"Smart" people get rich quick, and in 50 years they won't give a shit where the oil comes from because they're already rich and/or dead.
Clearly your definition of 'smart' is defective, it seems to include some sort of moral component or altruism.
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..to 'hack' charisma for almost a hundred years? Dale Carnegie.
The only difference is 'journalists' today think she's something new or original, because they're too lazy to do even basic research.
High-speed trains no longer make sense in the United States or Canada because in the last 100 years we've wholesale abandoned the infrastructure that makes them accessible, driven (literally) by the Big 3 automakers and Big Oil, who've had everything to gain from the death of rail transport. -Go digging up the history of the PCC streetcar conspiracies in the 1920s and 30s to see how diesel-powered buses and OWNING YOUR OWN CAR replaced clean, quiet electric trolleys.
In the UK things slid downhill this way for years under the nationalized British Rail, but in most of Western Europe and especially the shining example of train culture, Japan this isn't the case. Unless you're in a very rural area, you're never more than a few miles from the nearest local train station with decent service. And in the case of France or Japan, that leads you (probably within a half-hour's ride) to a high-speed, cross-country link.
That kind of convenience can't be rebuilt in today's economy and society- it has to have been ingrained in the public's interest and concern, and the space for infrastructure grandfathered from 50 to 100 years ago.
If we hook it up to the Internet, what does it want to do?
1) Solve the world's problems
2) search for pr0n
3) Thermonuclear War
4) How about a nice game of chess?
fansubbing is a gray area if it is anime that hasn't been licensed in the country you're living.
No, it's not. The laws just haven't been enforced.
when an anime is unlicensed in the states, japanese distributors have never told them to stop their work.
No, also not true. Several Japanese production companies have sent cease&desists, polite emails or their directors have spoken out against it at conventions and in interviews.
without these fansubbers bringing a popularity of these animes so high, i'd doubt that over half of what's available today would've been available.
And this explains why ADV is cutting staff, titles and losing money. Licensing everything on the planet, bankrolling the production of new series themselves - which then turn out to be complete bombs.
I don't recall seeing many GenXers running the Fortune 500, or leading the Senate or being in the White House..
Did any generation get handed essentially-free university educations and jobs-for-life, 2 cars in every driveway before? They certainly don't do it anymore..
This was a societal largesse that never occurred before and likely will never again. People who are retiring now expect social security, drug and medical benefits.. and people working for the next 50 years - like many of us - are the ones paying to support it without any hope of benefit ourselves.
They've supported themselves by spending any surplus they generated in the last 50 years.. and their children's.. and their grandchildren's!
NASA has gotten soft and complacent, just like humanity as a whole and Western society in particular. Since beating the Soviet Union to the moon, there's no CHALLENGE left. What drove NASA there in the first place was simply the threat that someone else would do it first. Why spend TRILLIONS of dollars to go to Mars when noone else will get there first and we can do it at our leisure?
60 years of (nominal) world peace has meant fundamentally less competition and made it easier for existing societal structures - governments, corporations, values, ideas - to entrench themselves against any challenges, and for Western society the collapse of the Soviet Union further ingrains that these methods are correct.
This fits the trend we see in almost every facet of society today - from NASA to IP legal issues to politics to the war in Iraq.
I point the finger for this problem squarely at the baby-boomer generation. People born after the Second World War (our parents, largely) who have simultaneously consumed more resources, generated more frivolous waste and either contributed less or actually detracted more from society and humanity than any generation in history. After 60 years of getting what they want when they want it, they don't want to give that up - but if someone else threatens to do it first or better, well something had better be done about it!
Sure we've got great toys - at what cost in political, social, economic and environmental terms? It's amazing that society can consume resources at its current rate yet generate so little progress in fields which could fundamentally better itself. Where is our moonbase or Mars base? How come we still have homeless, hungry people in our own countries? Where's our solar-powered electrical grid? How come we still can't eradicate TB? Where's my flying car?:)
Frankly, very few areas in North American have the population density to make high-speed rail economically viable. What most Europeans can't grasp no matter how plain the numbers are is the VAST area of these countries. Travelling HALFWAY across Canada is roughly the equivalent of travelling in Europe from London to Moscow!
