Funny joke, asshole. Yes. Someone deserves to die because they have a different viewpoint than you. ChuckSchwab deserves to be brutally murdered because you're inconvenienced by spam and he espouses a viewpoint that you do not agree with. People like you are what is wrong with the world. Accuse me of having no sense of humor all you want, I accuse you of having no sense of decency. In some jurisdictions your comment would even be considered a threat, an actionable offense.
Is the sanctity of your email really so important as to sacrifice someone's life? Go back to your fantasy world.
Do you consider the millions of hours billed every year by mail admins in your country? Indeed, would mail admins even have a job if it weren't for such spam? It's really not so cut and dried with that argument. Spam may be annoying, but it's not really something worthy of death. All that extra money doesn't just disappear. Infact, it may just get the money out of the hands of bean counters and into the hands of mail admins who can then disburse it further into the economy.
There was the theatre in FF10 where you could replay cutscenes. It was more interesting than useful, unlike your example. I think allowing control over cutscenes would really improve a lot of their use as well. Some cutscenes can be incredibly powerful, but if someone around you ruins the mood you either have to restart without saving or play the entire game over again.
Imagine getting a phone call just seconds before Sephiroth kills Aeris. The impact is dead. Gone. With a bit more control you could pause it and even rewind it just as you get the interruption.
I notice with Tivo I now tend to pause shows that I watch as soon as someone interrupts me. Not only does it let me give them more of my attention, but it also lets me focus more on the story and really totally enjoy it. More control is a good thing.
Almost all articles submitted to Slashdot or any major media publication are like this. Controversy sells. Why punish the little guy who actually has the balls to admit it, and still let all the big guys run free?
Well, they could always move it to a subscription model. Pay $X per month that the nano particles are in you. Wouldn't surprise me to be honest and would be perfectly profitable.
I can find no concionable reason why the parent post is marked as flamebait. It may be too late now, but this was a genuinely good post and I can not conceive as to why it would be voted down.
Moderation like this is the reason why I give Troll and Flamebait +4 in my comment preferences.
Yes. It's called Anti-Slash. It's just a bunch of self-important idiots with their panties in a twist about Slashdot. Apparently they have a jihad or something.
I swear, most of you moderators are on crack. Mod me down if you wish, but fuck, at least read what's said. I suspect some idiot from Kuro5hin is to blame for this.
For reasons like these, I have to give Flamebait a +5 mod just to see useful responses.
Why the hell is this rated flamebait? Does someone have an agenda against marcello or something? There's nothing here, inflammatory, trollish or even offtopic.
This most likely IS their competing format. I suspect Microsoft is just bundling their Office Killer with their Acrobat Killer into a nice, neat package. It's more efficient from a business stand point and gives each of the "Killers" more of an effect. Why buy a seperate license for Adobe or create a program to teach workers how to use OpenOffice when Microsoft Office has familiarity AND a bundled PDF creator in one.
I wonder if Microsoft will suffer any sort of anti-competitive lawsuits over this measure, assuming it is successful and isn't Vaporware as a vast majority of their announcements for current projects are. Of course, with the acquisition of Flash, I'm sure Adobe will be able to stick it out and possibly create an even better PDF product. I hope my faith in the Free Market is well founded.
Once again, it's a case of corporations trying to protect the status quo, more than it is of an actual individual problem occuring with this instance. To not kneejerk at this instance would be to have it thrown into their face if someone else stole their intellectual property. Additionally, if the maps were released to a widespread audience freely for a significant amount of time, any hope at commercial opportunities for using the map would have pretty well been destroyed. It may not be a likely scenario, but an example of the logic that could have lead to this.
Personally, I believe maps should have their own subsection within Intellectual Property laws. People do need an incentive to make them generally, but with aerial photographs, this is getting easier and easier as time goes on. Blueprinted building and track ways makes this even more trivial, and once you get down to it, a map is just a graphical representation of the factual geography of a location. I believe the subway company could do better to just pick up a few advertising contracts, brand the maps with advertising, and release under the Creative Commons.
However, based on the current corporate mindset around adapting to technology and kneejerk reactions to the words "file-sharing" this sort of idea is probably long off.
This is a pretty neat concept, especially applicable to video games or other things that use MIDIs at the moment. However how easy would it be to get sheet music of this randomly generated music, or of a similar software so that people could test it out with real instruments.
The music from what I've heard has a lot of potential especially if it's got a human with musical knowledge to properly mix it. Are there any other mathematical driven music generators out there?
Mod parent insightful, you political pandering douchebags. Even if you don't agree with what he says, the truth is still there. Has the modding system degraded this much?
Well if by artistry you mean story, there are some indies out there, such as spiderwebsoftware.com, with Blades of Exile, the old 2d game engine, with a built in scenario designer. Hundreds of games to choose from, most of them designed for free. Also, an upcoming Blades of Avernum, which is a better scenario engine. I'm sure http://spiderwebsoftware.com isn't the only place either that has innovation like this.
This could be entirely possible, and might deal a huge blow to the anti-RIAA efforts that are going around currently. I have plenty of friends that use the RIAA Radar when making a choice in purchasing music. This could very well be a possibility.
