for the big 5, these couple of months between a mac and windows versions is an experiment period. They let Apple be as liberal as possible with DRM to see if it takes off and if there are any major hurdles...
What you said got me to thinking... could it be possible that the experiment you casually mentioned is to see how many of these files find their way on to P2P networks? Granted, with re-encoding to a non-DRM file, it would become almost impossible to trace the source of the file...unless a change was made to the length of the original track (perhaps by just a few seconds) that would tell the RIAA definitively wether or not specific tracks came from the iTMS. In which case, your statement has a much more profound meaning.
Not really proposing anything insightful, just tossing out an idea that occurred to me.
Well, I said this in another post, but since you've been modded up to insightful, and the other guy hasn't yet, I figure I'll send this your way as well.
I've been saying for some time that the record industry NEEDS to basically innovate or die. Use technology to boost their sales rather than fighting in a losing battle. They never heeded the words of the great Capt_Troy...
Congratulations! Aparently all your moaining and wailing on Slashdot really paid off. Now if we could only convince all the other activists out there to stop taking to the streets and doing something and instead just posting their philosophies on here time and time again, maybe we could finally change the world!
And, furtheromore, those of you that ARE the people in line in front of him behaving in an uncivilized manner, LEARN from him and everyone else that is so very frustrated with your lack of consideration!...I now submit MY story of an inconsiderate cell phone user.
I was hanging out with some friends late one night and we found our way to this strange new restaurant called Denny's. It being prom night, this place was filled with High School kids and we were sat across from a young couple. The guy on this date was so busy yapping on his cell phone for the better part of 20 minutes that he didn't even bother to hang up when their dinner arrived, thus completely ignoring his date! Naturally, I had no choice but to take it upon myself to start flirting with his date (and, yes, I did do this in hopes he'd hang up and pay attention to her). Long story short (too late) he did hang up, but not because of my flirting. Rather, his food was getting cold (or that's what he told the other person). After he hung up, he was more than willing to hang all over her and mad dog me, but he didn't seem to care about her too much when he was on the phone.
Damn...that does feel good! Though I don't think I'll be screaming into any vacuums anytime soon. Last time I did that, it sucked all the saliva out of my mouth and I had cottonmouth for a week!
You confuse one very important aspect of Science and Art. Emotion. When I tell a story, I tell it with very specific emtions because of the way the story orginally affected me. I take great offense to the idea that you can tell my story, twisting my emotions, altering my vision and do a better job of it. You can tell your own story, by all means. It may even be better than mine. But don't twist mine to fit your agenda. We are not working to create the best movie possible. We're each making our own, each telling our own tale. And therein lies the difference.
What about my rights as a Storyteller? My rights as an artist? Is it fair to take David on tour and put pants on him so he doesn't offend anyone? Or perhaps we should give the Venus de Milo a bra? I take offense to people who say they shouldn't be forced to watch scenes of graphic violence or foul language with kids in the room. SEND THEM TO BED! DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE! No one is forcing you to watch these movies with kids in the room. Isn't this why we have our rating system? I'll admit it doesn't speak well to the maturity and intelligence of mankind, but neither does this software that tells us what to watch and what not to watch.
I don't always agree with the MPAA and their decisions regaring copyright, but I respect the desire of a storyteller as an aspiring storyteller myself (read: filmmaker) to tell his tale in it's truest form. If the artist is worth his salt, trust the story to be best in his own words. And if you don't think your children can handle it, don't let them watch. YOU be the parent! YOU take control! YOU take the power back in to your own hands and don't support the already brainless and candy-coated Hollywood in power.
We can have substance in our cinema, but we need to show Hollywood we're mature enough and smart enough and WILLING enough to support it.
And I have collected (what I hope to be) the email addresses (those who have one, at any rate) of as many Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill including our Chief Executive and his right hand man. I thought of posting them here, but to prevent them from having their addresses harvested by spammers (It may already happen, but I won't contribute to it), I'll simply state that if you would like them, please write me and I'll send them along. I, sadly, do not have time nor the ability to generate and html of the solid information. My address is dennisalanizATmacDOTcom.
