Its the meaningless marketing speak and buzzwords that annoys real techies. Its like when you non-technical friends read some William Gibson and start waxing philosophic about the same web they've been using for the past decade. Or when the hipsters over at boingboing treat every little object script in Second Life as the "biggest thing evar!!!" Its tiresome and sophmoric. There are some interesting things going on in technology right now and some interesting commentators but you probably wont hear them over the web2.0 hype crowd. Shame really.
>I'd like to think that such anti-piracy measures would make submitted videos more original and interesting, but maybe I'm being naive.
Maybe. I would think that there's would be a lot more incentive for people to upload original and creative stuff (look at how Flash has democratized simple games and animation). Instead because of lax filtering of all this copyrighted materials there's much more of a demand of AMV and Will and Grace episodes. People with original stuff dont even get noticed outside of their immediate social circles.
As handy as youtube is for TV shows Ive missed, I wonder what it could be if things were different. I do feel like you do because most people simply do not haev the creativity, time, equipment, production, etc to make decent video. People who do have these skills care enough about their projects to host their own webpages and videos, so they really dont have a use for youtube's low-res video hosting. So youtube will always be clips from tv shows and music videos. Not to mention that the only "hit" "self-produced" video series Ive heard of from there ended up being a marketing gimmick.
Im not sure what google is trying to do, if anything - they may not have a master plan on this one. Maybe theyre trying to legitimize the site, get people to get off their backs for short 2 -3 minute clips, and pay them. Sounds like a pipe dream to me. I just think they bought their #1 competitor to google video and are letting the dice roll.
>but you can indeed show the menu by right clicking and checking "Menu bar".
Great, now tell it to the millions of windows users who have no idea on how to change menu bar settings. This stupid little change alone is going to make every support persons job a pain in the ass for the next few months. Most users can barely work a basic looking windows app. When it comes to WMP-style re-doings they have no clue.
>think we still have a lot of room for advancement. I also think the only way out is through - through technology.
"Advanced" really doesnt just mean technology but society as well. All the technology in the world isnt going to make people realize that, for example, slavery is wrong, women deserve the same rights as men, healthcare shouldnt be a for-profit venture, etc. I dont see any reason why there couldnt be a space-faring slave state.
>I respect their desire to reduce the impact of Western cultural hegemony
I don't. If a culture decides it wants to wear Nike, be secular, and be net enabled then it should be. The elites on top should not be dictating what "people want."
>Does no one learn from US's prohibition attempts?
Crapload of chemical weapons? Libya had an aging chemical weapon program with nothing to show but precursors and aging mustard gas.
Troops next door? What difference does that make? We have lots of troops next door to canada, does that justify an invasion?
I dont think the GP is being naive, Ithink you are. This is how politics works. The Bush administration needed a high-profile "win" on the waro n terror. Quadaffi saw the opportunity and took it. The west got its oil and Libya is now open for business. While this is a good opportunity for libya it doesnt make the world safer and shows the rest of the world that if yorue oil-rich you can cash out at anytime and be forgiven for many terrorist acts.
Also the claim of iraq selling as much as it could pump out is untrue. Under oil-for-food its ability to sell was limited.
>A nuclear exchange hasn't happened on Earth yet for one reason;
Your reason is simply wrong. The two times nuclear weapons were deployed in warfare were against a nation without nuclear capabilities. Thats why there has not yet been a nuclear exchange.
Not only is skill questionable so is the repeatability of these performances. I dont see how this is any different than those old game magazines showing us the guy who played ms pacman for 96 hours straight. The submitted wrote "forward thinking" and I dont feel that there is anything forward about this, just different. As far as the teeny-bopper effect goes, well, my friends and I still love the beatles and there is little question about their talent, output, and effect on rock music. I doubt we'll hear from these guys once the nextgen of games come out. Not to mention, theres a lot wrong in praising the users while ignoring the developers.
Of course not. I had a little app not to long ago and some 'security minded' n00b called it adware withuot a lick of proof other than "i noticed some ads on my computer around the time I installed this." Crying spyware is the witch-burning. Its this laziness and lack of accountability that allows the real spyware people to get by.
Right. I bought a PS2 around the time they came out for my younger brother. We put a new disc in and it ejected a serously sratched up disc. Returned it the next day for a working unit.
I am/was a big fan and felt the sameway about the trilogy. Its amusing but felt like 100 pages of comedy stretched out to 500 pages. To each his own of course. I find his non-fiction incredibly compelling and consider Cosmic Trigger a must-read for anyone who wants to grok the late 60s/early 70s counter-culture.
