I'd love to see this happen, but I can't imagine it anytime soon. I have a teenage sister, and just talking to her you realize how pop culture sells her music so well that I don't see teenagers caring about the format if the distributors keep it relatively simple. When just about every outlet for new music is owned and co-opted by large companies you'll get the same quality of music (shitty) and kids will listen to what other kids listen to even if it's a little more difficult. This isn't new. Do you really think much of the stuff in the 80's or 90's that was pop music is significantly better than today's pop music?
If something isn't done to break apart the distribution systems for music, ie radio, mtv then you will see this situation continue. Good music isn't popular because it's good, it becomes popular only when it's marked or targeted so enough people hear it.
So you believe that most of the problem would be gone if the studio system back then had continued? Actors working for one studio and tied to them by contract is an awfully unfair way of having people do business. Would you like it if you had a long term contract with an employer where they paid you a fraction of your true market value? People are not paid based on the quality of their work. They are paid based on how badly they are needed to do that job. I'll always agree with the person who actually does the work rather than the suits who unfairly determine how much someone should be paid.
Several legal copyright scholars have weighed in on this and according the Google response, the usage here is fully supported by the exceptions in copyright law such as for review or parody. Whether or not they win, I applaud Google for pushing the limits of copyright law so that it covers recently expanded technical developments. This will get plenty of press and at least a few people will question why this isn't possible and why information is effectively hidden forever under the current system.
Does anyone else think this title should be changed to " Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Being Intelligently Designed"? I wouldn't want any scientist to lose their funding.
I'd say that's kind of unlikely when this country can't even handle a relatively simple presidential election without massive problems and allegations of fraud. If you have the partisan groups operate their own tests i'm sure you'd be happy as 100% would get a sufficient score to count their vote.
Also, the people most likely to stay behind are the ones living paycheck to paycheck. They are also the most likely to be living in the poorer, lower lying parts of the city. If they can't afford to get out of town, do you really expect them to have the luxury of storing weeks of food and water? It's disgusting what a few people are doing, but blaming everyone there for not getting out is unfair.
There could have been a faster response, but it's incredibly difficult to put together search and rescue missions in such large areas. Katrina did incredible damage to 90,000 miles which is almost 8x the size of Maryland or Belgium. Also, how are you supposed to make inroads with so many places flooded. I'm not saying that it's right to be slow to bring aid, but the problem is a difficult one to address. You can't simply say poof and have 500 buses there to cart people out of the areas.
Hustle and Flow recently was purchased by Miramax for 9 million. It seems there is this slow and subtle outsourcing of Hollywood where the studios just go and purchase from indies the types of films that they simply can't or won't produce. At 5-10 million this is probably a smart idea, but what happens when they start to cost 20-30m per film and you have to also advertise it. Also, it only seems like there are a handful of these films each year so the studios really need to be careful about still being able to create the more independant style of film as they have been so successful lately.
Do you really believe that if they can't make a profit on King Kong that next time they will take a gamble on a 75 million dollar indie style film that no one has heard of? There's a reason you see so many sequels and remakes and that's because they're profitable. I figure they'll probably just spend less making sequels and King Kong flicks using cheaper actors or locales. Making King Kong relies on the huge and free word of mouth that will compare the old one to the new one which is incredibly valuable. This won't keep them from making these films, it just may restrain the total number of films made. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but few film companies are willing to take that risk when they know another spiderman sequel will bring in almost guaranteed money.
I wasn't attacking the band, but I was posing an indictment of the state of music in the media today. There's something to be said for the music itself. Canned and treated as a product is why the vast majority of the stuff you find out there today is crap. On another note, it takes tons of money to market in the US if you didn't start off with a presence here so that may be part of the lack of attention. After all, there was a time when some people thought the Beatles would never catch on in the US.
Not to mention that's the interesting stuff if you're really into programming. As nice as it is to see something work the first time, it's just as nice to tinker with something and come up with and an original way to do something better. I figured out a long time ago that these types of jobs require learning many new things, so you might as well enjoy the process, right?
