There are no loud fans and no loud disks. Power-up is almost instant. Full networking support is available, is tremendously compact (while still having a large, readable display), and it has an available Linux Port.
Just once I would like to see one of the editors (besides Hemos) actually comment and contribute back to the discussions.
That is one thing I will agree with. Out of the majority of the staff, Hemos seems to be the best at actually caring about the site. He seems to make the least amount of errors out of the story-posters. Plus, I've seen him post comments on several occasions and involving himself with the discussions.
I have no gripe with Hemos. He's one of Slashdot's cooler people.
That's the most disinterested, apathetic attitude I've seen in a long time. Get over it? Is that how you respond to valid criticisms?
Three years ago, Slashdot was "The Place" to go for computer news. Slashdot broke stories way before any other sites covered them. The message boards were lit up with intelligent conversation and discussion.
Today? Some articles are duplicated twice, even three times. Slashdot lags behind other news sites in stories, the postings are heavy on opinion instead of fact, and the site has a tremendous bias. Stories are submitted days, sometimes weeks in advance, and are rejected only to be posted much later by someone else's submission. Articles are posted without so much as a second thought to grammar and spelling.
What did you expect? Congratulations?
Obviously, a lot less care is being taken to make Slashdot the place it used to be.
And you'll just....eh....get over it? Instead of sulking in the corner and trying to "get over it", why not attempt to CHANGE the negative aspects that make people say "You suck!" Start listening to the valid complaints and criticisms people send you, and take action. Consider suggestions. Be a little proactive. Sure, code updates are good, but people DO care a lot about CONTENT as well.
The IBM ThinkPad T20 has the very popular Lucent Winmodem in it. My Acer Extensa 501T has one as well.
Download This File from Linmodems.Org. Sure, it's binary only, but it works. Set up the modem with isapnp, unzip the file above, read the readme, and run the installer.
You can add this to conf.modules:
alias char-major-62 ltmodem
install ltmodem insmod "-f" "-k" "ltmodem"
Well, one of the biggest reasons why people are turned away from Linux is the greater learning curve that it used to have. Used to have, I say.
He's touting Linux as the freshest, most usable operating system out there. No learning curve left!
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux...but until it gets to the point where you can double-click an icon and have a game fully installed and ready to go, it won't be ready for Joe User.
Set a hardcore experienced Windows user in front of a Linux box, and have him install Quake 3 Arena...then tell me there's no learning curve left. Then set two users side by side - a Windows Guru on a Windows box and a Linux Guru on a Linux box. Have them each install their OS-respective copies of Q3a and see who's up and playing first.
Plus, I'm thinking this guy doesn't know the meaning of the word "Aesthetic." The article pretty much says:
Okay! We're going to compare the aesthetics between Windows XP and Mandrake Linux. This article is about the aesthetic properties. Only the aesthetics.
Now let's get into the networking setup...
And why pick Mandrake? For that matter, why compare Windows to any distribution of Linux? There's a fundamental concept that nobody seems to grasp these days.
Windows and Linux are completely different operating systems!
Yes. You can make pretty Graphical Interfaces for Linux to dress it up and make it easy to use. Great! I'm all for that! But writing articles like this is like comparing a steak knife to a hunting knife. Each of them have their uses, but one of them just happens to be used more widely than the other. (Would you use your hunting knife to eat with? You can, but it's a lot harder.)
I saw it last night, and I was thoroughly entertained. The Plot, while certainly not an Oscar contender, is well planned and executed.
There are many scenes in RH2 that are throwbacks to the first movie. The comedy is well paced, and manages to tag along with the plot very well. (I liked Chris Tucker's rendition of 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough' in the karaoke bar. The massage parlor scene(s) were great too.)
Tucker and Chan aren't spectacular actors, but they're not "terrible" actors as CmdrTaco would have you believe in his *cough* 'privilage' *cough* abuse. They manage to carry the movie better than you'd expect, and deliver solid performances. Plus, the outtake scenes during the end credits are always a treat to watch. (I wish more movies would include outtakes. They're great.)
Jackie Chan's fight scenes are, as always, superbly done. I always love watching Jackie fight, because the entire sequences are so well put together. If you like to laugh, and like action, you'll like this movie.
And OH, my GOD.... Zhang Ziyi is absolutely beautiful.
...It makes those faces in Final Fantasy look like plastic.
