Couldn't the space people "hire" this guy, pay him a dollar or something, as like, a contractor? I mean, i don't pay taxes on the chair I sit in at work...
I posted this in the "Snowball Earth" thread, but it applies here too.
At the moment the question seems to be "Are humans having a serious negative impact on the global climate?" This is used to reinforce the status quo, right? It's not our fault, what we're doing isn't the problem, so why bother changing what we're doing?
Shouldn't the questions be:
"Is the climate changing?" "Is it changing in a way that will benefit humanity?" "If not, how do we manufacture the change we desire?"
These questions should be framed with the idea that the climate is changing and will eventually wipe life as we know it off the face of the Earth. Eventually, something will replace all that biodiversity. But mankind won't be around to see it, so it behooves us as a species to guarantee our own survival by making sure the climate changes in a manner that allows us to continue to thrive.
At the moment the question seems to be "Are humans having a serious negative impact on the global climate?"
This is used to reinforce the status quo, right? It's not our fault, what we're doing isn't the problem, so why bother stopping what we're doing?
It seems to me like the questions should be:
"Is the climate changing?" "Is it changing in a way that will benefit humanity?" "If not, how do we manufacture the change we desire?"
These questions should be framed with the idea that the climate is changing and will eventually wipe life as we know it off the face of the Earth. Eventually, something will replace all that biodiversity. But mankind won't be around to see it, so it behooves us as a species to guarantee our own survival by making sure the climate changes in a manner that allows us to continue to thrive.
It will be the company that perfects importing and exporting to Microsoft Word.
When people discover that they can use a better word processor AND not have to worry about working on shared material with their Word-bound colleagues, you'll see adoption soar in the non-geek workplace.
Holy cow. Sad to see so many of his compatriots turned into lemmings.
That's right, Windows users, resist the evil enticements of the Great Satan, Apple Computer. When you run into those Windows limitations, just suffer. Don't switch to the other OS, the one that works well. Because you don't want to be a lemming, do you? You don't want to just follow the crowd, do you? No, stick with Windows. The choice of independence.
It's not true that Google gets nothing out of its logo changes. You like the logo changes, right? It makes Google more appealing to you. So you're more likely to use Google. So Google makes more money.
It's surprising that this community seems so hot to jump all over an artist's case like this (even a dead artist), in defense of a corporation. If there were a war between the anti-Copyright and anti-corporate (open source sorts of things)/. zeitgeists, I guess anti-Copyright wins. Or maybe it's just Google.
I mean, when it comes down to it, whose side are you on, the corporation or the artist? Would you be as pissed off if Google was appropriating Chuck Close's style and he didn't like it? What's the diff? The family doesn't like it. Do you think they're making millions off Joan Miro's art? SERIOUSLY? Maybe they're trying to protect what they see as the artist's reputation and dignity, and that the Google logo could be construed as a form of endorsement of the corporation by that artist. Are you really the kind of people who will attack an artist for being against such a thing? Very disappointing.
Would you be as mad at the artist's reps if the corporation in question were Microsoft? Or Coke?
EarthLink's Toolbar contains a module called ScamBlocker, which uses heuristic rules AND a white list AND a server-based black list to help you identify and avoid phisher sites. It's free, and it works even if you hide the toolbar in your browser.
It's all data, isn't it? Shouldn't we be able to shove a couple P4s on a motherboard and emulate all the set-top boxes in software? If they'd just band together on the hardware, they could get down with making money on services like they're supposed to.
Channels are brands, and brands equate to specific styles or types of content. The way of presenting content to now, via broadcast TV, has been temporally linear.
When we figure out an awesome way of delivering content to the masses that doesn't rely on waiting for a specific time and date on which to receive that content, the concept of a "channel" *may* disappear in favor of something similar to iTunes for your TV set.
But the channels, as brands, will survive. NBC will continue to make sitcoms. People (slashdotters at least) will say "Oh, a new show from Sci-Fi. I'm gonna check that one out."
