No, everything isn't garbage. I've seen some very good Hollywood movies lately. However, if we're going to curb the filth spewing out and try to get them to make GOOD cinema, we've got to stop endorsing (either by buying tickets, allowing friends or families to buy tickets or patronizing illegal copies) the Hollywood Garbage.
fs
p.s. What do you do? Follow me around just to play my own personal Devil's Advocate?
Better yet...DON'T WATCH IT! Don't even download it. Don't allow this hollywood filth to propagate through the shared folders of P2P.
There are other ways of voting agains Hollywood than just with your wallet. Show them that it sucks so god damn bad that not only will you not pay to see it, you won't even watch that shit for FREE!
Anyone know if the bug with Energy Saver not working on mondays is fixed? I don't know when I'll get to update my machine and am curious if this was tended to. They didn't mention it in the support document, but it's such a minor bug anyway...
I think $3 - $5 USD would be far more fair. It cost nothing to mass-produce a CD/DVD.
Yet, as a filmmaker, I can tell you it DOES take some cash to make a movie! I'm working on a 5 minute short right now and my budget is around $5,000 and that's after using every trick in the book to cut costs by shooting as 'renegade' as possible.
There seem to be so few artists on this site lately (especially when it comes to the RIAA/MPAA arguments) that the brazen display of greed enrages me. Fortunately, I always stop myself before hitting submit since I don't want to be dragged into 'You're a poo-head!' arguments.
Again, thank you for posting clearly and concisely from the vantage point of the independent artist fighting a world of seemingly freeloaders.
I once had someone tell me 'I wasn't going to pay to go see the movie anyway, so what's the harm if I download and watch it?' The breakdown in that logical train of thought dumbfounded me, yet he failed to grasp it.
I believe that the Copyright Laws need to be reworked, but I don't believe they need to be abolished. Without some way of making a living on my career, I'll have no means by which to continue doing it.
You fail to see the long term benefits. What will take bash$> for tif in `ls *.tif` ; do convert $tif -border 50 -bordercolor \#FFFFFF -quality 100 -scale 25% -resolution 96 `cat $tif | cut -f1 -d"."`.jpg for every conversion job will, on the GUI side, now require only
1) Select file(s) 2) Drag 3) Drop
That's not to say that there aren't still advantages to doing it through bash.
I like droplets. I've got a shitload. I can drop 60 image files on a droplet of my choice, get to work in another program and pick up the finished files, properly named, when they're done and I'm ready.
I'd say they both have their pluses and minuses.
fs
p.s. As a plus, my droplets can do stuff like add drop-shadows, add text to each one, gaussean blur, text effects, bevel and emboss, etc., etc.
Yet another time when I've wanted nothing more than a 'Ya Damn RIGHT!' mod.
I've been using OS X for over a year at work and have had the Terminal App in the Dock the whole damn time. The only time I've opened it is when I can't get something to work right (or someone shows me a cool trick). Because of those special instances, I now understand rm....that's it.
And, so far, that's all I've needed of the Terminal.
What if I make a mistake and try to burn a label on a non-LightScribe-enabled disc? Will it wreck the disc? LightScribe-enabled discs are "recognized" by LightScribe-enabled computers. If a non-LightScribe disc is put in the disc drive, the LightScribe system won't proceed with the labeling process. Nothing will happen to data stored on the disc.
I'd like to hit Rick Bottom too. That bastard flunked me!
fs
DISCLAIMER: I have no idea who Rick Bottom is nor do I condone violence against him. I simply saw an opportunity for humor and found (miraculously enough) a man named Rick Bottom who teaches computer courses.
I've gotta throw my two cents in here, too. I constantly go to the movies alone because, as an independent filmmaker, good movies provide me oodles of entertainment. The simple fact that not everyone wants to go to the movies as often as I do leaves me to either not go, or go alone. That doesn't mean I'm practicing an 'asocial act of mental masturbation' any more than the art student who goes to the museum alone.
