Yeah, I'd take a fun game first. I don't care what platform it is. But as far as the NSA white papers on securing Windows... do you mean disconnecting it from the network?
Haha, 3D and 1600x1200 graphics are what we dreamed of ages ago with all those migs and megs... and now that we have it all I want to do is play Cosmic Relief, Zak McCracken, Cliff Hanger, Below the Root, Realms of Impossibility, Killed Until Dead, and the like.
Trouble is, having so many classic games to choose from I end up not playing any one game for more than 30 seconds.
Still, it is nice to just look at the amazing graphics. I <3 big blocky pixels.
Funny* you should choose the phrase, "enslavement."
My fortune when I logged on today was:
A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence.
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency,
from dependence back into bondage."
If the 90s were all about apathy it's dead clear where we're headed. My take, if they're going to do somewhat about violence, at least give us our sex back.:p
Copyrights are actually the one form of property that you can reasonably claim: "Nobody would ever have this if I didn't create it." It's a very pure creation that doesn't depend on any prior property of any kind. So, it might actually be reasonable to give infinite ownership to the creator. Probably not a good practical idea, but reasonable people could at least make a good moral argument.
No, your infinite scheme does not make the slightest bit of sense. Mostly because you're missing the entire point that it is irrelevent, "Nobody would ever have this if I didn't create it."
The idea of copyright was incentive to create works*. If I know that I can keep making money off of one hit single or one great navel (it's novel Baldrick!) for the rest of my life plus 70 years, what incentive does that give me to create more than one hit, other than greed? Is greed offer enough motivation to provide quality works?
Contrast with this: I know that the copyright on my work is going to expire in 14 years. I'm not making enough money?? I better get to creating more works.
Some people are only motivated by profit but the true artist will NEED to create works. In fact, most artists have already created their works before they even start thinking about copyright law.
And all this makes the "X years plus life of author" make sense, I suppose. It's a balance. I think it would probably be best, from an economic standpoint, to have X = 25 years. But I have no real justification for that at all. Each person I expect has their own moral thresholds. My moral threshold would be much higher actually (X=100 years maybe), but from an economic standpoint, I really hate to see a valuable work go to waste.How is a valuable work entering the public domain, something that WAS intended to occur, a waste? Surely without valuable works the value of the public domain diminishes.
* Side issue: we are looking at two different ways to give incentive to people, because surely the life plus 70 years is an incentive of a different sort and will attract a different sort of creature to create or manufacture some canned Top 40 hit or some paint by numbers film. But ultimately, is this a benefit to society?
Konqueror is nice, but it's slow when anybody uses transparent png files. Something else that's annoying beyond belief, is when you open pages in new tabs (in the background) the current tab you're in goes blank for half a second and then it redraws itself. Totally distracting, Totally.
I don't mind that there's a bit of a production every time you collect an item, heck that was in the original. What I do mind is being told how to use a map or bottle everytime you collect one. In fact, if it told you that only the first time you collected an item that would be fine. Besides, it tells you how to use the items in the item selection screen so it's redundant.
Also, since at the end of a long dialog it asks, "Did you understand [yes] [no]" there's no reason why they couldn't make it so you could speed up or skip the dialog. If you did miss something important then you would have a reason for selecting [no].
Nintendo must have the most STUPID people testing their games. Better yet, they could have had settings: Easy (never played a videogam, ever), Intermediate (have played games before, maybe even Zelda; don't need as much instruction) and Difficult (I am gifted when it comes to videogames). That would have taken NO effert what-so-ever.
At any rate, a movie could be done well, it wouldn't be hard to do, but knowing Hollywood it would turn into one big piece of crap. And you're right, because everybody would have expectations--and they would all be varied and different--somebody would be disappointed no matter what actor they chose for the rôle.
Mary: Hey, Timmy! Timmy: What? Mary: Let's download illegal mp3s and warez! Timmy:...I don't know... Mary: Don't be such a wuss! Timmy: Um, I'm going to go home and bake some cookies. If you want... you can come over and bake cookies with me.
So, it will probably create a few copyright zealots. The majority won't care and the zealots will probably turn out to be Mac users anyway*.
* I <3 Mac users, I'm not slagging them. Honestly. It's just every Mac user I've ever met is always hardcore paranoid that people will steal their work.
Right, all you need is people who know what to do and what not to do with the material and having a SUPERB cast will help you even if your film isn't as great as it could be or flawed in some way (i.e. Donnie Darko is a bit of a mess due to all the cuts they made but the outstanding cast makes it so worthwhile. (Can't wait for the directors cut)).