Also, if you'd like to use my source instead, I got them all from http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
Believe it or not, the switch to InDesign was remarkably easy for everyone here (I work at a major daily newspaper in Phoenix) and would recommend at least testing InDesign for a couple of weeks (Or however long the demo is) on your home computer. Experience the well crafted piece of software it is and then test it out at your job (given you have the time). You'll find that Adobe's long forray in X (don't forget, they were one of the first in it and know it damn well by now) has helped them construct one of the most solid and intuitive layout programs in a long time. I don't own stock in Adobe, but I damn well should. I just speak as a person who started using Quark back in the 3.0 era and believe that the final nail will be driven into their coffin by the end of 2004.
But back to my point, InDesign makes the cut. Don't just rule something out as too difficult without bothering to find out if it really does "just work."
And on a parting (and personal) note...your designers will love you so much more if you stick with Macs. Trust!
No, not for your comment, insightful though it may be. But for your sig. You don't know how many damn people I fight (best friend and Super Genius (and he is one wily fellow, let me tell you!) included) all the damn time! I've never seen a sig I agreed more wholeheartedly with or that even inspired me into action. Congratulations!
But I wasn't expecting to have you advertise your new ISP to me when reading your thread. You've now taken up my valuable time and I request monetary compensation since I wasn't asked.
oh....kaaaay. I don't flat out tell people cell phones suck and I despise their vile choice in committing themselves so thoughtlesstly to an annoying, inatimate object. I thank them for their time and courtesy and appreciate that there are still decent people (ie. not you, obviously) in this world.
I can't tell you how much joy I get out of the fact that I am also completely out of reach from the world on the weekends. Granted, I have email at home, but most people that write me write from work or school computers, but my point is that I have no cell phone.
I despise the miserable machines and cannot ever picture myself being tied to carrying around another object in a pocket or attached to a belt. My wallet and keys are enough of a neusance.
Sure, there have been times when having one would have been beneficial, but either I was with a friend who had one or was near a payphone. The only exception was when my car broke down a few years ago and I needed to call my parents for help. What ever did I do?! Simple. Flagged down a nice looking SUV (figured it was a family car) and, viola, family with a cell phone.
To make a long story short (too late), the market is so saturated with cell phones that I can go nearly anywhere and still have a phone accessible to me when I NEED it and I'm not constantly bombarded with meaningless calls in uncomfortable places (read: The backseat of a volkswagon). The rest of the time, peace and silence is my companion.
I've NEVER been online and your encouraging and well though out words have helped me to decide that the internet has nothing to offer. If only there were some way to get your opinions out to the masses by means of some cheap, wide reaching web (if you will) that could encircle the world...
I've come to trust Extended Play's reviews a great deal. Sure, they're a little soft (some games clearly deserved a zero (don't think they give this) or one star) when it comes to crappy games, but they do a wonderful job of breaking down exactly what works and what doesn't work for a game. Without Extended Play, I would have passed over some very nice titles. Namely Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Zero AND would have made the mistake of continuing to buy the RE's...had it not been for EP. (For those who can't tell, I'm a GC son)
Finding a reviewer you can trust is important, and I'm glad I've found EP for my games and Chicago Fats (li'l ol Ebert) for my movies.
Actually, your pal Wells and his pal Gregg Toland did some damn impressive deep focus shots in Kane using, as you mentioned "a shitload of light" and this did predate the 50's deep focus flicks by a full decade.
A friend of mine had an amusing (yet logically flawed) signature so one day I decided to write her pointing out her fallacy. I was horrified to see that her reply was sent not just back to myself, but to a massive list of people. Granted, neither the original message nor the reply contained anything extremely personal, but I felt as though my privacy had been voilated.
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for the big 5, these couple of months between a mac and windows versions is an experiment period. They let Apple be as liberal as possible with DRM to see if it takes off and if there are any major hurdles...
...unless a change was made to the length of the original track (perhaps by just a few seconds) that would tell the RIAA definitively wether or not specific tracks came from the iTMS. In which case, your statement has a much more profound meaning.
What you said got me to thinking... could it be possible that the experiment you casually mentioned is to see how many of these files find their way on to P2P networks? Granted, with re-encoding to a non-DRM file, it would become almost impossible to trace the source of the file
Not really proposing anything insightful, just tossing out an idea that occurred to me.