Might I also add that, because of my work schedule, I typically don't go to lunch the same time as everone else and *gasp* go to restaurants ALONE!
You may think that sentence was really clever, but the fact is that lots of people do exactly what you say for completely legitimate reasons.
That would have been a better solution and he is, indeed, foolish for having agreed to fulfil such a massive undertaking. He said so himself. I'll try to remember best his words...
'I love that I'm making money off of my work, but it's so tedious. I'd rather be building sets. This thing was a blessing and a curse.'
Again, that's paraphrased, but it would seem he agrees with your position. As do I.
I agree 100%. Tear down the old Copyright Law and build a newer, better, more fair one in it's place! One that looks out for the rights of the artists (and programmers) and tells the money grubbing bastards to take a flying leap!
At last, we've come to a solution. I knew we would meet on common ground.
That's all good and fine if I sell ONE copy! But what if I want to distribute it to more than one person? Just like the carpenter who may want to build more than one bookshelf (and a hell of a bookshelf it is!). He certainly doesn't want someone making cheap knockoffs of his creations.
Case in point: Been to Sonic in the past few years? Seen those big red inverted cones out front? My Technical Director in college is the only one in the world who ownes the right to those. He designed them for a set (that'd be for a play) and someone at Sonic Corporate decided they liked them so much, they wanted them at EVERY Sonic. He had to take two and a half years off so he could go around the country building those for all the branches. That's one carpenter who's making money hand over fist on his Congressionally granted right to own what he creates and share his creation with the rest of the world.
I'm sorry you liken Copyright to Slavery, but it seems to me that THAT is reducing an argument to FUD. Something you accused the very articulate user turnstyle of doing a while back. Please, let's leave straw man arguments out of this.
fs
p.s. To clarify, you're right. Once they buy it, it's theirs to do what they want...as long as they don't sell it for profit. That's MY right!
demanding attribution for my work to be simple karma whoring
You didn't finish this thought, but if I get the jist, I'll respond anyway. I don't do it just for the accolades. Paying the bills is good!
I will never respect people who gladly profit from bad laws that ultamtely serve nobody but the lawyers.
If I profit from it and can etch out a living (and I am NOT a lawyer) how is it ultimately serving nobody but the lawyers?
The fact is being an Artist is a profession. We, like the carpenter (and, to a lesser extent, his friend the Walrus) are professionals. We like to get paid for what we do. It's not always easy and sometimes we need protection from thieves (Sometimes, stealing a physical work and reproducing it is both thievery AND Copyright infringement (this is here for the 'It's Not STEALING!' crowd)). If that protection is in the form of the Copyright law, then I will not blindly oppose it.
Instead, I prefer to keep an open mind to all aspects of the law and modify that which doesn't work and reinforce the points that do. That way, we can all better society and move forward into this brave new world!
fs
p.s. Feel free to move on to 'The Next Big Thing' when it gets here. I, as a creator, prefer to bring it about than to wait idly by.
It's a little childish, but I've marked you as a foe. It helps me to remember when I'm scanning the list of entries that I've found someone whose ideas I disagree with.
Quite frankly, your lack of respect for the difficult and arduous task of being an artist disgusts me. And that you would stoop to calling 'trying to etch out a living' as 'repeating the FUD' leaves me speechless.
It's kind of a bad example, but have you ever had something really bizzare happen to you? If so, have you ever tried to share that story with someone? It's great watching their reaction isn't it? Now, has anyone ever taken that story and started passing it around as their own?
I hope that has happened to you, because then you might feel a small amount of the pain and frustration at having someone steal your copyrighted work, pass it off as their own and actually profit from it because they 'got their first.' Sure, copyright laws help regain some of the lost profits through litigation, but the work is tainted and your reputation isn't as strong as it might have been had the injustice never occurred.
Artistic creation can be a long, trying and very personal experience, and to see someone else profit from it unjustly can be heartwrenching to say the least. Please try to show some respect to those of us who actually DO try to make a living by bringing something new and interesting to the world.
fs
p.s. Ok. Aparently it didn't leave me THAT speechless.