Same goes for Clue, it's not the best film but the cast is really good and it works.
I think a GREAT Zelda movie could be made. As long as they don't treat it like the game series lately; that is making a game for total idiots*
All it would take would be a great writing and directing team and not let the producers/studio ruin it by turning it into something it's not.
* Everytime you pick up a bottle, "This is a bottle. To use a bottle..." blah, blah. Or the map! Why does it need to tell you everytime you get an item how to use it?!? Are video game players so stupid these days? And why can't you skip or speed up the stupid dialog? Worst game ever.
I thought all they did was make those scroll-y things. Didn't realise they were still cracking software.
What about Triad? Northern Lights? OKS Import Divsion? Red Sector?
I used to work for a distribution company and I was able to buy new music LP/CD from $2-$5 as well as buying used cds from bargain bins at Amoeba (which I have found to have new releases by well known indie-rock bands (Dolour, Kind of Like Spitting). As such, I have about over 25,000 songs from my own record collection.
Being that there are so many songs to listen to I am not going to want to listen to them all in album format. I will typically* listen to three-five songs per artist in a random order. Why random? I like the element of surprise. There are many bands where I don't mind listening to the whole album (Spinanes, Blonde Redhead and so forth) but other bands are kind of spotty (Enon, Beat Happening). I do not have a short...what was I talking about?
*Sometimes I queue songs based on what key they are in or what chord progression they are using to make one song flow into the next in a interesting manner.
I wish I'd be a bit more spontaneous. Sometimes I feel like going out, stealing a traffic cone, putting it on my head and saying, "Look at me, I'm a giant witch." --Alan Partridge
Wouldn't uploading imply that you were sending a copy to a remote server or suchlike? If the file is on your own local hard drive and you make the file available directly from your machine, is that uploading?
Something else that is interesting... Take a band like the Blood Brothers who got insanely popular in the NW and in the hardcore scene in general. This occured solely by word of mouth. They've been signed by a major label now and one has to wonder--when people who haven't heard them before hear them NOW that they've been signed to a major does that change anything? If they were inclined to like hardcore anyway???
I mean, nobody needed to tell us kids this band was cool. We just knew it by going to shows and *seeing* them. But you know that the marketing machine will get into high gear. It won't be easy to say what is a factor in the bands continued success.
Actually, I'd recommened Schoolyard Heros over Blood Brothers. If the Blood Brothers are cool then (to borrow an 80s expression) Schoolyeard Heros are mass rad.
Also, somebody somewhere mentioned Top 40 all being suck-tastic and that's mostly true but Howard Jones had some Top 40 hits and he was fscking cool, 80s style.
postscript; about the MJ thing, people won't admit to owning it because they know they were duped and that MJ sucked all along and they just bought into the hype. HA! Michael Jackson is a tosser. Same thing will happen to Britney Spears. 20 years from now nobody will admit to buying her albums.
I'll tell you what, a lot of kids are using this thing called the world wide interweb. One would think this would influence to some degree what is cool. It would be interesting to see if there are any kids who are less influenced by TV and radio due to p2p, lj and what not. Like, "MTV is saying band a is the lick. Spin says band a is house, but everybody on my friends list says they're the suck!" or something.
At least that's what some of us are doing. Countering the bombardment of what the entertainment industry wants to market as total hipness.
Mainstream stuff has always been utter crap*. That's why it's mainstream. It's not supposed to be earth shattering. It is simply supposed to appeal to as many people as possible and that isn't possible if ones music is intelligent or challenging in any way.
* Every once in a rare age something that has some sort of merit will chart. This is usually a fluke and not some stroke of marketing genius.
Sloan are the biggest rock band in...(wait for it)... Canada. They were big here with their first album on DGC. They didn't have the happiest of relationships with their label and when they did a beer ad in Canada they made enough money to buy back their catalogue of recordings that DGC owned.
Typically Stereolab are on Duophonic in the UK because that's a small enough makret. They felt they needed a larger label for the rest of world and have been on Elektra (IIRC) in the past. They also, have had releases on indie labels like Slumberland.
Knowing me what the dumple is, know you anonymous coward, ah-ha!
Excellent point. I find that most people who say, "today's music sucks" are either OLD or ignorant, i.e. the only music of today that they know about is what they see on TV or hear on corporate radio.
