I know Slashdot is all about promoting as much music piracy and ripping-off of artists as possible simply because you can[...]
Actually, going off the self-righteous posts like this I'm forced to wade through, I'd say that Slashdot is really all about setting up straw man arguments that don't even come close to capturing the opposing position just so one can demonstrate their stunning intellect by dissecting a claim that noone has ever made.
It's not about 'ripping-off of artists', so get off your goddamn high horse. It's about wanting to maximise the reward the actual creator of the content receives while maximising the benefit to the end consumer of that content, all while re-evaluating the need for an increasingly less relevant "middle-man" that continues to be the main beneficiary of the current system.
See, it's a little more complex than "you're just thieves!"
They were also preloading the XBox systems with tons of emulators (arcade and console) and as many ROMs as they could find. I watched a customer walk in and ask about a specific original GameBoy game - the employee immediately fired up a GameBoy emulator with the appropriate ROM right there on the demo XBox and handed the customer the controller to play with.
Regardless of everything else, this is actually a reasonable use of a modded console, IMO. Have you seen the wear on in-store Gameboys? Being able to demonstrate in-stock games on a more rigorous system would definitely be of advantage to a store.
Ah yes. The "oi oi oi", proud cry of Australians and white supremacists alike.
I'd like to believe there's a difference, I really would...but it's hard watching an entire nation make absolute idiots of themselves every time with this pointless absurdity.
It's like they say, those who don't know their history are doomed to make complete dicks of themselves on the world stage.
There is a company releasing a DVR here in Aus. soon that does offer a decent timeshifting service. They hire people to actually watch the stations and send the signals manually that indicate the start & end of the show (as well as adbreak placements).
I'm blanking on the name right now but I'm sure it was covered here.
And yes, it's essential here, where Nine regularly pad out 30 mins shows to 40-45 mins.
Then again, it's not like I watch commercial television anymore. Why wait 18+ months to see West Wing/Sopranos et.al. in 10:30/11:30 timeslots, often played out of order or even dropped for infomercials, when I can download a torrent of the episode within half an hour of it airing?
Australian television: if it isn't white trash living together, it's karaoke contests. Quality!
ISTR 'From Hell' was also filmed [...] any Alan Moore fans care to offer an opinion about how good / faithful it was?
Pointless, turgid crap. It certainly wasn't in the LXG 'league' of bad (wtf was up with the name? The original source material wasn't EXTREME!! enough for them?)
Basically, they play it like a typical murder mystery, with a 'dramatic' revelation that it was Gull all along. No real insights into his motivation, no structure to explain why they ocassionaly focus on 'creepy' London architecture, nothing but another tacky attempt to cash in on an established name.
I've recently started using Python a lot more, due mostly to its core libraries being more fully established and to it being embedded in a bunch of useful things, like XBMC.
Python is good but it doesn't have the elegance of Ruby.
This is where I'd assert that his craft/technique may have been weaker than his contempories. That he had an "interesting life" directly impacted on how he chose to express himself...and I would argue that it is what people respond to in his work that is the "art" of it.
vstserver, while still heavily under development, could be worth keeping an eye on, it looks like it's aiming to be a VST-rack style app like Chainer: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snapshot2.png
This isn't MS being hypocrites, it is an employee breaking company policy and bringing in outside sofware.
So if it's Microsoft it's the individual employee who's responsible and if it's not it's the entire company?
Do you think they make distinctions between "corporate management" and "joe schmuck employee" when it's their software being infringed?
Believe me, I understand and agree with your position...but it's one that MS have consistently ignored in the policing of their own licensing, so why should they get to play it?
The problem is people seem to be blaming Microsoft as though they willfuly ripped off Sonic Foundry (now Sony) to save some money. Please, Sound Forge is like $250, it's nothing to them. More likely, whoever was responsible for it, maybe not even an MS employee (they may have contracted this out) just liked SF and used it instead of whatever app they had licensed.
