There's a difference between being in radio and being the actual musical talent. Mainly radio hates can-con because it imposes restrictions on what it can play, that being the most popular music, which brings in the advertizers. True independant and campus radio stations are quite good at filtering out the crap from the good, their audience isn't large enough to make a major impact. Basically Can-con is good because it allows the bands to get paid. BNL American success may have been from alot of US touring, however I think the cash they got from their earlier Canadian popularity certainly helped.
However the greatest example of Can-con would have to be Muchmusic. Without Can-con I think Much would have gone the way of MTV becoming overly produced crap that caters to the recording industry then the breath of fresh air it is.
For all the trouble Can-con causes I think it's better then the alternative.
I'm sorry but without the CRTC's regulations on Canadian content on Radio and TV Canada would have almost no entertainment industry. That fact is proven with the movie industry, as Canada has no major movie studios. The only movies to come completely out of canada are low budject indie flicks, that may have alot of talent but that won't keep their makers from going south of the border. It's the reason Jack Valenti was considered evil LONG before DeCSS and Napster.
Without Can-con there would be no Barenaked Ladies, No Celine Dion, No Bryan Adams, in fact there would be no uniquely Canadian bands out there as they would all go to the US to "Make it".
Don't say something is wrong unless you know the reasoning behind it.
All in all I've always found 3dfx's products to be good. I mean for the hard core gamer I'm sure the cards were lacking in performance, but no everyone is a hard core gamer. up until the V3 their stuff was great, but then they had to worry about shipping their own product by a certain point and had to keep up in the competaive market. Now they have a bit of luxury. Granted 3dfx's stuff won't be on par, but they'll be devoted to chip development.
And because of linux.3dfx.com I"m sure to get drivers. Which is the main reason I stayed with 3dfx even after the reviews.
If the author can get some sound finacial backing, this could very well do what everyone predicted Java would do. Which is making the choice of software by Operating system, all but over.
But even further is that when software is released it's available for all platforms, not just one.
Java was supposed to do that, and it could have, but for the various reasons it didn't.
This project has it where Java doesn't, it's not a new language, it's pure C/C++, which means it has a much better chance of being accepted and used, but only if they get the backing.
I hope they do. It could start a trend with all the other languages we know and love having a Internet sibling
I disagree, I would put more as: Faith is Faith stay out of it. The trouble with many people is that they think they have a right to dictate how people should view and express their faith. Sawyer expressed how he believes in God in his own way.
Or rather the better thing to do is to ask "Why should we leave science out of faith?" More is learned through debate than blindly following what someone tells you. Socrates, The Buddha and Jesus all followed this philosophy.
I find it amazing how Katz can spin almost anything into his alientated Geek gestalt. So now corporations are going to use genetic engineering to eridacate geeks? Lovely. Actually Katz is right on with this one. The hardest thing for parents is to see their child struggle. And so partents will use anything to make life easier for their children. They remember the troubles of teenage life and they remember the plight of the geeks they were or knew as teenagers and so they'll try to keep that hardship from thier children. Somehow I doubt a culture that still idolizes Einstein (one of the more unique individuals of this century) is going to put all of its faith in human control and homogenization of all aspects of reproduction. But how many other people are idolized like Einstien? How many people identify with Stephen Hawking like Eintien? Other than the basic equation for the theory of reletivity, how many people can say they know what Einstien did? Americans idolize sports "heroes" far more than academic ones. I would go so far as to say that a great deal of Americans would say they think Einstien invented the atomic bomb, having no real idea what his involvement in the project really was.
Americans love what they're told to love. THis can be seen in the Box Office of any summer blockbuster.
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In fact they will celebrate it. There will be the few who have actually thought about it and realize the true nature, but most will still continue this mentality of great achievement far into the future.
Because of our short lifespan humans have great trouble looking beyond the short term, We hail our discoveries only seeing how it may benifit us in our own life time or perhaps the lifetimes of our children.
Perhaps if anything the Genome project will be able to give us the ability of true foresight, or at least caution.
Lucas shouldn't be directing, he's a great technical director but he can't cut it at the artistic.
The reason The Empire Strikes Back was so good was because he wasn't directing it. The movie was not the glossy, fairy tale movie that A New Hope was. Same with Return of the Jedi. These movies were ruined with the Special Editions, mainly because Lucas was NOT the director and then he came in and put his spin on it.