Geeks aren't men? ...sound about right
Well, I said this in another post, but since you've been modded up to insightful, and the other guy hasn't yet, I figure I'll send this your way as well.
Meet the Doomslayer
Really? Meet the Doomslayer
As a cinemaphile and aspiring director, he's DEAD ON! ...damn I wish I had mod points.
I've been saying for some time that the record industry NEEDS to basically innovate or die. Use technology to boost their sales rather than fighting in a losing battle. They never heeded the words of the great Capt_Troy...
Congratulations! Aparently all your moaining and wailing on Slashdot really paid off. Now if we could only convince all the other activists out there to stop taking to the streets and doing something and instead just posting their philosophies on here time and time again, maybe we could finally change the world!
Aaaaah, sweet, sweet sarcasm!
Look: if you're not a dangerous criminal, the government DOESN'T CARE what you do. Really.
I submit the following 'danergous criminals'
John Lennon
Albert Einstein
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Elvis Prestley
Frank Sinatra
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Mantle
Lenny Bruce
Charlie Chaplin
Each one a dangerous criminal and worthy of the governments watchful eye.
WAKE UP!
Do a Google search! You'd be surprised at the information that turns up!
It's its not "it's"
And, furtheromore, those of you that ARE the people in line in front of him behaving in an uncivilized manner, LEARN from him and everyone else that is so very frustrated with your lack of consideration! ...I now submit MY story of an inconsiderate cell phone user.
I was hanging out with some friends late one night and we found our way to this strange new restaurant called Denny's. It being prom night, this place was filled with High School kids and we were sat across from a young couple. The guy on this date was so busy yapping on his cell phone for the better part of 20 minutes that he didn't even bother to hang up when their dinner arrived, thus completely ignoring his date! Naturally, I had no choice but to take it upon myself to start flirting with his date (and, yes, I did do this in hopes he'd hang up and pay attention to her). Long story short (too late) he did hang up, but not because of my flirting. Rather, his food was getting cold (or that's what he told the other person). After he hung up, he was more than willing to hang all over her and mad dog me, but he didn't seem to care about her too much when he was on the phone.
Damn...that does feel good! Though I don't think I'll be screaming into any vacuums anytime soon. Last time I did that, it sucked all the saliva out of my mouth and I had cottonmouth for a week!
keeping the King of England out of your face!
You confuse one very important aspect of Science and Art. Emotion. When I tell a story, I tell it with very specific emtions because of the way the story orginally affected me. I take great offense to the idea that you can tell my story, twisting my emotions, altering my vision and do a better job of it. You can tell your own story, by all means. It may even be better than mine. But don't twist mine to fit your agenda. We are not working to create the best movie possible. We're each making our own, each telling our own tale. And therein lies the difference.
What about my rights as a Storyteller? My rights as an artist? Is it fair to take David on tour and put pants on him so he doesn't offend anyone? Or perhaps we should give the Venus de Milo a bra? I take offense to people who say they shouldn't be forced to watch scenes of graphic violence or foul language with kids in the room. SEND THEM TO BED! DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE! No one is forcing you to watch these movies with kids in the room. Isn't this why we have our rating system? I'll admit it doesn't speak well to the maturity and intelligence of mankind, but neither does this software that tells us what to watch and what not to watch.
I don't always agree with the MPAA and their decisions regaring copyright, but I respect the desire of a storyteller as an aspiring storyteller myself (read: filmmaker) to tell his tale in it's truest form. If the artist is worth his salt, trust the story to be best in his own words. And if you don't think your children can handle it, don't let them watch. YOU be the parent! YOU take control! YOU take the power back in to your own hands and don't support the already brainless and candy-coated Hollywood in power.
We can have substance in our cinema, but we need to show Hollywood we're mature enough and smart enough and WILLING enough to support it.
I'm done.