While many of us would LOVE to have these services available, they just aren't cost-effective without a population 10x the size, outside of a few areas such as southern California, the US east coast and southern Ontario/Quebec.
The ICE and TGV Atlantique are certainly CAPABLE of 350kmh speeds in theory or testing, however in commercial service they do not travel at this speed.
Also, European high-speed trains have less track gradient and far fewer tunnels to deal with than shinkansen services in northern Japan, so in service a higher average speed is easier.
who ignore email infringement notices are hardly uncommon.
As a sysadmin for several small clients, I sure don't want file-sharing going on on MY network no matter how beneficial it may be to me personally.
The article is pretty vague unfortunately - they 'treated the infringement notices like spam.' So why didn't the music industry send them ACTUAL notarized letters in the first place? If I took every piece of semi-legit-looking crap that arrived in my inbox seriously, I'd be handing out credit card numbers left and right, and I'd have about a 10-foot-long penis and twenty free iPods by this point!
1) Introduce new products available instantly on your own store to fanatic consumers who will buy anything and everything you make 2) screw your long-time resellers 3) ??? 4) LAWSUIT
Sorry to burst folks' generalizing bubble, but with proper, ingrained use of firewalls and anti-virus, I personally have had no problems with any Windows systems I administer.
Stock, out-of-the-box, unpatched Windows users, on the other hand..
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"Smart" people get rich quick, and in 50 years they won't give a shit where the oil comes from because they're already rich and/or dead. Clearly your definition of 'smart' is defective, it seems to include some sort of moral component or altruism.
..to 'hack' charisma for almost a hundred years? Dale Carnegie. The only difference is 'journalists' today think she's something new or original, because they're too lazy to do even basic research.
.. I'd like to say that for $40,000 your 'lossy audio file' at least doesn't have a reputation for spontaneously bursting into flames.
High-speed trains no longer make sense in the United States or Canada because in the last 100 years we've wholesale abandoned the infrastructure that makes them accessible, driven (literally) by the Big 3 automakers and Big Oil, who've had everything to gain from the death of rail transport. -Go digging up the history of the PCC streetcar conspiracies in the 1920s and 30s to see how diesel-powered buses and OWNING YOUR OWN CAR replaced clean, quiet electric trolleys.
In the UK things slid downhill this way for years under the nationalized British Rail, but in most of Western Europe and especially the shining example of train culture, Japan this isn't the case. Unless you're in a very rural area, you're never more than a few miles from the nearest local train station with decent service. And in the case of France or Japan, that leads you (probably within a half-hour's ride) to a high-speed, cross-country link.
That kind of convenience can't be rebuilt in today's economy and society- it has to have been ingrained in the public's interest and concern, and the space for infrastructure grandfathered from 50 to 100 years ago.
'If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you?' 'Pepsi?' 'Partial Credit!'
So I guess this means Ben Dunn was right all along.
If we hook it up to the Internet, what does it want to do? 1) Solve the world's problems 2) search for pr0n 3) Thermonuclear War 4) How about a nice game of chess?
..editors?
:)
oh, right. One who 'edits', especially as an occupation.
fansubbing is a gray area if it is anime that hasn't been licensed in the country you're living.
No, it's not. The laws just haven't been enforced.
when an anime is unlicensed in the states, japanese distributors have never told them to stop their work.
No, also not true. Several Japanese production companies have sent cease&desists, polite emails or their directors have spoken out against it at conventions and in interviews.
without these fansubbers bringing a popularity of these animes so high, i'd doubt that over half of what's available today would've been available.
And this explains why ADV is cutting staff, titles and losing money. Licensing everything on the planet, bankrolling the production of new series themselves - which then turn out to be complete bombs.
thanks for taking the comment seriously.
I don't recall seeing many GenXers running the Fortune 500, or leading the Senate or being in the White House..
Did any generation get handed essentially-free university educations and jobs-for-life, 2 cars in every driveway before? They certainly don't do it anymore..