The pod racing scene was amazing, as were all the fight scenes. But any scene that involved people talking were lousy. Lucas should leave the directing of Star Wars to someone else and go back to directing projects that he can do a good job on like THX-1138.
Falling Down was successful only because the movie was done so well and that bend nobility of Micheal Douglas' character was thrown in your face along with the nobility of Robert Duval's character. Both of them were heroes only Douglas was on the wrong track. You are right in that the US is sensitive about it's failures. As a Canadian I find that Americans must come out on top in every situation. For instance the war of 1812. The US in fact did not win this war dispite how much the US tries to show the outcome in a different light, the greatest battle of the war, the battle of new orleans was fought after the war ended and the treaty signed.
The Gulf war is portrayed as a great military achievement when in fact it was nothing more than a police action.
The only major US failure that is shown in the correct light is that of Vietnam, perhaps because there was no way to spin that war as heroic.
It's unfortunate that the US portrays it's history in such a way as it is the entertainment capital of the world and it's views tend to be broadcast all over the world.
I thought about switching to AbiWord, however I found no mention of compatibility with the wordperfect file format on the website. Will it (or has it and it hasn't been mention) be implemented in the future?
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Obviously you are an atheist and have no concept of what spirituality is. This book does not deal with physics in a quantitative manner using math equations and real life measurements, but rather looks at physics as it fits with that strange aspect of our lives we call spirituality. You cannot quantify God. Thus to fit physics and spirituality you must use a form of philosophy. This book does not try to teach you physics, but rather tries to show how God might fit in the picture. physics and spiritually are not always thrown in the same boat, however they are eternally bonded in my view. But I am a religious man. There is an answer to the nature of the universe however I don't think it can be found in mathematics
Goes to show you that there are far too many people just skiming the posts and not actually reading them. THe moderators just see something that looks like it could be a troll and it's imediatly moderated down.
This is the jewel that I've been expecting to coe out of the AC posts. At some point one of these guys was going to put out some quality and here it is.
Slashdot has gone mainstream and the moderation of this post shows the outcome. A person is smart, people are stupid. Slashdot has turned from an open forum on the news of the day to an opertunaty for Johnny nobody to spew his mindless drivel. and when that happens stuff like this Stuart post is ignored.
I feel saddened by this. Not because it means the death of what was the original spirit of slashdot, But because these people, these trolls (and I mean the true trolls, not our Stuart poster here) are the vast majority of the people posting here. And so the message of this post is lost on them. These people are the products of our school systems and culture. Because of this these people are lacking in the education to see the problem and see nothing wrong with their frivolus and stupid postings, taking every shot they can to flame and discredit (in their own inept way). Which is why there are so many Jon Katz flames.
Perhaps people should spend more time in project gutenburg than playing quake.
What really bugs me about this movie it that Tim Robbins death was done so stupidly. With the detailed view of what happens when you're spun until your body rips apart, why were'nt we given an acurate representation of what would have happened in a vacuum.
He should have turned beet red, after about 10-20 seconds begin bleeding from the mouth, nose, eyes,ears, etc.. then there would have been a reather large ripping of flesh as any air in his lungs would have ripped out of his body and then after about a minute and a half of depressurization, he dies. A slow, agonizing and rather grusome death.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Mr. looie got it right.
Katz gives the non-technical view of technology and it's effect on the world. I feel we need that point of view. There is many a time I don't agree with him, but I address that in context with the article. To attack him about the length of the article or the word processor he used in ludicrous. You evaluate a writer by his writing.
You say you miss the old slashdot, well the reason for that is because it's audience was smaller and more specialized. Since the publicity that Linux and the open source community has had, many people have jumped into the fray. The fact that the Slashdot effect is a type of DDoS shows this. And with any large community there will be things that you don't like and things you do. I often hear people talking about my hometown and how they liked it better when it was smaller. It's always like that. You have to focus on what you like and just keep your eye on the stuff you don't.
Slashdot is ever evolving, either keep moving with it our you'll be swept up in it and end up a troll who keeps complaining about every last thing posted.
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I'm sick and tired of people bashing Katz for the little things like how long his columns are or the fact that perhaps on a certain time he use Word to write his column. I personnally like to see something with a bit more substance in slashdot instead of pure discussion and a link to another page. John Katz's column brings more to/. than anyother article as it gives you MORE to discuss. you condemn him for using Word. Does a person have access to a linux box all the time? In my experience no and I feel that Katz should have the opertunity to explain himself before judging him.
