It would be funny if another country got a REALLY good rate on them, perhaps like the Canadians which would allow exportation of these songs. Then, they could find a really cheap way to ship them to the US, burn the songs people request onto CD, and get that CD to that person.
It would serve those damn Apple bastards right for making a low priced, minimal DRMed, well designed, functional music service.
Yes, those damn pirates are going to ruin Apple's music service.
***The above was entirely a joke, if you didn't get it, or it simply didn't make sense, this is most likely because I am drunk. I do not apologize.***
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable."
I work in advertising/marketing. And yes, it IS so wrong on the net. Repeat after me, "THE NET IS NOT TV". We're not asking for anything unreasonable. The net was fine the way it was before, and now its broken, horribly, because of companies who want to clutter it with push content, and because of "ad agencies" (i use the term loosely) who create this kind of software that evades popup blockers.
To all companies out there considering using this advertising method. Don't. If I block popups, it means I don't want to see your message. I don't care how much you think I want to see your bandwidth sucking ad, I don't.
The reason advertisers want to turn the net into tv is so that you have no choice about what you see. With banner ads, most people just kind of tune that area of the website out. Popup blockers are the next step. So with every method you have of controlling your choice, that is one less venue for a company to deliver "an urgent, important message" to you.
Slashdot stories are kind of like popups. You see them the first time, you either dismissed it then or looked into it, and then just to annoy you, you keep seeing them again.
" I've noticed a shift towards programming to attract female audiences over the past ~10 years."
Actually, I saw a very interesting show on this very topic. It was the Donny Deutsch show. For those of you who don't know who Mr. Deutsch is, he owns the massive Deutsch ad agency. He's kind of thought of as a rockstar in the advertising industry.
On the show, they had very prominent speaks from TV Guide, and from other places talking about how studies have shown that women make most of the spending decisions in a relationship, and thus, woman as a majority have more spending power. So in response, networks are gearing their shows towards women in hopes of drawing in advertising dollars from people who want women to see their ads.
I also just read a fascinating (albeit brief) article in the New York Times Magazine about the success of Cartoon Network, especially with Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Apparently, the grass roots feel of it, and the type of humor appeals to the "missing demographic", and men 18-35 (as have I) have been flocking there in droves. What this is leading to is a further segmentation of demographics that are reachable with one message. So before, you could just advertise on Fox if you wanted that demographic. Now if you really want them, you're going to have to advertise on Cartoon Network, but then your other audience, of women 18-35 for example, would not be reached.
I work in advertising, and I feel that these things are all contributing. Games are a rising area for this demographic. So are magazines. But the overall trend is into more specific marketing segments.
"I've always thought there was a difference between "advertising" and "marketing". "
Actually, advertising is a part of marketing. Advertising covers how you get your message out there. Marketing is the overarching concept that brings together the advertising, the promotions, PR, and sales.
Actually, wouldn't you need fewer? If the products were worth buying, and that equalled more purchases, wouldn't the commission they got on the clickthrough make them more money than if they just crapflooded everybody and got no hits?
"My friend was sat smoking up in his front room when the door was knocked by 8 policemen with guns asking about "a firearm". He instantly realised what it was, said "ah you mean this", went to pick it up and promptly got jumped on by 5 armed police who thought they were about to get blown away. All got happily sorted in the end, I'd imagine had he been in America he wouldn't be around to tell that tale."
If this was in America, they would have laughed at the toy gun, and then sent him to jail for 5 years for possession.
"i hate to say it but, is this what geek humor is?"
Yes. It is. You see, humor does not have to be funny to EVERYBODY to work. And why even bother posting that you don't find it funny? Why are you even reading this story? What a troll.
I know you were joking, but I would like to take this moment to point out that I think it would be almost impossible to completely filter out porn on the net for everybody. Period. Its one of the main reasons so many people are on the net these days, and thats NOT a joke.
Actually....this isn't only in Pattern Recognition. This is a form of guerilla marketing which has been used many times already. I'm in advertising/marketing, and from the way that thing reads, it sounds EXACTLY like a PR plant.
On a side note, I wonder where you can sign up to do those sorts of things. Could be a cool job for a college student to make a few bucks (yes I know its evil, sue me).
"The way it was so unintentionally funny mirrors perfectly any D&D session I've ever been to - even gets the same tone."
Which is precisely what made it a bad movie. Its purpose was to show a serious Dungeons and Dragons themed story. Not be a joke to fans about when they play. There are fan movies for that. The acting was so laughable my friends and I almost walked out on it.
I see this as yet another move towards the trend of taking cool animated series and making Live Action movies out of them. Transformers is making one, GI Joe is making one. Hopefully a couple of them will turn out to be good, as many have pointed out why this movie will please fans much in the same way as the Dungeons and Dragons movie pleased D&D fans (hint: it didn't, I know the Gygax's, who created D&D, and THEY said they hated it).
