"The whole Napster movement is based on people not having any respect for the wishes of the artists and copyright holders"
Thats a pretty broad generalization thats like saying "The whole Internet movement is based on people who want access to large amounts of pornography"
Sure, its a major factor but its not the only thing driving it. What about independant artists? Or people who want music their computer for their own listening pleasure without having to listen to stream buffering? I have purchased more CDs in the last year because I've had access to more music than ever before. "Hmmm I've never heard anything by 'Band X', let me download some of their stuff and find out." Or better yet. "Hmmm I think I want to buy this CD, is it worth it, I'll just download some tracks and check it out." Mostly I find that the average quality of mp3s out there is low (at least on my Hi-Fi they sound low). A lot of times the volume levels tend fluctuate from song to song making burning a more labor intesive task than it was in '95 (when you could just borrow a buddy's CD and copy it).
Like it or lump it bootlegging has gone mainstream, Napster is just the first battle casualty in a much bigger war.
Re:This is part of our destiny.
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But I'm sure I can always be assured of some knee jerks in the Slashdot crowd
Thanks...
To each his own I guess, I was only trying to understand your cultural elitism sorry to have rocked your tolerant Eastern boat.
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Ummm...
"Oops, you have pushed my critique-of-western-thought button! What is it with 'conquering' everything? We have to 'conquer'the New World. We have to 'conquer' nature. We have to 'conquer' space." Ok, so Western thought involves a rampant urge to make order from disorder by taking an active role in discovery and learning, this is what you mean right?
But then...
It's unfortunate that the west is so fatalistic. fatalism:
1.The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
2.Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
Yep, that sounds like Western civilization alright, content to sit back and let things take care of themselves. Or wait, isn't that in direct conflict with your earlier observation?
I guess what I'm really asking is what do you have against Western thought?
Someone out there must have some ideas. Is it really possible to divert a planetary collision of the kind of magnitude that destroyed the dinosaurs? Or are we doomed if it ever happens (this of course assumes that humans are still around and aren't slaves for those damn dirty apes)
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The majority of our schools are designed to produce people who:
Show up on time
Organize their day according to alarms and bells
Do what they are told
Respect authority
I'm sorry, I don't see any of these as bad qualities. Punctuality, organizational skills, honesty and respect are all amiable work-skills. What is the alternative, eh? Workers who:
Are always late
Don't know what they or others are doing
Can't (or won't) follow instructions
Does pretty much anything they want (except, of course, doing what they are told)
Can a student be turned into a Metropolis-esque factory-working automoton because they went to public school? Or is it due to the fact that they didn't succeed in said school and have to find menial jobs that suit their education level? Keeping in mind, however, that all facets of industry must be populated, from the lowest janitor to the highest CEO someone has to fill those shoes. Even if somehow, everyone could be an open-minded, super-intellegent and tolerant person, we would still need janitors and factory workers.
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I don't care if they spelled it backwards, the STORY is what we're supposed to be interested in. For the most part I try to ignore the witless banter that accompanies most stories posted on/. as they are usually thrown in as an afterthought (at least thats what I think). Critiquing their grammatical (or in some cases, logical) content is a waste of time.
Ah well...
Maybe Kelvin is the 'recommended retail spelling' and in this case the vendor decided to mark it down to Kalvin, a dumber, cheaper alternative spelling;-)
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Re:What a colossal waste of time!
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Perhaps you didn't read this line from my original post:
Another satirical jab at EULA
Poking fun at the whole EULA situation is *NOT* funny anymore. Why you ask? It's been utterly done to death (along the lines of the whole "Wazzup!" thing). How could I have not gotten it, it's too fsckin' obvious anyway and it's a joke made almost daily around people who actually deal with Licence Agreement crap. "We could put a Licence on breathing air, hahaha" Geez Einstein, come up with that yourself? If you want a real laugh (or cry) actually read some of the stuff in any MS EULA, way funnier all by itself...
So, beat me if you must but don't beat me over the head with a lame "one trick pony" joke.
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Re:How about a remake of Star Trek V?
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True...
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Instead of the movie they originally shot, replace all the video and audio with darkness and silence. They should 'remaster' "Star Trek: Insurrection" in the same way...
I think that some ST films in the series prove something though, movies that cater to fans, suck.
Insurrection = sucked ($15 joystick, plot)
First Contact = sucked (it had the least believable EVA EVER!)
V = sucked (it should have been good)
Of course these are just my humble observations as a DVD-addict
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"The only thing that kids of today put their efforts into is dealing drugs, getting alcohol and committing crimes." That would be true if you only believe what the media spouts out, use your eyes and brain. Do you think it has ever been better? Lets just put on our rose coloured galsses and pretend the past was as idylic as we remember, ahhh thats better isn't it... thank you! thank you mass media for stuffing my head with goss!