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Yeah, I'd take a fun game first. I don't care what platform it is. But as far as the NSA white papers on securing Windows... do you mean disconnecting it from the network?
Thank goodness for Sarien.
Haha, 3D and 1600x1200 graphics are what we dreamed of ages ago with all those migs and megs... and now that we have it all I want to do is play Cosmic Relief, Zak McCracken, Cliff Hanger, Below the Root, Realms of Impossibility, Killed Until Dead, and the like.
Trouble is, having so many classic games to choose from I end up not playing any one game for more than 30 seconds.
Still, it is nice to just look at the amazing graphics. I <3 big blocky pixels.
Funny* you should choose the phrase, "enslavement."
:p
My fortune when I logged on today was:
A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence.
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency,
from dependence back into bondage."
If the 90s were all about apathy it's dead clear where we're headed. My take, if they're going to do somewhat about violence, at least give us our sex back.
* not so much funny as interesting, really.
This game looks promising.
Copyrights are actually the one form of property that you can reasonably claim: "Nobody would ever have this if I didn't create it." It's a very pure creation that doesn't depend on any prior property of any kind. So, it might actually be reasonable to give infinite ownership to the creator. Probably not a good practical idea, but reasonable people could at least make a good moral argument.
No, your infinite scheme does not make the slightest bit of sense. Mostly because you're missing the entire point that it is irrelevent, "Nobody would ever have this if I didn't create it."
The idea of copyright was incentive to create works*. If I know that I can keep making money off of one hit single or one great navel (it's novel Baldrick!) for the rest of my life plus 70 years, what incentive does that give me to create more than one hit, other than greed? Is greed offer enough motivation to provide quality works?
Contrast with this: I know that the copyright on my work is going to expire in 14 years. I'm not making enough money?? I better get to creating more works.
Some people are only motivated by profit but the true artist will NEED to create works. In fact, most artists have already created their works before they even start thinking about copyright law.
And all this makes the "X years plus life of author" make sense, I suppose. It's a balance. I think it would probably be best, from an economic standpoint, to have X = 25 years. But I have no real justification for that at all. Each person I expect has their own moral thresholds. My moral threshold would be much higher actually (X=100 years maybe), but from an economic standpoint, I really hate to see a valuable work go to waste.How is a valuable work entering the public domain, something that WAS intended to occur, a waste? Surely without valuable works the value of the public domain diminishes.
* Side issue: we are looking at two different ways to give incentive to people, because surely the life plus 70 years is an incentive of a different sort and will attract a different sort of creature to create or manufacture some canned Top 40 hit or some paint by numbers film. But ultimately, is this a benefit to society?
And it's that difficult to implement a "reset all options to default settings"???
The most recent version of e16 came out on 30 May 2004. It now uses imlib2 and freetype2 instead of fnlib and imlib.
enlightenment sf page.
Konqueror is nice, but it's slow when anybody uses transparent png files. Something else that's annoying beyond belief, is when you open pages in new tabs (in the background) the current tab you're in goes blank for half a second and then it redraws itself. Totally distracting, Totally.
I don't mind that there's a bit of a production every time you collect an item, heck that was in the original. What I do mind is being told how to use a map or bottle everytime you collect one. In fact, if it told you that only the first time you collected an item that would be fine. Besides, it tells you how to use the items in the item selection screen so it's redundant.
Also, since at the end of a long dialog it asks, "Did you understand [yes] [no]" there's no reason why they couldn't make it so you could speed up or skip the dialog. If you did miss something important then you would have a reason for selecting [no].
Nintendo must have the most STUPID people testing their games. Better yet, they could have had settings: Easy (never played a videogam, ever), Intermediate (have played games before, maybe even Zelda; don't need as much instruction) and Difficult (I am gifted when it comes to videogames). That would have taken NO effert what-so-ever.
At any rate, a movie could be done well, it wouldn't be hard to do, but knowing Hollywood it would turn into one big piece of crap. And you're right, because everybody would have expectations--and they would all be varied and different--somebody would be disappointed no matter what actor they chose for the rôle.
* I <3 Mac users, I'm not slagging them. Honestly. It's just every Mac user I've ever met is always hardcore paranoid that people will steal their work.
Right, all you need is people who know what to do and what not to do with the material and having a SUPERB cast will help you even if your film isn't as great as it could be or flawed in some way (i.e. Donnie Darko is a bit of a mess due to all the cuts they made but the outstanding cast makes it so worthwhile. (Can't wait for the directors cut)).