Actually it was the studio who wanted to bring the movie down from NC-17 and Matt and Trey wanted R or worse. In an interview in Details magazine they explained how they wanted to do everythnig that they couldn't do on TV. They wanted to go all out and put every sick twisted idea they had into film. They fought for the R rating
After seeing this guy's picture I remembered something from an english class I took. It was called media english and it taught us about how the various types of media (radio, TV and movies) worked, how they portrayed their messages to the world. In this class we learned how the Canadian Movie industry is hindered by that of the big Hollywood blockbusters. We can't compete. When we tried to impose a ratio system that would give Canadian movies $0.06 of the ticket dollar instead of the $0.03 they get now. The MPAA raised an uproar and threatened the government with the removal of many investments of companies who are in quite well with the MPAA. Jack Valenti gave an interview (which I saw in class) that defended his practice citing competition in the marketplace and quality work as reasons.
I'm sorry but France was one of the key countries in WWI and fought hard enough to keep Germany at their borders for the entire war (much longer than that of the U.S. stint in it). You give the U.S. far more credit then it deserves for WWI. In fact there were times when the U.S. was supplying the German's and quite a few americans were killed with bullets from kentucky. WWI was the UK's, France's and Canada's war.
If you want to blow the U.S's horn then look to WWII otherwise be quiet.
Don't talk down to any country until you know their history
Wireless electronic devices are still FAR off from ever achieving what the PC can do. Since most people are still chained to their desks at work as they have been for the past decades, the PC will still have a place far into the future
besides I just couldn't get into playing quake on a palm.
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There's a difference between being in radio and being the actual musical talent. Mainly radio hates can-con because it imposes restrictions on what it can play, that being the most popular music, which brings in the advertizers. True independant and campus radio stations are quite good at filtering out the crap from the good, their audience isn't large enough to make a major impact. Basically Can-con is good because it allows the bands to get paid. BNL American success may have been from alot of US touring, however I think the cash they got from their earlier Canadian popularity certainly helped.
However the greatest example of Can-con would have to be Muchmusic. Without Can-con I think Much would have gone the way of MTV becoming overly produced crap that caters to the recording industry then the breath of fresh air it is.
For all the trouble Can-con causes I think it's better then the alternative.
I'm sorry but without the CRTC's regulations on Canadian content on Radio and TV Canada would have almost no entertainment industry. That fact is proven with the movie industry, as Canada has no major movie studios. The only movies to come completely out of canada are low budject indie flicks, that may have alot of talent but that won't keep their makers from going south of the border. It's the reason Jack Valenti was considered evil LONG before DeCSS and Napster.
Without Can-con there would be no Barenaked Ladies, No Celine Dion, No Bryan Adams, in fact there would be no uniquely Canadian bands out there as they would all go to the US to "Make it".
Don't say something is wrong unless you know the reasoning behind it.
It's FANTASIC
finally we're using the moon for SOMETHING
other than the bay of fundy that is
All in all I've always found 3dfx's products to be good. I mean for the hard core gamer I'm sure the cards were lacking in performance, but no everyone is a hard core gamer. up until the V3 their stuff was great, but then they had to worry about shipping their own product by a certain point and had to keep up in the competaive market. Now they have a bit of luxury. Granted 3dfx's stuff won't be on par, but they'll be devoted to chip development.
And because of linux.3dfx.com I"m sure to get drivers. Which is the main reason I stayed with 3dfx even after the reviews.
Damn straight.
I was a customer with TD for years, but then I switched to Canada Trust for their much better service on the human side of things.
I went to royal for my student loan and since have done all my banking online (as the human side of royal was aboutthe same as TD)
since TD and Canada Trust are now one bank, I thnk I"ll stick with royal and keep doing things ont he web
If the author can get some sound finacial backing, this could very well do what everyone predicted Java would do. Which is making the choice of software by Operating system, all but over.
But even further is that when software is released it's available for all platforms, not just one.
Java was supposed to do that, and it could have, but for the various reasons it didn't.
This project has it where Java doesn't, it's not a new language, it's pure C/C++, which means it has a much better chance of being accepted and used, but only if they get the backing.
I hope they do. It could start a trend with all the other languages we know and love having a Internet sibling
> Faith is faith.... leave science out of it!!!!!