I love it when uninformed idiots spout shit like this. "Ooh! I haven't seen the movie yet, but they're CG people! They have to look plastic! All CG people look fake."
Have a look at this link, and pick through the process of creating the characters. Then try to say they look like plastic.
I applaud the work of the Final Fantasy CG people. All of them. Their characters are the most realistic performers (outside of real actors) to ever hit the screen.
Tell me why an electronic datebook / addressbook / personal information unit needs a fast processor? Is it that important to display a datebook entry in.03 milliseconds rather than.1 milliseconds?
The Palm line was designed for a few specific tasks, and to perform those tasks well. Palm succeeded in doing this; the Palm is a wonderful organizer. But who needs an organizer that runs faster than 33 megahertz?
A switch to ARM-based chips means that Palm OS-based handhelds will run at significantly higher clock speeds than their current 33MHz. This means the devices will be able to handle more complex applications, such as video streaming and digital-audio playback, and to match the processing power of handhelds based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.
Okay, hold up. Let's review this:
Palm has significantly more market share than Windows CE, because it does what it's designed to do a lot BETTER than CE.
So why are they changing their product to adapt to the weaker market segment? Who the fuck needs digital audio and streaming video embedded in their addressbook? Yes, it's badass whiz-bang stuff, but not practical. They throw in the excuse of "planning for the future", but that's marketspeak bullshit. They need to concentrate on making their products BETTER, and not necessarily COOLER.
A long time ago (when they were trying to design the look of the new bills), the treasury was looking for spiffy anti-counterfeit measures to implelemt in their bills. They came up with the idea of placing a Hologram on the bill. Since holograms would be damn near impossible to counterfeit, they thought they had the perfect solution.
Then they remembered that money gets *abused*.
They constructed a series of brutal tests to put paper money through, to test its viability for life outside the press. I don't recall the majority of the tests, but I do remember that they wash the bills in laundry, bake them at high temperatures, run them through machines, etc. The hologram passed all the tests except the last test. There's a vertical metal tube a little over a half inch in diamater. A rod sits above the tube. The dollar bill is placed atop the tube, and the rod is pushed down, forcing the dollar bill into the tube. (or something like that.)
The hologram was crushed and wrinkled beyond recognition. Since holograms rely on light reflection to work properly, a crumpled hologram doesn't work well, if at all. They discarded the idea.
I'd like to see how well these chips fare in these torture tests.
By the way, what would be powering these chips? What happens when that power source dies?
What's even better is the total smug look on Bill's face in that picture.
I think they choose these pictures on purpose. During the trial, news sites usually chose pictures of Bill talking, shouting, or standing at a microphone or podium - suggesting Bill is fighting for his side. This particular picture just seems to say "Ha. Look who's on top, you sorry bitches. Who's your daddy? I'M your daddy. Yeah."
Croft prefers the 9mm pistols strapped prominently to her hips, wielding them against robots, commandos, even supernatural creatures of yore. Only in the movie, she never runs out of ammo.
I just saw the movie tonight, so it's fresh in my mind. There are several scenes in the movie where she reloaded her guns. She's got a little roll-out magazine rack that pops out of her backpack that she can quickly and easily drop out the empty magazines, flip the guns to her back and load them, pull them back up, and continue to fire. Pretty nifty trick. I'm surprised you missed it. They had a close up of the rack, too.
And the guns are strapped to her THIGHS - not her waist! What kind of Tomb Raider fan are you if you don't even recognize the thigh holsters? Jeez!
The idea behind DSL was to eliminate the usage of acoustic signals for data transfer. By modulating the DSL signal into an audio stream, you're defeating the purpose.
Sound cards aren't even designed for this sort of thing. The same limitations that hit Winmodems will apply here as well, and will be multiplied. There's going to be some serious CPU usage (which could eventually be partially alleviated by the DSP development) because you still have to modulate/demodulate the DSL signal from audio to data. Not only that, but a specialized circuit must be built to even do this.
I would assume the low cost wouldn't be a factor due to the hassle, and the functionality.
This type of connection will yield slightly-faster-than-Dial-Up speeds at DSL prices. How does that constitute "Low Cost"?
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I would link to the mirrors but I doubt they're updated yet, so just head to kernel.org.
That's why you open a new browser window, and take a look! This is what we call "Investigative Journalism".