Same goes for Clue, it's not the best film but the cast is really good and it works.
I think a GREAT Zelda movie could be made. As long as they don't treat it like the game series lately; that is making a game for total idiots*
All it would take would be a great writing and directing team and not let the producers/studio ruin it by turning it into something it's not.
* Everytime you pick up a bottle, "This is a bottle. To use a bottle..." blah, blah. Or the map! Why does it need to tell you everytime you get an item how to use it?!? Are video game players so stupid these days? And why can't you skip or speed up the stupid dialog? Worst game ever.
I thought all they did was make those scroll-y things. Didn't realise they were still cracking software. What about Triad? Northern Lights? OKS Import Divsion? Red Sector?
I used to work for a distribution company and I was able to buy new music LP/CD from $2-$5 as well as buying used cds from bargain bins at Amoeba (which I have found to have new releases by well known indie-rock bands (Dolour, Kind of Like Spitting). As such, I have about over 25,000 songs from my own record collection.
Being that there are so many songs to listen to I am not going to want to listen to them all in album format. I will typically* listen to three-five songs per artist in a random order. Why random? I like the element of surprise. There are many bands where I don't mind listening to the whole album (Spinanes, Blonde Redhead and so forth) but other bands are kind of spotty (Enon, Beat Happening). I do not have a short...what was I talking about?
*Sometimes I queue songs based on what key they are in or what chord progression they are using to make one song flow into the next in a interesting manner.
I wish I'd be a bit more spontaneous. Sometimes I feel like going out, stealing a traffic cone, putting it on my head and saying, "Look at me, I'm a giant witch." --Alan Partridge
Wouldn't uploading imply that you were sending a copy to a remote server or suchlike? If the file is on your own local hard drive and you make the file available directly from your machine, is that uploading?
Just start a corporation and never pay tax again.
??
Something else that is interesting... Take a band like the Blood Brothers who got insanely popular in the NW and in the hardcore scene in general. This occured solely by word of mouth. They've been signed by a major label now and one has to wonder--when people who haven't heard them before hear them NOW that they've been signed to a major does that change anything? If they were inclined to like hardcore anyway???
I mean, nobody needed to tell us kids this band was cool. We just knew it by going to shows and *seeing* them. But you know that the marketing machine will get into high gear. It won't be easy to say what is a factor in the bands continued success.
Actually, I'd recommened Schoolyard Heros over Blood Brothers. If the Blood Brothers are cool then (to borrow an 80s expression) Schoolyeard Heros are mass rad.
Also, somebody somewhere mentioned Top 40 all being suck-tastic and that's mostly true but Howard Jones had some Top 40 hits and he was fscking cool, 80s style.
postscript; about the MJ thing, people won't admit to owning it because they know they were duped and that MJ sucked all along and they just bought into the hype. HA! Michael Jackson is a tosser. Same thing will happen to Britney Spears. 20 years from now nobody will admit to buying her albums.
I'll tell you what, a lot of kids are using this thing called the world wide interweb. One would think this would influence to some degree what is cool. It would be interesting to see if there are any kids who are less influenced by TV and radio due to p2p, lj and what not. Like, "MTV is saying band a is the lick. Spin says band a is house, but everybody on my friends list says they're the suck!" or something.
At least that's what some of us are doing. Countering the bombardment of what the entertainment industry wants to market as total hipness.
Never stop rioting.
Mainstream stuff has always been utter crap*. That's why it's mainstream. It's not supposed to be earth shattering. It is simply supposed to appeal to as many people as possible and that isn't possible if ones music is intelligent or challenging in any way.
* Every once in a rare age something that has some sort of merit will chart. This is usually a fluke and not some stroke of marketing genius.
Sloan are the biggest rock band in...(wait for it)... Canada. They were big here with their first album on DGC. They didn't have the happiest of relationships with their label and when they did a beer ad in Canada they made enough money to buy back their catalogue of recordings that DGC owned.
Typically Stereolab are on Duophonic in the UK because that's a small enough makret. They felt they needed a larger label for the rest of world and have been on Elektra (IIRC) in the past. They also, have had releases on indie labels like Slumberland.
Knowing me what the dumple is, know you anonymous coward, ah-ha!
Excellent point. I find that most people who say, "today's music sucks" are either OLD or ignorant, i.e. the only music of today that they know about is what they see on TV or hear on corporate radio.
U2...? Are you sure you're not OLD?