I disagree, I would put more as: Faith is Faith stay out of it. The trouble with many people is that they think they have a right to dictate how people should view and express their faith. Sawyer expressed how he believes in God in his own way.
Or rather the better thing to do is to ask "Why should we leave science out of faith?" More is learned through debate than blindly following what someone tells you.
Socrates, The Buddha and Jesus all followed this philosophy.
oops. Excuse the bold, I hit the wrong button
I find it amazing how Katz can spin almost anything into his alientated Geek gestalt. So now corporations are going to use genetic engineering to eridacate geeks? Lovely.
Actually Katz is right on with this one. The hardest thing for parents is to see their child struggle. And so partents will use anything to make life easier for their children. They remember the troubles of teenage life and they remember the plight of the geeks they were or knew as teenagers and so they'll try to keep that hardship from thier children.
Somehow I doubt a culture that still idolizes Einstein (one of the more unique individuals of this century) is going to put all of its faith in human control and homogenization of all aspects of reproduction.
But how many other people are idolized like Einstien? How many people identify with Stephen Hawking like Eintien? Other than the basic equation for the theory of reletivity, how many people can say they know what Einstien did? Americans idolize sports "heroes" far more than academic ones. I would go so far as to say that a great deal of Americans would say they think Einstien invented the atomic bomb, having no real idea what his involvement in the project really was.
Americans love what they're told to love. THis can be seen in the Box Office of any summer blockbuster.
In fact they will celebrate it. There will be the few who have actually thought about it and realize the true nature, but most will still continue this mentality of great achievement far into the future.
Because of our short lifespan humans have great trouble looking beyond the short term, We hail our discoveries only seeing how it may benifit us in our own life time or perhaps the lifetimes of our children.
Perhaps if anything the Genome project will be able to give us the ability of true foresight, or at least caution.
Lucas shouldn't be directing, he's a great technical director but he can't cut it at the artistic.
The reason The Empire Strikes Back was so good was because he wasn't directing it. The movie was not the glossy, fairy tale movie that A New Hope was. Same with Return of the Jedi. These movies were ruined with the Special Editions, mainly because Lucas was NOT the director and then he came in and put his spin on it.
The pod racing scene was amazing, as were all the fight scenes. But any scene that involved people talking were lousy. Lucas should leave the directing of Star Wars to someone else and go back to directing projects that he can do a good job on like THX-1138.
Falling Down was successful only because the movie was done so well and that bend nobility of Micheal Douglas' character was thrown in your face along with the nobility of Robert Duval's character. Both of them were heroes only Douglas was on the wrong track. You are right in that the US is sensitive about it's failures. As a Canadian I find that Americans must come out on top in every situation. For instance the war of 1812. The US in fact did not win this war dispite how much the US tries to show the outcome in a different light, the greatest battle of the war, the battle of new orleans was fought after the war ended and the treaty signed.
The Gulf war is portrayed as a great military achievement when in fact it was nothing more than a police action.
The only major US failure that is shown in the correct light is that of Vietnam, perhaps because there was no way to spin that war as heroic.
It's unfortunate that the US portrays it's history in such a way as it is the entertainment capital of the world and it's views tend to be broadcast all over the world.
Probably has to do with the song Revolution 9 on the Beatles white album. The song is supposed to have "paul is dead" repeated over and over backwards
I thought about switching to AbiWord, however I found no mention of compatibility with the wordperfect file format on the website. Will it (or has it and it hasn't been mention) be implemented in the future?
Obviously you are an atheist and have no concept of what spirituality is. This book does not deal with physics in a quantitative manner using math equations and real life measurements, but rather looks at physics as it fits with that strange aspect of our lives we call spirituality. You cannot quantify God. Thus to fit physics and spirituality you must use a form of philosophy. This book does not try to teach you physics, but rather tries to show how God might fit in the picture. physics and spiritually are not always thrown in the same boat, however they are eternally bonded in my view. But I am a religious man. There is an answer to the nature of the universe however I don't think it can be found in mathematics
Goes to show you that there are far too many people just skiming the posts and not actually reading them. THe moderators just see something that looks like it could be a troll and it's imediatly moderated down.
This is the jewel that I've been expecting to coe out of the AC posts. At some point one of these guys was going to put out some quality and here it is.