However, I'm curious as to what other anime should also recieve the Live Action treatment, or if any other anime has been made into a Live Action movie in Japan that we haven't heard of. My vote is already for Love Hina. Just to see who they cast as Naru.
"Some of the comments on the forum suggests that it's modelled after a A-Wing."
While I'm not sure if that comment suggests that its meant to replicate the A-Wing, more mearly steal some of its visual cues, I would like to point out that the "official" A-Wing didn't have an R2 droid because it didn't have space for it.
While it is a noble venture, I'm afraid it would be impossible until technology SIGNIFICANTLY improves. You see, currently one of the ways to tell whether you're dreaming or not (for lucid dreaming) is to look at text, look away, then look back. The text ALWAYS changes. And that is how you know you're dreaming.
Dreams are not meant for logical learning....more for self-understanding. And as such, perhaps dream control could be developed into a practical method of psychotherapy.
Sometimes, I wish I had something like a stock ticker for the major P2P networks. It could be a little window that showed me the network, how many users, how much data is being shared, and how many files. It would then let me compare and chart over time.
This would be fun, and I could have it right next to my S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq tickers.
" Coming to this case: the student has no right to gripe about this. Saying that he's being considered "guilty until proven innocent" is asinine. By the same token, his assignments shouldn't be graded either: he should just get an "A" to start with!
Would it have been better if the professor had taken his assignment and submitted it to the service? After all, the professor can use whatever tools he likes to help him do his job. And catching plagiarists is a part of his job, unfortunately. "
Saying he feels he's being considered guilty until proven innocent is HARDLY asinine. This kind of measure means exactly the same thing as the "only criminals/terrorists have something to hide" measures. It means that there is an assumption the monitored individuals will do something bad, and thus they ALL have to be watched, because they MIGHT all be criminals.
It is a pity that someone as educated as yourself to be a teacher would miss out on this key concept.
Now, the second point I would like to make is not on ethical grounds at all, but rather legal ones, which is the main reason this student is doing this at all. The issue is that he feels the IP is his, and thus the company cannot assimilate it into their database which aids in them selling their services to schools. In other words, he's pissed that they're making a profit off of his (allegedly) misappropriated IP.
" I once wrote a 20-line python script to do just this, and it worked very well. It even found some plagiarism inside a an (awarded) document that was plagiarised."
Now, IANAM (I am not a mathematician), anyways, So what then happens when you apply the "Monkey's with Typewriters Rule" to the students? Especially when you narrow it down by paper topic, it seems likely that mathematically, some plagiarism would occur (ie. some sentences were identical) without the student ever having done any plagiarizing. Its just simple randomness at that point.
"Good students should be applauding this, because now their honest effort won't be in the shadow of someone's $35 store bought paper written by a poor grad student."
Its interesting. When reading that quote, almost instantaniously of the whole "only criminals/terrorists would have something to hide" spiel. And the ethos of the argument students argument would be that in both situations, once these kinds of measures are put into place, the people its monitoring/being used to check on, start to get looked at with the same scrutiny as the criminals/terrorists, and now plagiarists.
I write every single one of my papers, while using the internet for research (and siting all my sources). I am what you would typify as a "good student". I do not want this because it would imply that I am a plagiarist and that my school has no respect for me. Personally, that is worth more to me than "being in the shadow of someone's $35 store bought paper written by a poor grad student", or because it could eventually lower the value of my degree from a school, the actual investment I have in the school. That's how important it is to me and all the others who see this as a big slap in the face by their school.
Kind of offtopic, but I'm very interested in linguistics and dialects. Particularly Japanese dialects. But I was wondering if you knew of any good resources for dialects? Or a place with audio clips of people saying the same things in different dialects?
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It would serve those damn Apple bastards right for making a low priced, minimal DRMed, well designed, functional music service.
Yes, those damn pirates are going to ruin Apple's music service.
***The above was entirely a joke, if you didn't get it, or it simply didn't make sense, this is most likely because I am drunk. I do not apologize.***
I work in advertising/marketing. And yes, it IS so wrong on the net. Repeat after me, "THE NET IS NOT TV". We're not asking for anything unreasonable. The net was fine the way it was before, and now its broken, horribly, because of companies who want to clutter it with push content, and because of "ad agencies" (i use the term loosely) who create this kind of software that evades popup blockers.
To all companies out there considering using this advertising method. Don't. If I block popups, it means I don't want to see your message. I don't care how much you think I want to see your bandwidth sucking ad, I don't.
The reason advertisers want to turn the net into tv is so that you have no choice about what you see. With banner ads, most people just kind of tune that area of the website out. Popup blockers are the next step. So with every method you have of controlling your choice, that is one less venue for a company to deliver "an urgent, important message" to you.
