The problem is that their business models are threatened by innovation, and therefore the innovation must be stopped ( usually by making the innovation illegal by new legislation ).
The view of Big Media; Innovation is bad and can cause the loss of jobs and even entire industries to collapse. Old business models must be protected, and innovation threatens that.
Our view; A static unchanging business that cannot adapt to the ever changing world is doomed to failure, in fact even deserves to fail.
The real problem;
- Rich companies being allowed to spend money to influence politicians.
- Legislation for sale.
- The "lobby" concept of bribery.
Uhm...there are no army fighter planes...fighter aircraft only exist in the airforce and naval services...
Does anybody really care?
Do you realise that what you pointed out adds absolutely nothing to the whole point he was making?
It is obvious you did it just to find something to moan about. TBH, its pretty sad when you're doing it over something so piteously irrelevant as a minor grammar error.
"But the drop in revenue will only be attributed to more pirating."
The movie industry has been doing quite well indeed.
Just look at their profits the past ten years. They are breaking profit records year after year. The movie industry has never made so much money in its history.
And all of this in the face of rampant piracy for many years.
I have to agree. Last night I watched a documentary about the disturbing amount of medication of little children in the US. Cant bring up your kid properly? Too lazy to discipline, or unable to due to the thickness of cotton wool surrounding your child? Take the quick way out and Medicate!
It was one hell of an eye opener. Heavy psych meds for kids that have not been brought up properly? WTF is wrong with you?
"While an alpha male is fucking a hot chick on a Friday night, the autistic beta male is working on a project while waiting on the alpha male's report thats due on his desk first thing Monday morning."
Dude, you cannot have half a photon. Its at least one or none.
You can have a photon with half the energy of another photon, but you cannot have half a photon.
Ill try another tact....If you had a hole, and filled in half of it, you would be left with a hole. There is no such thing as half a hole, but there is such thing as a hole half the size of another hole.
Not the best analogy, but it all boils down to one simple fact. A quantum of light ( a photon ) is the smallest unit of light.
He means a project in a similar manner to the "hero" projects of old, like Apollo, and Project Manhattan. Where you basically say "cost be damned, were doing this". Either for prestige (Apollo), or self defence ( project M ), or saving our collective asses ( cheap fusion power )
Investing a huge fortune in money on inventing a commercial grade reactor does not automatically imply that the resulting commercial design will be as expensive to mass produce as the money spent on R&D.
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Ahh, so YOU find it boring, therefore the guy....umm, what is your point exactly?
That the world revolves around you?
Its a scary thought when you consider how much electricity your old incandescent bulbs have used since they were new.
The problem is that their business models are threatened by innovation, and therefore the innovation must be stopped ( usually by making the innovation illegal by new legislation ).
The view of Big Media;
Innovation is bad and can cause the loss of jobs and even entire industries to collapse. Old business models must be protected, and innovation threatens that.
Our view;
A static unchanging business that cannot adapt to the ever changing world is doomed to failure, in fact even deserves to fail.
The real problem;
- Rich companies being allowed to spend money to influence politicians.
- Legislation for sale.
- The "lobby" concept of bribery.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Stuff that matters for Americans, more like it.
As a rest-of-the-world'er, this sort of news doesn't matter to us in the slightest. And there is nothing in TFA that would interest nerds either.
"Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign"
Slashdot. News For Nerds, Stuff that Matters.....
Wait, what?
It would be nice if the article actually included a few photos of the fossils that were found.
Some artists rendering is a poor substitute.
water ( aka dihydrogen monoxide ) is far less of a concern with respect to the greenhouse effect than CO2 is.
Its far better on the environment to emit water vapour instead of CO2.
Yeah, because the Rest Of The World ( aka Not North America ) uses Kelvin instead of Celsius.
Sigh...
There are far more 'laypeople' in the world who use Celsius than there are those who use Fahrenheit.
Uhm...there are no army fighter planes...fighter aircraft only exist in the airforce and naval services...
Does anybody really care?
Do you realise that what you pointed out adds absolutely nothing to the whole point he was making?
It is obvious you did it just to find something to moan about. TBH, its pretty sad when you're doing it over something so piteously irrelevant as a minor grammar error.
Protip; write efficient code:
ghosts = false;
"Why?"
Because.
No more reason needed.
"But the drop in revenue will only be attributed to more pirating."
The movie industry has been doing quite well indeed.
Just look at their profits the past ten years. They are breaking profit records year after year. The movie industry has never made so much money in its history.
And all of this in the face of rampant piracy for many years.
What does that tell you?
How did you fit the couch into the trailer?
I have to agree. Last night I watched a documentary about the disturbing amount of medication of little children in the US. Cant bring up your kid properly? Too lazy to discipline, or unable to due to the thickness of cotton wool surrounding your child? Take the quick way out and Medicate!
It was one hell of an eye opener. Heavy psych meds for kids that have not been brought up properly? WTF is wrong with you?
What utter nonsense.
Let me fix that for you;
"While an alpha male is fucking a hot chick on a Friday night, the autistic beta male is working on a project while waiting on the alpha male's report thats due on his desk first thing Monday morning."
"Who grammar checked the title?"
Hi there, you must be new to Slashdot. Welcome to Slashdot!
Dude, you cannot have half a photon. Its at least one or none.
You can have a photon with half the energy of another photon, but you cannot have half a photon.
Ill try another tact....If you had a hole, and filled in half of it, you would be left with a hole. There is no such thing as half a hole, but there is such thing as a hole half the size of another hole.
Not the best analogy, but it all boils down to one simple fact. A quantum of light ( a photon ) is the smallest unit of light.
Time has an age, it is approx 13 billion years old.
Time and space were created at the moment of the Big Bang. Time didnt exist before that, so therefore it has an age.
Why do you assume that he didn't read TFA or do a Google search because he found it too difficult?
He did neither of those things because he couldn't be arsed.
How did they discover this?
Its truly hard to think of a reason why they would soak a piece of iron telluride in red wine and then decide to test its superconductivity.
WTF were they doing?
"By that argument...blah"
Nonsense.
He means a project in a similar manner to the "hero" projects of old, like Apollo, and Project Manhattan. Where you basically say "cost be damned, were doing this". Either for prestige (Apollo), or self defence ( project M ), or saving our collective asses ( cheap fusion power )
Investing a huge fortune in money on inventing a commercial grade reactor does not automatically imply that the resulting commercial design will be as expensive to mass produce as the money spent on R&D.
They need broadband because while the bandwidth of hundreds of aircraft delivered hard drives is fantastic, the latency sucks.
this jump was a test run.
Science. It works.