"What is it about humans that cause them to create? Why do they assume anything with human-like intelligence (whether natural or artificial) will have that same attribute? If human or super-human intelligence implies that drive to invent, does that imply those without such a drive are sub-human intelligent?"
Because we will create it in regards to our own self-image, not physically but cognitively, emotionally, and intellectually much in the way that the contemporary "God" is also our "creator" from which we were created "in his image."
You might be onto something. My address contains an underscore and to date, I never receive more than 6 "spam" messages in a week to my hotmail account.
I think the user of the account has to take some responsibility in avoiding spam. I realize its a pain in the ass, but were all aware that spam is a fact of life, so taking some accountability in whether you're getting flooded by it or not is something we should get used to.
I don't know what you're trying to say here man, but no amount of programming or "Fatal Error: Wing no longer attached to craft" terminal prompts would've saved them from what happened.
If you're trying to make a case for programming paradigm shifts based on security procedures, it isn't working in this context.
The point of these cigarettes are to help people trying to quit smoking, actually succeed by slowly weaning themselves off the chemical dependency of nicotine. After that, they can address the psychological dependency of having something to puff on.
"Asking smokers to quit smoking is like telling people to get out from under the sun, its not going to happen...so you sell them sunscreen."
Im a smoker. I can go without smoking for a few days if the need be. I'm not as addicted to the nicotine as I am the psychological connection to the action of smoking. I'm one of those people that need something to do with their hands and so out in a bar, or social situation, its comforting to smoke. I think that, for me is the real addiction. What I really could do without is all the carcinogens, which are still present in the amish smokes...
Maybe he just meant "vulturant" as in "like vultures" which still doesn't exist as a word but is closely linked to vulturous as in Rapacious; predatory (dictionary.com)
Concerts and movies are apples and oranges. A better comparison would be stageplays and concerts, but again, stageplays and movies are not the same. Your audience is often times, an entirely different bunch, and since stageplays don't share the distribution medium as do movies and music, your comparison is again disjoined.
1) I'm willing to play $30-$50 for a live performance. I'm not willing to pay the same for a movie.
2) Some artists craft their art for the stage, others craft their art for the studio and with production skills. I listen to a lot of stuff that just wouldn't make it live like their studio produced material does, and that's just the nature of their music. It doesn't let to a "which is better" kind of argument. Its all a matter of preference.
3) Stating again, previous examples. Moonwalker, Yellow Submarine, Hard Day's Night, Tommy. All examples of success in the proposed idea, but consider that those are few and far between, coupled with the fact that these were superstars in their own right lends me to believe that such an attempt with current or new artists will lead to an exercise in the "hard-sell." The $$ spent to get the eyeballs will push the profit margin out of range and into the red, pretty much making it a no go.
I like to think I have a good business mentality, and I also like to think I know a good thing when I see it. I think the idea has merit and that certain bands might have a shot at doing this (Alien Ant Farm comes to mind, because the video for Movies was actually good enough for me to believe they can carry a 90-120 minute endeavour), but its definitely something that can't be adopted on a grand scale.
I think a common response might be "I like my music as music and my movies as movies."
There's lots of great music that could never manage to make a transition to something like that, and even more bad music that could. That's liable to put the industry into a position to spend more money on something that no one would buy, or in this case, watch. It's not a bad idea, but its feasibility for success is low especially when Britney Spear's movie did so poorly.
I gave this service a shot as well and it was a complete let down. Until they realize that the value of the free alternative, despite its many short-comings, is far superior to their own product, they are going to continue to lose this battle.
That sort of perception is the problem. The recording industry is a delivery medium, not a means to an end. The way things have evolved, yes they do produce the music, but its been my opinion and most likely, the opinion of others that the quality of said music has degraded to the point that it can be attributed to the decrease of record sales for the past 3 or so years.
Suits should stick to business, musicians will stick to music and as such, should be the music makers. If the music industry isn't very obviously a monopoly to you or anyone else at this point, then you haven't spent enough time realizing the impact they've had.
I really don't see why the music industry doesn't just put their catalogs out on the web for download as part of either a pay-per-track or subscription-type basis without all this DRM/DMCA bullshit. They can't stop the file-sharing and if they do manage to kill KaZaa, another will just spring up in its place.
If they really want to make a test case for the feasibility of online sales, just put up the catalogs, in good ol' mp3 192 and 128 bit-rate formats, and give the consumers a MASSIVE price cut otherwise they will be back at square one.
Worried about the legal perception of "selling one copy, giving away the rest" by not restricting the file in any way (DRM/DMCA)? Just toss up a big legal disclaimer like the MPAA does before you watch any movie on Video or DVD.