Actually, I saw a very interesting show on this very topic. It was the Donny Deutsch show. For those of you who don't know who Mr. Deutsch is, he owns the massive Deutsch ad agency. He's kind of thought of as a rockstar in the advertising industry.
On the show, they had very prominent speaks from TV Guide, and from other places talking about how studies have shown that women make most of the spending decisions in a relationship, and thus, woman as a majority have more spending power. So in response, networks are gearing their shows towards women in hopes of drawing in advertising dollars from people who want women to see their ads.
I also just read a fascinating (albeit brief) article in the New York Times Magazine about the success of Cartoon Network, especially with Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Apparently, the grass roots feel of it, and the type of humor appeals to the "missing demographic", and men 18-35 (as have I) have been flocking there in droves. What this is leading to is a further segmentation of demographics that are reachable with one message. So before, you could just advertise on Fox if you wanted that demographic. Now if you really want them, you're going to have to advertise on Cartoon Network, but then your other audience, of women 18-35 for example, would not be reached.
I work in advertising, and I feel that these things are all contributing. Games are a rising area for this demographic. So are magazines. But the overall trend is into more specific marketing segments.
Actually, advertising is a part of marketing. Advertising covers how you get your message out there. Marketing is the overarching concept that brings together the advertising, the promotions, PR, and sales.
Actually, wouldn't you need fewer? If the products were worth buying, and that equalled more purchases, wouldn't the commission they got on the clickthrough make them more money than if they just crapflooded everybody and got no hits?
You forgot the file:
stolen_sco_code.tar.gz
If this was in America, they would have laughed at the toy gun, and then sent him to jail for 5 years for possession.
I think you mispelled warm and sticky.
Yes. It is. You see, humor does not have to be funny to EVERYBODY to work. And why even bother posting that you don't find it funny? Why are you even reading this story? What a troll.
I know you were joking, but I would like to take this moment to point out that I think it would be almost impossible to completely filter out porn on the net for everybody. Period. Its one of the main reasons so many people are on the net these days, and thats NOT a joke.
On a side note, I wonder where you can sign up to do those sorts of things. Could be a cool job for a college student to make a few bucks (yes I know its evil, sue me).
Which is precisely what made it a bad movie. Its purpose was to show a serious Dungeons and Dragons themed story. Not be a joke to fans about when they play. There are fan movies for that. The acting was so laughable my friends and I almost walked out on it.
However, I'm curious as to what other anime should also recieve the Live Action treatment, or if any other anime has been made into a Live Action movie in Japan that we haven't heard of. My vote is already for Love Hina. Just to see who they cast as Naru.
While I'm not sure if that comment suggests that its meant to replicate the A-Wing, more mearly steal some of its visual cues, I would like to point out that the "official" A-Wing didn't have an R2 droid because it didn't have space for it.
How ironically fitting given the main demographic of their player base.
No.....no you can't.
Dreams are not meant for logical learning....more for self-understanding. And as such, perhaps dream control could be developed into a practical method of psychotherapy.
This would be fun, and I could have it right next to my S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq tickers.
Saying he feels he's being considered guilty until proven innocent is HARDLY asinine. This kind of measure means exactly the same thing as the "only criminals/terrorists have something to hide" measures. It means that there is an assumption the monitored individuals will do something bad, and thus they ALL have to be watched, because they MIGHT all be criminals.
It is a pity that someone as educated as yourself to be a teacher would miss out on this key concept.
Now, the second point I would like to make is not on ethical grounds at all, but rather legal ones, which is the main reason this student is doing this at all. The issue is that he feels the IP is his, and thus the company cannot assimilate it into their database which aids in them selling their services to schools. In other words, he's pissed that they're making a profit off of his (allegedly) misappropriated IP.
Now, IANAM (I am not a mathematician), anyways, So what then happens when you apply the "Monkey's with Typewriters Rule" to the students? Especially when you narrow it down by paper topic, it seems likely that mathematically, some plagiarism would occur (ie. some sentences were identical) without the student ever having done any plagiarizing. Its just simple randomness at that point.
Its interesting. When reading that quote, almost instantaniously of the whole "only criminals/terrorists would have something to hide" spiel. And the ethos of the argument students argument would be that in both situations, once these kinds of measures are put into place, the people its monitoring/being used to check on, start to get looked at with the same scrutiny as the criminals/terrorists, and now plagiarists.
I write every single one of my papers, while using the internet for research (and siting all my sources). I am what you would typify as a "good student". I do not want this because it would imply that I am a plagiarist and that my school has no respect for me. Personally, that is worth more to me than "being in the shadow of someone's $35 store bought paper written by a poor grad student", or because it could eventually lower the value of my degree from a school, the actual investment I have in the school. That's how important it is to me and all the others who see this as a big slap in the face by their school.