If the Corrs can't be hits in the US with three hot babes and five hot guys...
I thought they were selling music. It shouldn't have anything to do with what the members of the band look like. Clapton had it right 15 years ago. Music on television will be the death of creative and different music because all that will ever be cultivated is image.
I also work for a large financial company and we've had the same issues with cancelling offshoring. As for the H1B's, I mostly feel sorry for them here because they are treated as outsiders by the people threatened by them. It's definitely more a fear of being replaced than overt racism although that doesn't condone treating them that way. The parent poster who was saying that H1B's are a lower quality of worker should try working in an environment where everyone there before you arrived is rooting for you to fail so they can feel better about their job.
Exactly, all this does is give that 14 year old looking to decode something already with DRM a good example of how to break an already well documented DRM. Carry on, and good luck!
Is there anything nearly as full featured for linux as Cool Edit Pro is for recording stuff on windows? Anyone have any suggestions as I recently moved to Fedora.
Evolution happens over incredibly long periods of time. It is truly doubtful that something like this would have affected the genetic makeup of humans enough to have any impact.
If you're railing against them having an IPO to start with, I think you're crazy. Something with the market cap that google has couldn't be fairly or equitably sold to another institution, so you line up public shareholders so you can cash out your equity in the business and reward those who owner smaller chunks of your company. Without going public, the entirety of Google's owners never would have received fair value.
Looking back at it now Oregon Trail really isn't all that educational. Besides how to spell dysentery what did it really teach you? Most of the kids I remember just spent the entire time hunting. And people wondered why it was always more popular than word and number munchers at school.
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When did Thomas Haden Church become a big name?
Now that my symbiate knows the cast, he'll definitely make me go see it!
I'd love to see this happen, but I can't imagine it anytime soon. I have a teenage sister, and just talking to her you realize how pop culture sells her music so well that I don't see teenagers caring about the format if the distributors keep it relatively simple. When just about every outlet for new music is owned and co-opted by large companies you'll get the same quality of music (shitty) and kids will listen to what other kids listen to even if it's a little more difficult. This isn't new. Do you really think much of the stuff in the 80's or 90's that was pop music is significantly better than today's pop music?
If something isn't done to break apart the distribution systems for music, ie radio, mtv then you will see this situation continue. Good music isn't popular because it's good, it becomes popular only when it's marked or targeted so enough people hear it.
So you believe that most of the problem would be gone if the studio system back then had continued? Actors working for one studio and tied to them by contract is an awfully unfair way of having people do business. Would you like it if you had a long term contract with an employer where they paid you a fraction of your true market value? People are not paid based on the quality of their work. They are paid based on how badly they are needed to do that job. I'll always agree with the person who actually does the work rather than the suits who unfairly determine how much someone should be paid.
Several legal copyright scholars have weighed in on this and according the Google response, the usage here is fully supported by the exceptions in copyright law such as for review or parody. Whether or not they win, I applaud Google for pushing the limits of copyright law so that it covers recently expanded technical developments. This will get plenty of press and at least a few people will question why this isn't possible and why information is effectively hidden forever under the current system.
Does anyone else think this title should be changed to " Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Being Intelligently Designed"? I wouldn't want any scientist to lose their funding.
Absurd, yes. Frightening, absolutely. I foresee a huge run on hair dye.
I'd say that's kind of unlikely when this country can't even handle a relatively simple presidential election without massive problems and allegations of fraud. If you have the partisan groups operate their own tests i'm sure you'd be happy as 100% would get a sufficient score to count their vote.
The parent is not the only person making similar arguments. http://www.slate.com/id/2125822/ and http://www.slate.com/?id=2125810&nav=tap1/
Also, the people most likely to stay behind are the ones living paycheck to paycheck. They are also the most likely to be living in the poorer, lower lying parts of the city. If they can't afford to get out of town, do you really expect them to have the luxury of storing weeks of food and water? It's disgusting what a few people are doing, but blaming everyone there for not getting out is unfair.