Sheesh. Not to sound like an asshole, but is it really too difficult to check a few mirrors, and say "The mirrors we checked have/have not been updated. Your mileage may vary."? Better yet, don't say anything at all and just link to the mirrors!
The point of the mirrors is to offload traffic from kernel.org. Slashdotting it defeats that purpose.
Look, all these file sharing services were not created with the purpose to share copyrighted music -- they were created to share files in general: to share whatever kind of files they were capbable of.
Okay then. Fire up Napster or Aimster, and search for a High Quality JPEG reproduction of the Mona Lisa. How about a file which describes the inner workings of a Floppy drive? Or perhaps the entire text of 'Macbeth'?
Disappointed? Now search for an mp3 audio file of 'It's gonna be me' by N*Sync.
See a pattern?
Just because M$, the MPAA, and the RIAA are losing money because *some* people use the internet and file sharing services to distribute copyrighted materials doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
WELL. I mean shit, why should we put our bags on the belt and walk through metal detectors at the airport because *some* people use bombs to blow up airplanes? They're stomping all over my right to privacy! Just because the FAA, the airlines, and the airports are losing money doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
There may be a problem with the distribution of copyrighted material on the internet -- but that doesn't give organizations like [Microsoft], the [RIAA], the [MPAA], or the [BSA] the right to violate MY rights. (l33t-speak edits are mine)
There may be a problem? Where have you been sitting for the past two years? Regardless of what you may think or what blind eye you choose to turn to the situation, the RIAA isn't going to pounce on something with no justification. Sure they love to overcharge for albums. Sure they rape the artist on profits by keeping the majority of it for their own greedy bank accounts. But I dislike the RIAA for the same reason I dislike Napster and its friends - they all screw the artists. Go ahead and say "Oh, well, they make enough money as it is!" Should they be condemned for cashing in on their talents? Every one of you would do the exact same thing given the chance. I see nobody stopping you from climbing into a studio and putting out an album.
They can't say "we're going to force services like Napster to filter out anything that has the digital music contents of X" -- that violates my right to distribute parodies
Why not? You write a book and decide to sell it for $12.95. I steal the manuscript from your desk, make a shitload of photocopies, and give them away. Are you as an author not going to attempt to regulate that?
And last I checked, parodies differ greatly from the content they parody. Name a parody that is an exact duplicate of the original, and I will withdraw this argument.
they now have to make their product inferior via unnecessary bloat.
Companies have the right to make their software as inferior and as bloated as they damn well please. Consumer reaction will determine whether they continue that process.
They can't say "we're going to keep tabs on every log of the internet," and log IP's, and request that ISP's give us the personal information of IP's that distribute "copyrighted files" -- that's a violation of the right to privacy.
I don't recall anyone ever stating that they were going to attempt to "keep tabs on every log of the internet." And guess what, bucko? Once you're assigned an IP on the internet, your privacy is all but gone. DoS a major government website from your IP, and you'll see how private your connection really is.
In other words, they are free to protect their rights, so long as they do not in any way violate my rights, or anyone elses.
Oh, I see. So they're perfectly within their freedom to protect themselves, just so long as it doesn't inconvenience you, right? Because all of the 'rights' you are arguing about aren't rights. You're merely pandering to popular opinion hoping to score a bit of brownie points. That stack of pirated CDs in your closet is inconsequential, because if they get seized, they're invading your right to privacy.
Aww. It pains me so.
You want to fight something? Fight the RIAA. Fight Napster. Fight the Napster clones. Fight for the rights of the artists. Get out there and spread the word of what's happening, and how the RIAA and all of the file sharing services are ripping off the artists. Do something. Do anything!
Why aren't you doing anything? Oh. That's right. You're only interested in free music. That being the case, you probably just "Pshhh'd" and "Bah'd" your way through my post, because your mind is still too busy trying to justify your actions.
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Jesus Christ, did you even read the entire comment to which you responded?
I watched it and was impressed by they way they combined real actors with computer generated backgrounds.
That was until I heard that the whole movie was computer generated!
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Ever heard of The Best of Both Worlds?
The Enterprise did have a borg-turned-human on board. His name is Jean-Luc Picard.
(TNG did it first, and TNG did it best. Jeri Ryan was simply added to Voyager for the horny-teen demographic.)
How about one of these?
There are no loud fans and no loud disks. Power-up is almost instant. Full networking support is available, is tremendously compact (while still having a large, readable display), and it has an available Linux Port.