This was a societal largesse that never occurred before and likely will never again. People who are retiring now expect social security, drug and medical benefits.. and people working for the next 50 years - like many of us - are the ones paying to support it without any hope of benefit ourselves.
They've supported themselves by spending any surplus they generated in the last 50 years.. and their children's.. and their grandchildren's!
NASA has gotten soft and complacent, just like humanity as a whole and Western society in particular. Since beating the Soviet Union to the moon, there's no CHALLENGE left. What drove NASA there in the first place was simply the threat that someone else would do it first. Why spend TRILLIONS of dollars to go to Mars when noone else will get there first and we can do it at our leisure?
:)
60 years of (nominal) world peace has meant fundamentally less competition and made it easier for existing societal structures - governments, corporations, values, ideas - to entrench themselves against any challenges, and for Western society the collapse of the Soviet Union further ingrains that these methods are correct.
This fits the trend we see in almost every facet of society today - from NASA to IP legal issues to politics to the war in Iraq.
I point the finger for this problem squarely at the baby-boomer generation. People born after the Second World War (our parents, largely) who have simultaneously consumed more resources, generated more frivolous waste and either contributed less or actually detracted more from society and humanity than any generation in history. After 60 years of getting what they want when they want it, they don't want to give that up - but if someone else threatens to do it first or better, well something had better be done about it!
Sure we've got great toys - at what cost in political, social, economic and environmental terms? It's amazing that society can consume resources at its current rate yet generate so little progress in fields which could fundamentally better itself. Where is our moonbase or Mars base? How come we still have homeless, hungry people in our own countries? Where's our solar-powered electrical grid? How come we still can't eradicate TB? Where's my flying car?
Why is it I need a 'widget' for this? I use a Notepad file on my desktop.
:)
Right-click>New>Text Document anytime you want a new one.
I COULD open Weather.com... or I could look at my Forecastfox plugin in the status bar every time the browser is open.
Quick multiplication? Oh please.
Start>Run>CALC
And if you want to play anything better than Pacman, feel free to switch back to a PC.
Widgets are a JOKE. They're more useless clutter and memory waste. It's the sort of thing you expect from Microsoft, actually..
Frankly, very few areas in North American have the population density to make high-speed rail economically viable. What most Europeans can't grasp no matter how plain the numbers are is the VAST area of these countries. Travelling HALFWAY across Canada is roughly the equivalent of travelling in Europe from London to Moscow! While many of us would LOVE to have these services available, they just aren't cost-effective without a population 10x the size, outside of a few areas such as southern California, the US east coast and southern Ontario/Quebec.
The ICE and TGV Atlantique are certainly CAPABLE of 350kmh speeds in theory or testing, however in commercial service they do not travel at this speed. Also, European high-speed trains have less track gradient and far fewer tunnels to deal with than shinkansen services in northern Japan, so in service a higher average speed is easier.
And you threw away any credibility you might possibly have had when your opening statement is 'I haven't RTFA'.
who ignore email infringement notices are hardly uncommon. As a sysadmin for several small clients, I sure don't want file-sharing going on on MY network no matter how beneficial it may be to me personally. The article is pretty vague unfortunately - they 'treated the infringement notices like spam.' So why didn't the music industry send them ACTUAL notarized letters in the first place? If I took every piece of semi-legit-looking crap that arrived in my inbox seriously, I'd be handing out credit card numbers left and right, and I'd have about a 10-foot-long penis and twenty free iPods by this point!
1) Introduce new products available instantly on your own store to fanatic consumers who will buy anything and everything you make
2) screw your long-time resellers
3) ???
4) LAWSUIT
Can you imagine an article about George Bush that didn't use the word President?
I suspect many of us wish we could.
Sorry to burst folks' generalizing bubble, but with proper, ingrained use of firewalls and anti-virus, I personally have had no problems with any Windows systems I administer. Stock, out-of-the-box, unpatched Windows users, on the other hand..
Internet-accessible cooking is all fun & games until someone starves to death as a result of Denial of Supper attack..
Cocaine
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