As an independent filmmaker and a freelance graphic artist, might I say Thank You.
Sometimes it sickens me at how few understand the need for protection from the unscrupulous 'artists' who will steal an idea, produce it to fruition and reap the benefits having invested none of the talent to actually conceive of it in the first place.
Lastly, I, for one, agree that you should not be allowed to sell other people's works without their permission.
That's not to say that the Copyright laws don't need to be tweaked to put more power back into the hands of the creators...
Google these words: apple imusic You might learn something.
I learned that what YOU call iMusic, everyone else is calling the iTunes Music Store and that is pushing iPods, which you imply won't succeed because of the (false) statements of battery problems.
So if you're the same AC that started this thread, you've got some odd circular logic.
Apple's only hope for such great growth, really,is iMusic. That is the only thing they have that is truly competitive.
That's your opinion. In my opinion, he's free to express HIS opinion. And looking at his last 24 comments, I don't see one Troll mod. Seems he's doing just fine.
Thanks for the site! My dad is a lawyer and I love hearing him argue. Often times I'll play devil's advocate just to hear him put me in my place! Of course, sometime's he'll do the exact same thing with the same purpose in mind even if he doesn't believe what he's arguing in favor of.
Tell your professor he's done a hell of a job and I admire his commitment to technology and the learning process and intend to max out my bandwidth (damn dialup!) downloading arguments!
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No, everything isn't garbage. I've seen some very good Hollywood movies lately. However, if we're going to curb the filth spewing out and try to get them to make GOOD cinema, we've got to stop endorsing (either by buying tickets, allowing friends or families to buy tickets or patronizing illegal copies) the Hollywood Garbage.
fs
p.s. What do you do? Follow me around just to play my own personal Devil's Advocate?
Better yet...DON'T WATCH IT! Don't even download it. Don't allow this hollywood filth to propagate through the shared folders of P2P.
There are other ways of voting agains Hollywood than just with your wallet. Show them that it sucks so god damn bad that not only will you not pay to see it, you won't even watch that shit for FREE!
STOP the propagation of Hollywood Garbage!
filmsmith
Anyone know if the bug with Energy Saver not working on mondays is fixed? I don't know when I'll get to update my machine and am curious if this was tended to. They didn't mention it in the support document, but it's such a minor bug anyway...
fs
Except, as an artist, he's likely disheartened that his lovely pictures are receiving poor treatment by techno 'do-it-yerself'ers.
I know I certainly would be.
fs
I think $3 - $5 USD would be far more fair. It cost nothing to mass-produce a CD/DVD.
Yet, as a filmmaker, I can tell you it DOES take some cash to make a movie! I'm working on a 5 minute short right now and my budget is around $5,000 and that's after using every trick in the book to cut costs by shooting as 'renegade' as possible.
fs
Thank You.
There seem to be so few artists on this site lately (especially when it comes to the RIAA/MPAA arguments) that the brazen display of greed enrages me. Fortunately, I always stop myself before hitting submit since I don't want to be dragged into 'You're a poo-head!' arguments.
Again, thank you for posting clearly and concisely from the vantage point of the independent artist fighting a world of seemingly freeloaders.
I once had someone tell me 'I wasn't going to pay to go see the movie anyway, so what's the harm if I download and watch it?' The breakdown in that logical train of thought dumbfounded me, yet he failed to grasp it.
I believe that the Copyright Laws need to be reworked, but I don't believe they need to be abolished. Without some way of making a living on my career, I'll have no means by which to continue doing it.
Now I've gone and rambled.
fs
The video, however, was ironic. It opened with her getting Coffee at a gas station and running out of gas at the end of the video.
...and because I have an eye for small details.
And I know that ONLY because my girlfriend at the time loved that damn singer.