Just once I would like to see one of the editors (besides Hemos) actually comment and contribute back to the discussions.
That is one thing I will agree with. Out of the majority of the staff, Hemos seems to be the best at actually caring about the site. He seems to make the least amount of errors out of the story-posters. Plus, I've seen him post comments on several occasions and involving himself with the discussions.
I have no gripe with Hemos. He's one of Slashdot's cooler people.
It wasn't so much this article in particular; this is the attitude Slashdot has taken toward most, if not all criticism.
Now that it has finally been verbalized as "Bah, so what?", it was time to say something.
Eh, we'll get over it.
That's the most disinterested, apathetic attitude I've seen in a long time. Get over it? Is that how you respond to valid criticisms?
Three years ago, Slashdot was "The Place" to go for computer news. Slashdot broke stories way before any other sites covered them. The message boards were lit up with intelligent conversation and discussion.
Today? Some articles are duplicated twice, even three times. Slashdot lags behind other news sites in stories, the postings are heavy on opinion instead of fact, and the site has a tremendous bias. Stories are submitted days, sometimes weeks in advance, and are rejected only to be posted much later by someone else's submission. Articles are posted without so much as a second thought to grammar and spelling.
What did you expect? Congratulations?
Obviously, a lot less care is being taken to make Slashdot the place it used to be.
And you'll just....eh....get over it? Instead of sulking in the corner and trying to "get over it", why not attempt to CHANGE the negative aspects that make people say "You suck!" Start listening to the valid complaints and criticisms people send you, and take action. Consider suggestions. Be a little proactive. Sure, code updates are good, but people DO care a lot about CONTENT as well.
Hemos,
The IBM ThinkPad T20 has the very popular Lucent Winmodem in it. My Acer Extensa 501T has one as well.
Download This File from Linmodems.Org. Sure, it's binary only, but it works. Set up the modem with isapnp, unzip the file above, read the readme, and run the installer.
You can add this to conf.modules:
alias char-major-62 ltmodem
install ltmodem insmod "-f" "-k" "ltmodem"
I'm pretty sure this will work for you. Enjoy.
No kidding. I mean, reading stuff like this:
Well, one of the biggest reasons why people are turned away from Linux is the greater learning curve that it used to have. Used to have, I say.
He's touting Linux as the freshest, most usable operating system out there. No learning curve left!
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux...but until it gets to the point where you can double-click an icon and have a game fully installed and ready to go, it won't be ready for Joe User.
Set a hardcore experienced Windows user in front of a Linux box, and have him install Quake 3 Arena...then tell me there's no learning curve left. Then set two users side by side - a Windows Guru on a Windows box and a Linux Guru on a Linux box. Have them each install their OS-respective copies of Q3a and see who's up and playing first.
Plus, I'm thinking this guy doesn't know the meaning of the word "Aesthetic." The article pretty much says:
Okay! We're going to compare the aesthetics between Windows XP and Mandrake Linux. This article is about the aesthetic properties. Only the aesthetics.
Now let's get into the networking setup...
And why pick Mandrake? For that matter, why compare Windows to any distribution of Linux? There's a fundamental concept that nobody seems to grasp these days.
Windows and Linux are completely different operating systems!
Yes. You can make pretty Graphical Interfaces for Linux to dress it up and make it easy to use. Great! I'm all for that! But writing articles like this is like comparing a steak knife to a hunting knife. Each of them have their uses, but one of them just happens to be used more widely than the other. (Would you use your hunting knife to eat with? You can, but it's a lot harder.)
Jackie Chan deserves a lot of the credit, bringing the genre to the attention of Hollywood studios and many moviegoers.
Along with Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, etc...
Wrong. While Lee, Norris, etc. brought in the martial arts genre, Jackie Chan single handedly invented the Comedy-Kung-Fu genre.
Most other martial artists make serious movies.
Nobody will say this is a great movie
Bzzzt! This is a great movie.
I saw it last night, and I was thoroughly entertained. The Plot, while certainly not an Oscar contender, is well planned and executed.
There are many scenes in RH2 that are throwbacks to the first movie. The comedy is well paced, and manages to tag along with the plot very well. (I liked Chris Tucker's rendition of 'Don't Stop Till You Get Enough' in the karaoke bar. The massage parlor scene(s) were great too.)