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The real problem is that Microsoft never show a similar level of empathy towards any organistion they find infringing on their software licenses, so why should we feel compelled to give them any sympathy in this situation?
Is this false dichotomy of "geeks vs regular people" actually benefitial at all? Does anyone still really believe this?
Having an integrated transparent network layer benefits the "geeks" as much as it does the "regular users". Continuing to simplify the interface for previously more complex operations means that those "regular users" can start thinking in terms of those operations as well.
I can't understand your swiftness to dismiss simplifying an interface as getting "carried away"...doesn't this just make things easier for everyone?
Not only the easiest, Instiki impressed me with its simplicity and immediacy. Having a very elegant default look helps immensely too:)
I've been trying to slowly introduce interesting collaborative tools to my work-group (management is very non-O/S friendly blah blah blah) who are kinda wary of them, as we've suffered through a very extended and abortive deployment of Sharepoint Portal. They all clicked with Instiki instantly. Unlike a lot of other, admittedly more fully featured, wikis Instiki has refined it down just to the wiki process: add a wiki-word and you can follow it to a new page.
However, there's no way we can sell this to management without an authentication layer, so I grabbed the most accessible.Net implemented wiki I could find: FlexWiki. At the moment it's adequate; it's markup isn't as smooth as any of the 3 supported by Instiki. But it looks like it has some good development underway on it...and well, it's actually got my team documenting what they're doing for a change, so it's doing something right.
I mean, seriously, "easiest to set up and configure..." as long as you have a working Ruby install lying around. Yea, I want another language to deal with.
Ruby practically installs itself on every OS I've used it on. If you're on Windows, getting Instiki working is a case of running two setups and then running the script.
Two no-brainer installs. One script. That's a lot closer to "eas[y] to set up and configure" than something I have to "deal with".
And yes, thank you, ALL of humanity knows what an oxymoron is now...can we get some new jokes now?
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You're almost completely correct. The one thing they can't do that they did is claim they provided a "true" interpretation of the original text.
Which is what appeared to set off Le Guin's ire here, the director publically stating that they'd succeeded in obtaining authenticity.
I really hope you're mistaken, otherwise I'm clearly hanging out on the wrong site.
The question is if this kind of crap is happening as regularly as it appears to be, are the editors "falling" for it or actively encouraging it?
I've got a better approach: if I download an album and like it enough to keep it, I'll buy a copy of the album for a friend.
Ah, well, in that case, they were just greedy morons :)
Actually, going off the self-righteous posts like this I'm forced to wade through, I'd say that Slashdot is really all about setting up straw man arguments that don't even come close to capturing the opposing position just so one can demonstrate their stunning intellect by dissecting a claim that noone has ever made.
It's not about 'ripping-off of artists', so get off your goddamn high horse. It's about wanting to maximise the reward the actual creator of the content receives while maximising the benefit to the end consumer of that content, all while re-evaluating the need for an increasingly less relevant "middle-man" that continues to be the main beneficiary of the current system.
See, it's a little more complex than "you're just thieves!"
Regardless of everything else, this is actually a reasonable use of a modded console, IMO. Have you seen the wear on in-store Gameboys? Being able to demonstrate in-stock games on a more rigorous system would definitely be of advantage to a store.
I'd like to believe there's a difference, I really would...but it's hard watching an entire nation make absolute idiots of themselves every time with this pointless absurdity.
It's like they say, those who don't know their history are doomed to make complete dicks of themselves on the world stage.
I'm blanking on the name right now but I'm sure it was covered here.
And yes, it's essential here, where Nine regularly pad out 30 mins shows to 40-45 mins.
Then again, it's not like I watch commercial television anymore. Why wait 18+ months to see West Wing/Sopranos et.al. in 10:30/11:30 timeslots, often played out of order or even dropped for infomercials, when I can download a torrent of the episode within half an hour of it airing?