There could have been a faster response, but it's incredibly difficult to put together search and rescue missions in such large areas. Katrina did incredible damage to 90,000 miles which is almost 8x the size of Maryland or Belgium. Also, how are you supposed to make inroads with so many places flooded. I'm not saying that it's right to be slow to bring aid, but the problem is a difficult one to address. You can't simply say poof and have 500 buses there to cart people out of the areas.
Hustle and Flow recently was purchased by Miramax for 9 million. It seems there is this slow and subtle outsourcing of Hollywood where the studios just go and purchase from indies the types of films that they simply can't or won't produce. At 5-10 million this is probably a smart idea, but what happens when they start to cost 20-30m per film and you have to also advertise it. Also, it only seems like there are a handful of these films each year so the studios really need to be careful about still being able to create the more independant style of film as they have been so successful lately.
Do you really believe that if they can't make a profit on King Kong that next time they will take a gamble on a 75 million dollar indie style film that no one has heard of? There's a reason you see so many sequels and remakes and that's because they're profitable. I figure they'll probably just spend less making sequels and King Kong flicks using cheaper actors or locales. Making King Kong relies on the huge and free word of mouth that will compare the old one to the new one which is incredibly valuable. This won't keep them from making these films, it just may restrain the total number of films made. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but few film companies are willing to take that risk when they know another spiderman sequel will bring in almost guaranteed money.
Gives new meaning to the Lewis Black quote:
"If it weren't for that horse, I would never have graduated from college"
I wasn't attacking the band, but I was posing an indictment of the state of music in the media today. There's something to be said for the music itself. Canned and treated as a product is why the vast majority of the stuff you find out there today is crap. On another note, it takes tons of money to market in the US if you didn't start off with a presence here so that may be part of the lack of attention. After all, there was a time when some people thought the Beatles would never catch on in the US.
Not to mention that's the interesting stuff if you're really into programming. As nice as it is to see something work the first time, it's just as nice to tinker with something and come up with and an original way to do something better. I figured out a long time ago that these types of jobs require learning many new things, so you might as well enjoy the process, right?
If the Corrs can't be hits in the US with three hot babes and five hot guys...
I thought they were selling music. It shouldn't have anything to do with what the members of the band look like. Clapton had it right 15 years ago. Music on television will be the death of creative and different music because all that will ever be cultivated is image.
I also work for a large financial company and we've had the same issues with cancelling offshoring. As for the H1B's, I mostly feel sorry for them here because they are treated as outsiders by the people threatened by them. It's definitely more a fear of being replaced than overt racism although that doesn't condone treating them that way. The parent poster who was saying that H1B's are a lower quality of worker should try working in an environment where everyone there before you arrived is rooting for you to fail so they can feel better about their job.
No one is being replaced by a robot, at least until all the kinks are worked out - Homer Simpson
Exactly, all this does is give that 14 year old looking to decode something already with DRM a good example of how to break an already well documented DRM. Carry on, and good luck!
Is there anything nearly as full featured for linux as Cool Edit Pro is for recording stuff on windows? Anyone have any suggestions as I recently moved to Fedora.
Evolution happens over incredibly long periods of time. It is truly doubtful that something like this would have affected the genetic makeup of humans enough to have any impact.
http://www.slate.com/id/2124503/
All poker players are psychopaths. I guess I will have to cancel the weekly game.
If you're railing against them having an IPO to start with, I think you're crazy. Something with the market cap that google has couldn't be fairly or equitably sold to another institution, so you line up public shareholders so you can cash out your equity in the business and reward those who owner smaller chunks of your company. Without going public, the entirety of Google's owners never would have received fair value.
Looking back at it now Oregon Trail really isn't all that educational. Besides how to spell dysentery what did it really teach you? Most of the kids I remember just spent the entire time hunting. And people wondered why it was always more popular than word and number munchers at school.