Does anyone else think they named it Rights Management Services instead of just something similar for the sole reason of making Richard M. cry?
Imagine how he feels everytime he sees his famed initials connected to something like this. The responsible guy at microsoft is probably reading this now, snickering at his cleverness.
Well what happens the manufacturer of your 20 year old DX-5 give up on it and new boards won't be available and it dies on you (the eBay supply will run out of them as well eventually)? I thought the whole point of having standards is that you don't need an 'exact replacement' for it.
If you are a rock star and sell out a 10 city tour in minutes and go on stage without some sort of backup equipment you deserve to pee your pants when your gear fails you.
I didn't have a backup guitar at my first gig and I got what I deserved when a string broke during the second song. I learnt my lesson though.
It is true that people change, but parts also stay the same. Obi Wan in Ep 1 seemed like a completely different person than the Obi Wan of Ep 4,5,6. I would have liked to see circumstances change him from being one way to being like he is when he is older.
Things will happen in Ep III though. In Ep I & II things are still going pretty smoothly for Obi-Wan and the jedis. In Ep III the jedis will be wiped out and Obi-Wan will be betrayed by Anakin (*woops*spoiler*too late*!). I think that plus 40 years of hiding in a desert might be enough to change him into what he is in Ep IV. The circumstances that change him haven't happened yet in I & II.
Mapquest is a good start but it really needs to add some crosshairs to the image and a 'fire' button next to it to be truly useful, as a stress releiver if nothing else.
If it were possible to just start publishing someone else's stories or music without paying them (while undercutting the original distributor's prices), nobody would want to create anything worth distributing
I think hundreds and thousands of people would still want to create art 'worth distributing'. They might have to do other things on the side to support themselves and they might not get to live in MTV cribs style houses... Their art might not be seen/heard by as many people as the art your typical RIAA artist makes is but I don't think the human desire to create art really is that dependent on raking in the bling bling. The "Noone will make art if they don't get paid" is a bit of RIAA propaganda as far as I'm concerned.
I want to see a remake of Meet The Feebles. Imagine what that movie could be with the special effects available to him now. The war scenes the drugged up crocodile flashbacks to could be incredible. Not to mention the sex scene between the cat and the walrus. Hubba hubba hopp!
If I were to write a reply to this post myself it would read much like this critique page, so I might as well just link to it instead: A critique of Bakshis LOTR
Keyboards have not made real string sections obsolete and drum machines have not made real drummers obsolete even though the same noises were made about both of the above. If it was me, I wouldn't worry about making singers obsolete just yet.
Exactly. What is creativity? Is it the "mechanical" act of fretting a string and hitting it or opening your mouth and exhaling air in a specific way or is it thinking and coming up with chord changes, melodies and harmonies? With stuff like this, the people who can do the latter but not the former will be able to let others hear what they themselves hear in their head while those who can do the former but not the latter will still be able to be puppeted around on MTV.
Yes, but they could pop up a dialog when they try to burn a cd without having started it telling them it won't work unless they start it, would you like to start it? Would you like to have it on all the time from now on? Or something like that. That might not fit into the mythical Apple experience where it just works though, I don't know.
They don't do this because its actually going to do anything. Its done because theres really nothing else to do, and they need to have *some* sort of insurance, even if it doesn't work. It hurts the honest crowd of people, and benefits the non-honest crowd.
People* who buy the game have to go download a crack if they don't want to have to put a cd in the computer every time they play a(nother) game.
People* who buy the cd have to go on Kazaa or whatever and download mp3s if they want to listen to the music on their iPod. No, it doesn't sound quite right.
* People don't know how to get around protections themselves.
I used to think the same way when my mudding was ruining my college studies. Now that I've gone back to play a little again ('play a little' famous last words!) a few years later and decided to try a client (RoAClient, http://rhoneware.com) I can't believe how stupi^H^Hstubborn I was spending all that time manually typing in everything like going from point a to point b on a trip I make 10 times a playing session instead of using scripts for it.
I still think using triggers for playerkilling and such things is Bad(tm), but for the purely mechanical, braindead things scripts are a must for me now.
Personally, I refuse to support an industry that relies on guilting people into paying for overpriced crap.
Kind of funny to see this right after a paragraph where you describe an experience you had sat in a chair in a movie theather, popcorn (I presume 'food' means that) in hand. The movie was excellent as well! Your dad must have paid for it all, eh?
It used to be good arcade game destroyed by shitty Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum conversion. Fanboys had to have them even if they were nothing alike then too.
if(old_geezer) {
Funny thing is the shitty handheld variants of today are probably better than the good arcade games back then. Kids these days don't know how good their toys are I tell you
}
Be careful, Mr. Lamo it's bad enough that the NYT is after you for hacking into their system. If you keep telling everyone else how to do it like this, the consequences will be even worse!
Uhuh? It seems they just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I did it just now:
"Digital Millennium Copyright Act on valittanut 10 tuloksesta talta sivulta, ja siksi olemme poistaneet ne. Halutessasi voit lukea DMCA:n valituksen kyseisista tuloksista."
