and whistles added (BTW, some bells that I DON'T want and can't turn off in the one Office 2000 I run).
If there was a patch, keep it available for those who choose not to update. I don't expect Office 97 to run on Windows XP, nor am I asking for a copy of Office 2000 -- just a simple security patch to fix a hole that should not have existed in the first place.
If you willingly pay a company for security that has a proven track record for being insecure, who's the fool?
Microsoft is looking for any way it can increase its profits, but has it considered that consumers who pay for security will actually EXPECT real security? What happens after the first couple hacks prove the quality of their security?
The planets do not all run at exactly the same point in their orbits at all times. There is no way to "run one to Mars" since the distance between Earth and Mars is not consistent and there are times when Mars is on the far side of the sun. Our space elevator would have to stretch, pass through the sun occasionally and avoid the moon, Mercury and Venus as well.
That said, it is only necessary to stretch the elevator from the surface of a planet or moon to a point outside the gravitational field from which "space launch" is possible. This would remove the need for huge fuel tanks to lift craft away from the planet -- that work being done by the elevator.
What we (consumers or music-downloaders) want is not services we have to pay for. The less cost, the better -- with no cost being best.
However, most of us do accept the fact that we have laws that require we pay for things. With a choice between illegal and low-cost, many of us will choose low-cost. (Doesn't mean that's what we really want, just that some of us are willing to pay rather than pirate.)
Guess what? It is more often than not copyright violations that get these sites knocked down. A site that was 100% upfront about all sources of all information and didn't include any copyrighted material would be much harder for them to suppress.
Credit card accounts and other billing methods require average consumers to have good credit in order to send e-mail. Right now, it is possible for someone to have a hotmail or yahoo account and keep in touch with family even though this person has lousy credit and no home address or computer (libraries and friends). This is another case of hurting users while not stopping a spammer, who will find a way around it.
It is bad enough to see spurious charges on a phone bill, without some spammer linking through my account and getting socked with that $100,000 bill.
Unfortunately, this would require billing in advance. How would an ISP determine in advance how many emails will be sent if they don't know who is a spammer? Do you want a bill for $100,000.00 up front just in case you might be a spammer?
The only way I can see this working is with a system that has a pre-established deposit amount and a way of cutting off service if that amount hits $0.00. Sadly I am sure spammers will find a way to hack this or piggy-back on some business account.
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The "masses" don't read comic books, anyway. The "masses" of comic book readers, IMHO, don't walk into a store and walk out with a bunch of unknowns. They walk in knowing their favorites and looking for specific issues. The only way to attract the "masses" to an unknown is to get it known.
Sci-fi mags half a century ago had the right idea. They had a well-known author write a short story that could have sold the mag entirely on its own merit. The rest of the mag could be a number of shorts by unknown authors. Each reader then found the authors that appealed to them.
One good way of introducing indy comics is to include a short sample at the back of a popular comic at no extra cost to the reader. Including several would be an optimal way to expose the "masses" to a variety of indy comics they may find interesting.
Online comics is another good way of exposing indy comics to the "masses", though the crowd is a little different, so this must be nurtured carefully. (Too many people get used to their free online content and won't pay for the same content.)
why would anyone buy a compilation of ads? In other words, what content on the CD are the songs advertising? Not the actual CD-Rom sans content, obviously.
Hmmmmmm, I wonder if that argument will work when i test-drive that gorgeous new car. "Sir, this test-drive vehicle is just an ad for the other cars on your lot, so it should be free."
Every single time one of these articles comes out, there are a bunch of complaints that this will affect those who use the system legitimately. What a bunch of baloney. Does anyone really think the RIAA would be going to all this trouble if the majority of P2P users were using the systems to share legitimately obtained material?
Okay, so granted it is not cool to put down hard-earned money on a crappy CD. But, how many of those yelling about that would be happy with 15-second samples?
Granted, MTV, radio, and other mediums tend to promote whatever the industry wants to sell - rather than new unknown styles. But how do you search a P2P network for an "unknown"? That is something easier done through word-of-mouth, local jigs, and unaffiliated local radio stations. (BTW - how many of these complainers are willing to support their local college station in any way to ensure it isn't taken over by a big corp?)
Flash is the second most evil application that adverstisers have discovered (second only to pop-unders).
I am not averse to all Flash usages, but being unable to choose which run and which don't, my choice is to not run any. When the day comes that I can selectively turn on or off Flash options (without the maker deciding to limit my control), I may lose my stubbornness. Until then I'd rather avoid sites that think it is the be-all, end-all of web graphics.
but it bears saying again:
The issue is not whether or not the original photos or resulting photo create different impressions. Some people don't see a difference and others think it is major, but that isn't the point of why he got canned.
The issue is not even as simple as whether he (the photojournalist) should have made any alteration at all.
The real issue is that he submitted that photo to the editors without advising THEM of the alteration(s) made. Printing a photo on the front page of a news journal which can be easily proven to have been altered is serious egg-in-the-face for an organization that needs to keep reader faith. Terminating his employment and loudly announcing that his behavior violated photojournalistic ethics and his employment contract shifts all blame for the use of an altered photo to him and shows them to be conscientious about responding to such incidents - if not careful to avoid them beforehand.