And there'll be previews of each show available, and if you *want* to, you'll be able to stream all the content from a particular brand, so you can sit there all day and not have to move-- just like now. There will probably be a whole menu full of streams, that will make the "on-demand" act just like TV acts today.
So no, I think the channel isn't going anywhere. It'll just change a bit in synch with technology.
Also, you have no idea what the tax burdens of Rockstar and Nintendo are, respectively.
Also, would you include Teletubbies on your list of "things that cause no harm"? I'd argue with you on that one.
In America, we tend to believe that adults are responsible for their own behavior. And this is a good thing. As a poster said above, if everything is driven by what is safe for children, then there will only be things appropriate for children in the world. No cars, no television drama, no mystery novels, no CNN, no police, no firefighters, no electricians (electricity is dangerous), no exploration, no shark research, no humor aimed for the minds of adults-- no jerry seinfeld, because he grows out of an adult world, not a child's.
There are problems in the world, sure, but infantilizing everything on the planet isn't the cure. Teaching people to be responsible for their own behavior is a step. Teaching our children to recognize duplicity, to THINK CRITICALLY, and to make wise decisions, is the cure.
What the heck is this post modded Informative for?
Yeah I know, "not a neanderthal at all", but I couldn't resist the alliteration.
"Otzi" is a nice cute name. Maybe if they'd named him something like "Shiv" or "Kane" people's imaginations wouldn't bestow such benevolent traits upon him automatically.
Maybe he was a cannibal, who was carrying someone he killed back to his lair to consume, when he was attacked by the brothers of his victim, who were intent upon ending his rein of terror over the local populace.
You're forgetting that all those costs you mention are recoupable-- the artist has to pay the record company back for all of that, and repayment comes out of the artist's royalties before the artist ever sees one thin nickel.
The label is like a bank. You have to pay the bank back. Granted in most cases when a band fails the label doesn't chase them around for the rest of their lives after the recoupable expenses lost. That's the label's risk-- loaning money to a losing prospect.
I assume with your $5 estimate you're factoring in non-replication costs such as the recording process, touring, management, etc. $5 each for 5,000 CDs is more than anyone should pay.
Jeez people, read the whole article, it's not that long:
The challenge-response system will be optional and free for EarthLink subscribers, Anderson said. It will allow users to automatically clear the e-mail addresses of friends, family members and other associates in their electronic address books, so those people would not receive the challenge e-mail.
That's called a "white list"-- a list of addresses you know are legitimate.
When someone responds to a challenge and you accept their response, they go on your whitelist.
When you turn on this gadget, add your mailing list addresses to your white list. If you suddenly stop getting a list, go find out if they changed their sending address and add it to your white list.
If that's too much of a burden, feel free not to use the service, and go back to complaining about spam.
Yeah totally! Circuit City and Best Buy, to name two huge retailers, almost never price their CDs at something I feel rips me off. Paying $18 for an Outkast CD at the FYE store at the mall? Not gonna happen.
If all the stores in your area are overcharging for CDs, DON'T PATRONIZE THEM-- there's this thing called the Internet now. Buy direct from the artist, or Amazon or CDNow. Even with shipping you won't be paying what everybody keeps saying you'll be paying.
Even bad things change. $14 may still be too high, considering how much of it the artist gets, but still it's not $20.
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Couldn't the space people "hire" this guy, pay him a dollar or something, as like, a contractor? I mean, i don't pay taxes on the chair I sit in at work...
...no one can say with any certainty when -- or even if -- my cat will learn Spanish. If it does, though, it may well change the world.
I posted this in the "Snowball Earth" thread, but it applies here too.
At the moment the question seems to be "Are humans having a serious negative impact on the global climate?" This is used to reinforce the status quo, right? It's not our fault, what we're doing isn't the problem, so why bother changing what we're doing?
Shouldn't the questions be:
"Is the climate changing?"
"Is it changing in a way that will benefit humanity?"
"If not, how do we manufacture the change we desire?"