But this is all offtopic.
fs
You fail to see the long term benefits. What will take bash$> for tif in `ls *.tif` ; do convert $tif -border 50 -bordercolor \#FFFFFF -quality 100 -scale 25% -resolution 96 `cat $tif | cut -f1 -d"."`.jpg for every conversion job will, on the GUI side, now require only
1) Select file(s)
2) Drag
3) Drop
That's not to say that there aren't still advantages to doing it through bash.
I like droplets. I've got a shitload. I can drop 60 image files on a droplet of my choice, get to work in another program and pick up the finished files, properly named, when they're done and I'm ready.
I'd say they both have their pluses and minuses.
fs
p.s. As a plus, my droplets can do stuff like add drop-shadows, add text to each one, gaussean blur, text effects, bevel and emboss, etc., etc.
Yet another time when I've wanted nothing more than a 'Ya Damn RIGHT!' mod.
...that's it.
I've been using OS X for over a year at work and have had the Terminal App in the Dock the whole damn time. The only time I've opened it is when I can't get something to work right (or someone shows me a cool trick). Because of those special instances, I now understand rm.
And, so far, that's all I've needed of the Terminal.
fs
fs
youth crime has hit rick bottom.
I'd like to hit Rick Bottom too. That bastard flunked me!
fs
DISCLAIMER: I have no idea who Rick Bottom is nor do I condone violence against him. I simply saw an opportunity for humor and found (miraculously enough) a man named Rick Bottom who teaches computer courses.
Why don't you ask him.
fs
I've gotta throw my two cents in here, too. I constantly go to the movies alone because, as an independent filmmaker, good movies provide me oodles of entertainment. The simple fact that not everyone wants to go to the movies as often as I do leaves me to either not go, or go alone. That doesn't mean I'm practicing an 'asocial act of mental masturbation' any more than the art student who goes to the museum alone.
Might I also add that, because of my work schedule, I typically don't go to lunch the same time as everone else and *gasp* go to restaurants ALONE!
You may think that sentence was really clever, but the fact is that lots of people do exactly what you say for completely legitimate reasons.
I'm too offended to continue.
fs
That would have been a better solution and he is, indeed, foolish for having agreed to fulfil such a massive undertaking. He said so himself. I'll try to remember best his words...
'I love that I'm making money off of my work, but it's so tedious. I'd rather be building sets. This thing was a blessing and a curse.'
Again, that's paraphrased, but it would seem he agrees with your position. As do I.
Thank you, oddly named Anonymous Coward.
fs
I agree 100%. Tear down the old Copyright Law and build a newer, better, more fair one in it's place! One that looks out for the rights of the artists (and programmers) and tells the money grubbing bastards to take a flying leap!
At last, we've come to a solution. I knew we would meet on common ground.
fs
You're right, but I can't help and TRY to convince him. Or, of not him, maybe someone else whose reading this and hasn't made up their mind yet.
Anyot, he's aggrivated me too much. I'm off to exercise and get dinner!
fs
That's all good and fine if I sell ONE copy! But what if I want to distribute it to more than one person? Just like the carpenter who may want to build more than one bookshelf (and a hell of a bookshelf it is!). He certainly doesn't want someone making cheap knockoffs of his creations.
...as long as they don't sell it for profit. That's MY right!
Case in point: Been to Sonic in the past few years? Seen those big red inverted cones out front? My Technical Director in college is the only one in the world who ownes the right to those. He designed them for a set (that'd be for a play) and someone at Sonic Corporate decided they liked them so much, they wanted them at EVERY Sonic. He had to take two and a half years off so he could go around the country building those for all the branches. That's one carpenter who's making money hand over fist on his Congressionally granted right to own what he creates and share his creation with the rest of the world.
I'm sorry you liken Copyright to Slavery, but it seems to me that THAT is reducing an argument to FUD. Something you accused the very articulate user turnstyle of doing a while back. Please, let's leave straw man arguments out of this.
fs
p.s. To clarify, you're right. Once they buy it, it's theirs to do what they want
god given "right"
God's got nothing to do with it.
especially 75 years afterword
I'm not saying the laws don't need tweaking.