Australian television: if it isn't white trash living together, it's karaoke contests. Quality!
Now, if he was working on Ruby for Parrot, it'd certainly make my search results a lot more accurate... :)
If you're as good an animator as you seem to think you are, then why would this ever be a concern for you?
If those same "inane works" have more general appeal than your own creations, wouldn't this just challenge you to pick up your game?
Or is establishing basic skills in a domain enough to claim some kind of territorial hold over it?
Pointless, turgid crap. It certainly wasn't in the LXG 'league' of bad (wtf was up with the name? The original source material wasn't EXTREME!! enough for them?)
Basically, they play it like a typical murder mystery, with a 'dramatic' revelation that it was Gull all along. No real insights into his motivation, no structure to explain why they ocassionaly focus on 'creepy' London architecture, nothing but another tacky attempt to cash in on an established name.
So, to paraphrase what you've wrote: the influence Linux has on dictating Microsoft's corporate strategy isn't influential enough for you?
If you affect something's behaviour, you're having an influence on it.
Isn't the real question more to do with why you find the truth to be antagonising?
I've recently started using Python a lot more, due mostly to its core libraries being more fully established and to it being embedded in a bunch of useful things, like XBMC.
Python is good but it doesn't have the elegance of Ruby.
This is where I'd assert that his craft/technique may have been weaker than his contempories. That he had an "interesting life" directly impacted on how he chose to express himself...and I would argue that it is what people respond to in his work that is the "art" of it.
Wouldn't selling your idea be of benefit to you? Especially if executing the idea needs a financial investment you're unable to raise yourself.
vstserver, while still heavily under development, could be worth keeping an eye on, it looks like it's aiming to be a VST-rack style app like Chainer: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snapshot2.png
So if it's Microsoft it's the individual employee who's responsible and if it's not it's the entire company?
Do you think they make distinctions between "corporate management" and "joe schmuck employee" when it's their software being infringed?
Believe me, I understand and agree with your position...but it's one that MS have consistently ignored in the policing of their own licensing, so why should they get to play it?
The real problem is that Microsoft never show a similar level of empathy towards any organistion they find infringing on their software licenses, so why should we feel compelled to give them any sympathy in this situation?
Isn't that exactly what http://freedesktop.org/ is all about?
Is this false dichotomy of "geeks vs regular people" actually benefitial at all? Does anyone still really believe this?
Having an integrated transparent network layer benefits the "geeks" as much as it does the "regular users". Continuing to simplify the interface for previously more complex operations means that those "regular users" can start thinking in terms of those operations as well.
I can't understand your swiftness to dismiss simplifying an interface as getting "carried away"...doesn't this just make things easier for everyone?
I've been trying to slowly introduce interesting collaborative tools to my work-group (management is very non-O/S friendly blah blah blah) who are kinda wary of them, as we've suffered through a very extended and abortive deployment of Sharepoint Portal. They all clicked with Instiki instantly. Unlike a lot of other, admittedly more fully featured, wikis Instiki has refined it down just to the wiki process: add a wiki-word and you can follow it to a new page.
However, there's no way we can sell this to management without an authentication layer, so I grabbed the most accessible .Net implemented wiki I could find: FlexWiki. At the moment it's adequate; it's markup isn't as smooth as any of the 3 supported by Instiki. But it looks like it has some good development underway on it...and well, it's actually got my team documenting what they're doing for a change, so it's doing something right.
Ruby practically installs itself on every OS I've used it on. If you're on Windows, getting Instiki working is a case of running two setups and then running the script.
Two no-brainer installs. One script. That's a lot closer to "eas[y] to set up and configure" than something I have to "deal with".
And yes, thank you, ALL of humanity knows what an oxymoron is now...can we get some new jokes now?
Nor was I using this as a justification for theft but as an objection to the claim that publishers act primarily in the best interest of artists.
But yeah, when you ignore things like context I can see how you'd think I was advocating theft...