The reason it is unattributed is that it truly hasn't been observed any time recently. It is true that 15-20 years ago the quality of games in the arcade far exceeded what a home gaming console could manage. For that matter, computers weren't in every home, so pc gaming graphics wasn't big either. In those days, games you saw in the arcade were pushing the evelope in graphics (as well as controls and genre). Those that did the best were "ported" to consoles in order to continue the earnings after newer games hit the arcades. Most important, an arcade was the after-school / after-work hangout place of choice. Nowadays, the graphics level on arcade games is barely a baby step ahead of home consoles (and is probably matched by many pc games). Controls have moved to realism - motorcycle racing in which you sit on a simplistic "bike" and move it side to side - something that isn't easily translated to the home. Arcades are not the hangout place of choice in most areas. In fact, many gamers don't bother with arcade games except for fighting games (ah, the Tekken empire). Microsoft keeps making mistakes because they are trying to follow a well-worn path that was left by others while claiming it as their own innovative new path.
There've already been a number of Microsoft OS-based games in the arcade. It's very wrong to walk into the theater and see the blue screen with a completely obscure error message -- and not have Ctrl-Alt-Del at your command.
Do you have any technology described in any of your books that has not yet been developed (or proven impossible) which you would like to see more research on?
If you really aren't sure if the problem is the CD or the player, try playing older CDs that you have lying around. Sony's players seem to be having the most trouble from the reading I've been doing.
I tried this myself, but found I didn't have the patience or determination to get everything working smoothly. Shockwave just doesn't jive well with some web browsers on Linux. WINE is a work in progress and not sure to work. (Though, admittedly, even running games on WinXP that were designed for Win98 is iffy.) End result, a dual-boot system using LILO. Office-type software in Linux, games in Windows 2000, messenger in Linux, browser in Windows 2000. This works much better. I keep checking new stuff out -- so eventually more will move to Linux, but I refuse to spend weeks trying to get shockwave to move.
Being a game tester does not mean just sitting around having fund playing a game. It means going through some sections repeatedly trying to find bugs. It means playing the game through beginning to end more than once -- even knowing where every item and enemy will be and the tricks to all the puzzles. It means burning out on the game before it even makes it to market. As to gaming tastes, games "made for girls" or "made for women" assume that gossip and shopping are all women care about. Female gamers are unusual, so why expect their tastes to be usual?
I reset that game a few times hoping there was a way to avoid that moment.
Is that why most women don't care for Japanese anime' too?
This assumes that Americans speak clear, understandable English. Considering an e-mail I got from another American, I would loudly dispute this.
"Hi their. How R u? I lic to rite to nu peeple."
Food to fuel isn't a new idea. The human body already manages that conversion just fine.
Calories are measurements of the amount of heat energy. Guess that means the higher-calorie foods will be more useful for charging this battery.
Refuel at McDonald's.
Generation X is just one of many labels created by marketing minds to try to group individuals for the purpose of selling them things. Because those marketers called Generation X-ers refused to buy product based on their X-treme ads, they must be poor failures. Nice attempt to cover their own failure. The "Baby Boom generation" didn't consist entirely of hippies and yuppies. Neither does "Generation X" only consist of wanna-be millionaires who will never do more than struggle. Too much generalization.
For many of us, Windows 98SE and Office 97 are still quite acceptable packages that accomplish what we need. Why is the life span so short, besides to allow new profit on the same ideas with bugs fixed, security holes patched, and a few bells and whistles added (BTW, some bells that I DON'T want and can't turn off in the one Office 2000 I run). If there was a patch, keep it available for those who choose not to update. I don't expect Office 97 to run on Windows XP, nor am I asking for a copy of Office 2000 -- just a simple security patch to fix a hole that should not have existed in the first place.
If you willingly pay a company for security that has a proven track record for being insecure, who's the fool? Microsoft is looking for any way it can increase its profits, but has it considered that consumers who pay for security will actually EXPECT real security? What happens after the first couple hacks prove the quality of their security?
The planets do not all run at exactly the same point in their orbits at all times. There is no way to "run one to Mars" since the distance between Earth and Mars is not consistent and there are times when Mars is on the far side of the sun. Our space elevator would have to stretch, pass through the sun occasionally and avoid the moon, Mercury and Venus as well.
That said, it is only necessary to stretch the elevator from the surface of a planet or moon to a point outside the gravitational field from which "space launch" is possible. This would remove the need for huge fuel tanks to lift craft away from the planet -- that work being done by the elevator.
Drunk drivers typically kill others more often than they kill themselves. If the gene pool is thinning, it's in the wrong direction.
Well, with all that weight in the base of the car, and 8 wheels, this vehicle is much less likely to roll over than those wonder gas-guzzling SUVs. :D
What we (consumers or music-downloaders) want is not services we have to pay for. The less cost, the better -- with no cost being best.
However, most of us do accept the fact that we have laws that require we pay for things. With a choice between illegal and low-cost, many of us will choose low-cost. (Doesn't mean that's what we really want, just that some of us are willing to pay rather than pirate.)
Guess what? It is more often than not copyright violations that get these sites knocked down. A site that was 100% upfront about all sources of all information and didn't include any copyrighted material would be much harder for them to suppress.
Credit card accounts and other billing methods require average consumers to have good credit in order to send e-mail. Right now, it is possible for someone to have a hotmail or yahoo account and keep in touch with family even though this person has lousy credit and no home address or computer (libraries and friends). This is another case of hurting users while not stopping a spammer, who will find a way around it.
It is bad enough to see spurious charges on a phone bill, without some spammer linking through my account and getting socked with that $100,000 bill.
Unfortunately, this would require billing in advance. How would an ISP determine in advance how many emails will be sent if they don't know who is a spammer? Do you want a bill for $100,000.00 up front just in case you might be a spammer?
The only way I can see this working is with a system that has a pre-established deposit amount and a way of cutting off service if that amount hits $0.00. Sadly I am sure spammers will find a way to hack this or piggy-back on some business account.