That's a man made concept
No one said it wasn't.
demanding attribution for my work to be simple karma whoring
You didn't finish this thought, but if I get the jist, I'll respond anyway. I don't do it just for the accolades. Paying the bills is good!
I will never respect people who gladly profit from bad laws that ultamtely serve nobody but the lawyers.
If I profit from it and can etch out a living (and I am NOT a lawyer) how is it ultimately serving nobody but the lawyers?
The fact is being an Artist is a profession. We, like the carpenter (and, to a lesser extent, his friend the Walrus) are professionals. We like to get paid for what we do. It's not always easy and sometimes we need protection from thieves (Sometimes, stealing a physical work and reproducing it is both thievery AND Copyright infringement (this is here for the 'It's Not STEALING!' crowd)). If that protection is in the form of the Copyright law, then I will not blindly oppose it.
Instead, I prefer to keep an open mind to all aspects of the law and modify that which doesn't work and reinforce the points that do. That way, we can all better society and move forward into this brave new world!
fs
p.s. Feel free to move on to 'The Next Big Thing' when it gets here. I, as a creator, prefer to bring it about than to wait idly by.
It's a little childish, but I've marked you as a foe. It helps me to remember when I'm scanning the list of entries that I've found someone whose ideas I disagree with.
Quite frankly, your lack of respect for the difficult and arduous task of being an artist disgusts me. And that you would stoop to calling 'trying to etch out a living' as 'repeating the FUD' leaves me speechless.
It's kind of a bad example, but have you ever had something really bizzare happen to you? If so, have you ever tried to share that story with someone? It's great watching their reaction isn't it? Now, has anyone ever taken that story and started passing it around as their own?
I hope that has happened to you, because then you might feel a small amount of the pain and frustration at having someone steal your copyrighted work, pass it off as their own and actually profit from it because they 'got their first.' Sure, copyright laws help regain some of the lost profits through litigation, but the work is tainted and your reputation isn't as strong as it might have been had the injustice never occurred.
Artistic creation can be a long, trying and very personal experience, and to see someone else profit from it unjustly can be heartwrenching to say the least. Please try to show some respect to those of us who actually DO try to make a living by bringing something new and interesting to the world.
fs
p.s. Ok. Aparently it didn't leave me THAT speechless.
As an independent filmmaker and a freelance graphic artist, might I say Thank You.
Sometimes it sickens me at how few understand the need for protection from the unscrupulous 'artists' who will steal an idea, produce it to fruition and reap the benefits having invested none of the talent to actually conceive of it in the first place.
Lastly, I, for one, agree that you should not be allowed to sell other people's works without their permission.
That's not to say that the Copyright laws don't need to be tweaked to put more
power back into the hands of the creators...
filmsmith
Google these words: apple imusic
,is iMusic. That is the only thing they have that is truly competitive.
You might learn something.
I learned that what YOU call iMusic, everyone else is calling the iTunes Music Store and that is pushing iPods, which you imply won't succeed because of the (false) statements of battery problems.
So if you're the same AC that started this thread, you've got some odd circular logic.
Apple's only hope for such great growth, really
Yet, in the next paragraph...
The iPod bubble will burst
Clarify, please.
fs
Sure. I'll bite.
Care to name more, oh wise troll?
fs
That's your opinion. In my opinion, he's free to express HIS opinion. And looking at his last 24 comments, I don't see one Troll mod. Seems he's doing just fine.
My $0.01
fs
I bought a Saturn a couple of years ago from a Saturn dealership and I had a 'Return it if you hate it*' option.
That * is for 'up to 60 days' (I think), by the way.
fs
Thanks for the site! My dad is a lawyer and I love hearing him argue. Often times I'll play devil's advocate just to hear him put me in my place! Of course, sometime's he'll do the exact same thing with the same purpose in mind even if he doesn't believe what he's arguing in favor of.
Tell your professor he's done a hell of a job and I admire his commitment to technology and the learning process and intend to max out my bandwidth (damn dialup!) downloading arguments!
fs