True but if he built his own machine and has not ventilated his case properly for running the GPU and CPU 24/7 then he will probably overheat with a slight chance of damaging his system. I imagine most laptops would do this also.
Also I dont see any restrictions on using a different currency to gamble (or do whatever with). An e-money company just has to be able to process credit cards and convince the gambling sites that their money is good. Joe Gambler just spends 50 dollars for 50 credits which are transfered to whatever site he likes. The site sends an invoice for those credits and the e-money place gives them cold cash.
I had a trial copy of ESX about a year ago and it does exactly that. Err I think it was a stripped down fedorea/red hat distro. Of course ESX costs money and a free stripped down distro is well... free. Dunno, if youre good with linux/unix maybe you and a few friends can get together and begin the a project like that.
1. You cant just fly a product with batteries into the US. Its easier and cheaper to ship batteryless gadgets or did you want to pay a premium on crappy bottom-barrel no name batteries?
2. Its costs you more because now youre paying increased shipping for the product in the total cost instead of being able to freely choose batteries at the store. What if one brand is one sale but youre paying 2x that in the bundled batteries? Guess what, you just got ripped off.
3. Ever notice how bundled batteries die a short while after purchase? Who wants more of that?
>This is what we on the Internets call "preaching to the choir."
Right. Here's how the evening 'news' breaks down. its like 22 minutes sans commercials. Its streetcrime and weather mostly. Whatever hotbutton political nonsense is going on with no real facts or commentary, just a watered down AP article with some local biases added. On occasion there's soft-news garbage like "IS THE DRY CLEANERS RIPPING YOU OFF" and "TERRORISTS IN THE KITCHEN WHAT YOU CAN DO AGAINST ROTTING MEATS." No international news unless theres a huge disaster somewhere.
Watch the daily show, at least they go past the talking points.
Watching tv for news is like riding a horse to work. With all the news sites and a even the old trusty newspaper you get a lot more information per minute than the 'evening news.' Its no surprise that younger people are tuning in mostly for entertainment. Hell, I know a guy who watches parts of the O'Reilly factor because it just cracks him up.
Right... So i can vote for either Christian Moralist on either the GOP or the Democratic ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket!
There are no real defenders of speech in the US outside of the ACLU and they dont seem interested in video games, they cant do everything you know. Its a powerless position and the best strategy is keep the pressure up on the censors until whenever. This is an issue the political parties pretty much agree on and just giving the knee-jerk "go vote" criticism is just that: unthinking knees jerking. If anything (and I dont recommend this but understand it) its a very good reason to not vote and protest the broken process.
>Contrary to popular opinion, frat boys who play Halo are not hardcore gamers. They're casual gamers.
Right. I dont know why this is always assumed or why this market must be catered to at all costs. If something isnt going to play -insert-famous-FPS-here- then its going to fail. you're right, these people are seriouisly casual gamers. They have a nice mass produced system and play the big brain-dead titles. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact its a lot of fun, but those people are as casual as can be. Perhaps some DS owners are more casual than them, but thats debatable. A hardcore gamer is someone who is addicted to something slightly obscure running on an overpowered PC he built for gaming and which is still unpaid on his credit card. I dont even consider playing WoW to be very hardcore. Its a skinner-box you cant even mod. I would think that the hardcore types are not spending all their time on the same title day in and day out.
Consiodering opendsn (which is not an open source project) is just another commercial site finder, it looks like Joe Average is doing pretty good just by avoiding them.
How does OpenDNS make money?
OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly labeled advertisements alongside organic search results when the domain entered is not valid and not a typo we can fix. OpenDNS will provide additional services on top of its enhanced DNS service, and some of them may cost money. Speedy, reliable DNS will always be free.
Agreed. I clicked on the #1 site link only to find pcworld blocking it with their own 'subscribe now' pop-up. Now that's crappy web design and no one at pcworld has any right to attack others until they clean up their own act.
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Its the meaningless marketing speak and buzzwords that annoys real techies. Its like when you non-technical friends read some William Gibson and start waxing philosophic about the same web they've been using for the past decade. Or when the hipsters over at boingboing treat every little object script in Second Life as the "biggest thing evar!!!" Its tiresome and sophmoric. There are some interesting things going on in technology right now and some interesting commentators but you probably wont hear them over the web2.0 hype crowd. Shame really.
>It just eventually frees up computing resources to the malicious software controller has a more efficient botnet.
Give the man a cigar. This is exactly like parasites which strengthen their host.