"Have you ever lived in one of our cities?" Have you? Seriously, you don't just work there and see all those "scarey" high school kids standing around "hanging out". Sure, there are a lot of 'em who have problems with alcohol and drugs but uhh honestly do you think this is some kind of new thing?
The kids there do nothing apart from hang around doing these things, because they've never had any discipline or a good schooling system that encourages team sports and other activities." And, of course, you base this statement off of which objective scientific/sociological research? Where are the numbers to back your theory?
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From a press release in the far future:
"Ummm, we seem to have miscalculated a tad... we are still too close to the sun and the asteroid we wanted to move is actually on a collision course with our planet. We attribute this to Y10K errors in some computer software..."
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Whatever you feel comfortable working for. Really, thats it, there is no standard, no exchange rate of pay between nations. It all boils down to what you think you can make and what the industry offers you.
I purchased one of these baby's last April, it lasted for three months before the sub blew, so I got a replacement. I got the replacement, worked fine for 3 months, and then pop *acrid smell* fizzle, sub's dead. The sub came back the week I was going to call for another replacement, and just yesterday died again (filling my computer room with a wonderful smell...). So screw you Dell, OEM sucks ass and I am disgusted that THX AND Altec-Lansing would lend their names to such crappy workmanship.
We five, lone programmers went to the late show on Sunday (still, the theatre was half full/empty), and when there was a techie joke (some subtle, most not) we would give our respective "amusment-noise", unfortunatly no one else in the theatre seemed to "get it".
I think this movie was, in reality, a new MS program called "MS GeekLocator 2000", merely find the people who got the stupid geek-culture references, and attatch some form of "moonbeam powered, satellite linked, high-resolution quickcam" to them so that MS can steal their code (HAH!).
Here you have a more durable, cheaper to produce, easier to store format that has already gotten a foothold in the marketplace (DVD) and now you have a more expensive, harder to store, uncompressed format that offers such great features as:
-Rewinding
-Bigger physically (goodbye DVD shelf, hello cassette bookcase)
-Magnetic tape (now there's something that doesent degrade over time:-( )
-More expensive to manufacture
-It has to break into a format saturated market
-It's an uncompressed format, but that doesen't stop me from transferring it to a more compressed format (ANY digital media can be duplicated, this is reality after all)
-No "Special Features" like chapter lists, menus, extras (well, they could be at the beginning or end, and we all love fast forewarding through Georgie Lucas' little preamble on Star Wars don't we)
I'm sure there are a host more (dis)advantages to having digital tapes, but these ones stand out for me right now.
Oops, you meant when the unit is escaping the Earth's atmosphere, duh.
I think they would used standard solid fuel boosters to get the 2nd and 3rd stages (also solid fuel propellant) into space and after the payload has made it out of "range" (?) of our atmosphere the 'high-speed' engines would kick in.
"An unprotected human passenger riding aboard Voyager 1 during its Jupiter encounter would have received a radiation dose equal to one thousand times the lethal level."
Slashdot Mirror
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Gekigangar Walk!
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Thats a pretty broad generalization thats like saying "The whole Internet movement is based on people who want access to large amounts of pornography"
Sure, its a major factor but its not the only thing driving it. What about independant artists? Or people who want music their computer for their own listening pleasure without having to listen to stream buffering? I have purchased more CDs in the last year because I've had access to more music than ever before. "Hmmm I've never heard anything by 'Band X', let me download some of their stuff and find out." Or better yet. "Hmmm I think I want to buy this CD, is it worth it, I'll just download some tracks and check it out." Mostly I find that the average quality of mp3s out there is low (at least on my Hi-Fi they sound low). A lot of times the volume levels tend fluctuate from song to song making burning a more labor intesive task than it was in '95 (when you could just borrow a buddy's CD and copy it).
Like it or lump it bootlegging has gone mainstream, Napster is just the first battle casualty in a much bigger war.
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To each his own I guess, I was only trying to understand your cultural elitism sorry to have rocked your tolerant Eastern boat.
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"Oops, you have pushed my critique-of-western-thought button! What is it with 'conquering' everything? We have to 'conquer'the New World. We have to 'conquer' nature. We have to 'conquer' space."
Ok, so Western thought involves a rampant urge to make order from disorder by taking an active role in discovery and learning, this is what you mean right?
But then...
It's unfortunate that the west is so fatalistic.
fatalism:
1.The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
2.Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
Yep, that sounds like Western civilization alright, content to sit back and let things take care of themselves. Or wait, isn't that in direct conflict with your earlier observation?
I guess what I'm really asking is what do you have against Western thought?