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Dear lord, I could stomach the E.T agents walkie talkies and Greedo shooting first but and iPod in the mac ad? Is nothing sacred? What's next?
Does anyone else think they named it Rights Management Services instead of just something similar for the sole reason of making Richard M. cry?
Imagine how he feels everytime he sees his famed initials connected to something like this. The responsible guy at microsoft is probably reading this now, snickering at his cleverness.
Or maybe not *cough*
Well what happens the manufacturer of your 20 year old DX-5 give up on it and new boards won't be available and it dies on you (the eBay supply will run out of them as well eventually)? I thought the whole point of having standards is that you don't need an 'exact replacement' for it.
If you are a rock star and sell out a 10 city tour in minutes and go on stage without some sort of backup equipment you deserve to pee your pants when your gear fails you.
I didn't have a backup guitar at my first gig and I got what I deserved when a string broke during the second song. I learnt my lesson though.
It is true that people change, but parts also stay the same. Obi Wan in Ep 1 seemed like a completely different person than the Obi Wan of Ep 4,5,6. I would have liked to see circumstances change him from being one way to being like he is when he is older.
Things will happen in Ep III though. In Ep I & II things are still going pretty smoothly for Obi-Wan and the jedis. In Ep III the jedis will be wiped out and Obi-Wan will be betrayed by Anakin (*woops*spoiler*too late*!). I think that plus 40 years of hiding in a desert might be enough to change him into what he is in Ep IV. The circumstances that change him haven't happened yet in I & II.
Not that that's an excuse for I & II.
Mapquest is a good start but it really needs to add some crosshairs to the image and a 'fire' button next to it to be truly useful, as a stress releiver if nothing else.
If it were possible to just start publishing someone else's stories or music without paying them (while undercutting the original distributor's prices), nobody would want to create anything worth distributing
I think hundreds and thousands of people would still want to create art 'worth distributing'. They might have to do other things on the side to support themselves and they might not get to live in MTV cribs style houses... Their art might not be seen/heard by as many people as the art your typical RIAA artist makes is but I don't think the human desire to create art really is that dependent on raking in the bling bling. The "Noone will make art if they don't get paid" is a bit of RIAA propaganda as far as I'm concerned.
I want to see a remake of Meet The Feebles. Imagine what that movie could be with the special effects available to him now. The war scenes the drugged up crocodile flashbacks to could be incredible. Not to mention the sex scene between the cat and the walrus. Hubba hubba hopp!
*cough*
Bladerunner is in the future though. Wouldn't quite make as much sense if the Coke ad was painted on the Helms Deep wall in the Two Towers.
I think his next project will be a remake of King Kong, of all things. Unless that was a joke.
If I were to write a reply to this post myself it would read much like this critique page, so I might as well just link to it instead: A critique of Bakshis LOTR
Keyboards have not made real string sections obsolete and drum machines have not made real drummers obsolete even though the same noises were made about both of the above. If it was me, I wouldn't worry about making singers obsolete just yet.
Exactly. What is creativity? Is it the "mechanical" act of fretting a string and hitting it or opening your mouth and exhaling air in a specific way or is it thinking and coming up with chord changes, melodies and harmonies? With stuff like this, the people who can do the latter but not the former will be able to let others hear what they themselves hear in their head while those who can do the former but not the latter will still be able to be puppeted around on MTV.
Yes, but they could pop up a dialog when they try to burn a cd without having started it telling them it won't work unless they start it, would you like to start it? Would you like to have it on all the time from now on? Or something like that. That might not fit into the mythical Apple experience where it just works though, I don't know.
He'd have to wait a while to do his next task while the viagra was taking effect anyway so it should't have been such a big problem.
People* who buy the cd have to go on Kazaa or whatever and download mp3s if they want to listen to the music on their iPod. No, it doesn't sound quite right.
* People don't know how to get around protections themselves.
I used to think the same way when my mudding was ruining my college studies. Now that I've gone back to play a little again ('play a little' famous last words!) a few years later and decided to try a client (RoAClient, http://rhoneware.com) I can't believe how stupi^H^Hstubborn I was spending all that time manually typing in everything like going from point a to point b on a trip I make 10 times a playing session instead of using scripts for it.
I still think using triggers for playerkilling and such things is Bad(tm), but for the purely mechanical, braindead things scripts are a must for me now.
Melting ice caps, now there's an overflow bug.
It used to be good arcade game destroyed by shitty Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum conversion. Fanboys had to have them even if they were nothing alike then too.
if(old_geezer) {
Funny thing is the shitty handheld variants of today are probably better than the good arcade games back then. Kids these days don't know how good their toys are I tell you
}
Be careful, Mr. Lamo it's bad enough that the NYT is after you for hacking into their system. If you keep telling everyone else how to do it like this, the consequences will be even worse!
Uhuh? It seems they just hadn't gotten around to it yet. I did it just now:
"Digital Millennium Copyright Act on valittanut 10 tuloksesta talta sivulta, ja siksi olemme poistaneet ne. Halutessasi voit lukea DMCA:n valituksen kyseisista tuloksista."
Translation: Same as google.com