And I have collected (what I hope to be) the email addresses (those who have one, at any rate) of as many Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill including our Chief Executive and his right hand man. I thought of posting them here, but to prevent them from having their addresses harvested by spammers (It may already happen, but I won't contribute to it), I'll simply state that if you would like them, please write me and I'll send them along. I, sadly, do not have time nor the ability to generate and html of the solid information. My address is dennisalanizATmacDOTcom.
l .html
Also, if you'd like to use my source instead, I got them all from http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-emai
Believe it or not, the switch to InDesign was remarkably easy for everyone here (I work at a major daily newspaper in Phoenix) and would recommend at least testing InDesign for a couple of weeks (Or however long the demo is) on your home computer. Experience the well crafted piece of software it is and then test it out at your job (given you have the time). You'll find that Adobe's long forray in X (don't forget, they were one of the first in it and know it damn well by now) has helped them construct one of the most solid and intuitive layout programs in a long time. I don't own stock in Adobe, but I damn well should. I just speak as a person who started using Quark back in the 3.0 era and believe that the final nail will be driven into their coffin by the end of 2004.
But back to my point, InDesign makes the cut. Don't just rule something out as too difficult without bothering to find out if it really does "just work."
And on a parting (and personal) note...your designers will love you so much more if you stick with Macs. Trust!
No, not for your comment, insightful though it may be. But for your sig. You don't know how many damn people I fight (best friend and Super Genius (and he is one wily fellow, let me tell you!) included) all the damn time! I've never seen a sig I agreed more wholeheartedly with or that even inspired me into action. Congratulations!
But I wasn't expecting to have you advertise your new ISP to me when reading your thread. You've now taken up my valuable time and I request monetary compensation since I wasn't asked.
oh....kaaaay. I don't flat out tell people cell phones suck and I despise their vile choice in committing themselves so thoughtlesstly to an annoying, inatimate object. I thank them for their time and courtesy and appreciate that there are still decent people (ie. not you, obviously) in this world.
I can't tell you how much joy I get out of the fact that I am also completely out of reach from the world on the weekends. Granted, I have email at home, but most people that write me write from work or school computers, but my point is that I have no cell phone.
I despise the miserable machines and cannot ever picture myself being tied to carrying around another object in a pocket or attached to a belt. My wallet and keys are enough of a neusance.
Sure, there have been times when having one would have been beneficial, but either I was with a friend who had one or was near a payphone. The only exception was when my car broke down a few years ago and I needed to call my parents for help. What ever did I do?! Simple. Flagged down a nice looking SUV (figured it was a family car) and, viola, family with a cell phone.
To make a long story short (too late), the market is so saturated with cell phones that I can go nearly anywhere and still have a phone accessible to me when I NEED it and I'm not constantly bombarded with meaningless calls in uncomfortable places (read: The backseat of a volkswagon). The rest of the time, peace and silence is my companion.
I've NEVER been online and your encouraging and well though out words have helped me to decide that the internet has nothing to offer. If only there were some way to get your opinions out to the masses by means of some cheap, wide reaching web (if you will) that could encircle the world...
I've come to trust Extended Play's reviews a great deal. Sure, they're a little soft (some games clearly deserved a zero (don't think they give this) or one star) when it comes to crappy games, but they do a wonderful job of breaking down exactly what works and what doesn't work for a game. Without Extended Play, I would have passed over some very nice titles. Namely Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Zero AND would have made the mistake of continuing to buy the RE's...had it not been for EP. (For those who can't tell, I'm a GC son)
Finding a reviewer you can trust is important, and I'm glad I've found EP for my games and Chicago Fats (li'l ol Ebert) for my movies.
Speaking as both Superman AND Wonderwoman, I can proudly say my parents couldn't be more dissapointed in me!
I'm a fan of the plan for spam laid out by Paul Graham
Dr. Seuss? Is that you?
Actually, your pal Wells and his pal Gregg Toland did some damn impressive deep focus shots in Kane using, as you mentioned "a shitload of light" and this did predate the 50's deep focus flicks by a full decade.
5. The invention/revelation has been "coming real soon now" for so long that no one remembers what the hell they're waiting for.
Duke Nukem Forever is bogus science?
A friend of mine had an amusing (yet logically flawed) signature so one day I decided to write her pointing out her fallacy. I was horrified to see that her reply was sent not just back to myself, but to a massive list of people. Granted, neither the original message nor the reply contained anything extremely personal, but I felt as though my privacy had been voilated.