These questions should be framed with the idea that the climate is changing and will eventually wipe life as we know it off the face of the Earth. Eventually, something will replace all that biodiversity. But mankind won't be around to see it, so it behooves us as a species to guarantee our own survival by making sure the climate changes in a manner that allows us to continue to thrive.
At the moment the question seems to be "Are humans having a serious negative impact on the global climate?"
This is used to reinforce the status quo, right? It's not our fault, what we're doing isn't the problem, so why bother stopping what we're doing?
It seems to me like the questions should be:
"Is the climate changing?"
"Is it changing in a way that will benefit humanity?"
"If not, how do we manufacture the change we desire?"
These questions should be framed with the idea that the climate is changing and will eventually wipe life as we know it off the face of the Earth. Eventually, something will replace all that biodiversity. But mankind won't be around to see it, so it behooves us as a species to guarantee our own survival by making sure the climate changes in a manner that allows us to continue to thrive.
It will be the company that perfects importing and exporting to Microsoft Word.
When people discover that they can use a better word processor AND not have to worry about working on shared material with their Word-bound colleagues, you'll see adoption soar in the non-geek workplace.
This might be the longest /. thread ever.
Holy cow. Sad to see so many of his compatriots turned into lemmings.
That's right, Windows users, resist the evil enticements of the Great Satan, Apple Computer. When you run into those Windows limitations, just suffer. Don't switch to the other OS, the one that works well. Because you don't want to be a lemming, do you? You don't want to just follow the crowd, do you? No, stick with Windows. The choice of independence.
It's not true that Google gets nothing out of its logo changes. You like the logo changes, right? It makes Google more appealing to you. So you're more likely to use Google. So Google makes more money.
/. zeitgeists, I guess anti-Copyright wins. Or maybe it's just Google.
It's surprising that this community seems so hot to jump all over an artist's case like this (even a dead artist), in defense of a corporation. If there were a war between the anti-Copyright and anti-corporate (open source sorts of things)
I mean, when it comes down to it, whose side are you on, the corporation or the artist? Would you be as pissed off if Google was appropriating Chuck Close's style and he didn't like it? What's the diff? The family doesn't like it. Do you think they're making millions off Joan Miro's art? SERIOUSLY? Maybe they're trying to protect what they see as the artist's reputation and dignity, and that the Google logo could be construed as a form of endorsement of the corporation by that artist. Are you really the kind of people who will attack an artist for being against such a thing? Very disappointing.
Would you be as mad at the artist's reps if the corporation in question were Microsoft? Or Coke?
Let's have a hypocrisy check here.
Duh.
(oh and Burnout 3)
...regarding the speaker and fake noises:
Frankly, I was almost a little disappointed that I would not be able to make fun of those "features!"
EarthLink's Toolbar contains a module called ScamBlocker, which uses heuristic rules AND a white list AND a server-based black list to help you identify and avoid phisher sites. It's free, and it works even if you hide the toolbar in your browser.
http://www.earthlink.net/software/free/toolbar/
You may prefer MY speciale educationale pamphlette "You and the Sledgehammer," available for only $8.95, plus shipping and handling.
While supplies last.
It's all data, isn't it? Shouldn't we be able to shove a couple P4s on a motherboard and emulate all the set-top boxes in software? If they'd just band together on the hardware, they could get down with making money on services like they're supposed to.
One box with a lot of holes in the back.
Configuring stuff yourself in a text file.... and we're surprised that Linux doesn't catch on as a desktop replacement?
And you're making sure to only download software and music that was made more than 20 years ago, right?
I thought so.
Channels are brands, and brands equate to specific styles or types of content. The way of presenting content to now, via broadcast TV, has been temporally linear.
When we figure out an awesome way of delivering content to the masses that doesn't rely on waiting for a specific time and date on which to receive that content, the concept of a "channel" *may* disappear in favor of something similar to iTunes for your TV set.
But the channels, as brands, will survive. NBC will continue to make sitcoms. People (slashdotters at least) will say "Oh, a new show from Sci-Fi. I'm gonna check that one out."