Tucker and Chan aren't spectacular actors, but they're not "terrible" actors as CmdrTaco would have you believe in his *cough* 'privilage' *cough* abuse. They manage to carry the movie better than you'd expect, and deliver solid performances. Plus, the outtake scenes during the end credits are always a treat to watch. (I wish more movies would include outtakes. They're great.)
Jackie Chan's fight scenes are, as always, superbly done. I always love watching Jackie fight, because the entire sequences are so well put together. If you like to laugh, and like action, you'll like this movie.
And OH, my GOD.... Zhang Ziyi is absolutely beautiful.
I love it when uninformed idiots spout shit like this. "Ooh! I haven't seen the movie yet, but they're CG people! They have to look plastic! All CG people look fake."
Have a look at this link, and pick through the process of creating the characters. Then try to say they look like plastic.
I applaud the work of the Final Fantasy CG people. All of them. Their characters are the most realistic performers (outside of real actors) to ever hit the screen.
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Craig: I don't think so. Our job is to provide a return to shareholders. Microsoft tries to be a good corporate citizen....
Good corporate citizen? Microsoft?
/me thinks back to 'Mirror Mirror'
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Man, now THAT was a cool machine.
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Tell me why an electronic datebook / addressbook / personal information unit needs a fast processor? Is it that important to display a datebook entry in
The Palm line was designed for a few specific tasks, and to perform those tasks well. Palm succeeded in doing this; the Palm is a wonderful organizer. But who needs an organizer that runs faster than 33 megahertz?
A switch to ARM-based chips means that Palm OS-based handhelds will run at significantly higher clock speeds than their current 33MHz. This means the devices will be able to handle more complex applications, such as video streaming and digital-audio playback, and to match the processing power of handhelds based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.
Okay, hold up. Let's review this:
Palm has significantly more market share than Windows CE, because it does what it's designed to do a lot BETTER than CE.
So why are they changing their product to adapt to the weaker market segment? Who the fuck needs digital audio and streaming video embedded in their addressbook? Yes, it's badass whiz-bang stuff, but not practical. They throw in the excuse of "planning for the future", but that's marketspeak bullshit. They need to concentrate on making their products BETTER, and not necessarily COOLER.
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Not really. Microsoft gives these out for free.
They're called "Service Packs"
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Timothy is the official keyboard fanatic / inquisitor! He must know something we don't!
/me wanders off in search of the elusive Querty beast.
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I'll bet that moderator is wearing a tinfoil hat right now.
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Then they remembered that money gets *abused*.
They constructed a series of brutal tests to put paper money through, to test its viability for life outside the press. I don't recall the majority of the tests, but I do remember that they wash the bills in laundry, bake them at high temperatures, run them through machines, etc. The hologram passed all the tests except the last test. There's a vertical metal tube a little over a half inch in diamater. A rod sits above the tube. The dollar bill is placed atop the tube, and the rod is pushed down, forcing the dollar bill into the tube. (or something like that.)
The hologram was crushed and wrinkled beyond recognition. Since holograms rely on light reflection to work properly, a crumpled hologram doesn't work well, if at all. They discarded the idea.
I'd like to see how well these chips fare in these torture tests.
By the way, what would be powering these chips? What happens when that power source dies?
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I think they choose these pictures on purpose. During the trial, news sites usually chose pictures of Bill talking, shouting, or standing at a microphone or podium - suggesting Bill is fighting for his side. This particular picture just seems to say "Ha. Look who's on top, you sorry bitches. Who's your daddy? I'M your daddy. Yeah."
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I just saw the movie tonight, so it's fresh in my mind. There are several scenes in the movie where she reloaded her guns. She's got a little roll-out magazine rack that pops out of her backpack that she can quickly and easily drop out the empty magazines, flip the guns to her back and load them, pull them back up, and continue to fire. Pretty nifty trick. I'm surprised you missed it. They had a close up of the rack, too.
And the guns are strapped to her THIGHS - not her waist! What kind of Tomb Raider fan are you if you don't even recognize the thigh holsters? Jeez!
I liked the movie.
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The idea behind DSL was to eliminate the usage of acoustic signals for data transfer. By modulating the DSL signal into an audio stream, you're defeating the purpose.
Sound cards aren't even designed for this sort of thing. The same limitations that hit Winmodems will apply here as well, and will be multiplied. There's going to be some serious CPU usage (which could eventually be partially alleviated by the DSP development) because you still have to modulate/demodulate the DSL signal from audio to data. Not only that, but a specialized circuit must be built to even do this.