They've lost the filesharing battle, they will continue to lose it until they are financially exhausted. They should just cut their losses and get into the game, they have nothing to lose at this point.
"Supporting Linux would be a key advantage over existing console makers, who go out of their way to prevent customers from running a real OS on their devices..."
I'm sure its been said already, but they haven't banned the thing altogether, just don't take it on the sidewalks. Hell, I don't think I'd ride one on such a small lane anyways. Next time RTFA.
I don't understand the downmod of this comment. I've always been under that impression with bluetooth. I do understand that the technology is not the issue but there isn't any agreement on a standard, and that sort of thing can make even the best technology useless.
The telco might be dropping out a message here and there to make a few extra bucks on messages.
Here's the math. If 7.5% of 26,000 messages don't make it through, that what..1950 messages that MAY get repeated. So at $0.10 per message and at a resend rate of 20% (390 resent messages) They make an extra $40.
Double the amount of messages and increase the failure rate to 10% and a constant resend rate of 20%, thats $104.
So if a telco runs an SMS service that does some 150,000 messages a day and drops out, maybe 12% of them betting on a %20 resend rate...thats adds up over time.
More accurate might be the fact that they are running out of money to fight this war.
Their industry as they know it is slated to collapse in the next 5 years, and given the numbers they are putting up, it's very possible.
Here's another indicator. The highest selling album of the year is Eminem's latest. It sold 6.5 million copies in the 6 months or so after its release. Spiderman on DVD sold 11 mill in one week...
Good idea. I'm sitting here at work waiting for REAL stuff to do, I might as well occupy my time constructively. I use Cold Fusion and PHP mostly with IIS and Apache, respectively. I know lots of people dislike Cold Fusion, PHP or both in favor of perl or something, but the way I see it, languages, OSes and server apps are all tools, a means to an end. If you don't like it, fine, don't use it, but someone, somewhere has it deployed as their solution and its working great for them.
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"What is it about humans that cause them to create? Why do they assume anything with human-like intelligence (whether natural or artificial) will have that same attribute? If human or super-human intelligence implies that drive to invent, does that imply those without such a drive are sub-human intelligent?"
Because we will create it in regards to our own self-image, not physically but cognitively, emotionally, and intellectually much in the way that the contemporary "God" is also our "creator" from which we were created "in his image."
You might be onto something. My address contains an underscore and to date, I never receive more than 6 "spam" messages in a week to my hotmail account.
I think the user of the account has to take some responsibility in avoiding spam. I realize its a pain in the ass, but were all aware that spam is a fact of life, so taking some accountability in whether you're getting flooded by it or not is something we should get used to.
CALIFORRRRNNNIIIAA!!
I don't know what you're trying to say here man, but no amount of programming or "Fatal Error: Wing no longer attached to craft" terminal prompts would've saved them from what happened.
If you're trying to make a case for programming paradigm shifts based on security procedures, it isn't working in this context.
Does anyone know of a way to hack a light gun to work with a PC NES Emulator for all those oldie light gun games like Hogan's Alley and such?
That would be worth more to me than modding a NES into a PC.
That's in addition to getting wasted...I just assumed.
If mary jane is administered by eating or drinking, its nearly carcinogen-free :D
The point of these cigarettes are to help people trying to quit smoking, actually succeed by slowly weaning themselves off the chemical dependency of nicotine. After that, they can address the psychological dependency of having something to puff on.
"Asking smokers to quit smoking is like telling people to get out from under the sun, its not going to happen...so you sell them sunscreen."
Im a smoker. I can go without smoking for a few days if the need be. I'm not as addicted to the nicotine as I am the psychological connection to the action of smoking. I'm one of those people that need something to do with their hands and so out in a bar, or social situation, its comforting to smoke. I think that, for me is the real addiction. What I really could do without is all the carcinogens, which are still present in the amish smokes...
Maybe he just meant "vulturant" as in "like vultures" which still doesn't exist as a word but is closely linked to vulturous as in Rapacious; predatory (dictionary.com)
Concerts and movies are apples and oranges. A better comparison would be stageplays and concerts, but again, stageplays and movies are not the same. Your audience is often times, an entirely different bunch, and since stageplays don't share the distribution medium as do movies and music, your comparison is again disjoined.
1) I'm willing to play $30-$50 for a live performance. I'm not willing to pay the same for a movie.
2) Some artists craft their art for the stage, others craft their art for the studio and with production skills. I listen to a lot of stuff that just wouldn't make it live like their studio produced material does, and that's just the nature of their music. It doesn't let to a "which is better" kind of argument. Its all a matter of preference.