And there'll be previews of each show available, and if you *want* to, you'll be able to stream all the content from a particular brand, so you can sit there all day and not have to move-- just like now. There will probably be a whole menu full of streams, that will make the "on-demand" act just like TV acts today.
So no, I think the channel isn't going anywhere. It'll just change a bit in synch with technology.
Super Smash Bros.
Also, you have no idea what the tax burdens of Rockstar and Nintendo are, respectively.
Also, would you include Teletubbies on your list of "things that cause no harm"? I'd argue with you on that one.
In America, we tend to believe that adults are responsible for their own behavior. And this is a good thing. As a poster said above, if everything is driven by what is safe for children, then there will only be things appropriate for children in the world. No cars, no television drama, no mystery novels, no CNN, no police, no firefighters, no electricians (electricity is dangerous), no exploration, no shark research, no humor aimed for the minds of adults-- no jerry seinfeld, because he grows out of an adult world, not a child's.
There are problems in the world, sure, but infantilizing everything on the planet isn't the cure. Teaching people to be responsible for their own behavior is a step. Teaching our children to recognize duplicity, to THINK CRITICALLY, and to make wise decisions, is the cure.
What the heck is this post modded Informative for?
Replacing batteries with a whole new technology is wonderful.
However, somebody is going to make a frikkin' FORTUNE by creating an adapter that puts a fuel cell into a device that can mimic an existing battery.
Give people the benefits of fuel cell technology without having to buy a whole new laptop, and they'll fill your pockets with money.
$$$$ kaCHING $$$$
Yeah I know, "not a neanderthal at all", but I couldn't resist the alliteration.
"Otzi" is a nice cute name. Maybe if they'd named him something like "Shiv" or "Kane" people's imaginations wouldn't bestow such benevolent traits upon him automatically.
Maybe he was a cannibal, who was carrying someone he killed back to his lair to consume, when he was attacked by the brothers of his victim, who were intent upon ending his rein of terror over the local populace.
Or maybe I'm a cynic. Heh.
If there were no Flash, there would be no Homestar Runner. And that would truly be a sad thing.
You're forgetting that all those costs you mention are recoupable-- the artist has to pay the record company back for all of that, and repayment comes out of the artist's royalties before the artist ever sees one thin nickel.
The label is like a bank. You have to pay the bank back. Granted in most cases when a band fails the label doesn't chase them around for the rest of their lives after the recoupable expenses lost. That's the label's risk-- loaning money to a losing prospect.
Imagine-- you put a negative ad on TV about a candidate, and the candidate is given the right to repond to your ad on the network, free of charge!
The law would need some kind of "with equivalent visibility" clauses, so you couldn't dump the reply at 3:00 AM when the original ad was at 8:00 PM.
I assume with your $5 estimate you're factoring in non-replication costs such as the recording process, touring, management, etc. $5 each for 5,000 CDs is more than anyone should pay.
Jeez people, read the whole article, it's not that long:
The challenge-response system will be optional and free for EarthLink subscribers, Anderson said. It will allow users to automatically clear the e-mail addresses of friends, family members and other associates in their electronic address books, so those people would not receive the challenge e-mail.
That's called a "white list"-- a list of addresses you know are legitimate.
When someone responds to a challenge and you accept their response, they go on your whitelist.
When you turn on this gadget, add your mailing list addresses to your white list. If you suddenly stop getting a list, go find out if they changed their sending address and add it to your white list.
If that's too much of a burden, feel free not to use the service, and go back to complaining about spam.
Yeah totally! Circuit City and Best Buy, to name two huge retailers, almost never price their CDs at something I feel rips me off. Paying $18 for an Outkast CD at the FYE store at the mall? Not gonna happen.
If all the stores in your area are overcharging for CDs, DON'T PATRONIZE THEM-- there's this thing called the Internet now. Buy direct from the artist, or Amazon or CDNow. Even with shipping you won't be paying what everybody keeps saying you'll be paying.
Even bad things change. $14 may still be too high, considering how much of it the artist gets, but still it's not $20.