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Funny joke, asshole. Yes. Someone deserves to die because they have a different viewpoint than you. ChuckSchwab deserves to be brutally murdered because you're inconvenienced by spam and he espouses a viewpoint that you do not agree with. People like you are what is wrong with the world. Accuse me of having no sense of humor all you want, I accuse you of having no sense of decency. In some jurisdictions your comment would even be considered a threat, an actionable offense.
Is the sanctity of your email really so important as to sacrifice someone's life? Go back to your fantasy world.
Do you consider the millions of hours billed every year by mail admins in your country? Indeed, would mail admins even have a job if it weren't for such spam? It's really not so cut and dried with that argument. Spam may be annoying, but it's not really something worthy of death. All that extra money doesn't just disappear. Infact, it may just get the money out of the hands of bean counters and into the hands of mail admins who can then disburse it further into the economy.
Are annoyances really worthy of death?
Whoops. Forgot newlines don't count as newlines on Slashdot.
There was the theatre in FF10 where you could replay cutscenes. It was more interesting than useful, unlike your example. I think allowing control over cutscenes would really improve a lot of their use as well. Some cutscenes can be incredibly powerful, but if someone around you ruins the mood you either have to restart without saving or play the entire game over again. Imagine getting a phone call just seconds before Sephiroth kills Aeris. The impact is dead. Gone. With a bit more control you could pause it and even rewind it just as you get the interruption. I notice with Tivo I now tend to pause shows that I watch as soon as someone interrupts me. Not only does it let me give them more of my attention, but it also lets me focus more on the story and really totally enjoy it. More control is a good thing.
Almost all articles submitted to Slashdot or any major media publication are like this. Controversy sells. Why punish the little guy who actually has the balls to admit it, and still let all the big guys run free?
Well, they could always move it to a subscription model. Pay $X per month that the nano particles are in you. Wouldn't surprise me to be honest and would be perfectly profitable.
I can find no concionable reason why the parent post is marked as flamebait. It may be too late now, but this was a genuinely good post and I can not conceive as to why it would be voted down. Moderation like this is the reason why I give Troll and Flamebait +4 in my comment preferences.
Yes. It's called Anti-Slash. It's just a bunch of self-important idiots with their panties in a twist about Slashdot. Apparently they have a jihad or something.
This essentially sums up what an article of mine posted on Writing World (a writer's resource) has to say about the Creative Commons.
http://www.writing-world.com/rights/commons.shtml
I swear, most of you moderators are on crack. Mod me down if you wish, but fuck, at least read what's said. I suspect some idiot from Kuro5hin is to blame for this.
For reasons like these, I have to give Flamebait a +5 mod just to see useful responses.
Why the hell is this rated flamebait? Does someone have an agenda against marcello or something? There's nothing here, inflammatory, trollish or even offtopic.
This most likely IS their competing format. I suspect Microsoft is just bundling their Office Killer with their Acrobat Killer into a nice, neat package. It's more efficient from a business stand point and gives each of the "Killers" more of an effect. Why buy a seperate license for Adobe or create a program to teach workers how to use OpenOffice when Microsoft Office has familiarity AND a bundled PDF creator in one.
I wonder if Microsoft will suffer any sort of anti-competitive lawsuits over this measure, assuming it is successful and isn't Vaporware as a vast majority of their announcements for current projects are. Of course, with the acquisition of Flash, I'm sure Adobe will be able to stick it out and possibly create an even better PDF product. I hope my faith in the Free Market is well founded.
Once again, it's a case of corporations trying to protect the status quo, more than it is of an actual individual problem occuring with this instance. To not kneejerk at this instance would be to have it thrown into their face if someone else stole their intellectual property. Additionally, if the maps were released to a widespread audience freely for a significant amount of time, any hope at commercial opportunities for using the map would have pretty well been destroyed. It may not be a likely scenario, but an example of the logic that could have lead to this.
Personally, I believe maps should have their own subsection within Intellectual Property laws. People do need an incentive to make them generally, but with aerial photographs, this is getting easier and easier as time goes on. Blueprinted building and track ways makes this even more trivial, and once you get down to it, a map is just a graphical representation of the factual geography of a location. I believe the subway company could do better to just pick up a few advertising contracts, brand the maps with advertising, and release under the Creative Commons.
However, based on the current corporate mindset around adapting to technology and kneejerk reactions to the words "file-sharing" this sort of idea is probably long off.
This is a pretty neat concept, especially applicable to video games or other things that use MIDIs at the moment. However how easy would it be to get sheet music of this randomly generated music, or of a similar software so that people could test it out with real instruments.
The music from what I've heard has a lot of potential especially if it's got a human with musical knowledge to properly mix it. Are there any other mathematical driven music generators out there?
Mod parent insightful, you political pandering douchebags. Even if you don't agree with what he says, the truth is still there. Has the modding system degraded this much?
Good post, despite the judeo-christian references.
Well if by artistry you mean story, there are some indies out there, such as spiderwebsoftware.com, with Blades of Exile, the old 2d game engine, with a built in scenario designer. Hundreds of games to choose from, most of them designed for free. Also, an upcoming Blades of Avernum, which is a better scenario engine. I'm sure http://spiderwebsoftware.com isn't the only place either that has innovation like this.
This could be entirely possible, and might deal a huge blow to the anti-RIAA efforts that are going around currently. I have plenty of friends that use the RIAA Radar when making a choice in purchasing music. This could very well be a possibility.