>I'd like to think that such anti-piracy measures would make submitted videos more original and interesting, but maybe I'm being naive.
Maybe. I would think that there's would be a lot more incentive for people to upload original and creative stuff (look at how Flash has democratized simple games and animation). Instead because of lax filtering of all this copyrighted materials there's much more of a demand of AMV and Will and Grace episodes. People with original stuff dont even get noticed outside of their immediate social circles.
As handy as youtube is for TV shows Ive missed, I wonder what it could be if things were different. I do feel like you do because most people simply do not haev the creativity, time, equipment, production, etc to make decent video. People who do have these skills care enough about their projects to host their own webpages and videos, so they really dont have a use for youtube's low-res video hosting. So youtube will always be clips from tv shows and music videos. Not to mention that the only "hit" "self-produced" video series Ive heard of from there ended up being a marketing gimmick.
Im not sure what google is trying to do, if anything - they may not have a master plan on this one. Maybe theyre trying to legitimize the site, get people to get off their backs for short 2 -3 minute clips, and pay them. Sounds like a pipe dream to me. I just think they bought their #1 competitor to google video and are letting the dice roll.
>but you can indeed show the menu by right clicking and checking "Menu bar".
Great, now tell it to the millions of windows users who have no idea on how to change menu bar settings. This stupid little change alone is going to make every support persons job a pain in the ass for the next few months. Most users can barely work a basic looking windows app. When it comes to WMP-style re-doings they have no clue.
>the occasional lightning-sparked forest fire besmudging the sky with ugly smoke...
Trees are, you know, alive. A lifeless planet wouldnt have forests to begin with.
>think we still have a lot of room for advancement. I also think the only way out is through - through technology.
"Advanced" really doesnt just mean technology but society as well. All the technology in the world isnt going to make people realize that, for example, slavery is wrong, women deserve the same rights as men, healthcare shouldnt be a for-profit venture, etc. I dont see any reason why there couldnt be a space-faring slave state.
Technology isn't liberating, its just tools.
>I respect their desire to reduce the impact of Western cultural hegemony
I don't. If a culture decides it wants to wear Nike, be secular, and be net enabled then it should be. The elites on top should not be dictating what "people want."
>Does no one learn from US's prohibition attempts?
Err, how can they now?
Crapload of chemical weapons? Libya had an aging chemical weapon program with nothing to show but precursors and aging mustard gas.
Troops next door? What difference does that make? We have lots of troops next door to canada, does that justify an invasion?
I dont think the GP is being naive, Ithink you are. This is how politics works. The Bush administration needed a high-profile "win" on the waro n terror. Quadaffi saw the opportunity and took it. The west got its oil and Libya is now open for business. While this is a good opportunity for libya it doesnt make the world safer and shows the rest of the world that if yorue oil-rich you can cash out at anytime and be forgiven for many terrorist acts.
Also the claim of iraq selling as much as it could pump out is untrue. Under oil-for-food its ability to sell was limited.
>A nuclear exchange hasn't happened on Earth yet for one reason;
Your reason is simply wrong. The two times nuclear weapons were deployed in warfare were against a nation without nuclear capabilities. Thats why there has not yet been a nuclear exchange.
Not only is skill questionable so is the repeatability of these performances. I dont see how this is any different than those old game magazines showing us the guy who played ms pacman for 96 hours straight. The submitted wrote "forward thinking" and I dont feel that there is anything forward about this, just different. As far as the teeny-bopper effect goes, well, my friends and I still love the beatles and there is little question about their talent, output, and effect on rock music. I doubt we'll hear from these guys once the nextgen of games come out. Not to mention, theres a lot wrong in praising the users while ignoring the developers.
>*sigh* did anyone actually look at the program?
Of course not. I had a little app not to long ago and some 'security minded' n00b called it adware withuot a lick of proof other than "i noticed some ads on my computer around the time I installed this." Crying spyware is the witch-burning. Its this laziness and lack of accountability that allows the real spyware people to get by.
Right. I bought a PS2 around the time they came out for my younger brother. We put a new disc in and it ejected a serously sratched up disc. Returned it the next day for a working unit.
I am/was a big fan and felt the sameway about the trilogy. Its amusing but felt like 100 pages of comedy stretched out to 500 pages. To each his own of course. I find his non-fiction incredibly compelling and consider Cosmic Trigger a must-read for anyone who wants to grok the late 60s/early 70s counter-culture.
True but if he built his own machine and has not ventilated his case properly for running the GPU and CPU 24/7 then he will probably overheat with a slight chance of damaging his system. I imagine most laptops would do this also.