3) Stating again, previous examples. Moonwalker, Yellow Submarine, Hard Day's Night, Tommy. All examples of success in the proposed idea, but consider that those are few and far between, coupled with the fact that these were superstars in their own right lends me to believe that such an attempt with current or new artists will lead to an exercise in the "hard-sell." The $$ spent to get the eyeballs will push the profit margin out of range and into the red, pretty much making it a no go.
I like to think I have a good business mentality, and I also like to think I know a good thing when I see it. I think the idea has merit and that certain bands might have a shot at doing this (Alien Ant Farm comes to mind, because the video for Movies was actually good enough for me to believe they can carry a 90-120 minute endeavour), but its definitely something that can't be adopted on a grand scale.
I think a common response might be "I like my music as music and my movies as movies."
There's lots of great music that could never manage to make a transition to something like that, and even more bad music that could. That's liable to put the industry into a position to spend more money on something that no one would buy, or in this case, watch. It's not a bad idea, but its feasibility for success is low especially when Britney Spear's movie did so poorly.
I gave this service a shot as well and it was a complete let down. Until they realize that the value of the free alternative, despite its many short-comings, is far superior to their own product, they are going to continue to lose this battle.
That sort of perception is the problem. The recording industry is a delivery medium, not a means to an end. The way things have evolved, yes they do produce the music, but its been my opinion and most likely, the opinion of others that the quality of said music has degraded to the point that it can be attributed to the decrease of record sales for the past 3 or so years.
Suits should stick to business, musicians will stick to music and as such, should be the music makers. If the music industry isn't very obviously a monopoly to you or anyone else at this point, then you haven't spent enough time realizing the impact they've had.
I really don't see why the music industry doesn't just put their catalogs out on the web for download as part of either a pay-per-track or subscription-type basis without all this DRM/DMCA bullshit. They can't stop the file-sharing and if they do manage to kill KaZaa, another will just spring up in its place.
If they really want to make a test case for the feasibility of online sales, just put up the catalogs, in good ol' mp3 192 and 128 bit-rate formats, and give the consumers a MASSIVE price cut otherwise they will be back at square one.
Worried about the legal perception of "selling one copy, giving away the rest" by not restricting the file in any way (DRM/DMCA)? Just toss up a big legal disclaimer like the MPAA does before you watch any movie on Video or DVD.
They've lost the filesharing battle, they will continue to lose it until they are financially exhausted. They should just cut their losses and get into the game, they have nothing to lose at this point.
"Supporting Linux would be a key advantage over existing console makers, who go out of their way to prevent customers from running a real OS on their devices..."
Yes, because Windows is just vaporware...
It's not their site thats broken and/or /.ed, It's the Ferrago news site. But I don't see a site for the comsole either...
I'm sure its been said already, but they haven't banned the thing altogether, just don't take it on the sidewalks. Hell, I don't think I'd ride one on such a small lane anyways. Next time RTFA.
I don't understand the downmod of this comment. I've always been under that impression with bluetooth. I do understand that the technology is not the issue but there isn't any agreement on a standard, and that sort of thing can make even the best technology useless.
He's talking bytes where he means bits, bits where he means dots, inches along side with cm, and cubits where...god only knows (no pun intended.)
I thought he was going to use the 14.7 higmadoos in a wingwong measurement that's to commonplace with the schientiphic society, but he let me down.
The telco might be dropping out a message here and there to make a few extra bucks on messages.
Here's the math. If 7.5% of 26,000 messages don't make it through, that what..1950 messages that MAY get repeated. So at $0.10 per message and at a resend rate of 20% (390 resent messages) They make an extra $40.
Double the amount of messages and increase the failure rate to 10% and a constant resend rate of 20%, thats $104.
So if a telco runs an SMS service that does some 150,000 messages a day and drops out, maybe 12% of them betting on a %20 resend rate...thats adds up over time.
More accurate might be the fact that they are running out of money to fight this war.
Their industry as they know it is slated to collapse in the next 5 years, and given the numbers they are putting up, it's very possible.
Here's another indicator. The highest selling album of the year is Eminem's latest. It sold 6.5 million copies in the 6 months or so after its release. Spiderman on DVD sold 11 mill in one week...
They are friggin' ORACLE. I wouldn't trust my searches to anyone else.
Good idea. I'm sitting here at work waiting for REAL stuff to do, I might as well occupy my time constructively. I use Cold Fusion and PHP mostly with IIS and Apache, respectively. I know lots of people dislike Cold Fusion, PHP or both in favor of perl or something, but the way I see it, languages, OSes and server apps are all tools, a means to an end. If you don't like it, fine, don't use it, but someone, somewhere has it deployed as their solution and its working great for them.
It does in SOVIET RUSSIA...