I would assume the low cost wouldn't be a factor due to the hassle, and the functionality.
This type of connection will yield slightly-faster-than-Dial-Up speeds at DSL prices. How does that constitute "Low Cost"?
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And no, the animated Slashdot Gimp isn't new.
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That's why you open a new browser window, and take a look! This is what we call "Investigative Journalism".
Sheesh. Not to sound like an asshole, but is it really too difficult to check a few mirrors, and say "The mirrors we checked have/have not been updated. Your mileage may vary."? Better yet, don't say anything at all and just link to the mirrors!
The point of the mirrors is to offload traffic from kernel.org. Slashdotting it defeats that purpose.
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The content is still exactly the same, but the packaging is a bit different. It's still copyrighted.
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Okay then. Fire up Napster or Aimster, and search for a High Quality JPEG reproduction of the Mona Lisa. How about a file which describes the inner workings of a Floppy drive? Or perhaps the entire text of 'Macbeth'?
Disappointed? Now search for an mp3 audio file of 'It's gonna be me' by N*Sync.
See a pattern?
Just because M$, the MPAA, and the RIAA are losing money because *some* people use the internet and file sharing services to distribute copyrighted materials doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
WELL. I mean shit, why should we put our bags on the belt and walk through metal detectors at the airport because *some* people use bombs to blow up airplanes? They're stomping all over my right to privacy! Just because the FAA, the airlines, and the airports are losing money doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
There may be a problem with the distribution of copyrighted material on the internet -- but that doesn't give organizations like [Microsoft], the [RIAA], the [MPAA], or the [BSA] the right to violate MY rights. (l33t-speak edits are mine)
There may be a problem? Where have you been sitting for the past two years? Regardless of what you may think or what blind eye you choose to turn to the situation, the RIAA isn't going to pounce on something with no justification. Sure they love to overcharge for albums. Sure they rape the artist on profits by keeping the majority of it for their own greedy bank accounts. But I dislike the RIAA for the same reason I dislike Napster and its friends - they all screw the artists. Go ahead and say "Oh, well, they make enough money as it is!" Should they be condemned for cashing in on their talents? Every one of you would do the exact same thing given the chance. I see nobody stopping you from climbing into a studio and putting out an album.
They can't say "we're going to force services like Napster to filter out anything that has the digital music contents of X" -- that violates my right to distribute parodies
Why not? You write a book and decide to sell it for $12.95. I steal the manuscript from your desk, make a shitload of photocopies, and give them away. Are you as an author not going to attempt to regulate that?
And last I checked, parodies differ greatly from the content they parody. Name a parody that is an exact duplicate of the original, and I will withdraw this argument.
they now have to make their product inferior via unnecessary bloat.
Companies have the right to make their software as inferior and as bloated as they damn well please. Consumer reaction will determine whether they continue that process.
They can't say "we're going to keep tabs on every log of the internet," and log IP's, and request that ISP's give us the personal information of IP's that distribute "copyrighted files" -- that's a violation of the right to privacy.
I don't recall anyone ever stating that they were going to attempt to "keep tabs on every log of the internet." And guess what, bucko? Once you're assigned an IP on the internet, your privacy is all but gone. DoS a major government website from your IP, and you'll see how private your connection really is.
In other words, they are free to protect their rights, so long as they do not in any way violate my rights, or anyone elses.
Oh, I see. So they're perfectly within their freedom to protect themselves, just so long as it doesn't inconvenience you, right? Because all of the 'rights' you are arguing about aren't rights. You're merely pandering to popular opinion hoping to score a bit of brownie points. That stack of pirated CDs in your closet is inconsequential, because if they get seized, they're invading your right to privacy.
Aww. It pains me so.
You want to fight something? Fight the RIAA. Fight Napster. Fight the Napster clones. Fight for the rights of the artists. Get out there and spread the word of what's happening, and how the RIAA and all of the file sharing services are ripping off the artists. Do something. Do anything!
Why aren't you doing anything? Oh. That's right. You're only interested in free music. That being the case, you probably just "Pshhh'd" and "Bah'd" your way through my post, because your mind is still too busy trying to justify your actions.
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I watched it and was impressed by they way they combined real actors with computer generated backgrounds.
That was until I heard that the whole movie was computer generated!
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