Slashdot has gone mainstream and the moderation of this post shows the outcome.
A person is smart, people are stupid. Slashdot has turned from an open forum on the news of the day to an opertunaty for Johnny nobody to spew his mindless drivel. and when that happens stuff like this Stuart post is ignored.
I feel saddened by this. Not because it means the death of what was the original spirit of slashdot, But because these people, these trolls (and I mean the true trolls, not our Stuart poster here) are the vast majority of the people posting here. And so the message of this post is lost on them. These people are the products of our school systems and culture. Because of this these people are lacking in the education to see the problem and see nothing wrong with their frivolus and stupid postings, taking every shot they can to flame and discredit (in their own inept way). Which is why there are so many Jon Katz flames.
Perhaps people should spend more time in project gutenburg than playing quake.
What really bugs me about this movie it that Tim Robbins death was done so stupidly. With the detailed view of what happens when you're spun until your body rips apart, why were'nt we given an acurate representation of what would have happened in a vacuum.
He should have turned beet red, after about 10-20 seconds begin bleeding from the mouth, nose, eyes,ears, etc.. then there would have been a reather large ripping of flesh as any air in his lungs would have ripped out of his body and then after about a minute and a half of depressurization, he dies. A slow, agonizing and rather grusome death.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Mr. looie got it right.
Katz gives the non-technical view of technology and it's effect on the world. I feel we need that point of view. There is many a time I don't agree with him, but I address that in context with the article. To attack him about the length of the article or the word processor he used in ludicrous. You evaluate a writer by his writing.
You say you miss the old slashdot, well the reason for that is because it's audience was smaller and more specialized. Since the publicity that Linux and the open source community has had, many people have jumped into the fray. The fact that the Slashdot effect is a type of DDoS shows this. And with any large community there will be things that you don't like and things you do. I often hear people talking about my hometown and how they liked it better when it was smaller. It's always like that. You have to focus on what you like and just keep your eye on the stuff you don't.
Slashdot is ever evolving, either keep moving with it our you'll be swept up in it and end up a troll who keeps complaining about every last thing posted.
I'm sick and tired of people bashing Katz for the little things like how long his columns are or the fact that perhaps on a certain time he use Word to write his column. I personnally like to see something with a bit more substance in slashdot instead of pure discussion and a link to another page. John Katz's column brings more to /. than anyother article as it gives you MORE to discuss. you condemn him for using Word. Does a person have access to a linux box all the time? In my experience no and I feel that Katz should have the opertunity to explain himself before judging him.
Actually it was the studio who wanted to bring the movie down from NC-17 and Matt and Trey wanted R or worse. In an interview in Details magazine they explained how they wanted to do everythnig that they couldn't do on TV. They wanted to go all out and put every sick twisted idea they had into film. They fought for the R rating
After seeing this guy's picture I remembered something from an english class I took. It was called media english and it taught us about how the various types of media (radio, TV and movies) worked, how they portrayed their messages to the world. In this class we learned how the Canadian Movie industry is hindered by that of the big Hollywood blockbusters. We can't compete. When we tried to impose a ratio system that would give Canadian movies $0.06 of the ticket dollar instead of the $0.03 they get now. The MPAA raised an uproar and threatened the government with the removal of many investments of companies who are in quite well with the MPAA. Jack Valenti gave an interview (which I saw in class) that defended his practice citing competition in the marketplace and quality work as reasons.
This guy has been on my list for a long time
Actually He's not so much makig fun of fear of clowns as he's quoting an episode of the simpsons in which homer instils this fear in a young bart.
hell of a funny episode.
Bail them out of WWI???
I'm sorry but France was one of the key countries in WWI and fought hard enough to keep Germany at their borders for the entire war (much longer than that of the U.S. stint in it). You give the U.S. far more credit then it deserves for WWI. In fact there were times when the U.S. was supplying the German's and quite a few americans were killed with bullets from kentucky. WWI was the UK's, France's and Canada's war.
If you want to blow the U.S's horn then look to WWII otherwise be quiet.
Don't talk down to any country until you know their history
Wireless electronic devices are still FAR off from ever achieving what the PC can do. Since most people are still chained to their desks at work as they have been for the past decades, the PC will still have a place far into the future
besides I just couldn't get into playing quake on a palm.
I wonder how this will effect the space program. If it can be mass-produced then the aerostar project might be that much closer to completion