Also I dont see any restrictions on using a different currency to gamble (or do whatever with). An e-money company just has to be able to process credit cards and convince the gambling sites that their money is good. Joe Gambler just spends 50 dollars for 50 credits which are transfered to whatever site he likes. The site sends an invoice for those credits and the e-money place gives them cold cash.
I had a trial copy of ESX about a year ago and it does exactly that. Err I think it was a stripped down fedorea/red hat distro. Of course ESX costs money and a free stripped down distro is well... free. Dunno, if youre good with linux/unix maybe you and a few friends can get together and begin the a project like that.
Download more than 3 items from there and you get a "join us" blocking page. Yeah, this looks like a scam. Back to mininova and demonoid with me.
>find more insight and genuine debate with less groupthink on Fark,
Right. I can see it now:
Topic: Intellectual Property Rights:
farkguy1024: liberz suck!!!
farkguy720: -inline photo of a half naked gay man saying 'you go girl'-
farkguy882: bomb those ragheads!!!
farkguy 882: -inline animated gif of a nuclear explosion with Saddams head flying out of the frame-
farkguy1222: Where are the boobies?????
deleted post of an inline photo of a naked obese woman or possible tubgirl/goatse
Manufacturers dont include batteries because:
1. You cant just fly a product with batteries into the US. Its easier and cheaper to ship batteryless gadgets or did you want to pay a premium on crappy bottom-barrel no name batteries?
2. Its costs you more because now youre paying increased shipping for the product in the total cost instead of being able to freely choose batteries at the store. What if one brand is one sale but youre paying 2x that in the bundled batteries? Guess what, you just got ripped off.
3. Ever notice how bundled batteries die a short while after purchase? Who wants more of that?
>macks of luddite thinking. Is not this the future we wanted, to be able to buy things in small components and assemble them as we wish?
A couple points:
1. Youre buying something but you dont own it. How are you going to "assemble" some locked down proprietary software add-on on a locked down console?
2. This aint the future. There's nothing older than the "buy more accessories" scam.
3. Sony has more than earned its reputation. If people hate it then guess what, thats real market forces at work.
4. People hate micropayments? Not on my planet. How much is paypal worth again?
>This is what we on the Internets call "preaching to the choir."
Right. Here's how the evening 'news' breaks down. its like 22 minutes sans commercials. Its streetcrime and weather mostly. Whatever hotbutton political nonsense is going on with no real facts or commentary, just a watered down AP article with some local biases added. On occasion there's soft-news garbage like "IS THE DRY CLEANERS RIPPING YOU OFF" and "TERRORISTS IN THE KITCHEN WHAT YOU CAN DO AGAINST ROTTING MEATS." No international news unless theres a huge disaster somewhere.
Watch the daily show, at least they go past the talking points.
Watching tv for news is like riding a horse to work. With all the news sites and a even the old trusty newspaper you get a lot more information per minute than the 'evening news.' Its no surprise that younger people are tuning in mostly for entertainment. Hell, I know a guy who watches parts of the O'Reilly factor because it just cracks him up.
>This will only work if gamers get out and vote
Right... So i can vote for either Christian Moralist on either the GOP or the Democratic ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket!
There are no real defenders of speech in the US outside of the ACLU and they dont seem interested in video games, they cant do everything you know. Its a powerless position and the best strategy is keep the pressure up on the censors until whenever. This is an issue the political parties pretty much agree on and just giving the knee-jerk "go vote" criticism is just that: unthinking knees jerking. If anything (and I dont recommend this but understand it) its a very good reason to not vote and protest the broken process.
>Contrary to popular opinion, frat boys who play Halo are not hardcore gamers. They're casual gamers.
Right. I dont know why this is always assumed or why this market must be catered to at all costs. If something isnt going to play -insert-famous-FPS-here- then its going to fail. you're right, these people are seriouisly casual gamers. They have a nice mass produced system and play the big brain-dead titles. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact its a lot of fun, but those people are as casual as can be. Perhaps some DS owners are more casual than them, but thats debatable. A hardcore gamer is someone who is addicted to something slightly obscure running on an overpowered PC he built for gaming and which is still unpaid on his credit card. I dont even consider playing WoW to be very hardcore. Its a skinner-box you cant even mod. I would think that the hardcore types are not spending all their time on the same title day in and day out.
>The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
Agreed. I clicked on the #1 site link only to find pcworld blocking it with their own 'subscribe now' pop-up. Now that's crappy web design and no one at pcworld has any right to attack others until they clean up their own act.