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Unions are like RRSP's you don't know you need them until it's too late.
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The majority of our schools are designed to produce people who:
I'm sorry, I don't see any of these as bad qualities. Punctuality, organizational skills, honesty and respect are all amiable work-skills. What is the alternative, eh? Workers who:
Can a student be turned into a Metropolis-esque factory-working automoton because they went to public school? Or is it due to the fact that they didn't succeed in said school and have to find menial jobs that suit their education level? Keeping in mind, however, that all facets of industry must be populated, from the lowest janitor to the highest CEO someone has to fill those shoes. Even if somehow, everyone could be an open-minded, super-intellegent and tolerant person, we would still need janitors and factory workers.
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Ah well...
Maybe Kelvin is the 'recommended retail spelling' and in this case the vendor decided to mark it down to Kalvin, a dumber, cheaper alternative spelling
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No the game never ends when your whole world depends
Another satirical jab at EULA
Poking fun at the whole EULA situation is *NOT* funny anymore. Why you ask? It's been utterly done to death (along the lines of the whole "Wazzup!" thing). How could I have not gotten it, it's too fsckin' obvious anyway and it's a joke made almost daily around people who actually deal with Licence Agreement crap. "We could put a Licence on breathing air, hahaha" Geez Einstein, come up with that yourself? If you want a real laugh (or cry) actually read some of the stuff in any MS EULA, way funnier all by itself...
So, beat me if you must but don't beat me over the head with a lame "one trick pony" joke.
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I think that some ST films in the series prove something though, movies that cater to fans, suck.
Insurrection = sucked ($15 joystick, plot)
First Contact = sucked (it had the least believable EVA EVER!)
V = sucked (it should have been good)
Of course these are just my humble observations as a DVD-addict
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No the game never ends when your whole world depends
That would be true if you only believe what the media spouts out, use your eyes and brain. Do you think it has ever been better? Lets just put on our rose coloured galsses and pretend the past was as idylic as we remember, ahhh thats better isn't it... thank you! thank you mass media for stuffing my head with goss!
"Have you ever lived in one of our cities?"
Have you? Seriously, you don't just work there and see all those "scarey" high school kids standing around "hanging out". Sure, there are a lot of 'em who have problems with alcohol and drugs but uhh honestly do you think this is some kind of new thing?
The kids there do nothing apart from hang around doing these things, because they've never had any discipline or a good schooling system that encourages team sports and other activities."
And, of course, you base this statement off of which objective scientific/sociological research? Where are the numbers to back your theory?
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No the game never ends when your whole world depends
"Ummm, we seem to have miscalculated a tad... we are still too close to the sun and the asteroid we wanted to move is actually on a collision course with our planet. We attribute this to Y10K errors in some computer software..."
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Just my 0.02
Capt. Ron
I tol' ya, them Atarrrri gemes wer' forged by Lucifer himself!
Capt. Ron
I'll be calling you for a replacement tomorrow...
Capt. Ron
I think this movie was, in reality, a new MS program called "MS GeekLocator 2000", merely find the people who got the stupid geek-culture references, and attatch some form of "moonbeam powered, satellite linked, high-resolution quickcam" to them so that MS can steal their code (HAH!).
Capt. Ron
\/\/3 6r3 133t h6><0r5, p133z 53nd fr33 t3chn0109y!
I couldn't resist
Capt. Ron
-Rewinding
-Bigger physically (goodbye DVD shelf, hello cassette bookcase)
-Magnetic tape (now there's something that doesent degrade over time
-More expensive to manufacture
-It has to break into a format saturated market
-It's an uncompressed format, but that doesen't stop me from transferring it to a more compressed format (ANY digital media can be duplicated, this is reality after all)
-No "Special Features" like chapter lists, menus, extras (well, they could be at the beginning or end, and we all love fast forewarding through Georgie Lucas' little preamble on Star Wars don't we)
I'm sure there are a host more (dis)advantages to having digital tapes, but these ones stand out for me right now.
"Screw everything! I'm going back to BetaMax!"
Capt. Ron
I think they would used standard solid fuel boosters to get the 2nd and 3rd stages (also solid fuel propellant) into space and after the payload has made it out of "range" (?) of our atmosphere the 'high-speed' engines would kick in.
Capt. Ron
Quoted from 'Gee-Whiz Facts about Voyager
A groovy little slide show from the Netherlands about space radiation.
Space Radiation and it's effects
Capt. Ron
What NASA calls a magnometer is REALLY a rail gun, the cameras can shoot deadly gamma rays and the RTG units are mini-nukes (well, they are)
As for speed, sure its slow NOW, but wait 'til the "machine planet" gets their hands on it, they'll soup it up for sure.
Capt. Ron